ENGL 1000 Introduction to Literature in English

Fall Semester (2016-2017)

Instructor
Dr. Saeed Ghazi

Room No.
Room No. 129, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academic Block

Office Hours
Thursday and Friday 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Email
saeedg@lums.edu.pk

Telephone
8045

Secretary/TA
2115

TA Office
Hours TBA

Course URL
(if any)

Course Basics

Credit Hours 4

Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) 2 Duration 1 Hour 50 Minutes

Per Week
Recitation/Lab (per Nbr of Lec(s) -- Duration --
week) Per Week
Tutorial (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) TBA Duration TBA
Per Week

Course Distribution
Core Yes (English major / English minor)

Elective Free Elective

Open for Student
Category First Year Students, Sophomores

Closed for Student

Category Juniors and Seniors

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This four credit introductory course does not assume that students have a prior knowledge of
Literature. The course is designed to ensure that students with no acquaintance with Literature as well
as those who have received some exposure to the discipline in high school feel at home. It seeks to
introduce students to the distinguishing features of the principal genres of poetry, the novel, and drama
through a close and sustained engagement with poems, plays, novels, and short stories drawn from a
wide range of historical periods within the field of English studies. “Non-fictional” genres like
biographies, autobiographies, letters, diaries, speeches, and documents will also receive some
attention. This course will also attempt to provide a broad overview of the discipline of English
Studies, including Literary and Historical periods, Literary Movements, and Literary Theories. We
will grapple with questions like the relationship of literary form to content and what, if anything is
particularly and peculiarly ‘literary’ about literary works. Notable among the questions that will come
up for consideration is the tangled issue of canon formation and the politics surrounding canon
formations.

COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)

 There are no pre-requisites for this course.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

A) To equip students with the critical skills and interpretive tools necessary to pursue more
advanced courses in Literature.
 To develop in students a heightened sensitivity to and a deeper appreciation of the
B) ‘literariness’ manifest in literary works.

Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete ENGL 1000 should

A) Manifest a degree of familiarity with the distinctive characteristics of the discipline of

literary studies – the ‘object’; of literary study, the aims and objectives, and the
methodology.

B) Register awareness of and sensitivity to some of the distinctive features and ‘unique’
properties and uses of literary language.

C) Exhibit broad familiarity with the characteristics of the paradigmatic genres – the
narrative, the lyric, and the dramatic, as well as sub-genres, dominant literary forms, and
significant literary movements.

D) Display familiarity with distinctive approaches to Literature – formalist, mimetic,

rhetorical, and biographical, as well as a broad acquaintance with important literary
‘theories’ like New Criticism, Russian Formalism, Structuralism, Deconstruction,
Psychoanalysis, New Historicism, and Feminism.

Grading Breakup and Policy

1. Response Papers/Tests: 25%

2. Midterm Examination: 35%
3. Final Examination: 40%

Examination Detail

Yes
Midterm Combine Separate: N/A
Exam Duration: 110 Minutes
Preferred Date: First Session of the week (Monday/Tuesday)
Exam Specifications: Closed Book/Closed Notes
 Yes
Final Combine Separate: N/A
Exam Duration: 110 Minutes
Exam Specifications: Closed Book/Closed Notes

COURSE OVERVIEW
Lecture Author/ Topic Primary Text /s Secondary Text /s

Introduction to the Course;

1. Overview of the Discipline;
Literary and Historical Periods

The Literary Canon; Introduction M. H. Abrams (B.1916),

2. to Literary Genres: the Narrative, “Orientation of Critical
the Lyric and the Dramatic Theories”

I Introduction to Fiction Kate Chopin (1851-1904), Jonathan Culler, “What is

“The Story of an Hour” Literature and Does it
Reading Fiction (1894) Matter?”

3. Elements of Fiction John Updike (1932-2009), Harold Bloom (B. 1930),

“A&P” (1961) “Why Read”

Milan Kundera (B. 1929),

from The Art of the Novel

Plot William Faulkner (1897- E.M. Forster (1979-1970),

4. Types of Plot, Story and Plot,
Fabula and Syuzhet
Style, Tone, and Irony
1962), “A Rose for from Aspects of the Novel
Emily” (1931) (1927)
Ernest Hemingway J. Arthur Honeywell,
(1899-1961), “Hills Like “Plot in the Modern
 White Elephants” (1927) Novel”

Point of View Anton Chekhov (1860- Wayne C. Booth (1921-

Third Person Narrator, First
5.
Person Narrator
Narrator and Focalizer
1904), “The Lady with the 2005), “Distance and
Dog” (1899) Point of View: An Essay
in Classification” (1983)
PunyakanteWijenaike (B.
1933), “Anoma” (1996)

Characterization Herman Melville (1819-

1891), “Bartleby the
Scrivener” (1853)

6. Saadat Hasan Manto

(1912-1955), “The Dutiful
Daughter”

Daniyal Mueenuddin (B.

