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>       This semester we will be focusing on Poetry and Drama. 
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<br>Textbook:
<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. 
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<br>Teaching Methods:   Lecture, Seminar discussion, Public Performance
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<br>Session One  What is Poetry
<br>             Reading a Poem
<br>            Heresy of Paraphrase
<br>            Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty    485
<br>            William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say  468
<br>            Play
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<br>            Henrik Isben, A Doll's House
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<br>Session Two  Lyric and Narrative Poetry
<br>               D. H. Lawrence, Piano   428
<br>               John Keats, Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art  511
<br>                    La Belle Dame Sans Merci   644
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<br>             Henrik Isben, A Doll's House
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<br>Session Three  Dramatic Poetry 
<br>               Robert Browning, My Last Duchess    428
<br>               Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven   
<br>                Annabel Lee 
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<br>             Henrik Isben, A Doll's House
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<br>Session Four   Tone, Words, Connotation & Denotation
<br>             Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tear Idle Tears
<br>                                The Lady of Shalott 
<br>             Thomas Hardy, 
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<br>             Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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<br>Session Five    Imagery, Haiku
<br>               Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro  501
<br>               T.S. Eliot, The Winter Evening Settles Down    503
<br>               Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish       504
<br>               Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty     507 
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<br>              Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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<br>Session Six     Figures of Speech 
<br>               Emily Dickinson, My Life Had Stood – A Loaded Gun  527
<br>               William Blake, To See a World in a Grain of Sand      528
<br>               Sylvia Plath, Metaphors                           528
<br>               Ben Jonson, To Celia              541
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<br>              Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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<br>Session Seven    Singing, Saying, Sound, Rhythm 
<br>Alliteration and Assonance
<br>                William Shakespeare, Full Fathom Five thy Father Lies    571
<br>                A. E. Houseman, When I Was One-and-Twenty      586
<br>                Walt Whitman, Beat! Beat! Drums!               587
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<br>                Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
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<br>Session Eight     Form: Closed Form, Open Form
<br>                Epic, Sonnet, Couplet, Blank Verse
<br>                Michael Drayton, 
<br>Since There’s No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part       599
<br>                Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night                 600
<br>                R. S. Gwynn, Shakespearean Sonnet                    603
<br>                Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 
<br>How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways        762
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<br>                Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
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<br>Session Nine     Midterm
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<br>Session Ten        T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock   737
<br>                      The Four Quartets
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<br>                    Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
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<br>Session Eleven      William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium  692
<br>                                    The Second Coming
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<br>                    Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy
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<br>Session Twelve       Emily Dickinson 
<br>                    W. H. Auden
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<br>                    Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy 
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<br>Session Thirteen      John Donne, The Flea      771
<br>                       Alexander Pope, 
<br>A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing      803
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<br>                   Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
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<br>Session Fourteen     Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth    799
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<br>                   Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author                   
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<br>Session Fifteen    Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author 
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<br>Session Sixteen       Performance
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<br>Session Seventeen     Performance
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<br>Grading   Attendance and Quiz    25% 
<br>            In-Class participation and contribution 20%
<br>            Midterm 30%
<br>            Performance 25%
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<br>Movies:  A Midsummer Night's Dream
<br>          An Ideal Husband 
<br>          Much ado about Nothing
<br>          Ghosts
<br>          The Cherry Orchard
<br>          The Picture of Dorian Gray
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