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1 English 1020E (001) Understanding Literature Today 2020-21 Jonathan Boulter Office: UC 3420 Email: [email protected] Class: Online asynchronous Office hours, Monday: 10:30-12:30, via Zoom (965 4571 0035) Tutorial Assistants: Chinelo Ezenwa ([email protected]), Daryl Wakunick ([email protected]), Kiefer Davies ([email protected]), Lori Maddigan ([email protected]) Lectures for the week will be uploaded to OWL by or before noon (12 p.m.) each Monday.

“Literature,” writes Ezra Pound, “is news that stays news.” Our task in this course will be to give serious attention to the question of literature. What precisely do we mean when we speak of literature? If literature is, as Pound says, some kind of “news” what can this mean? (and why does literature remain “new”?). Our approach will to be analyze various forms of literature (prose, poetry, drama) and ask specific questions: Is literature some kind of specialized language? What demands does literature place on its reader? What happens when we read? Does literature teach us something about what it means to be human? Does literature offer us some kind of truth? How can we, as serious students of literature, speak—and write—effectively about our experience of these great works of art?

Required Texts: The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable 12th Edition. Ed. Kelly J. Mays. Endgame and Act without Words. Samuel Beckett Sexing the Cherry. Jeanette Winterson Rules for Writers, 8th Edition. Eds. Hacker and Sommers

September, 2020 Week One: 9 Introduction Week Two 14 Introduction. Interpretation Byatt. “The Thing in the Forest” Week Three 21 Byatt. “The Thing in the Forest”

2 Hawthorne. “The Birth-Mark”

Week Four 28 Hawthorne. “The Birth-Mark” 30

October Week Five 5 Marquez. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” 7 Kafka. “A Hunger Artist” Week Six 12 Kafka. “A Hunger Artist” 14 Art Auden “Musee des Beaux Arts” Week Seven 19 Heaney. “Digging” 21 Yeats “Leda and the Swan” Week Eight 26 Yeats “Leda and the Swan” (Passage Analysis Assigned) 28 Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Passage Analysis Due)

November Week Nine 9 Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” 11 Pound. “In a Station of the Metro” Week Ten 16 Desire 18 Shakespeare. “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments” Week Eleven 23 Shakespeare. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” 25 Donne. “The Flea” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” Week Twelve 30 “Batter my heart, three-personed God”; Keats. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

3 December 2 Keats. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Essay One Due)

Week Thirteen 7 Faulkner. “A Rose for Emily” 9 Faulkner. “A Rose for Emily”

January, 2021

Week Fourteen 4 Loss. Sophocles. Antigone 6 Sophocles. Antigone Week Fifteen 11 Sophocles. Antigone 13 Sophocles. Antigone Week Sixteen 18 Keats. “Ode to a Nightingale” 20 Keats. “Ode to a Nightingale” Week Seventeen 25 Arnold. “Dover Beach” 27 Larkin. “Church Going”

February Week Eighteen 1 Pathologies and Character. Browning “My Last Duchess” 3 Tennyson. “Ulysses”; Eliot. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Week Nineteen 8 Eliot. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 10 Eliot. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Week Twenty 22 Plath. “Lady Lazarus”; “Daddy” 24 Heaney. “Punishment”

4 March

Week Twenty-one 1 Beckett. Endgame (Essay Two Due) 3 Beckett. Endgame Week Twenty-two 8 Beckett. Endgame 10 Beckett. Endgame

Week Twenty-three 15 Beckett. Endgame 17 Winterson. Sexing the Cherry Week Twenty-four 22 Winterson. Sexing the Cherry 24 Winterson. Sexing the Cherry Week Twenty-five 29 Winterson. Sexing the Cherry 31 Review

April Week Twenty-six 5 Review

Assignments Take home passage analysis: (assigned October 26, 2020; due October 28, 2020): 15% Essay One: 1500 words (due December 2, 2020): 20% Essay Two: 2500 words (due in class March 1, 2021): 25% Participation/Tutorial grade: 10% Final examination: 30% Extensions and Late Penalties: Extensions will not be granted. Late essays will be penalized 2% per day including weekends. After seven days the essay will be given a grade of zero.

NOTE

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Students must earn a passing grade in each of the term work and the final examination, taken separately, in order to pass the course. If you fail the term work, you fail the course regardless of how well you might do on the final exam. If you fail the final exam, you fail the course regardless of how well you did on the term work.

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You are fully responsible for looking at and being familiar with the information posted on the department website at http://www.uwo.ca/english/undergrad/infoforstudents.html

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A Note on Plagiarism:

Students must write their essays and assignments in their own words. Whenever students take an idea or passage from another author, they must acknowledge their debt both by using quotation marks where appropriate and by proper referencing such as footnotes or citations. Plagiarism is a major academic offence. (We will be discussing plagiarism later in the term. Please see the Scholastic Offence Policy in the Western Academic Calendar 20122013: http://www.westerncalendar.uwo.ca/2012/pg113.html  Plagiarism Checking: The University of Western Ontario uses software for plagiarism checking. Students may be required to submit their work in electronic form for plagiarism checking. 

Academic Accommodation: Students seeking academic accommodation on medical grounds for any missed tests, exams, participation components and/or assignments must apply to the Academic Counselling office of their home Faculty and provide documentation. Academic accommodation cannot be granted by the instructor or department. Documentation shall be submitted, as soon as possible, to the Office of the Dean of the student’s Faculty of registration, together with a request for relief specifying the nature of the accommodation being requested. The necessary form and further information regarding this policy can be found at the Student Services website: https://studentservices.uwo.ca/secure/index.cfm.

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Students who are in emotional/mental distress should refer to MentalHealth@Western: http://www.uwo.ca/uwocom/mentalhealth/ for a complete list of options about how to obtain help.

Course Objectives: Successful students who complete the course will be better able to: o Develop further their ability to analyze texts critically, and formulate and produce essays which have an effective thesis with a clear, well-articulated intent, and a logical argument supported by adequate evidence from the text(s) under discussion;

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o Explain the various theoretical and rhetorical approaches to literature, with specific attention both to their concepts, their historical, cultural and intellectual contexts, and their application to different texts;

o Develop research and writing skills which will not only augment their knowledge of the field of study, but will also able to incorporate the results of this research into their essays and other assignments; among the basic research skills are the ability to collect relevant bibliographic material on a prescribed topic (online and in the library), and critically engage with the scholarly literature with an assessment of the relative merits of an argument in essays and other written/oral assignments, and articulate their own positions within a particular scholarly discussion;

o Develop further their written/oral communication skills in the clear and organized presentation of an argument/hypothesis within the prescribed word limits of the research essays and other written/oral assignments.

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