Dr. Catherine E. Ross, PhD

ENGL 2323, Fall 2010 Course Syllabi

Dr. Catherine Ross
Catherine_Ross@uttyler.edu
Office: BUS 242
Office Hours: Tues. 2-4 PM, 5-6 PM, Thurs. 2-4, and by appointment
Office Telephone: 903-566-7275

Always read any introductory materials on writers or texts and all footnotes. The first page where each text may be found is given, read to the end of each piece, unless otherwise instructed. Expect a reading quiz at the beginning of most classes.

ENGL 2323, Fall 2010   Course Syllabus

Thurs. 8/26 In class: Intro
Hmwk: William Blake, Songs of Innocence: “Introduction” (p. 1410), “The Lamb” (p. 1412), “The Little Black Boy” (p. 1413), Songs of Experience: “Introduction,” (p. 1416), “The Tyger” (p. 1420), “London” (p. 1422)

Tues. 8/31 In class: Romantic Period, beginning with Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience
Hmwk: Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem in Lyrical Ballads (1798): “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (p. 1615)

Thurs. 9/2 In class: Lyrical Ballads, STC’s “Rime”
Hmwk: William Wordsworth’s contributions to Lyrical Ballads (1798): “We Are Seven” (p. 1487), “Lines Written in Early Spring” (p. 1489), “Lines” (“Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” p. 1491)

Tues. 9/7 In class: Lyrical Ballads, WW’s “Tintern Abbey”
Hmwk: Re-read William Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey ” (p. 1491) and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (p. 1537)

Thurs. 9/9 In class: Lyrical Ballads, WW’s “Tintern Abbey” revisited
Hmwk: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (p. 1632). Be sure you read STC’s entire prose introduction. Additionally, please make a sketch of what is portrayed in the poem (the layout of the land described with pleasure dome, the river, the caverns, walls and towers, fountain, etc.). The sketch will count as a quiz.

Tues. 9/14 In class: STC’s “Kubla Khan”
Hmwk: Lord Byron, “She Walks in Beauty” (p. 1676), “They Say that Hope is Happiness” (p. 1677), “When We Two Parted” (p. 1678); Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias” (p. 1741); John Keats, from Endymion “A Thing of Beauty” (p. 1826)

Thurs. 9/16 In class: Byron, Percy Shelley, and Keats
Hmwk: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. I, including Preface (p.1-64). Concentrate esp. on Chap. IV, the night the creature is “infused with a spark of being”

Tues. 9/21 In class: Frankenstein, Vol. I
Hmwk: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume II (p.64-115). Make a list of all the books the creature reads and what lessons about human nature these might teach him; concentrate as well on Chap. VII, when the creature approaches Mr. De Lacey.

Thurs. 9/23 In class: Frankenstein, Vol. II
Hmwk: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. III (p.115-179). Concentrate esp. on the last chapter, Chap VII.

Tues. 9/28 In class: Frankenstein, Vol. III
Hmwk: Review for Romantic Period Test. Use test review template provided on blackboard (Course Documents)

OUTSIDE OF CLASS REVIEW SESSIONS AVAILABLE: Tues. 2-4, Weds. 2-4. See Professor Ross for locations.

Thurs. 9/30 In class: Romantic Period Test
Hmwk: Introduction to the Victorian Period. Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott” (p. 1953), “Ulysses” (p. 1962), “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (p. 2023)

Tues. 10/5 In class: Victorian Period, Tennyson
Hmwk: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese: Sonnets 21, 32, 43 (p. 1926-7); Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” (p. 2058)

Thurs. 10/7 In class: EBB’s love sonnets and RB’s dramatic monologue
Hmwk: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, preface and chaps. I-IX (p. 1-70). Concentrate esp. on Chaps I & II (Jane with the Reeds), p. 30-31 (Jane’s rebellion), Chap. VI (Helen at Lowood), Chap VIII (Helen and Jane visit Miss Temple), Chap IX (typhus ravages the school)

Tues. 10/12 In class: Bronte’s Jane Eyre, chapters I-IX (p. 1-70)
Hmwk: Jane Eyre, chaps. X-XII (p. 70-100). Concentrate esp. on chap. X (time passes, “a new servitude”), and what Rochester’s house, servants, and physical appearance tell about his character.

