ENG 1100: Introduction
to Literature
Metro State, Spring 2003, section 4
Dr. Cynthia
Kuhn
Course Description: English 1100 provides
an introduction to reading and writing about literature. We will
explore literary elements in three genres: fiction, poetry, and drama.
Coursework will include discussion, group activities, examinations, essays,
and a group presentation.
Required Text: The Norton Introduction
to Literature (Beaty, Booth, Hunter, and Mays, shorter 8th ed., Norton,
2002)
Assignments:
Participation 100
Essay 100
Presentation 200
Exam 1 (fiction) 200
Exam 2 (poetry) 200
Exam 3 (drama) 200
Total points 1000 |
900-1000 = A
800-899 = B
700-799 = C
600-699 = D
0-600 = F |
SCHEDULE
To prepare for class, please read the assigned texts
carefully, more than once. The first time, you might skim quickly to get
a sense of the whole, then read the material again, more slowly, to identify
the text’s main issues, its structure, and any significant patterns worthy
of exploration. You might also think about our class discussions and the
ways in which you could draw connections to literary concepts or to other
texts we’ve read.
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Date
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Topic
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Assignment
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W
1/22
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introductions
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M
1/27
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reading,
writing, & responding to fiction
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read:
2-22 (introductory material)
including
“The Zebra Storyteller”
Tallent,
“No One’s a Mystery”
de
Maupassant, “The Jewelry”
and
Atwood, “Happy Endings” |
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W
1/29
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point
of view and characterization
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read:
66-69
Poe,
“The Cask of Amontillado”
read:
102-107
Welty,
“Why I Live at the P.O.”
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M
2/3
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setting
and symbol
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read:
157-158
Tan,”A
Pair of Tickets”
read:
186-188
Hawthorne, “Young
Goodman Brown”
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W
2/5
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theme
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read:
214-217
Chopin,
“The Story of An Hour”
GarcíaMárquez,
“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”
LeGuin,
“She Unnames Them”
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M
2/10
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evaluating
fiction
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read:
423-425
Faulkner,
“A Rose for Emily”
Rodgers,
“We All Said, ‘she will kill herself’…”
Dillon,
“Styles of Reading”
Fetterley,
“A Rose in ‘A Rose for Emily’”
Moore,
“Of Time…” |
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W
2/12
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Exam
1: Fiction
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Note:
in the poetry section, read all of the poems within the page numbers given
below…and pay specialattention
to the poems listed beneath the reading assignments.
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M
2/17
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reading,
writing, & responding to poetry
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read:
600-614
Sexton,
“The Fury of Overshoes”
Auden,
“[Stop all the clocks…]”
Bradstreet,
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
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W
2/19
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tone
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read:
620-629
Piercy,
“Barbie Doll”
Rich,
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
Baca,
“Green Chile”
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M
2/24
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speaker
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read:
640-659
Parker,
“A Certain Lady”
Lorde,
“Hanging Fire”
Whitman,
“[I celebrate myself…]”
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W
2/26
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situation/setting
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read:
660-677
Marvell,
“To His Coy Mistress”
Plath,
“Point Shirley”
Nelson,
“How
I Discovered Poetry”
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M
3/3
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time
& place
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read:
679-687
Shakespeare,
“[Full many a glorious morning have I seen]”
Lampman,
“Winter Evening”
Oliver,
“Singapore”
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W
3/5
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language:
precision & ambiguity
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read:
691-702
Dickinson,
“[I dwell in Possibility--]”
cummings,
“[in Just--]”
Williams,
“The Red Wheelbarrow”
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M
3/10
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metaphor
and simile
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Essay
due
read:
717-728
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W
3/12
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symbol
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read:
729-742
Lawrence,
“I Am Like a Rose”
Parker,
“One Perfect Rose”
Blake,
“The Sick Rose”
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M
3/17
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sound
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read:
743-759
Cope,
“Emily Dickinson”
Poe,
“The Raven”
Dickinson,
“[A narrow Fellow in the Grass]”
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W
3/19
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internal
structure
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read:
770-789
Olds,
“The Victims”
Williams,
“The Dance”
Borson,
“Save Us From”
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M
3/31
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external
form
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read:
793-814
Rosetti,
“In an Artist’s Studio”
Thomas,
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Bishop,
“Sestina”
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W
4/2
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the
whole text
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read:
815-820
Auden,
“Musée des Beaux Arts”
Dickinson,
“[My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun--]”
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M
4/7
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evaluating
poetry
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read:
924-955
Plath,
“Daddy”
Steiner,
“Dying Is An Art”
Alvarez,
“Sylvia Plath”
Kroll,
“Rituals of Exorcism: ‘Daddy’”
Homans,
“from A Feminine Tradition” |
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W
4/9
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Exam
2: Poetry
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M
4/14
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reading,
writing, and responding to drama
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read:1016-1039
Glaspell,
Trifles
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W
4/16
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read:
1043-1050
Sophocles, Antigone
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M
4/21
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read:
1578-1584
Ibsen,
A
Doll House
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W
4/23
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Ives,
Sure
Thing
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M
4/28
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Exam
3: Drama
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W
4/30
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in-class
performance work
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M
5/5
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Performances
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W
5/7
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Performances
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TBA
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Performances
(Final Exam Week Meeting)
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policies, academic responsibilities, important dates, etc.
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