ENGL 1115
Foundations of Literary Study
Winter 2022
Topics
- Introduction to the Study of Literature
- “The Study of Literature,” Broadview
- “Poetry: Introduction,” Broadview
- Introduction to Literary Genres: Poetry
- Marlowe, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” Broadview
- Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18,” Broadview
- Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind,” Broadview
- Poetry and Form
- Cummings, “in Just –,” “anyone lived in a pretty how town”
- Abel, Excerpt from The Place of Scraps, Broadview
- Wong, “Nervous Organism,” Broadview
- Grammar, Research, and Writing Skills
- Contemporary Poetry: Margaret Atwood, Jackie Kay and Adrienne Rich
- Kay, “In My Country,” “Her,” Broadview
- Rich, “Diving into the Wreck,” Broadview
- Atwood, “Death of a Young Son by Drowning,” (Broadview)
- “Drama: Introduction,” Broadview
- Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Acts 1 and 2 (Online access through Broadview)
- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act
- Pollock, “Blood Relations.”
- Pollock, “Blood Relations.” Act 1, Broadview
- Pollock, “Blood Relations.” Act 2, Broadview
Readings
- Required: The Broadview Introduction to Literature, Concise 2nd Edition
- Required: Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
- Required: Silas Marner by George Eliot
- “Drama: Introduction,” Broadview, 239-247 (Feb 2) Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Acts 1 and 2 (Online access through Broadview) Note: This play features themes of death, grief, homophobia, transphobia, and violence 5 (Feb 7) Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
- Pollock, “Blood Relations.” Act 1, Broadview Note: This play addresses themes of murder, abuse, and distress. (Feb 16) Pollock, “Blood Relations.”
- Pollock, “Blood Relations.” Act 2, Broadview
Winter 2022
Topics
- Introduction to course
- Broadview Introduction to Literature (BIL)
- The Study of Literature" pgs. xxv-xxxvi
- Unit 1: Prose Fiction Writing About Literature (WAL) pgs. xxi-xxv
- BIL pgs. 1-16, WAL
- Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" BIL pgs. 26-28, Gauld, "Freyfaxi
- BIL pgs. 358-66
- Christie, "The Extra" BIL pgs. 346-57, WAL
- Munro "Friend of My Youth BIL pgs. 137-54
- Thien, "Simple
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- pgs. 847-72
- WAL
- Rosemounde" BIL
- Wyatt "Whoso List to Hunt" BIL pgs. 882, Marlowe, "Passionate
- Shepherd to His Love" BIL 887, Ralegh "Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" BIL 886
- Shakespeare, Sonnets 18 and 130 BIL 889-91
- Donne, "The Flea" BIL pg. 892, "Holy
- Sonnets 10 and 14 BIL 893-94, Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent" BIL
- Unit 3: Drama: BIL pgs. 381-90
- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night BIL
- Unit 4: the Novel Laurence, The Stone Angel
- Research Essay
Readings
- Required: Lisa Chalykoff, Neta Gordon and Paul Lumsden, gen. eds., Broadview Introduction to Literature, 2nd ed. (Peterborough, ON: Broadview P, 2018) (BIL)
- Required: W.F. Garrett-Petts, Writing about Literature: A Guide for the Student Critic (Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2013) (WAL)
- Required: Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel (Toronto: Penguin, 2004)
- Required: MLA Handbook, 9th ed. (New York: MLA, 2021)
Fall 2021; FDE
Topics
- Literary genres: fiction, poetry and drama
- Plot, narration, point of view and character
- Setting, symbolism, theme and figurative language
- Poetic speaker, tone, imagery, sound and form
- Elements of drama and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
- Close reading and literary analysis in historical and cultural context
- Literary research, argument and documentation
Readings
- Required: The Norton Introduction to Literature. Portable 13th edition. Norton. Editor and publication year are not specified in the required-text entry.
- Assigned literary text within the anthology: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, anthology pages 856–906.
- Additional assigned anthology sections: Weekly readings on fiction, poetry, drama and literary writing are given by page number in the syllabus.
Fall 2021 · Foundations of Literary Studies
Topics
- Poetry, prose and drama across English literary history
- Literary movements and their historical contexts
- Literary terminology, theory and close textual analysis
- Identity and social justice in literary form
- Analytical essay writing and critical argument
- Finding and evaluating secondary literary research
Readings
- Required: Walton, Kathryn, compiler. ENGL 1115 Foundations of Literary Study: A Reader. Lakehead University, 2021.
- Required: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Anchor Canada, 2009.
- Required: Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Edited by James Kinsley. Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Required: Choi, Ins. Kim’s Convenience. House of Anasi Press, 2012.
- Required: Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night. Edited by Jonathan Crewe. Penguin Books, 2016.
- Required: Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia. Faber, 1993.
- Required: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. Edited by Claude Rawson. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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