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Welcome to English Lit.  170     :        Read Texts Online

Week   1            Definition of  literature and its genres

Kate Chopin’s (1851-1904)                        ‘The Story of an Hour’(pp.448-450)

and Maya Angelou’s  poems:            ‘Africa’, ‘Alone’, ‘Still I Rise’ and ‘The Lesson’ ( pp.901-902)

Week 2            Definition of Drama and its elements. 'Trifles’ by Susan Glaspell    

                     (pp.1046-1057),   Jamica Kincaid 's ' Girl'  pp.456-457

Elizabeth Browning's Sonnets  :   'How Do I Love Thee’(p.595),’

A  Desire’ (p.829), ‘A Recognition’(p.829),  and ‘Where Our Two Souls Stand Up Erect And  Strong’ (p.786),

and The Shakespearean Sonnets : Sonnet 18 (p.710),Sonnet 33 (p.674,Sonnet 55 (p.884),Sonnet 60(p.745),

Sonnet 73 ( 704),Sonnet 116 ( 611),Sonnet 129 (p.769)and Sonnet 130 (p.788)  and 'Girl' by Jamaica Kincaid

Week 3              ‘Araby’  by James Joyce (pp.432-436) and  poems : ‘Marks by Linda Pastan(p.706),

                        ‘A Red ,Red Rose’ by Robert Burns (p.p.707-708), ‘The Night Has a Thousand Eyes’

                         by Francis William Bourdillon (p.715),  ‘O Western Wind’ by  Anonymous (p.805),

                        ‘Upon Julia’s Clothes’ by Robert Herrick (p.806) and ‘Sonnet’  by Billy Collins (p.789)

                           Edmund Waller's 'Song' p. 721 

Week 4               Read W.C.Williams’s ‘The Use of Force’ (pp.459-464)

Week 5               Read ‘Sonnet: The Ladies’ Home Journal ’by   

                                    Sandra Gilbert (pp.816-818- ) and 

Read   ‘Barbie  Doll’ ( pp.619-621) and    ‘What’s the Smell in the Kitchen’     (p.830) by   Marge        Piercy                                                                        

                  


Week 6           Read  Shakespeare’s  Hamlet  (pp.1325-1419).

Week 7           Read  ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning (pp.827-828)

                                   and  'Ballad of Birmingham' by Dudley Randal (p. 827)

        

Week 8       Read  'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway (pp.128-132),

                                   'The Night Wind'   by   Emily Bronte (pp.670-671) and

                                            ‘Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night’  by Dylan Thomas (p. 791)

 Weeks 9 and 10                     Read  ‘To His Coy Mistress ’ by Andrew Marvell (pp.671-672)

                                                    and   Ibsen's A Doll's House (pp.1508-1555)

Week 11                                Read  ‘A Rose for Emily’   by William Faulkner

                                                      ( pp.467-474) and   ‘On My First Sonby Ben Jonson ( p.604)

Week 12                                    Read ‘ Ode to the West Wind’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley (pp.777-778)

Week 13                                     Read  Oedipus The King by Sophocles (pp.1470-1508)

         

Week 14                        Read  Oedipus The King by Sophocles (pp.1470-1508)

Week  15      The short story with emphases on American , European short story writers.


 

Textbook:

 Booth, Allison, Paul Hunter and KellyJ.Mays. The Norton Introduction to Literature.

New York: ;W.W.  Norton  and Co Ltd, 2006.(Shorter Ninth Edition)

   

  Reference book

  Meyer, Michael.  The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature.  New York: ; Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000

                                                                       

   

 Glossaries :      Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of  Writers    


                      The Norton Glossary 

                      The Bedford Glossary                      

                     Glossary of Literary Terms

                       Glossary Terms

                 Figures Of Speech , Poetic Devices and Poetic Forms

                 Literary Terms and Definition


            The Thesis Sentence  :

 

                     How to cite texts from Literature Online

              
                                                   Presentation

 

                          The Problem Play: A Doll's House


                  Study Guide 1



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Textbook:

 Booth, Allison, Paul Hunter and KellyJ.Mays. The Norton Introduction to Literature.

New York: ;W.W.  Norton  and Co Ltd, 2006.(Shorter Ninth Edition)

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 or

  Meyer, Michael.  The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature.  New York: ; Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000 

 
 
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