*2023 Note:<\/strong> Links and most procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the assigned editions and the reading schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COURSE INFORMATION<\/strong>. English 300, Course Code 18524, Section 80. MW 4:00 \u2013 5:15 p.m., Irvine Campus (IRVC) 213. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: MW 3:00 \u2013 3:55 p.m. in IRVC 239. Email: e300_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: \u201cMain literary forms \u2013 prose fiction, poetry and drama \u2013 are studied and analyzed. English majors should schedule this basic course as early as possible. Units: (3).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Booth, Alison and Kelly J. Mays. The Norton Introduction to Literature.<\/em> Shorter Eleventh Edition. New York: Norton, 2012. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0393913392.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Appelbaum, Stanley, ed. English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology.<\/em> Dover, 1996. ISBN-13: 978-0486292823.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky.<\/em> Modern Library, 2001. ISBN-13: 978-0375756887.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest.<\/em> Dover, 1990. ISBN 13: 978-0486264783<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 08\/26. Course Introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 08\/28. Norton Chapter 1: Plot. Read this chapter\u2019s introductory material (82-89). Guy de Maupassant. \u201cThe Jewelry\u201d (90-95). Edith Wharton. \u201cRoman Fever\u201d (118-28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/02. Labor Day Holiday, No Classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/04. Chapter 2. Narration and Point of View: read this chapter\u2019s introductory material (160-64). Edgar Allan Poe. \u201cThe Cask of Amontillado\u201d (164-70). Jamaica Kincaid. \u201cGirl\u201d (170-71).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/09. Norton Chapter 3. Character: read this chapter\u2019s introductory material (180-87). David Foster Wallace\u2019s \u201cGood People\u201d (215-20); Toby Litt\u2019s \u201cThe Monster\u201d (241-43). Norton Chapter 4. Setting: read this chapter\u2019s introductory material (245-51). Anton Chekhov. \u201cThe Lady with the Dog\u201d (251-62).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/11. Norton Chapter 5. Symbol and Figurative Language: read this chapter\u2019s introductory material (285-90). Edwige Danticat. \u201cA Wall of Fire Rising\u201d (317-29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/16. Special Focus on Fyodor Dostoevsky. Read Norton Introductory material on Theme (Ch. 6, 334-38). We will in part discuss this aspect of literary texts though Fyodor Dostoevsky. Read Notes from the Underground<\/em> (Modern Library 95-215).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/18. Special Focus on Fyodor Dostoevsky. Read Norton Introductory material on Theme (Ch. 6, 334-38). We will in part discuss this aspect of literary texts though Fyodor Dostoevsky. Read Notes from the Underground<\/em> (Modern Library 95-215).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/23. Special Focus, continued: Fyodor Dostoevsky. \u201cThe Dream of a Ridiculous Man\u201d (Modern Library 263-86).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 09\/25. \u201cThe Author\u2019s Work as Context: Flannery O\u2019Connor\u201d (Norton 419-22). \u201cGood Country People\u201d (Norton 433-47).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 09\/30. Norton Introductory Material on Poetry, Chapter 10 (618-36). Special Focus: English Romanticism. William Blake. Read Blake selections from Songs of Innocence & of Experience<\/em> and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell<\/em> (Dover 1-22, also see question set for links to the two extra Innocence & Experience<\/em> poems not available in Dover).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/02. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cPreface to Lyrical Ballads, 1802<\/em>: read only these brief excerpts<\/strong>. Read also in the Dover edition: \u201cWe Are Seven\u201d (23-25); \u201cShe dwelt among the untrodden ways\u201d (31-32); \u201cA slumber did my spirit seal\u201d (32); \u201cI wandered lonely as a cloud\u201d (43-44); \u201cThe Solitary Reaper\u201d (42); \u201cMy heart leaps up when I behold\u201d (35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 10\/07. Special Focus: English Romanticism. Read in the Dover edition: \u201cLines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798\u201d (25-29); \u201cOde: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood\u201d (51-57).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/09. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology<\/em> (Dover): Samuel Taylor Coleridge. \u201cThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner\u201d (63-81); \u201cFrost at Midnight\u201d (100-01); \u201cKubla Khan\u201d (105-06); \u201cDejection: An Ode\u201d (106-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 10\/14. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology<\/em> (Dover): Percy Bysshe Shelley. \u201cOzymandias\u201d (147); \u201cOde to the West Wind\u201d (151-53); \u201cTo a Skylark\u201d (157-59).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/16. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology<\/em> (Dover): John Keats. \u201cOn first looking into Chapman\u2019s Homer\u201d (189); \u201cTo Autumn\u201d (222-23); \u201cOde to a Nightingale\u201d (216-18); \u201cOde on a Grecian Urn\u201d (218-20).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 10\/21. Special Focus: Modernist Poetry. W.B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats: an Album (Norton 955-965).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/23. Special Focus: Modernist Poetry. Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot. Ezra Pound\u2019s \u201cIn a Station of the Metro\u201d (Norton 1102), \u201cThe River Merchant\u2019s Wife: a Letter\u201d (Norton 753). T.S. Eliot\u2019s \u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d (Norton 1087-90).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 10\/28. Poetry as Form and Foregrounded Language. Norton Chapters 13-16, etc. Emily Dickinson: \u201cBecause I could not stop for Death\u201d (Norton 807); Edgar Allan Poe: \u201cThe Raven\u201d (Norton 838); W.C. Williams: \u201cThe Red Wheelbarrow\u201d (Norton 796), \u201cThis is Just to Say\u201d (Norton 797); Gerard Manley Hopkins: \u201cPied Beauty\u201d (Norton 798), \u201cGod\u2019s Grandeur\u201d (Norton 1094), \u201cThe Windhover\u201d (Norton 1095); E.E. Cummings: \u201cin Just\u201d (Norton 1081); \u201cThe Twenty-Third Psalm\u201d (Norton 810).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 10\/30. Poetry as Form and Foregrounded Language. Norton Chapters 13-16, etc. Wilfred Owen: \u201cDulce et Decorum Est\u201d (Norton 1101); Robert Frost: \u201cDesign\u201d (Norton 898), \u201cStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening\u201d (Norton 1091); Shakespeare: \u201cTh\u2019expense of spirit in a waste of shame\u201d (Norton 868); Archibald MacLeish: \u201cArs Poetica\u201d (Norton 700); Alfred Tennyson: \u201cUlysses\u201d (Norton 990); Robert Browning: \u201cMy Last Duchess\u201d (Norton 1078).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/04. Sophocles. Antigone<\/em> (Norton).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 11\/06. Sophocles. Antigone<\/em> (Norton).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/11. Veterans\u2019 Day Holiday, No Classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 11\/13. William Shakespeare. Hamlet<\/em> Act 1 (Norton 1363-85).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/18. William Shakespeare. Hamlet<\/em> Acts 2-3 (Norton 1385-1424).<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 11\/20. William Shakespeare. Hamlet<\/em> Acts 4-5 (Norton 1424-58).<\/p>\n\n\n\n M. 11\/25. Thanksgiving Holiday, No Classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. 11\/27. 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