Introduction to Literature: Reading, Responding, Writing
<br>3 Credits 
<br>
<br>
<br>Course Description: 
<br>      The main purpose of this course is to acquaint students with the terminology and theories of literary criticism and with their help to make logical analysis, evaluation and critical responses to a piece of literary work. 
<br>
<br>Teaching Method: 
<br>
<br>       Lecture, Discussion, Workshop
<br>
<br>Textbook:
<br>         
<br>         Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing
<br>         Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, Fifth edition, 
<br>         New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. 
<br>
<br>         A Glossary of Literary Terms 
<br>
<br>
<br>Reference: 
<br>
<br>         Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon. New York: Riverhead, 1994. 
<br>
<br>Schedule
<br>  
<br> Session One: Introduction 
<br>             What is "Literature"? 
<br>             The function of a literary work
<br>             Literary Criticism from Ancient Greek
<br>             Understanding the Text
<br>             Genre
<br>             What is plot?
<br>             
<br> 
<br>  Story & Fiction
<br>
<br>  Session Two: Point of View
<br>            Raymond Carver, Cathedral (1983)
<br>            Anne Tyler, Teenage Wasteland (1983)
<br>  Session Three: Point of View 
<br>             Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground (1864)
<br>       “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” by William Shakespeare p524
<br>  Session Four: Character
<br>             Round/Flat, Dynamic/Static Characters
<br>             Alice Walker, Everyday Use 
<br>             characterization
<br>             Henry James, The Real Thing
<br>  Session Five: Setting
<br>             Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog 
<br>             Kate Chopin, The Storm
<br>        “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds” by William Shakespeare p598
<br>  Session Six:  Symbol, Allegory
<br>                Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown 
<br>                Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist 
<br>                Franz Kafka, Before the Law
<br>  Session Seven Theme
<br>                Nadine Gordimer, Once upon a Time
<br>                Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron
<br>           “I’m Nobody! Who Are You” by Emily Dickinson p 708
<br>   Session Eight: Tone and Diction 
<br>                Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find 
<br>                Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 
<br>   Session Nine: Midterm
<br>
<br>   Session Ten: Context
<br>                Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper 
<br>              “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” by Robert Burns 
<br>   Session Eleven: Humor and Irony
<br>                O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi 
<br>                James Joyce, Araby
<br>                Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
<br>   Session Twelve: D. H. Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums 
<br>              “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell 
<br>   Session Thirteen: Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
<br>   Session Fourteen: Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths 
<br>                                        The Gospel according to Mark
<br>   Session Fifteen: William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily 
<br>   Session Sixteen: Performance: Recital 
<br>   Session Seventeen: Performance: Recital 
<br>   Session Eighteen: Final 
<br>
<br>Evaluation   Participation and contribution: 20%
<br>             Performance 20%
<br>             Midterm exam 30%
<br>             Final 30%
<br>