EL 101-102
SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Dr. Ethan Guagliardo
Tuesday 12:00, EF 06 Thursday 12:00, M 1152
Friday 12:00, M 1171
These two courses are designed as a general introduction to English Literature. EL 101 covers the Early and Middle English periods, the English Renaissance and the first half of the 17th Century up to the Restoration (1660). EL 102 continues the survey from the Restoration to the present, covering the Augustan Age, the Romantics, the Age of Victoria and the 20th Century. The courses are offered in the form of introductory lectures for each literary period followed by the reading and discussion of individual texts. Each course is independent and EL 101 is not a prerequisite for EL 102.
Class Policies:
- Attendance is required. Students must attend 75% of all class hours for the semester. If you fail to meet this attendance requirement, you will not be admitted to the Final Exam.
- There will be one midterm and a final exam each semester. All students are required to take the midterm exam; if a student is legitimately excused from the midterm, a make-up exam will be arranged through his or her instructor. There will also be several announced and unannounced quizzes. (There will be no make-up exams for the quizzes.)
- The texts to be studied as well as the background reading materials have been compiled and are available at Doğa Kırtasiye.
- You are welcome to see your instructor during his or her designated office hours and at other times. Please make an appointment before you come in.
- You should regularly check the bulletin board across the stairs on TB fourth floor and your instructor’s office door for announcements, assignments, etc.
Grading:
* Participation, Attendance, Quizzes, Assignments: 20%
* Midterm: 35%
* Final Exam: 45%
EL 102 Survey of English Literature Syllabus Spring 2017
WEEK ONE
Feb. 7 Tues Introduction: Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
9 Th “ “
10 F “ “
WEEK TWO
Feb. 14 T Dryden, “Mac Flecknoe”; “To Dr. Charleton”
16 Th Pope, “An Essay on Man”
17 F Pope, Continued.
WEEK THREE
Feb. 21 T Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
23 Th Johnson, “Rambler No. 5,” “A Short Song of Congratulation”
24 F Introduction: The Romantics
WEEK FOUR
Feb. 28 T “ “
March 2 Th Blake, “The Lamb,” “The Tiger,” “The Chimney Sweeper” (2x); “Nurse’s Song” (2x)
3 F Wordsworth, “Westminster Bridge,” “It Is a Beauteous Evening,”; “The World Is Too Much with Us”
WEEK FIVE
March 7 T Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight,” “Kubla Khan”
9 Th Byron, “Prometheus,” “Stanzas for Music”
10 F Shelley, “Ozymandias,” “England 1819,” “To a Skylark”
WEEK SIX
March 14 T Shelley (cont.) / Keats, “La Belle Dame”
16 Th Keats (cont.), “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
17 F Introduction: The Victorians
WEEK SEVEN
March 21 T “ “
23 Th Tennyson, “Ulysses”
24 F Browning, “My Last Duchess”
WEEK EIGHT
March 28 T Arnold, “Dover Beach,” “To Marguerite-Continued”
30 Th Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”
31 F D. G. Rossetti, “Body’s Beauty,” “Without Her”
WEEK NINE
April 4 T C. Rossetti, “Song,” “A Better Resurrection”; Hopkins, “Pied Beauty,” “Spring and Fall”
6 Th Introduction: The Twentieth Century
7 F “ “
WEEK TEN
April 11 T Hardy, “Hap,” “God-Forgotten,”; “The Man he Killed” AND “At Tea
13 Th S. Sassoon, “”; R. Brooke, “”; W. Owen, “”
14 F Yeats, “The Second Coming,” “Sailing to Byzantium”
WEEK ELEVEN
April 17-22: Spring Break
WEEK TWELVE
April 25 T T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
27 Th Joyce, Dubliners “Eveline”
28 F Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”
WEEK THIRTEEN
May 2 T Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own”
4 Th Smith, “Papa Love Baby,” “Not Waving But Drowning”; Auden, “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “Epilogue”
5 F Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” “And Death Shall have no Dominion”
WEEK FOURTEEN
May 9 T Larkin, “An Arundel Tomb,” “Ambulances”
11 Th Heaney, “Punishment,” Dunn, “The Clothes Pit,” “Modern Love”; Hughes, “The Thought-Fox,” Harrison, “Book Ends”
12 F TBA
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