English 150
Introduction to Literary Studies
Bowman 220, 12 p.m. MWF
Dr. Stan Galloway
Office: Bowman 304, 828-5339, sgallowa@bridgewater.edu
Bridgewater College, Spring 2008
Hours: M: 10-12 T: 2-3:30 W: 10-12 R: 2-3:30 F: by appt.
Course Web Page: http://www.bridgewater.edu/~sgallowa/eng150.html
Texts:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Jungle Tales of Tarzan. Any edition. Also online.
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Sixth ed.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2003.
Harmon, William, and C. Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. Tenth
ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
Meyer, Michael. The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Eighth ed. New
York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 2008.
Reserve Works for Eng 150:
Ackerman, Diane. Jaguar of Sweet Laughter. New York: Vintage, 1991.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Jungle Tales of Tarzan. New York: Ballantine, 1977.
Carver, Raymond. "Cathedral." Cathedral: Stories. New York: Vintage,
1989.
Joyce, James. "The Dead." Dubliners. New York: Modern Library, 1926.
224-88.
Levertov, Denise. “Caedmon.” Breathing the Water. New York: New
Directions, 1987.
---. “Olga Poems.” Poems 1960-1967. New York: New Directions, 1966.
---. "Pleasures." Collected Early Poems, 1940-1960. New York: New
Directions, 1979.
---. “Witness.” Evening Train. New York: New Directions,
Smit, Barto. "I Take Back My Country." The Heinemann Book of South
African Short Stories: From 1945 to the Present. Ed. Denis Hirson and
Martin Trump. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994.
Objectives:
This course is designed to help you accomplish the following writing
goals:
1. Become aware of the strengths and weaknesses in your
writing.
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2. Effectively use some process of prewriting, drafting, rewriting
and editing in your work.
3. State a purpose and develop it by using a variety of supports
(for example, definition, or comparison, quotation or
summary).
4. Express ideas with clarity and specificity, demonstrating an
awareness of audience and sensitivity to language.
5. Demonstrate grammatical competence and conventional
punctuation and spelling, as well as adherence to MLA style.
This course is designed to help you accomplish the following literary goals:
1. Provide an understanding of the unique features of the three
dominant genres of literature: fiction, poetry and drama.
2. Develop an acquaintance with important authors and titles in
each of the genres.
3. Develop an understanding of the basic philosophies that
various authors put forth through their art.
By accomplishing these goals you should become more confident about
your writing as well as your literary and critical thinking.
Course Requirements:
Essays:
1. Essays will be typed, double-spaced, on one side of the page
only.
2. Essays will be turned in flat. Do not use plastic covers or
binders; use only a staple or paper clip to hold the paper
together.
3. Grade of essays will be lowered for technical errors.
4. The grade of one essay will be dropped.
Attendance Policy:
You are expected to attend class. Students involved in sanctioned school
functions will make arrangements prior to the class period missed, allowing
enough lead time to complete any alternate assignments that may need
to be done. (These assignments do not "make up" for the class missed;
they only show you have kept up with the material.) Though no absence
is beneficial to you, you will be allowed 6 absences regardless of reason
before you receive an automatic F for the course. This is an absolute
departmental standard, so you should make no absence that can be
avoided. If you believe your involvement in other campus activities will
rob you of more than 6 days, consult with me immediately.
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Other Work:
Various exercises may be assigned orally in class, or through written or
web-page means; quizzes may be given without prior notice. Quizzes
missed due to absences will not be retaken without prior arrangement.
Rewriting:
Because writing is both process and product, you must rewrite one of the
first two essays; two other essays may be rewritten as time allows. Please
make an appointment to discuss your rewriting strategies with me on the
specific paper(s) you choose.
Presentation:
Each student will give one oral presentation. The presentation should have
a clear, arguable thesis and avoid irrelevant biographical material. Verbal
references to relevant assigned works are expected, including authors’
names and related writings. A works cited list must be submitted to the
instructor at the time of delivery. The presentation must be 5-8 minutes
long. For every 30 seconds short of or beyond this range 10 points will be
deducted. The topic of the presentation will be assigned at the second
class meeting. Please discuss your presentation with the instructor a few
days prior to its delivery.
Critical Literary Paper:
The critical research paper on an approved author or work must be a
minimum of 2000 words (approximately 8 typed pages in a standard 12point font). Shorter papers will be given a grade of zero out of 300.
Documentation must conform to MLA guidelines. At least 6 sources must
be cited (excluding encyclopedic works), one of them a periodical, one
non-periodical. Four sources must be secondary; at least one source must
be primary, which will likely be the work you are focusing on. A theme
rather than an author or work is also acceptable as an organizing
principle. All sources will be required for submission, in either physical or
photocopied form. The research paper and the presentation may be
related.
