بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Elham Al_Bassam SYLLABUS 170 Introduction to Literature
This class meets regularly three times ( Sunday , Tuesday and Thursday) a week at 12:00 noon at classroom 340.
Office Hours: 9:00-10:00 on Sunday, Tuesday .and Thursday at the Lounge ( Room 107) ,telephone 484110 or at my Office
Telephone ext 2945 or 2411
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2nd Semester 2008/2009 Contact elmbsm170@yahoo.com
This course is an introduction to Literature studies through introducing the different genres of literature : Drama ,poetry, and fiction beginning
from the Greek drama and literary criticism , as well as some of the major literary eras and movements such as the Romantic, Victorian
and Modern. Students must be exposed to major canonized poets, dramatists, and short story writers and their writings.
Exams:
Quiz 1 Tuesday March 31 , 2009 10%
Mid-term Exam No.1 Tuesday April 14 , 2009 18%
Mid-term Exam No.2 Tuesday May 26 , 2009 20%
Presentations and projects 12%
Final Exam As Scheduled by the University (Saturday June 13 , 2009 8:00-10:00 am) 40%
Click Here for the Sample of the Final Exam
Glossaries :
The Norton Glossary
Take Norton Quizzes on Terms Online
Literary Workshops online
Writing About Literature
Take Norton Quizzes on Lit.Online
The Bedford Glossary
Writer’s Biography Online
Authors in Depth
Literary Tutorials Online
Take Bedford Quizzes on Lit.Online
Glossary 1
Glossary 2
Glossary 4
Syllabus : classes start on Sunday, March 1 , 2009 and end on Thursday June 11,
2009 . ( The pages listed below are from The Norton Introduction to Lit.)
Week 1 (March 1,3and 5,2009)
Definitions of literature and its genres . Kate Chopin’s (1851-1904) ‘The
Story of an Hour’ (Workshop)(pp.448-450) , ‘Girl’ by Jamaica Kincaid (pp.456-
457)and Maya Angelou’s poems: ‘Africa’, ‘Alone’, ‘Still I Rise’ and ‘The
Lesson’ ( pp.901-902)
Week 2 (March 8 and 10 - Thursday March 19,2009 Holiday : Prophet’s Mohammad Birthday)
Definition of Drama and its elements. ‘The Trifles’ by Susan Glaspell
(Workshop) (pp.1046-1057),The Sonnet : Elizabeth Browning's Sonnets :‘How Do I Love Thee’(p.595),’ A
Desire’ (p.829), ‘A Recognition’(p.829), and ‘Where Our Two Souls Stand Up Erect And
Strong’ (p.786), and The Shakespearean Sonnets : Sonnet 18 (p.710),Sonnet
33(p.674),Sonnet 55 (p.884),Sonnet 60(p.745),Sonnet 73 ( 704),Sonnet 116 ( 611),Sonnet
129 (p.769)and Sonnet 130 (p.788)
Week 3 ( March 15 ,15 and 19 ,2009)
‘Araby’ by James Joyce (pp.432-436) and poems : ‘Marks’by Linda Pastan(p.706),
‘A Red ,Red Rose’ by Robert Burns (p.p.707-708), ‘The Night Has a Thousand Eyes’
by Francis William Bourdillon (p.715), ‘O Western Wind’ by Anonymous (p.805),
‘Upon Julia’s Clothes’ by Robert Herrick (p.806) and ‘Sonnet’ by Billy Collins (p.789)
Week 4 ( March 22,24 and 26,2009) Read W.C.Williams’s ‘The Use of Force’ (pp.459-464)
Week 5 ( March 29 and April 2,2009 Read ‘Sonnet: The Ladies’ Home Journal ’by
Sandra Gilbert (pp.816-818- Word Doc) and Read ‘Barbie
Doll’ (Barbie Workshop)( pp.619-621) and ‘What’s the Smell in the Kitchen’
(p.830) by Marge Piercy
Quiz 1 ( short answers) Tuesday March 31, 2009
Week 6 ( April 5,7,and 9 , 2009) Read ‘ To the Ladies’ by Mary, Lady Chudleigh (pp.613-614)
Read Shakespeare’s Hamlet (pp.1325-1419 –Workshop )
Week 7 ( April 12, and 16,2009) Read ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning (pp.827-828)
and ‘ Ballad of Birmingham’ by Dudley Randall (p.827)
Midterm 1 : Tuesday April 14 ,2009
Week 8 ( April 19 , 21 and 23 ,2009) Read ‘Hills Like White Elephant” by Ernest Hemingway (pp.128-132),
‘The Night Wind’ by Emily Bronte (pp.670-671) and
‘Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas (p. 791)
Weeks 9 and 10 ( April 26,28,30,May 3,5 and 7, 2009)
Read ‘To His Coy Mistress ’ by Andrew Marvel (pp.671-672)
and Ibsen's A Doll's House (pp.1508-1555)
Week 11 ( May 10,12 and 14, 2009)
Read ‘A Rose for Emily’ {Word Doc.} by William Faulkner( pp.467-474)
and ‘On My First Son ’ by Ben Jonson ( p.604)
Week 12 ( May 17,19 and 21,2009) Read ‘ Ode to the West Wind’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley (pp.772-774) Tuesday May 19, 2009 Open Quiz on (The
Elements of the Essay pp.1689-1710 and The Research
Essay pp. 1711-1748) . Click to read ‘Thesis Statements.’
Click Here to read Samples of Thesis Sentences in Literature.
Week 13 ( May 24 and 28,2009) Read Oedipus The King by Sophocles (pp.1470-1508)
Midterm 2 Tuesday May 26 , 2009
Week 14 ( May 31, June 2 and 4, 2009) Read Oedipus The King by Sophocles (pp.1470-1508)
Week 15 ( June 7, 9 and 11,2009) The short story with emphases on American , European short story writers.
Final Exam As Scheduled by the University (Saturday June 13 , 2009 8:00-10:00 am) 40%
Textbooks:
Meyer, Michael. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000
Booth, Allison, Paul Hunter and KellyJ.Mays. The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton
and Co Ltd, 2006.(Shorter Ninth Edition)
تمنياتنا لكم بفصل دراسي مثمروسعيد
Click H ere to read Some Elements of Fiction
English Novels :
1. Click Here to read Jane Austen's Emma ( Chapter 1)
2.Click Here to read Chapter 1 of Dickens' novels: of Great Expectations, of David Copperfield and of Oliver Twist
3. Click Here to read Dickens's Hard Times
4.Click Here to read Chapter 1 of Charlotte Brontes' Jane Eyre and of Emily Brontes' Wuthering Heights
5.Click Here for Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ( Ch1 , 7 and 24)
6. Click Here for Adam Bede by George Eliot ( Ch1 and 55)
7.Click Here for Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence ( Ch1 and 15)
8.Click Here for Ulysses by James Joyce
9. Click Here to read Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
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