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Date

Topic

Class Activity and Required Readings

Assign-ment

Preview hour

Review hour

1

Feb. 17

Introduction

Course introduction and self-introductions

“Introduction” (pp. 1-13)

Assigning presentations and seat arrangement

Timer, housekeeper, LINE group

Readings

3

3

2

Feb. 24

Fiction (Plot and Symbol)

Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing (pp. 16-27)

1. Faulkner [15] “A Rose for Emily” (pp. 305-12)

2. Hawthorne [15] “The Birth-Mark” (pp. 149-160)

Readings

3

3

3

Mar. 3

Fiction (Narration and Point of View)

3. Joyce [15] “Araby” (pp. 127-31)

4. Hemingway [15] “Hills Like White Elephants” (pp. 329-32)

Readings

3

3

4

Mar. 10

Fiction (Theme and Setting)

5. Gilman [15] “The Yellow-Wall Paper” (pp. 317-28)

6. Tan [15] “A Pair of Tickets” (pp. 393-406)

Readings

3

3

5

Mar. 17

Fiction (Theme, Setting and Sample Writing)

7. Kafka [15] “A Hunger Artist” (pp. 333-39)

8. Kawabata [15] “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” (pp. 186-89)

Sample Writing: “Response Report on ‘Cathedral’” (pp. 37-41)

Sample Writing: Essay (pp. 42-45)

Readings

3

3

6

Mar. 24

Poetry (Defining, Reading, Responding, Writing)

Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing (pp. 418-27)

9. Wordsworth [10] “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (pp. 428-29)

10. Pope [10] “Sound and Sense” (pp. 545-49)

11. Keats [10] “Ode to a Nightingale” (pp. 533-35)

Readings

3

3

7

Mar. 31

Poetry (Sonnets and Traditional Forms)

12. Shakespeare [10] “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (p. 522)

Shakespeare “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (pp. 591-92) (32) [8]

Wordsworth “Nuns Fret Not” (pp. 593) (33) [8]

13. Browning [10] “How Do I Love Thee” (p. 594)

14. Thomas [10] “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (pp. 578-79)

15. Collins [10] “Sonnet” (p. 598)

Sample Writing: Comparative Essay (pp. 600-603)

Readings

3

3

8

Apr. 7

Mid-term Exam

Taking the mid-term exam

Exam

9

Apr. 14

Lecture by Prof. Lai

Prof. Lai Chun-Wei will give a talk on Deleuze, a French literary theorist and thinker

10

Apr. 21

Poetry (Voice, Setting, Symbol)

Wordsworth “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” (pp. 456-57) (34) [8]

16. Arnold [ 10] “Dover Beach” (pp. 469-70)

17. Hecht [10] “Dover Bitch” (PDF)

18. Lee [10] “Persimmons” (pp. 471-73)

19. Donne [10] “The Flea” (p. 478)

Donne “Death, be not proud” (p. 627) (35) [8]

Readings

3

3

11

Apr. 28

20. Frost [10] “The Road Not Taken” (pp. 535-36)

Frost “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (p. 628) (36) [8]

Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (pp. 634-35) (37) [8]

21. Parker [10] “One Perfect Rose” (p. 531)

22. Blake [10] “Sick Rose” (pp. 532-33)

3

3

12

May 5

Poetry (Imagery and Symbol)

23. Dickinson [10] “Because I could not stop for Death—” (pp. 517-18)

Dickinson “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” (p. 626) (38) [8]

Dickinson “‘Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers—” (p. 624) (39) [8]

24. Pastan [10] “To a Daughter Leaving Home” (p. 639-40)

25. Tennyson [10] “Ulysses” (pp. 651-52)

Readings

3

3

13

May 12

Drama: Trifles

Drama: Reading, Responding, Writing (pp. 676-78)

26. Glaspell [20] Trifles (pp. 679-90)

Sample Writing: Response Paper (pp. 698-99) (40) [8]

Sample Writing: Essay (pp. 700-02) (41) [8]

Readings

3

3

14

May 19

Drama: A Doll House

Elements of Drama (pp. 703-13) (42) [8]

27. Ibsen [20] A Doll House (pp. 880-929)

Readings

3

3

15

May 26

Critical Approaches

28-31. Critical approaches (16 terms) [15]: theory, term, theorist, representative work, exemplary application (pp.   A1-23)

Readings

3

3

16

Jun. 2

Final Exam

Defining theoretical terms of contemporary literary approaches and identifying10-20 quotations

3

3

17*

Jun. 9

Writing Week

Writing a paper, creative story, or personal response [1500 words/5 pages]

Cf: Writing about Literature (pp. 1040-129)

3

3

18*

Jun. 16

Paper/report Submission from Home

(LINE Group) [deadline: 16:00]

Submitting one of the following:

1. a term paper according to sample writings and MLA style


2. a creative story rewriting the end of a story, play, or poem.


3. a creative story rewriting a story, play or poem into a different genre


4. a personal response essay

Paper/report

3

3