Weekly Discussion:
Each week we will read a story from Jungle Tales of Tarzan. Each class
member is to discuss constructive elements via e-mail with the class. Asking
and answering questions are acceptable forms of participation, as well as
noting connections with other works we are reading. To send comment to
the class, we will develop a group e-mail list on Jan. 30. E-mails will be
graded as follows: 10=helpful and worthwhile observation, 8=true but not
very helpful, 6=you did it but added nothing new to the discussion, 0=no
response. There are 12 stories; I will drop your 2 lowest scores.
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Performance Report:
Each student will write two reports regarding a performance at the
Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton (a number of the pay-what-you-will
performances are listed in the calendar to help you with planning;
admission with student ID is $10 on a space-available basis). The report
will follow the guidelines appended to this syllabus.
Extra Credit:
A typed 200-word report may be substituted for one quiz grade on
approved events. Reports are due within three days of the event. The
following events are pre-approved: Pinion Players productions, additional
American Shakespeare Center productions, three consecutive meetings
of the Literarians, and Convocation: Poetry Jam. You may suggest other
events for approval. Extra credit limited to four reports.
Grading Proportions:
100 points each
300 points
10 points each
100 points each
100 points total
100 points
50 points each
1500 points total
Grading Point Spread
1500-1381=A
1380-1350=A1349-1305=B+
1304-1231=B
1230-1200=B1199-1155=C+
1154-1080=C
1079-1050=C1049-1005=D+
1004-930=D
929-900=D899-000=F
5 essays (dropping 1)
critical paper
12 weekly discussion posts (dropping 2)
3 unit exams
quizzes/exercises (number undetermined)
oral presentation
2 performance reports
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Calendar of readings and due dates:
January
25
28
30
Introduction Volpone Blackfriars 7:30 p.m. (pay-what-you-will)
"The Value of Literature" and "The Changing Literary Canon" 4-7, from
Chapter 1 including Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" 13-23. “Explorations
and Formulas” 23-25, Godwin's "A Sorrowful Woman" and responses 3946.
in-class essay
February
1
4
6
7
8
11
13
15
18
19
20
22
25
27
Chapter 2 47-66 and the first part of Chapter 3 including Burroughs'
"Tarzan" excerpt 67-76, Burroughs "Tarzan's First Love" (see web page).
Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," and responses 95-106 (presentation #1);
Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" 737-42 (see web page); and Chekhov's
"Sleepy Eye" (see web page), from Chapter 4 123-30, and Head's "The
Prisoner Who Wore Glasses" 685-89 and Smit's "I Take Back My Country"
(on reserve).
from Chapter 5 including Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" 182-90 (see web
page) (presentation #2); John Updike's "A & P" 752-57, and Chapter 10
including David Updike's "Summer" 374-87, Burroughs “The Capture of
Tarzan” (see web page). Essay #1 due.
Cymbeline Blackfriars 6 p.m. (with intro by Ralph Cohen, pay-what-youwill, and Talk-Back following)
from Chapter 6 including Chekhov's and Oates's "The Lady with the Pet
Dog" 218-23, 234-65; "point of view" H&H 404. Slam Poet 9 p.m. Boitnott
Room
from Chapter 7 including Collette's "The Hand" 270-73, 282-85; "What Is
an Initiation Story" 296; Chopin's "Ripe Figs" (see web page; note that this
story is complete on pages 399-400) (presentation #3); "symbol" and
"symbolism" H&H 509-11.
from Chapter 8 including Mansfield's "Miss Brill" 304-07, 316-20, Joyce's
"The Dead" (on reserve or see web page [27 pages]) (presentation #4),
Burroughs “The Fight for the Balu” (see web page).
from Chapter 9 including Carver's "Popular Mechanics" 339-48 and
Carver's "Cathedral" (on reserve) (presentation #5).
from Chapter 12: Flannery O'Connor "Revelation" (presentation #6).and
perspectives: 438-44, 470-94.
Poetry Jam Convo 9:30 a.m. Cole Hall
Chapter 13 including Faulkner's "Barn Burning" 495-524, Burroughs “The
God of Tarzan” (see web page).
Fiction Exam
from Chapter 21, including Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays,” John
Updike’s “Dog’s Death,” Francis’s “Catch,” Bishop’s “The Fish” and
Collins’s “Introduction to Poetry” 769-90. Essay #2 due.
Chapter 22, including Bishop’s “Manners” 820-28; "Poetry" H&H 402-03,
Burroughs “Tarzan and the Black Boy” (see web page).
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The Jew of Malta Blackfriars 6 p.m. (with intro by Ralph Cohen, pay-
what-you-will, and Talk-Back following)
from Chapter 23, including Cummings’s “she being Brand” and Machan’s
“Hazel Tells Laverne” 829-40, Diction and Tone in Four Love Poems,
including Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” Marvell’s “To
His Coy Mistress,” and Wilbur’s “A Late Aubade,” 842-47, Ackerman’s “A
Fine a Private Place” (on reserve).
March
3
5
6-9
7
10
12
14
24
26
27
28
Chapter 24, including Williams’s “Poem” and Whitman’s “Cavalry
Crossing a Ford” 872-75, Roethke’s “Root Cellar” 877, Rilke's "The
Panther" 889 (presentation #7).
