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1 Lahore University of Management Sciences LITR 100 Introduction to Literature in English Fall Saeed Ghazi, Ph.D. Office Ext: 8109 Office Hours: Friday 2: :30pm I Course Description This four credit introductory course assumes that students do not have a prior knowledge of Literature. It seeks to introduce students to the distinguishing features of the principal genres of poetry, the novel, and drama through a close and sustained engagement with poems, plays, novels, and short stories drawn from a wide range of historical periods within the field of English studies. Non-fictional genres like biographies, autobiographies, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents will also receive some attention. This course will also attempt to provide a broad overview of the discipline of English Studies, including Literary and Historical periods, Literary Movements, and Literary Theories. We will grapple with questions like the relationship of literary form to content and what, if anything is particularly and peculiarly literary about literary works. Notable among the questions that will come up for consideration is the tangled issue of canon formation and the politics surrounding canon formations. II Course Objectives 1. To equip students with the critical skills and interpretive tools necessary to pursue more advanced courses in Literature. 2. To develop in students a heightened sensitivity to and a deeper appreciation of the literariness manifest in literary works. 1

2 III Learning Outcomes Students who successfully complete LITR 100 should i) Manifest a degree of familiarity with the distinctive characteristics of the discipline of literary studies the object ; of literary study, the aims and objectives, and the methodology. ii) Register awareness of and sensitivity to some of the distinctive features and unique properties and uses of literary language. iii) Exhibit broad familiarity with the characteristics of the paradigmatic genres the narrative, the lyric, and the dramatic, as well as sub-genres, dominant literary forms, and significant literary movements. iv) Display familiarity with distinctive approaches to Literature formalist, mimetic, rhetorical, and biographical, as well as a broad acquaintance with important literary theories like New Criticism, Russian Formalism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, New Historicism, and Feminism. IV Grading and Attendance Policy There will be 28 sessions of class, each 110 minutes in length. Students will write a brief response paper based on the assigned readings at the start of each class. Students will take both a Mid-term and a Final exam and write a 2,500 word critical essay (approximately 8 pages) during the semester. The topic for the essay and the working thesis/theses will have to be approved by the Instructor. The critical essay should strictly adhere to the MLA (Modern Language Association) format. A photocopy of the 6 th edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (2003) is on reserve at the library. The break up of the Instruments is as follows: 1. Mid Term 30% 2. Final Exam 30% 3. Critical Essay 30% 4. Response Papers/Tests/ 10% 2

3 V Schedule 1. Introduction to the Course; Overview of the Discipline; Literary and Historical Periods 2. The Literary Canon; Introduction to Literary Genres: the Narrative, the Lyric and the Dramatic; M. H. Abrams (B.1916), Orientation of Critical Theories I Introduction to Fiction 3. Reading Fiction Elements of Fiction Kate Chopin ( ), The Story of an Hour John Updike ( ), A&P Jonathan Culler, What is Literature and Does it Matter? Harold Bloom (B. 1930), Why Read Milan Kundera (B. 1929), from The Art of the Novel 4. Plot Types of Plot, Story and Plot, Fabula and Syuzhet William Faulkner ( ), A Rose for Emily E.M. Forster, from Aspects of the Novel J.Arthur Honeywell, Plot in the Modern Novel Style, Tone, and Irony Ernest Hemingway ( ), Hills Like White Elephants 5. Point of View Third Person Narrator, First Person Narrator Anton Chekhov ( ), The Lady with the Dog Punyakante Wijenaike (B. 1933), Anoma Wayne C. Booth ( ), Distance and Point of View: An Essay in Classification 6. Characterization Herman Melville ( ), Bartleby the Scrivener Saadat Hasan Manto ( ), The Dutiful Daughter Naguib Mahfouz ( ), The Answer is No Daniyal Mueenuddin (B. 1963), Saleema 7. Setting 3

4 James Joyce ( ), The Dead Jorge Luis Borges ( ), The Garden of Forking Paths 8. Theme, Symbolism James Joyce ( ), Araby ; Leo Tolstoy ( ), The Death of Ivan Ilych 9. Franz Kafka ( ), The Metamorphosis 10. Jane Austen ( ), Pride and Prejudice 11. Jane Austen ( ), Pride and Prejudice II Introduction to Poetry 12. Reading and Responding to Poetry Tone, Speaker, Situation, and Setting/Word Choice, and Word Order Denotation and Connotation; Alliteration, Assonance, and Onomatopoeia Marianne Moore ( ), Poetry Robert Frost ( ), Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ; Acquainted with the Night ; The Road Not Taken 13. Tropes/Figures of Speech Terry Eagleton, from How to Read a Poem Moniza Alvi, How the World Split in Two Sylvia Plath ( ), Metaphors John Keats ( ), On First Looking into Chapman s Homer Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ), Ozymandias Andrew Marvell ( ), To His Coy Mistress John Donne ( ), A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 14. Images and Imagery Ezra Pound ( ), In a Station of the Metro William Carlos Williams ( ), Poem Matthew Arnold ( ), Dover Beach T.S. Eliot ( ), The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock John Keats ( ), To Autumn 15. Mid Term Exam 16. Symbol, Allegory, and Irony Edwin Arlington Robinson ( ), Richard Cory 4

5 William Butler Yeats ( ), The Second Coming Robert Browning ( ), My Last Duchess William Blake ( ), The Sick Rose 17. The Sounds of Poetry Robert Browning ( ), How they brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent Lord Byron ( ), The Destruction of Sennacherib Gerard Manley Hopkins ( ), God s Grandeur Alexander Pope ( ), from An Essay on Criticism 18. Patterns of Rhythm; Principles of Meter 19. Poetic Forms/Open Forms i) Sonnet a) Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet b) English or Shakespearean sonnet Octave, sestet, caesura, volta William Wordsworth ( ), London 1802 William Shakespeare ( ), Shall I Compare thee to a Summer s Day , Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds ii) Ballad a) Popular or Traditional Ballad b) Literary Ballad Sir Patrick Spens iii) Ode Pindaric ode, Horatian or homostrophic ode; Irregular Ode John Keats ( ), Ode to a Nightingale 20. Poetic Forms (Contd.) iv) Elegy Seamus Heaney (B. 1939), Mid-term Break v) Villanelle Dylan Thomas ( ), Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night vi) Sestina Elizabeth Bishop ( ), Sestina vii) Limerick There was a Young Lady named Bright 5

6 viii) Haiku Matsuo Basho ( ), Under Cherry Trees ix) Parody Anthony Hecht (B. 1923) The Dover Bitch 21. III Introduction to Drama Elements of Drama John Millington Synge ( ), Riders to the Sea John Styan, from The Elements of Drama 22. William Shakespeare ( ), Hamlet Aristotle, from Poetics 23. Hamlet 24. Hamlet 25. Hamlet 26. Hamlet 27. Hamlet 28. Hamlet 6

ENGL 1000 Introduction to Literature in English Fall Semester ( )

ENGL 1000 Introduction to Literature in English Fall Semester (2016-2017) Instructor Room No Office Hours Email Telephone Secretary/TA TA Office Hours Dr Saeed Ghazi Room No 129, Department of Humanities