Fu Jen Catholic University – Taipei, Taiwan - - English Department SOCE
English Literature II – 1st semester September ’07 – January – 08
Instructor: Daniel J. Bauer Ph.D.
Office: 5th floor SOCE bldg. Hours when not in meetings - - Monday and Tuesday
nights 9:20 – 10:20 / Wednesday and Friday nights 8:15 – 10:15 / and by appointment
Telephones: 2905-3522 (h) / 2905-2826 (night office) / 2905-2565 (day office)
E-mail - - 015130@mail.fju.edu.tw
Text: The Norton Anthology English Literature THE MAJOR AUTHORS / 8th edition
September 18 – Typhoon Day
25 – Mid – autumn festival
October 2 – Anna Letitia Barbauld (1785 – 1825) The Rights of Woman / To a Little
Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible / Washing Day
9 – Olaudah Equiano (ca. 1745 – 1797) Please note that the table of contents
places this author just before the Romantic Period. Still, we include his writing in our
course because of the romantic elements found in his work. The Interesting Narrative16 – William Blake (1757 – 1827) Songs of Innocence: The Ecchoing Green /
The Lamb / The Little Black Boy / The Chimney Sweeper / The Divine Image / Holy
Thursday / Nurse’s Song / Infant Joy
23 – continue the above and begin Songs of Experience: Earth’s Answer / The
Clod & the Pebble / Holy Thursday / The Chimney Sweeper / Nurse’s Song / The Sick
Rose / The Tyger / My Pretty Rose Tree
30 – continue the above and begin The Human Abstract / A Poison Tree and
begin William Wordsworth: We Are Seven / Expostulation and Reply / The Tables
Turned
November 6 – continue the above and begin “What is a poet” middle page 1502-top
1504 line 12. / Strange fits of passion have I known / She dwelt among the untrodden
ways
13 – continue the above and begin Three years she grew / A slumber did my
spirit seal / I traveled among unknown men and begin Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834): The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
20 (late) mid-term examination
27 – continue The Rime and DUE DATE #1 journal
December 4 – finish the Rime and, depending on our schedule, begin Coleridge’s
Kubla Kahn / The Pains of Sleep / Epitaph
11 – George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) She walks in beauty / They
say that Hope is happiness / When we two parted and begin Don Juan Canto I:
Prepare the stanzas with the following numbers – I may comment on additional
stanzas, but for the examination, you are directly responsible only for the numbered
stanzas on this syllabus: #1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 22-23, 25-28, 39-41, 52-57, 60-65, 69-72,
75-79, 86, 90-92, 105-107, 115-117, 134-139, 146, 159-165, 169-70, 173-74, 180-83,
184-199 (end)
18 – continue the above and DUE DATE #2 journal
25 Christmas
January
1 – Western New Year Day
8 – continue Byron’s Don Juan
15 – final exam
Grades for this course will be commuted according to the following scale: Mid-term
and final exams 33 1/3 % each, and two 4 page (A-4 sized paper) personal reflection
journals, also 33 1/3 %. Class attendance is always required, and unexcused absences
will reduce your final grade. Class participation may increase your final grade.
The two journals are to be 100% completely your own writing and personal reactions
to the lectures and/or literature of our course. Write as deeply and personally as
possible about what the literature makes you think about, how it may influence your
thoughts, feelings, judgments and analysis of life. If possible, comment on literary
qualities, writing strategies and so on in works.You do not have to read background
articles to do well in your journals. You must listen carefully in class and read the
literature carefully and . . . THINK ABOUT ITS MANY MEANINGS. 4 pages is a
minimum length.
Plagiarism is not acceptable, and is a form of cheating. Cheating in this course at any
time will automatically (no exceptions) result in failure in the course. The instructor
will distribute a special hand-out about examinations and honesty before the mid-term
examination.