Week 1
Orientation, introduction to the course. What is Literature?
Reading from pp.1-20 from the Anthology.
Keats “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
Week 2
Approaching Fiction: plot, character, theme.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm “The Shroud”
Marjane Satrapi “The Shabbat” p. 21
Luke, “The Parable of the Prodigal Son”
“The Elephant in the Village of the Blind”
Assignment 1
Week 3:
Ernest Hemingway: “Cat in the Rain”
Week 4
Assignment 2
Kate Chopin: “Desiree’s Baby”
“The Story of an Hour”
Week 5:
Paper 1
Narrative Point of View
Alice Walker: “Everyday Use”
Edgar Allan Poe: “The Cask of Amontillado”
Week 6:
Approaching Poetry
Langston Hughes: “Harlem”
John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Assignment 3
Week 7
Robert Frost’s poetry
“Mending Wall”
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
“The Road Not Taken”
Paper 2
Week 8
Tone, Figurative Language
Robert Herrick: “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
Thomas Hardy: “The Man He Killed”
Sylvia Plath: “Metaphors”
William Carlos Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow”
Dickinson: “Because I Could not Stop for Death”
Assignment 4
Week 9:
Imagery and Symbolism, Irony
Ezra Pound:” In a Station of a Metro”
Percy Shelley: “Ozymandias”.
Andrew Marvel: “To His Coy Mistress”
John Donne: “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
Paper 3
Week10 and 11:
Approaching Drama
Tragedy: Arthur Miller: Tragedy and the Common Man (photocopy)
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
Assignment 5
Week 12&13:
Criticism
Assignment 6
Week 14: Things resolved and unresolved
Paper 4
Final Exam.