TEXT AND COMMUNICATION ANALYSIS
FIRST SEMESTER
AUTUMN 2004
DATE / SESSION
SESSION ONE
SESSION TWO
SESSION THREE
SESSION FOUR
SESSION FIVE
SESSION SIX
SESSION SEVEN
SESSION EIGHT
THEMES AND TOPICS
WHAT IS TEXT AND
COMMUNICATION
ANALYSIS?
1. General Introduction
2. Analysis and Discussion
of “Hit Somebody”
PROSE FICTION I
1. Plot, Character, Setting,
and Theme
2. Analysis and Discussion
of Thomas Hardy, “On the
Western Circuit”
PROSE FICTION II
1.Point of View and Theme
2. Analysis and Discussion
of Thomas Hardy, “On the
Western Circuit”
PROSE FICTION III
1. Imagery and Theme”
2. Analysis and Discussion
of James Joyce, “The
Dead”
POETRY I
1. Feedback: Assignment
One
2. Sound and Meaning 1/2
3. Analysis and discussion
of
POETRY II
1. Sound and Meaning 2/2
2. “Analysis and Discussion
of “I Wandered Lonely as a
Cloud”
POETRY III
1. Imagery
2. Analysis and Discussion
of “A Martian Sends a
Postcard Home”
NON-FICTION I
1. Feedback: Assignment
Two
2. Analysing non-fiction
3. Analysis and discussion
of “Going to See a Man
Hanged”
READING AND WRITING TASKS
Warren Zevon and Mitch Albom, “Hit Somebody (The
Hockey Song)” (Hand out)
1. Studying Literature: 8-20, 20-36
2. Glossary: “Plot”, “Character and Characterization”,
“Setting”, “Theme”
3. Norton: Thomas Hardy, “On the Western Circuit”
1. Studying Literature: 20-36, 68-74, 79-91
2. Glossary: “Point of View”, “Persona, Tone and
Voice”, “Theme”
3. Norton: Thomas Hardy, “On the Western Circuit”
Hand in Assignment One
1. Studying Literature: 20-36
2. Glossary: “Imagery”, Symbol”
3. Norton: James Joyce, “The Dead”
1. Studying Literature: 49-62
2. Glossary: “Alliteration”, “Rhyme”, “Sonnet”
3. Norton: Louis MacNeice, “Sunday Morning”; Wilfred
Owen “Futility”
1. Studying Literature: 49-62
2. Glossary: “Metre”
3. Norton: William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely
as a Cloud”; Dorothy Wordsworth, “Thursday [Apr.]
15th”
Hand in Assignment Two
1. Studying Literature: 49-62
2. Glossary: “Figurative Language”
3. Norton: Craig Raine, “A Martian Sends a Postcard
Home”
1. Studying Literature: reread prose-fiction entries
2. Glossary: reread prose fiction entries
3. William Makepeace Thackeray, “Going to See a
Man Hanged”
(http://www.victorianlondon.org/prisons/execution.htm)
Literature:
M.H. Abrams et al. (eds.), The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol 2. seventh edition. W.W. Norton
and Company 2000.
M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms. Seventh Edition. Hartcourt Brace College Publishers 1999.
Paul Goring et al., Studying Literature: The Essential Companion. Arnold 2001.