Advanced Survey of Literature

Course Details

Course Number: 3503  Section Number: 101

Fall 2011

Location: Dillard College of Business Administration

Classroom Number: 124

Days & Times: MWF 10-10:50 a.m.

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James M. Hoggard   
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Course Objectives

 

                The work of the class will be to think through literary forms, styles, and content in terms of major and minor concerns we should keep in mind when presenting work to classes. Included in these concerns will be efforts to help students  master mechanical requirements of good academic English in terms of speaking about literature, writing about literature, and analyzing literary works. In addition to the major essay tests, listed below on the syllabus, there will be a number of short essay exercises assigned throughout the semester. These exercises will focus on particular issues and techniques associated with writing about literary works.

                Regular class attendance and responsible attention to the matters we deal with in class are required. In calculating final grades, I will pay attention to improvement as well as arithmetical averages and unexcused absences.

 


Course Expectations

Aug.        22 Introduction: line, speaker, types of rhyme;

                                image and metaphor; ballad

                24 POETRY: WCW 209-211

                26 To the Virgins 79; WB 100-103

 

                29 Stopping 201, A Valediction 75, Channel Firing                                      174

                31 Continue above

Sept.         2

 

  5 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

  7 Sonic devices. La Belle Dame 125

  9 My Papa’s  252; Variations on the form: ED 166-         171

 

12 ED continued

14 Sonnets EBB 131-132; WS 68-71

16 In-class writing

 

19 JD 73-76

21 JM 84, 85

23 WW 107; ESt.VM 231-232

 

26 Design 195

28

30 TEST

 

Oct.           3 SHORT STORIES: background (PofV), plot,                                           character study, realism & fantasy

                  5 GGM 165

                  7 FO’C 372

 

                10 FO’C cont.; EW 469

                12 AW 459, NH 189

                14 NH cont.; SC 123

 

                17 SC cont; DHL 233

                19 DHL cont.

                21 FO’C 389

 

                24 DHL cont.

                26WF 155

                28 TEST

 

                31 OH 208: an exercise in evaluation

Nov.         2 POEMS: Extended forms: PBS 121-124

                  4 JK 127-130

 

                  7JK cont.

                  9 RF 193

                11 RF 200

 

                14 Do Not Go 313, One Art 33

                16 TEST

                18LIBRARY ASSIGNMENT

 

                21My Last Duchess 149

                23 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

                25 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 

                28 Love Song: I and Thou 284

                30 The Love Song 223 ff

Dec.          2 The Love Song cont.

 

                  5 Fern Hill 276

                  7 Fern Hill cont.

                  9 TBA

 

FINAL EXAM, Wed., 7 Dec.: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Final Exam12/7/2011  10:30 a.m.

Submission Format PolicyNote: You may not submit a paper for a grade in this class that already has been (or will be) submitted for a grade in another course, unless you obtain the explicit written permission of me and the other instructor involved in advance.

Plagiarism Policy Plagiarism is the use of someone else's thoughts, words, ideas, or lines of argument in your own work without appropriate documentation (a parenthetical citation at the end and a listing in "Works Cited")-whether you use that material in a quote, paraphrase, or summary. It is a theft of intellectual property and will not be tolerated, whether intentional or not.

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