ENGL 105.02: Introduction to Literary Forms I
ENGL 105.02: Introduction to Literary Forms I
Fall 2016/ Fortuny
Course Description
This is an introduction to the language we use when we talk about short fiction, poetry and drama. We will learn about the fundamental forms and formal qualities of these genres. As we study how stories, poems and a play are constructed, we will pay equal attention to how this construction is connected to meaning.
This will be a combined lecture and discussion course, meaning your participation is not only welcomed, it is required. In order to participate actively you will have to read and prepare for each class. In order to encourage you not to miss class I am requiring that you attend 75% of the classes in order to take the final exam.
I will be giving short announced reading response questions from time to time and unannounced quizzes if I feel not enough of you are prepared for class. Hopefully there will be no quizzes.
Your final grade will be based on the following:
Attendance and Class participation15 %
Reading Responses and quizzes15 %
Midterm 35 %
Final Exam35 %
Syllabus
Short Fiction
Week One. Plot and Theme: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Week Two. Character: Raymond Carver, “Cathedral”
Week Three. Setting: Sandra Cisneros, from “The House on Mango Street,”
Week Four. Point of View: Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
Week Five. Style and Voice: Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
Week Six. Symbolism and Allegory: Ursula Le Guin, “The One Who Walks Away From Omelas”
Midterm
Poetry
Week Seven: Word Choice and Poetic Line (Syntax)
*William Shakespeare, Sonnet 60 “Like as the waves”
* George Herbert, “The Altar”
* John Dryden, “Epigram on Milton”
* William Carlos Williams, “Poem”
* Robert Frost,“Design”
Week Eight: Figures of Speech (metaphor, simile, conceit, metonomy, ambiguity, oxymoron, paradox, pun, apostrophe, catachresis, zeugma, chiasmus, periphrasis)
* Emily Dickinson, “The Brain is Wider Than the Sky,” “I Dwell in Possibility,” “There
is No Frigate Like a Book,” “A Light Exists in Spring”
* Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
Week Nine: Sound (Rhyme and Repetition, Scansion,Assonance, Alliteration, Slant Rhyme)
* Thomas Hardy, “The Voice”
* Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
Week Ten: Fixed Forms (Sonnet [Petrarchan/English], Blank Verse, Villanelle, Ode)
PetrarchanSonnet:
* John Keats, “ On First looking into Chapman’s Homer”
English or Shakespearean Sonnet:
* Shakespeare, Sonnet 22 “My glass shall not persuade me I am old”
Variations on the Sonnet:
* Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias”
Blank Verse:
* Christopher Marlow, from Tamberlane
Villanelle:
* Elizabeth Bishop, “The Art of Losing”
Ode:
*John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”
Week Eleven: Open Forms (Free Verse,Imagism)
* Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”
* W.C. Williams, “The Red Wheel Barrow”
* Gary Soto, “Behind Grandmother’s House”
* Yusuf Komunyakaa, “Thanks”
Drama: Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie”