Course Description & Expectations/ Review Writing About Literature/MLA format

• Discuss If on a winter’s night a traveler... as commentary on the process of writing and reading literature; narratology
• Self and Peer editing

Short Fiction (summer reading), Poetry, Drama

• DIDLS exercises – detecting tone
• Interior Monologue
  • “But the One on the Right” - Dorothy Parker
  • “ This is My Living Room” - Tom McAfee
• Dramatic Monologue
  • “The Lady's Maid” – Katherine Mansfield
  • “...& Answers” – Joyce Carol Oates
• Poetry – interior and dramatic monologue
  • “My Last Duchess” – Robert Browning
  • “To His Coy Mistress” – Andrew Marvell
  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” - T.S. Eliot
• Detached Autobiography and Subjective Narration
  • "First Confession” – Frank O'Connor
  • “My Side of the Matter” – Truman Capote
  • “A & P” – John Updike
• Drama – various kinds of narration: interior monologue, dramatic monologue, detached autobiography, subjective narration
  • “Krapp's Last Tape” – Samuel Beckett
• Anonymous Narration –Single Character Point of View
  • “The Stone Boy” – Gina Berriault
  • “The Five Forty-Eight” – John Cheever
• Subjective Reality – fabulation and magical realism
  • “Yellville” – Judy Budnitz
  • “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    

Novel & Film Study

• Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Rashomon - directed by Akira Kurosawa
• The Collector - John Fowles (summer reading)

• Beowulf - Anonymous
• Grendel - John Gardiner (independent reading)
• "The Wanderer"- anonymous
• Everyman - Anonoymous
• The Canterbury Tales - Goeffrey Chaucer (selected tales)
• Paradise Lost - John Milton (excerpts)
• Dr. Faustus - Christoher Marlowe
• Shakespearean sonnets

• 17th – 19th century poetry survey
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte or Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (independent reading)

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• Apocalypse Now - directed by Francis Ford Coppola
• Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton (independent reading)

• Poetics - Aristotle (excepts))
• Antigone - Sophocles
• Hamlet - William Shakespeare
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
  

• A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (independent reading)
• Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
  
• The Plague - Albert Camus (independent reading)
  
• The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
  
• A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
  
• Exam – 5/10/07
  

• Independent study project and presentation