Plan of Study
2021 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
8th Week Midterm (15th April 2019)
Part 3 Theatre and Drama
9th Week Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Waiting for Godot
Part 4 The Contemporary Period
10th Week Introduction
- Setting the Scene
- Novels
11th Week Doris Lessing (1919-2013),
“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 (1939-2013)
‘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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