English 1406, Sections B0 and C0

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1 English 1406, Sections B0 and C0 Fall - Winter, Prof: Dr. Richard Cunningham Office: BAC 431 Tel: rcunning[at]acadiau.ca Office Hours: Tuesday, 1:30-4:30 or by appointment Course Description: Generic Description: This course introduces students to novels, plays, and poems from the twentieth century and earlier. This course will develop creative and analytical skills and will provide students with strategies for writing clearly and persuasively. Specific Description: In Section B0 of 1406 students will be encouraged to develop their thinking on what is good, how to decide something's good, and what role authority plays when one makes such judgements. Class members will read and engage with poetry, drama, and novels that either address the question of value directly or indirectly, or that have been adjudged good by others. During the year we will develop an understanding of the vocabulary specific to literary study -- e.g. metaphor, image, allusion, reference, irony, etc. -- so that we can articulate our judgements in a register appropriate to the discourse community of literary scholarship. Nb. All papers are due at the beginning of class on the day indicated. The grade on a paper submitted within one week of when it is due will be reduced by one letter. Any paper submitted more than a week late will not be graded. Disability Statement: Students with disabilities that affect learning: If you are a student with a documented disability who anticipates needing supports or accommodations, please contact Dr. Abu Kamara, Coordinator, Accessible Learning Services at , abu.kamara@acadiau.ca or Kathy O Rourke, Disability Resource Facilitator at , disability.access@acadiau.ca. Accessible Learning Services is located in the Fountain Commons, Lower Level.

2 The Writing Center: The Writing Centre offers free help to all students wishing to improve their writing skills. You can sign up online today: To book a one-to-one appointment with a writing tutor, click here: writingcentre.acadiau.ca/writing-tutorials.html To see which helpful presentations and workshops you can attend this year, click here: writingcentre.acadiau.ca/workshops-and-presentations.html Course Texts: Broadview Introduction to Literature, Concise Edition. Eds. Chalykoff, Lisa, Neta Gordon, and Paul Lumsden. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, Print. Broadview Guide to Writing. Doug Babbington, Don LePan, and Maureen Okun. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, Print. Findley, Tim. Not Wanted on the Voyage. Toronto: Penguin, edition. Fallada, Hans. Every Man Dies Alone. Brooklyn: Melville House, Grading Attendance and Participation 10% Grammar Quizzes 10% First Paper 10% Second Paper 10% Xmas Exam 10% Third Paper 15% Fourth Paper 15% Final Exam 20%

3 Class Schedule Legend: The Concise Edition of the Broadview Introduction to Literature will be referred to as in the following table. The Broadview Guide to Writing will be referred to as GW. Hence, "Read pp , GW" should be interpreted to mean "read pages 99 to 129 (inclusive) of The Broadview Guide to Writing. September Monday Wednesday Friday 2: Introductions 4: Ethos 14: Old English Poetry week: The Wanderer 21: Introduction to the Library, Erin Patterson. 28: Paraphrasing 5: Marlowe and Ralegh's companion poems. Pp. 489, 488,. 9: Intro to metaphor: G. Herbert's "The Collar" 11: Sentence and paragraph structure. Read pp , GW 16: The Seafarer 18: The Dream of the Rood 23: Chaucer, The Miller's Prologue and Tale 30: Read "Poetry," pp ,. October 7: Before submitting a paper. Pp , esp , GW. 25: The Miller's Prologue and Tale 2: Shakespeare sonnets, pp ,. 9: First (response) paper due 12: Thanksgiving: no class 14: Fall Break 16: Fall Break 19: Shakespeare play, TBD. First paper returned. 21: Shakespeare play, TBD. 23: Shakespeare play, TBD. 26: Donne's "The Flea," pp , 2: Chopin's "Story of an Hour," pp , 28: Donne's sonnets 10 and 14, pp. 495, 496, November 4: Joyce's "Araby," pp. 53-8, 30: Poe's "The Raven," pp. xx - yy, 6: Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper," pp ,

4 9: Library research. Erin Patterson 16: Oedipus Rex 18: Oedipus Rex 23: Second (research) paper due. Herrick's "To the Virgins," p. 501, 30: Not Wanted on The Voyage 11: Remembrance Day, no class 13: Oedipus Rex 25: Milton's "When I consider..." p. 506, 20: Herbert's "The Altar," and "Easter Wings," pp. 503 & 504, 27: Thinking about longer works of fiction. December 2: Not Wanted on The Voyage 4: First term review January 11: Enemy 13: Enemy 15: Commentary on Enemy 18: cont'd. from Friday 20: Not Wanted on The Voyage 22: Not Wanted on The Voyage 25: No Man Dies Alone 27: No Man Dies Alone 29: No Man Dies Alone February 1: No Man Dies Alone 3: Pp , GW 5: Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," 8: Blake, all, 10: Blake, all, 12: Wordsworth, "Lines.. Abbey" Third (literary analysis) paper due 15: No class 17: Reading Week 19: No class 22: Ibsen's "A Doll's House," 29: Coleridge, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," 7: Tennyson, "Lady of Shalott," 14: Bradstreet's "The Author..." 21: Dickinson, all, Fourth (revised & expanded research) paper due. 24: Ibsen's "A Doll's House," 26: Ibsen's "A Doll's House," March 2: Shelley, "Ozymandias," 4: Keats, all, 9: Browning, "My Last Duchess," 11: Mary Wroth, both, 16: Wheatley's "On Being brought from Africa," 18: Barrett Browning, all, 23: Rossetti, "Goblin Market," 25: Good Friday, no class

5 28: Moore, "Poetry" (both), 4: Williams' "Red Wheelbarrow," and Pound's "... Metro," 11: Exam Review 30: Catch up day, if necessary April 1: Yeats, "Easter 1916" and "The Second Coming," 6: Eliot, The Wasteland 8: Eliot, "Prufrock,"!

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