LIT 23 SYLLABUS

[ernesto thaddeus m. solmerano]

Lit 23: Anglo-American Literature
::)Instructor: Prof. ETM Solmerano
::)E-mail: [e-mail]
::)Website: patientnumber23.proboards38.com

What literature can do is to take this unmeaning, haphazard show of life … and arrange it in such a way as to make you think very much more deeply about it than you ever dreamed of…
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright and critic

Course Description:

The course will survey and analyze writings from diverse cultures and historical periods of British and American literature.

Measurable learning objectives:

The course aims at developing the skills needed to (1) situate a work with respect to its historical context, (2) analyze the form and structure of a work, (3) engage in a creative experience, (4) make meaningful comparisons among works of literature, and (5) use writing as a mode of textual analysis and engagement with readings.

Topical outline of the course:

I. Introduction
II. Film Showing: Peter Weir, Dead Poets Society
III. From Beowulf
IV. From Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
V. From Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
VI. Christopher Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love”
VII. William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”
VIII. John Donne, “Holy Sonnet 10”
IX. Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”
X. Ben Jonson, “To Celia”
XI. William Cullen Bryant, “To a Waterfowl”
XII. Washington Irving, The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow

First Preliminary Examination

XIII. John Milton, “On His Blindness”
XIV. William Blake, From Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
XV. William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us”
XVI. Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
XVII. John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
XVIII. Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
XIX. Walt Whitman, From Leaves of Grass
XX. Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
XXI. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

Second Preliminary Examination

XXII. William Butler Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
XXIII. T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock”
XXIV. Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”
XXV. Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory”
XXVI. Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening”
XXVII. e.e. cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”
XXVIII. Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
XXIX. Wallace Stevens, “The Emperor of Ice Cream”
XXX. D. H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
XXXI. Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”
XXXII. Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Final Examination

Instructional materials:

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