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ENGL 100-002Introduction to Literary Study

Dr Robert G. MayAssociate Professor and Undergraduate Chair

Department of English

Download the Course Syllabus:http://post.queensu.ca/~mayr/

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• Lecture/Tutorial Information (1)

• Class Web Site/Social Media (2)• Accessibility/Accommodation (2)• About the Instructor/Course (3)

• Books (4)• Course Requirements (5-7)• Academic Integrity (8)• The Writing Centre at Queen’s (9)

• Links (10)• Outline/Reading List (11-20)• Appendices (21-29)

ENGL 100-002 Course Syllabus

ENGL 100-002 Required Books

Anthologies

WritingManual

ReferenceBook

ENGL 100-002 Overview

Autumn Term Winter Term

Wee

ks 1

-6

Unit 1:Short Fiction

Unit 3:Literary

Non-Fiction

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Unit 2:Drama

Unit 4:Poetry


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ENGL 100-002 DSC Representatives

• Act as a liaison between students and the English Departmental Student Council (DSC), and between students and the instructor

• Agree to have their Queen’s e-mail address posted on the class Web site and communicated to the English DSC Co-Chairs

• Attend periodic meetings and/or receive e-mail communications to find out about special events organized by the English DSC

• Report English DSC news and events to students at the beginning of Lecture and/or Tutorial

• Administer the USAT course evaluations at the end of the year

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$$ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

• born in Hartford, Connecticut

• attended Rhode Island School of Design and worked for a time as a commercial artist and teacher

• suffered from postpartum depression following the birth of her daughter

• became a well-known feminist lecturer and writer

• argued that women should have access to education to become financially independent

• her best-known work is “The Yellow Wallpaper” (29)

genre

• French for kind, type, or class

• the classification of a literary work according to its form, mode, or content

• many genres can be further subdivided into various sub-genres and even sub-sub-genres (298-99)

Classical modernlyric poetryepic fiction

drama dramanon-fiction

genre

genr

essu

b-ge

nres

• novel• short story

• comedy• tragedy

• personal essay

• memoir

• lyric poem• narrative

poem

sub-

sub-

genr

es

• picaresque novel

• detective story

• comedy of manners

• farce

• reflective essay

• literary memoir

• sonnet• return

poem

$$ The Study of Literature

• Level 1: Evaluation– What is my gut reaction?

• Level 2: Interpretation– What is it about?

• Level 3: Description– What are its formal

features?• Level 4: Analysis

– How are its form and its content related?

• Level 5: Critical Analysis– How does it communicate

with the reader? (xix-xxi)


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&&Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”

• Level 1: Evaluation– What is my gut reaction?

• Level 2: Interpretation– What is it about?

• Level 3: Description– What are its formal

features?• Level 4: Analysis

– How are its form and its content related?

• Level 5: Critical Analysis– How does it communicate

with the reader? (xix-xxi)

“‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is a horrifying story of abuse.”

“The story is about an unnamed woman undergoing the rest cure.”

“Gilman structures the story around a series of short paragraphs to

mimic the woman’s diary entries.”“The fragmented nature of the

woman’s diary entries reflects the fragmentation of her mind.”

“Elaine Showalter sees the woman’s ‘secret journal’ as a symbol of

women’s oppression in the 1890s.”



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$$ James Joyce (1882-1941)

• born, raised, and educated in Dublin, taking a bachelor’s degree from University College, Dublin in 1902

• disillusioned with the turbulent political scene in Ireland, spent many years in self-imposed exile in Paris, Zurich, and Trieste

• wrote extensively about the moral repressiveness of Irish society in his short stories (Dubliners (1914)) and novels (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Ulysses (1922), and Finnegans Wake (1939)) (54)

fiction

• an imaginative work, usually in prose

• a work that is moulded, contrived, or feigned

• major subgenres include the novel, the novella, and the short story (279)

– novel: an extended piece of fiction (477-80)

– novella: a fictional work of some length, but shorter than a novel (480-81)

– short story: a fictional work that is shorter than a novel or novella (653-54)

The Elements of Fiction

Plot

Conflict

Character

Setting

Viewpoint

Language

Tone

Theme

organized narrative

tensions/oppositions

people/entities

when and/or where

who the narrator is

rhetorical devices

attitude of narrator

abstract concept

&& Joyce, “Araby”

a boy goes from home to a bazaar

boy vs uncle; boy vs himself

boy, aunt, uncle, girls, Dublin

Dublin, Ireland; early 20th century

the boy is the first-person narrator

e.g., “blind” literal and connotative

youthful, impetuous, naïve

the perils of idealistic thinking

Plot

Conflict

Character

Setting

Viewpoint

Language

Tone

Theme

organized narrative

tensions/oppositions

people/entities

when and/or where

who the narrator is

rhetorical devices

attitude of narrator

abstract concept


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$$Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

