READING SCHEDULE FOR E300 ANALYSIS OF LITERARY FORMS
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2012

*2023 Note. Links and most procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the assigned edition and the reading schedule.

COURSE INFORMATION. English 300, Course Code 19083, Section 80. MW 4:00 – 5:15 p.m., Irvine Campus (IRVC) 106. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Wed. 5:15 – 6:15 p.m. in IRVC 261. Email: e300_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Main literary forms – prose fiction, poetry and drama – are studied and analyzed. English majors should schedule this basic course as early as possible. Units: (3).”

REQUIRED TEXTS AT IRVINE CAMPUS BOOKSTORE

Booth, Alison and Kelly J. Mays. The Norton Introduction to Literature. Shorter Tenth Edition. New York: Norton, 2010. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0393935141.

Appelbaum, Stanley, ed. English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology. Dover, 1996. ISBN-13: 978-0486292823.

Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN-13: 978-0451526885.

Tolstoy, Leo. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories. Dover, 1993. ISBN-13: 978-0486278056.

Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi. Dover, 1999. ISBN-13: 978-0486406602.

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. Dover, 1990. ISBN 13: 978-0486264783

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1 FICTION

M. 08/27. Course Introduction.

W. 08/29. Chapter 1: Plot. Read this chapter’s introductory material (50-58). Edith Wharton. “Roman Fever” (85-95).

WEEK 2 FICTION

M. 09/03. Labor Day Holiday, No Classes.

W. 09/05. Chapter 2. Narration and Point of View: read this chapter’s introductory material (96-100). Edgar Allan Poe. “The Cask of Amontillado” (101-05). Jamaica Kincaid. “Girl” (116-17).

WEEK 3 FICTION

M. 09/10. Chapter 4. Setting: read this chapter’s introductory material (163-69). Anton Chekhov. “The Lady with the Dog” (169-80).

W. 09/12. Chapter 5. Symbol and Figurative Language: read this chapter’s introductory material (208-13). Edwige Danticat. “A Wall of Fire Rising” (239-49).

WEEK 4 FICTION

M. 09/17. Read Norton Introductory material on Character (Ch. 3, 119-26) and Theme (Ch. 6, 251-54). We will in part discuss these aspects of literary texts though a special focus on Leo Tolstoy. Read the first half of The Death of Ivan Ilych, Chapters 1-4 (15-40, Dover Edition).

W. 09/19. Special Focus, continued: Leo Tolstoy. Read the second half of The Death of Ivan Ilych, Chapters 5-12 (40-65, Dover Edition).

WEEK 5 FICTION

M. 09/24. Special Focus: continued: Leo Tolstoy. The Kreutzer Sonata, Chapters 1-16 (64-103, Dover Edition).

W. 09/26. Special Focus: continued: Leo Tolstoy. The Kreutzer Sonata, Chapters 17-28 (103-40, Dover Edition).

WEEK 6 POETRY

M. 10/01. Norton Introductory Material on Poetry, Chapter 10 (618-36). Read also the section “Romantic Love: an Album” (643-50), adding to it Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (704-05).

W. 10/03. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1802: read only these brief excerpts. Read also “We Are Seven” (23-25); “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798” (25-29).

WEEK 7 POETRY

M. 10/08. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology: William Wordsworth. “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” (31-32); “A slumber did my spirit seal” (32); “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (43-44); “The Solitary Reaper” (42); “My heart leaps up when I behold” (35); “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (51-57).

W. 10/10. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (63-81); “Frost at Midnight” (100-01); “Kubla Khan” (105-06); “Dejection: An Ode” (106-10).

WEEK 8 POETRY

M. 10/15. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology: Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Ozymandias” (147); “Sonnet: England in 1819” (150); “Ode to the West Wind” (151-53); “To a Skylark” (157-59).

W. 10/17. Special Focus: English Romanticism. From English Romantic Poetry: an Anthology: John Keats. “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer” (189); “To Autumn” (222-23); “Ode to a Nightingale” (216-18); “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (218-20); “Ode to Psyche” (220-21); “Ode on Melancholy” (223-24).

WEEK 9 POETRY

M. 10/22. Special Focus: Modernist Poetry. W.B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats: an Album (Norton 895-908)

W. 10/24. Special Focus: Modernist Poetry. Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens. Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” (1041). T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1015-19). Wallace Stevens’ “The Emperor of Ice Cream” (1042-43) and “Anecdote of the Jar” (1043).

WEEK 10 POETRY

M. 10/29. Poetry as Form and Foregrounded Language. Chapters 13-16, etc. Emily Dickinson: “Because I could not stop for Death” (886-87); Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” (785-88); W.C. Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow” (739-40), “This is Just to Say” (740); G.M. Hopkins: “Pied Beauty” (742), “God’s Grandeur” (1030), “The Windhover” (1030-31); E.E. Cummings: “in Just” (742-43); “The Twenty-Third Psalm” (756). Also read “Poetic Kinds” (919-20).

W. 10/31. Poetry as Form and Foregrounded Language. Chapters 13-16, etc. Wilfred Owen: “Dulce et Decorum Est” (759-60); Robert Frost: “Design” (838), “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1019-20); Shakespeare: “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame” (814-15); Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (827-28); Elizabeth Bishop: “Sestina” (829-30); Marianne Moore “Poetry” (828-29); Archibald MacLeish: “Ars Poetica” (830-31); Alfred Tennyson: “Ulysses” (928-30); Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” (1009-10).

WEEK 11 DRAMA

M. 11/05. John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi, Acts 1-2 (1-32, Dover Edition).

W. 11/07. John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi, Act 3 (33-54, Dover Edition).

WEEK 12 DRAMA Separate text.

M. 11/12. Veterans’ Day, No Classes.

W. 11/14. John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi. (55-92, Dover Edition).

WEEK 13 DRAMA

M. 11/19. Fall Recess, No Classes.

W. 11/21. Fall Recess, No Classes.

WEEK 14 DRAMA

M. 11/26. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I (1-19, Dover Edition).

W. 11/28. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II (21-42, Dover Edition).

WEEK 15 DRAMA

M. 12/03. Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III (43-54, Dover Edition).

W. 12/05. Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author, pp. 2-33 Signet Edition. Optional: if time permits, also read Pirandello’s “Author’s Preface” (xviii-xxx).

WEEK 16 DRAMA

M. 12/10. Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author, pp. 33-57 Signet Edition.

W. 12/12. Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author, pp. 57-74 Signet Edition.

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date: Wednesday, Dec. 19 5:00 – 6:50 p.m.