SURVEY OF ENGLISH PROSE AND POETRY (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: Define elements and characteristics of fiction and poetry; compare and contrast the typical characteristics of fiction and poetry; analyze a range of literary works based on the concepts given; Write an analytical paper in English based on the concepts given.

Topics:

1. Beginnings: (a) Good Morrow;
2. What is literature and who does it belong to?;
3. Literary Canons;
4. Forms and Genres: (d) Poetry – Metre, Verse form, Rhyme (Haiku, Concrete Poem…);
5. The thing which is not: Irony, Metaphor, Personification and Allegory;
6. Other Poetic Devices: Imagery, Tone, and other Figures of Speech;
7. Prose Fiction:  (a) Prose fiction genres and narrative, (b) (Meta-)narrative and (meta-)fiction;
8. Narrators and characters;
9. Free indirect discourse, the one and the many;
10. Other kinds of narration;
11. Plot;
12. Happy and unhappy endings;
13. Plot, society, and you;
14. Other Elements of Fiction: Settings, Subject Matters-Themes, Styles (Three Categories of Elements of Fiction by Taylor;
15. Plays and Films: A Review;
16. Periods and Movements: (a) Medieval and Early Modern, (b) From Colonial America and Restoration England to 1900, (c) From 1900 to the Present;
17. Positions, Identities, Ideas: (a) The Place of Literature 1;
18. The Place of literature 2;
19. Literary Theory 1;
20. Literary Theory 2;
21. Over To You: (a) Primary and Secondary Sources, (b) Reading, Research, Writing;
22. Review.