• educated at home, aware from an early age of the injustices between men and women

• as an adult, lived in the bohemian Bloomsbury district of London, where she formed the Bloomsbury group

• ran the small Hogarth Press with her spouse Leonard Woolf, publishing many of the best authors of the day

• developed the experimental stream-of-consciousness technique (64-65)

plot

• the plan, design, scheme, or pattern of events in a work

• the organization of incidents in a work so as to induce curiosity and suspense in the reader

• in Poetics, Plato identifies plot as the “first principle” among his six elements of tragedy

• E.M. Forster writes, “plot is … a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. ‘The king died and the queen died’ is a story. ‘The king died and the queen died of grief’ is a plot” (540-41)

stream of consciousness

• a literary technique popularized at the beginning of the twentieth century by modernist writers such as Woolf and Joyce

• strives to depict the random and multitudinous thoughts and feelings that pass through the human mind

• sometimes resembles a psychoanalytical free-association exercise

• is sometimes referred to as interior monologue or introspective writing (682-83)

Freytag’s Pyramid

exposition dénouement

climax

risin

g act

ion falling action

establishment of context conclusions and closure

highest point of tension

deve

lopm

ent o

f con

flicts resolution of conflicts


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exposition dénouement

climax

risin

g act

ion falling action

establishment of context conclusions and closure

highest point of tension

deve

lopm

ent o

f con

flicts resolution of conflictsa boy is infatuated

with a girl

the boy goes tothe bazaar

the girlsat the bazaarignore the boy

the boy leavesthe bazaar

the boy is angeredby his vanity



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$$ Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)

• born in Wellington, New Zealand as Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp

• moved to London in 1908 where she moved in bohemian literary circles with contemporaries such as D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, and others

• began writing seriously in 1915 following the death of her brother Leslie in the First World War

• best known for The Garden Party and Other Stories (1922) (72)

conflict

• the tensions or oppositions in a literary work

– between characters– between a character and a

force (e.g., society, environment, conscience)

• external conflict: tensions or oppositions between characters and/or forces

• internal conflict: tensions or oppositions within a character’s own mind (152)

conflict

types modes

external internal ostensible actual

character vs other

character vs self

(literal) (symbolic)

conflict

who/whatin conflict

who/whatin conflict

desiredoutcome

desiredoutcome

actual outcome

scene withconflict


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&&Mansfield, “The Garden Party”

who/whatin conflict

who/whatin conflict

desiredoutcome

desiredoutcome

actual outcome

scene withconflict

Laura Jose“A man killed”

to stop the garden party to have the garden party

the garden party takes place as planned

external

people have responsibilities towardsthose less fortunate than themselves

people need not think aboutthose less fortunate than themselves



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• Essay 1 Instructions(Course Web Site > Assignments)

• General Essay Instructions(Course Syllabus Appendix A)

• Submission Policies(Course Syllabus 5)

• Due Dates and Weightings(Course Syllabus 7)

• Academic Integrity(Course Syllabus Appendix Z)

ENGL 100-002 Essay 1 Assignment



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$$ Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964)

• born in Savannah, Georgia to a devout Roman-Catholic family

• attended Georgia State College for women, where she published her first stories

• earned a Master of Fine Arts at University of Iowa

• diagnosed with lupus at age 25, she died of the disease at age 39

• despite her illness, she wrote and lectured prolifically

• has written stories, novels, lectures, and occasional pieces (99)

character

• the people or entities in a literary work

• the development of character is called characterization

– narrative description– actions (including dialogue)– access to thoughts and

feelings• characters can differ in

complexity (round vs flat)• characters can differ in the extent

to which they undergo change (static vs dynamic) (9-10)

character

types qualities modes

primary secondary flat round indirect direct

protagonist antagonist static dynamic (showing) (telling)

caricature stereotype access to thoughts, feelings

actions(including dialogue)

narrativedescription

&&O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

characterization

types

qualities

modes

direct

indirect

primary primary secondary

protagonist antagonist -

round round flatdynamic static static

“not mention Tennessee” (106) - “motel with a

cat” (100)“one of my

babies” (112)“Shut up, Bobby

Lee” (112)“Hush! … Listen”

(108)

“she was a lady” (101)

“a scholarly look” (107)

“disposition” (103)

theGrandmother

theMisfit Bailey


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anti-hero

• the antithesis of the archetypal dashing, brave, strong, handsome hero character type

• given the vocation of failure• often incompetent, unlucky,

tactless, clumsy, buffoonish, etc., and are thus often a source of humour

• British author Kingsley Amis popularized the post-Second-World-War anti-hero type in the character Jim Dixon, the anti-hero of his first novel Lucky Jim(41-42)


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