Plan of Study
2018 Spring
1st Week Introduction : The Modern Period
- Setting the Scene
- Novels
Part 1 Modern Fiction
2nd Week Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
“On the Western Circuit”
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Heart of Darkness
3rd Week E. M. Forster (1879-1970)
“The Other Boat”
James Joyce (1882-1941)
“The Dead”
4th Week Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
“Modern Fiction” and A Room of One’s Own
Part 2 Modern Poetry
5th Week W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
‘Leda and the Swan’
‘Among School Children’
6th Week T. S. Eliot
‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
7th Week The Waste Land
Part 3 Theatre and Drama
8th Week Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Waiting for Godot
9th Week Midterm
Part 4 The Contemporary Period
10th Week Introduction
- Setting the Scene
- Novels
11th Week Doris Lessing (1919-),
“To Room Nineteen”
12th Week V. S. Naipaul (1932-)
“One Out of Many”
13th Week Margaret Atwood (1939-)
“Death by Landscape”
Part 5 Poetry:
14th Week W.H. Auden (1907-1973)—Thirties Poets of England
“In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
‘In Praise of Limestone’
15th Week Philip Larkin (1922-1985)—the Movement
‘High Windows’
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night’
16th Week Seamus Heaney (1939-)
‘Digging’
‘Punishment’
Part 6 Theatre and Drama
17th Week Tom Stoppard (1937-)
Arcadia
18th Week Final
As well as class attendance and participation in class discussions, students are expected to spend around 6 hours previewing lesson and working on Q&A assignments.
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