1963), “Saleema”

Setting James Joyce (1882-1941),

7.
“The Dead” (1914)

Theme Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910),

“The Death of Ivan Ilych”
8. (1886)

Symbolism Franz Kafka (1883-1924),

9. “The Metamorphosis”
(1915)

10 Wayne Booth (1921-

 . The Novel
11.
II Introduction to Poetry
Reading and Responding to
Poetry
Tone, Speaker, Situation, and
12 Setting/Word Choice, and Word
. Order
Denotation and Connotation;
Alliteration, Assonance, and
Onomatopoeia
Tropes/Figures of
13
Thought/Figures of Speech
.
F Scott Fitzgerald (1896- 2005), from The Rhetoric
1940), The Great Gatsby of Fiction (1983)
(1925)
F Scott Fitzgerald (1896-
1940), The Great Gatsby
(1925)
Marianne Moore (1887-
1972),
“Poetry” (1921)
Robert Frost (1874-1963),
“Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening” (1923)
“Acquainted with the
Night” (1928)
“The Road Not Taken”
(1916)
Moniza Alvi, “How the Terry Eagleton, from How
World Split in Two” to Read a Poem (2007)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963),
 “Metaphors” (

John Keats (1795-1821),

“On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer”
(1816)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

(1792-1822),
“Ozymandias” (1818)

John Donne (1572-1631),

“A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning”
(1611)

Andrew Marvell (1621-

1678), “To His Coy
Mistress” (1681)

Images and Imagery Ezra Pound (1885-1972),

“In a Station of the
Metro” (1913)

William Carlos Williams

(1883-1963), “Poem”
(1934)
14
. Matthew Arnold (1822-
1888), “Dover Beach”
(1867)

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965),

“Preludes”

John Keats (1795-1821),

“To Autumn”
15
No Class – Mid Term Exam
.

Symbol, Allegory, and Irony Edwin Arlington

Robinson (1869-1935),
“Richard Cory” (1897)

William Butler Yeats

16
(1865-1939), “The Second
.
Coming” (1921)

Robert Browning (1812-

1889), “My Last
Duchess” (1842)

The Sounds of Poetry Adrienne Rich (1929-

2012), Power (1974)

Robert Browning (1812-

1889), “How they brought
the Good News from Aix
to Ghent” (1838)

17 Lord Byron (1788-1824),

. “The Destruction of
Sennacherib” (1815)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

(1844-1889), “God’s
Grandeur” (1877)

Alexander Pope (1688-

1744), from An Essay on
Criticism (1711)

18
. Patterns of Rhythm; Principles of
Meter

Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic,

Dactylic, Spondee, Blank Verse

Poetic Forms/Open Forms William Wordsworth

(1770-1850), “London
1802”
i) Sonnet

a) Italian sonnet, William Shakespeare

19 Petrarchan sonnet (1564-1616),
. “Shall I Compare thee to
b) English or a Summer’s Day” (1609)
Shakespearean
sonnet

Octave, sestet, caesura, volta

Poetic Forms/Open Forms

“Sir Patrick Spens”
ii) Ballad

a) Popular or Traditional Ballad

b) Literary Ballad
20
John Keats (1795-1821),
.
iii) Ode “Ode to a Nightingale”
(1819)
a) Pindaric ode
b) Horatian or
homostrophic ode
c) Irregular Ode

21
Poetic Forms (Contd.) Seamus Heaney (B.
.
1939), “Mid-term Break”
 iv)Elegy (1966)

Dylan Thomas (1914-

v) Villanelle 1953), “Do Not Go Gentle
into that Good Night”
(1952)
vi) Sestina
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-
1979), “Sestina” (1965)
vii)Haiku
Matsuo Basho (1644-
1694), “Under Cherry
viii)Parody Trees”

Anthony Hecht (B. 1923)

“The Dover Bitch” (1967)

Writing About Literature From The Craft of

22
Research (2003)
.
The Critical Essay

III Introduction to Drama John Millington Synge John Styan, from The
23 (1871-1909), Riders to the Elements of Drama
. Elements of Drama Sea (1904) Aristotle, from Poetics

Introduction to Greek Theater;

The Elizabethan Theatre William Shakespeare Jasper Ridley, from A
(1564-1616), Othello Brief History of the Tudor
24 Life in Elizabethan England (c.1601) Age (2002)
.
 Maynard Mack, from
William Shakespeare Everybody’s Shakespeare,
(1564-1616), Othello (1993)
25 (c.1601)
.

William Shakespeare
26
(1564-1616), Othello
.
(c.1604)

Alexander Leggatt, from :

William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Tragedies:
27
(1564- Violation and Identity
.
1616), Othello (c.1604) (2005)

William Shakespeare
28 (1564-1616), Othello
. (c.1604)

Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings