Approaches to Literature II(Spring 2010)
Tuesday, 9:10-12:00 a.m., 文D221
Instructor: Prof. Jen-yi Hsu
Office hours: Wednesday 2-4p.m., and by appointment (jyhsu@mail.ndhu.edu.tw)
Required Book:
The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter 9th Edition)
Course Requirements: Midterm 25%, final exam 25%, presentations 25%, poetry memorization 15 %, and blog entries 10%. Every other week we will have some discussion questions posted to the blog (http://literarycollage.blogspot.com/). You are expected to post your answers for the discussion questions. Try to think each blog question as an essay question (not an informal discussion forum) and proceed to write in a formal and an organized essay format. Deadlines will be announced in the blog.
** Please be reminded that attendance is crucial and two absences will result in failing this course.
Course Schedule:
Week1: 2/23 Intro
Week2: 3/2 Marge Piercy, “Barbie Doll” (p. 619)
W. D. Snodgrass, “Leaving the Motel” (p. 620)
William Blake, “London” (p. 625: Eva)
Adrienne Rich, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (p. 628:Sophie)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (p. 979: Krystal Huang)
Week3: 3/9 William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (p. 694)
“This is Just to Say” (p. 695)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty” (p. 695: Fatima)
Ben Johnson, “Still to be Neat” (p. 697: Annie)
Robert Herrick, “Delight in Disorder” (p. 697)
Oscar Wilde, “Symphony in Yellow” (p. 699)
Ted Hughes, “To Paint a Water Lily” (p. 701)
Week4:3/16 John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (p. 843: Zenobia)
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (p. 845: Sandy)
“To Autumn” (p. 846: Vickie)
Week5:3/23 Robert Browning, “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (p. 644: Grace)
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” (p. 827: Vivian Fu)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “To George Sand” (p. 829)
Week6:3/30 Sylvia Plath, “Morning Song” (p. 675: Jade)
“Point Shirley” (p. 666: Janet)
“Daddy” (p. 948: Emily)
“Lady Lazarus” (p. 1001: Cleon)
Week7:4/6 (no class)
Week8:4/ 13 Film Screening: Sylvia
Week9:4/ 20 Midterm
Week10:4/ 27 Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” (p. 690)
“I dwell in Possibility” (p. 694: Amy)
“Wild Night—Wild Night” (p. 716: Vivian Tu)
“A narrow Fellow in the Grass” (p. 747: Ted)
“The Wind begun to knead the Grass” (p. 768)
“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun” (p. 811: Cherry Liang)
“Because I could not stop for Death” (p. 980: Alier)
“I stepped from Plank to Plank” (p. 981)
“We do no play on Graves” (p. 981)
Week11:5/4 John Donne, “The Flea” (p. 661: Joanne)
“Batter my heart, three-personed God” (p. 712: Erica)
“The Computation” (p. 712: Jessie)
“The Canonization” (p. 713: Tony)
“The Good-Morrow” (p. 674: Teresa)
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (p. 985: Kate)
Week12:5/11 John Donne, “Death, be not proud” (p. 982: Sophia)
“The Sun Rising” (p. 983)
“Song” (p. 984)
Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (p. 671: Joyce)
Andrew Marvell, “On a Drop of Dew” (p. 702)
“The Garden” (p. 997: Sue & Sugar)
Week13:5/18 T. S. Eliot, “Journey to the Magi” (p. 987: Cherry Lin)
W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” (p. 1023: Ronny)
W. B. Yeats, “Leda and the Swan” (p. 1024: Kelly)
W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” (p. 1025: Daniel)
Week14:5/25 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Tears, Idle Tears” (p. 1008: Wee)
Lord Tennyson, “Tithonus” (p. 1009)
“Ulysses” (p. 1011: Frank)
Week15:6/1 Sophocles, Antigone (pp. 1423-1454)
Week16:6/8 finish Sophocles’s Antigone
Week17:6/15 poetry memorization
Week 18: 6/22 Final exam
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