Chapter 25, including Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book” and
Thomas’s “The Hand That Signed the Paper” 898-909, Donne's "A
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" 916-17 (presentation #8), Searle’s
“Figuring Out Metaphors” 921. Burroughs “The Witch-Doctor Seeks
Vengeance” (see web page). Revision of one of the first two essays due.
The Popular Mechanicals Cole Hall 8 p.m. (3 p.m. Sun.)
from Chapter 26, including Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night,” Poe’s “The
Haunted Palace,” and Robinson’s “Richard Cory” 922-29, Browning's "My
Last Duchess" 944-45 (presentation #9), and Kipling's "The Hyenas" (see
web page) and Chapter 31, including Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud”
1056-66.
from Chapter 27, including John Updike’s “Player Piano,” Dickinson’s “A
Bird came down the Walk,” Kinnell’s “Blackberry Eating,” Hopkins’s “God’s
Grandeur” and Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” 949-66. Essay #3 due.
from Chapter 28 980-89, Herrick’s “Delight in Disorder” 992, Tennyson’s
“Charge of the Light Brigade” and “My Papa’s Waltz” 997-1000, and
Keats's "'La Belle Dame sans Merci'" 1335-36 (see web page)
(presentation #10), Burroughs “The End of Bukawai” (see web page).
Chapter 29, including Housman’s “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now,”
Herrick “Upon Julia’s Clothes,” Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s
Homer,” Wordsworth’s “The World Is Too Much with Us,” Shakespeare’s
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” and “My mistress’ eyes are
nothing like the sun,” Millay’s “I Will Put Chaos into fourteen lines” 100413, villanelle etc., including Thomas’s “Do no go gentle into that good
night,” and Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” 1015-28, and Edna St.
Vincent Millay's "The Spring and the Fall” (see web page).
no class, Easter break
from Chapter 30, including Cummings’s “in Just-,“ Whitman’s “I Sing the
Body Electric” excerpt and Kinnell’s “After Making Love We Hear
Footsteps” 1034-40
The Witch Blackfriars 7:30 p.m. (pay-what-you-will with Talk-Back
following)
Levertov's "Pleasures" (see web page), “Olga Poems” (on reserve and
see web page), “Caedmon” (see web page), and "Witness" (see web
page) (presentation #11); Burroughs “The Lion” (see web page).
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Chapter 33: Robert Frost, including “The Road Not Taken” and “Mowing”
1117-27, “Mending Wall,” and “Home Burial” 1128-32, "Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening" 1139, Frost “On the Figure a Poem Makes”
and “On the Way to Read a Poem” 1146-49, Parodic Interpretation 114950, critical readings 1151-56.
April
“Mending Wall” (presentation #12); Chapter 36 including Eliot's "The Love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1219-37 (presentation #13). Chapter 37,
including Marlowe’s “Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” and Elizabeth
Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways” 123842, Donne’s “The Flea” 1323-24, Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd” 1341, Burroughs “The Nightmare” (see web page). Henry V
Blackfriars 7:30 p.m. (pay-what-you-will)
3
The Taming of the Shrew Blackfriars 6 p.m. (with intro by Ralph Cohen,
pay-what-you-will, and Talk-Back following)
4
Poetry Exam The Merchant of Venice Blackfriars 7:30 p.m. (pay-whatyou-will)
5
Henry V Blackfriars 2 p.m. The Taming of the Shrew 7:30 p.m. (both paywhat-you-will)
6
The Merchant of Venice Blackfriars 2 p.m. (pay-what-you-will)
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from Chapter 43 including Glaspell's "Trifles" 1365-86, Chapter 44 141117. Essay #4 due.
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from Chapter 45 including Sophocles' Antigone and perspectives 1418-25,
1469-1509, 1517-19; "tragedy" H&H 524-26 (presentation #14).
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Reading Day
14
from Chapter 46 including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
1520-88, perspectives 1694-98 (presentation #15),
16
Burroughs “The Battle for Teeka” (see web page).
18
from Chapter 47 including Ibsen's A Doll's House 1708-63, Essay #5 due.
21
Chapter 48 1768-84: A Doll's House continued (presentation #16),
23
Death of a Salesman 1907-76 (presentation #17); Burroughs “A Jungle
Joke” (see web page).
24-27 One-Acts Cole Hall 8 p.m. (3 p.m. Sun.)
25
The Glass Menagerie 1976-2024 (presentation #18).
28
Review of MLA format; Burroughs “Tarzan Rescues the Moon” (see web
page). Essay #6 due.
30
Drama Exam
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May
5
6
in-class essay
Critical Paper due, 10 a.m.
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“A Rose for Emily”
“Soldier’s Home”
“Ripe Figs”
“The Dead”
“Cathedral”
“Revelation”
“The Panther”
“A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
“My Last Duchess”
“’La Belle Dame sans Merci’”
“Witness”
“Mending Wall”
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Antigone
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Doll’s House
Death of a Salesman
The Glass Menagerie
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