Thurs. 10/14 In class: Jane Eyre, chapters X-XII (p. 70-100).
Hmwk: Jane Eyre, chaps. XIII-XIX (p.100-175). Concentrate esp. on chap XV and pp. 171-174 in chap. XIX

Tues. 10/19 In class: Jane Eyre, chapters XIII-XIX (p.100-175).

Hmwk: Jane Eyre, chaps. XX-XXII (p. 175-210). Concentrate esp. on Jane and Rochester’s walk p. 184-187 in chap. XX and what Jane learns from her visit to Gateshead.

Thurs. 10/21 In class: Jane Eyre, chaps. XX-XXII (p. 175-210).
Hmwk: Jane Eyre, chaps XXIII-XXIX (p. 210-298). Concentrate esp. on chap. XXIII (Rochester proposes), chap. XXVI (Jane’s wedding day), chap. XXVII (Jane leaves), chap XXIX (St. John Rivers in contrast to Rochester)

Tues. 10/26 In class: Jane Eyre, chaps XXIII-XXIX (p. 210-298)
Hmwk: Jane Eyre, chaps XXX-XXXIII (p.298-331). Concentrate esp. on chap. XXXII (St. John on marriage) and chap XXXIII (Jane’s identity and inheritance revealed)

Thurs. 10/28 In class: Jane Eyre, chaps XXX-XXXIII (p.298-331).

Hmwk: Jane Eyre, chaps XXXIV-XXXVIII (p. 331-385). Concentrate on Chap. XXXIV (St. John’s proposal), p. 357 (Jane hears a voice), Chap. XXXVII (“What sweet madness”), Chap. XXXVIII (“Reader, I married him.”)

Fri. 10/29 Last withdrawal date

Tues. 11/2 In class: Jane Eyre, chaps XXXIV-XXXVIII (p. 331-385)
Hmwk: Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Thurs. 11/4 In class: Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest
Hmwk: Review for Victorian Prd Test. Use test review template provided on blackboard (Course Documents)

OUTSIDE OF CLASS REVIEW SESSIONS AVAILABLE: Thurs. 2-4, Fri. 2-4. See Professor Ross for locations.

Tues. 11/9 In class: Victorian Period Test
Hmwk: Introduction to 20th & 21st Century; Thomas Hardy, “Hap,” “Neutral Tones,” (p.2318-19); Philip Larkin, “Church Going,” “Talking in Bed,” (p.2711, 2714)

Thurs. 11/11 In class: 20th Century, paired poems by Hardy and Larkin
Hmwk: T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (p.2610); Anne Carson: “The Glass Essay, Hero” (p.2825)

Tues. 11/16 In class: Poems by Eliot and Carson
Hmwk: Reread, review T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (p. 2610)

Thurs. 11/18 In class: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” revisited
Hmwk: Short stories: Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party,” (p.2646); Nadine Gordimer, “The Moment Before the Gun Went Off,” (p.2718); Salman Rushie, “The Prophet’s Hair,” (p.2815)

Tues. 11/23 In class: Post Colonial literature, stories by Mansfield, Gordimer, and Rushdie.
Hmwk: Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair, read at least through chapter 9; I recommend you read father if you can. Concentrate esp. on: Thursday’s world (clones, chronoguard, importance of art and literature, the government, etc.), the shoot out, Acheron Hades

Thurs. 11/25 Thanksgiving

Tues. 11/30 In class: The Eyre Affair, chaps. 1-9
Hmwk: The Eyre Affair, Chaps. 10-18, concentrate esp. on: Thursday and Landen, what happened with Anton

Thurs. 12/2 In class: The Eyre Affair, chaps. 10-18
Hmwk: The Eyre Affair, Chaps. 19-27, concentrate esp. on: Joffy Next, the Prose Portal, Jane Eyre—a different ending, book persons and the barriers between reality and fiction, the temporal distortion

Tues. 12/7 In class: The Eyre Affair, chaps. 19-27
Hmwk: The Eyre Affair, Chaps. 28-36, concentrate esp. on: how it all turns out, esp. the parallels between the two novels—relationship between Thursday and Rochester.

Thurs. 12/9 In class: The Eyre Affair, chaps. 28-36
Hmwk. Review for Long Test. Use test review template provided on blackboard (Course Documents)

OUTSIDE OF CLASS REVIEW SESSIONS AVAILABLE: Thurs 2-4, Fri. 2-4. See Professor Ross for locations.

Thurs 12/16 Long Test during exam period.