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Date

Topic/Class Activity

Required Readings

Assign-ment

1

Feb. 17

Introduction

Course introduction and self-introductions

Why study literature? (pp. 1-10)

Assigning presentations and seat arrangement

Readings

2

Feb. 24

Fiction (Plot)

Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (pp. 368-99)

Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (pp. 308-15)

Readings

3

Mar. 02

Fiction (Narration and Point of View)

Joyce’s “Araby” (pp. 330-35)

Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” (pp. 122-26)

Readings

4

Mar. 09

Fiction (Symbol, Theme, and Setting)

Gilman’s “The Yellow-Wall Paper” (p.316-29)

Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” (pp. 186-202)

Readings

5

Mar. 16

Fiction (Setting and Sample Writing)

Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog” (pp. 171-85)

Sample Writing: “How Setting Reflects Emotions” (pp. 207-12)

Readings

6

Mar. 23

Poetry (Defining, Reading, Responding, Writing)

Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing (pp. 　　　　　　476-508)

Robinson’s “Richard Cory” (p. 482)

Wordsworth’s “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (p. 485)

Behn’s “On Her Loving Two Equally” (pp. 493-500)

Sample Writing: Response paper (pp. 502-04)

Sample Writing: Essay (pp. 505-08)

Pope’s “Sound and Sense” (pp. 615-20)

Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” (pp. 599-602)

Readings

7

Mar. 30

Poetry (Sonnets and Sample Writing)

Shakespeare’s “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” (p. 669)

Shakespeare’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (p. 589)

Donne’s “Batter my heart, three-personed God” (p. 590)

Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee” (p. 672)

Millay’s “I, being born a woman and distressed” (p. 674)

Collin’s “Sonnet” (p. 677)

Sample Writing: Comparative Essay (p. 679-83)

Readings

8

Apr. 06

Poetry (Imagery and Symbol)

Burn’s “A Red, Red Rose” (p. 584)

Parker’s “One Perfect Rose” (p. 597)

Blake’s “Sick Rose” (p. 598)

Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” (p. 583)

Dickinson’s “Wild Nights—Wild Nights” (p. 700)

Pastan’s “Marks” (p. 582)

Pastan’s “To a daughter leaving home” (p. 526)

Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (pp. 705-09)

Lee’s “Persimmons” (p. 534)

Readings

9

Apr. 13

Poetry (Voice and Setting)

Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (p. 703-04)

Donne’s “Song” (pp. 702-03)

Wordsworth’s “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” (p. 517)

Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (pp. 717-18)

Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (p. 530)

Hecht’s “Dover Bitch” (p. 539)

Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (p. 712)

Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” (p. 602)

Readings

10

Apr. 20

Mid-term Exam

Mid-term exam

Exam

11

Apr. 27

Poetry (Poem Writing and Sharing)

Presentation on one’s own English or Chinese poem: life story, special background of the work, theme, technique, sleights of hand, tradition, oral reading, rhyme, metaphor, simile, inspiration, subgenre, etc.

Poem

12

May 04

Drama: Trifles

Glaspell’s Trifles (pp. 771-83)

Sample Writings (pp. 784-95)

Readings

13

May 11

Drama: A Doll House

Ibsen’s A Doll House (pp. 812-72)

Writing about Literature (pp. 1248-94)

Readings

14

May 18

Drama: Hamlet

Shakespeare’s Hamlet (pp. 1101-211)

Writing about Literature (pp. 1295-351)

Readings

15

May 25

Critical Approaches

21419064068. approaches: theory, term, theorist, representative work, exemplary application (pp. 1352-82)

Readings

16

Jun. 01

Final Exam

Defining theoretical terms of contemporary literary approaches and 10 quotations for identification questions

Readings

17

Jun. 08

Writing Week

Writing term paper according to sample writings and MLA style

Paper

18

Jun. 15

Office Hours

Submission of term paper and one-on-one conference

Paper