Objectives:
“Great literature,” as the great poet Ezra Pound says, “is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.” This course will show students how to decode language, and above all, how to enhance one’s sense of the English language. It aims to expand students’ appreciation of the symbolic world of language and its literary context. Ultimately, through reading classic literary works in English, this course will promote students’ language proficiency.
Textbook: The Norton Introduction to Literature (shorter 10th ed.), ed. by A. Booth (Norton, 2010).
*This course will be examined by 2 written examinations.
First Term: Fiction
1.
Introduction: Learning Languages, Learning Life
2.
*Understanding Fiction
Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants (106); Chopin, The Story of an
Hour (353)
3.
Maupassant, The Jewelry (58)
4.
Updike, A&P (589)
5.
Joyce, Araby (503)
6.
*Fiction and Gender
Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog (169)
7.
Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
(354)
8.
Wharton, Roman Fever (85)
9.
Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
(391)
10. Midterm Exam
11. *Fiction and Life
Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner (513)
12. Danticat, A Wall of Fire
Rising (239)
13. *Fiction and Society
O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (299)
14. Cheever, The Country-Husband
(479)
15. The Country-Husband
16. Melville, Bartleby the
Scrivener (534)
17. Bartleby the Scrivener
18. Final Exam
Second Term: Drama and Poetry
1.
Introduction: Drama
2.
Tennessee
Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
(1408)
3.
A Streetcar Named Desire
4.
A Streetcar Named Desire
5.
A Streetcar Named Desire
6.
Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (1547)
7.
The Cherry Orchard
8.
The Cherry Orchard
9.
The
Cherry Orchard
10. *Midterm Exam*
11. Introduction:
Poetry
12. Elements
of Poetry
“This is just to say” (740), “[l(a]” (844), “The
Vacuum” (624), “Barbie Doll” (652), “Ars Poetica” (830)
13. Poetry and Love
“What lips my lips have kissed” (841), “A Red,
Red Rose” (754), “Wild Nights---Wild Nights!” (889),
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” (756),“Let me not to the marriage of
true minds” (646)
14. Poetry and Life
“We
Real Cool” (684), “Those Winter Sundays” (666), “Persimmons” (743), “The Road
Not Taken” (1019), “Stopping by Woods
on a Snowy Evening” (1019), “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1015)
15. Poetry and the World
“The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1015), “Dover Beach” (704), “The Dover Bitch”
(919)
16. Use and Misuse of Poetry
“To
His Coy Mistress,” (713) , “My Last Duchess” (1009)
17. Sound, Sense, and Fun
“The
Lake Isle of Innisfree” (897), “Do not go gentle into that good night” (827), “The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (913), “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
(914)
18. *Final Exam*
***Try falling in, or out of, love—by far, the best approach to literature！
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