ENGLISH 110/021
APPROACHES TO LITERATURE
Prof. Miguel Mota
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00-12:00, or by appointment
Office: Buchanan Tower 416
Phone: 604-822-4393
email: motam@interchange.ubc.ca
Teaching Assistants:
Kim Duff
Genevieve Gagne-Hawes
William Best
Martin McCarvill
Emer Savage
David Waddell
REQUIRED TEXTS:
The Broadview Anthology of English Poetry, ed. H. Rosengarten & A. Goldrick-Jones
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
Sam Shepard, True West (in Seven Plays)
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
NOTE: Lectures will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:00-2:50. Discussion seminars will take place on Fridays, 2:00-2:50. Please see your teaching assistant for a seminar schedule.
LECTURE SCHEDULE:
Week 1 (Jan. 4,6) Introduction; Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”; Wyatt, “Who so list
to hunt”
Week 2 (Jan.11,13) Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18", “Sonnet 130"; Donne, “The Flea”; Behn, “Love in fantastic triumph sat”; Chudleigh, “To the Ladies”
Week 3 (Jan.18,20) Blake, “London”; Browning, “My Last Duchess”; Frost, “Mending Wall”, “Design”
Week 4 (Jan.25,27) Yeats, “The Second Coming”; Auden, “Musee de Beaux Arts”; Larkin, “Aubade”; LKJ, “It Dread Inna Inglan”
Essay 1 (In-Class): Friday, January 29
Week 5 (Feb.1,3) Pinter, The Homecoming
Week 6 (Feb.8,10) The Homecoming
MID-TERM BREAK (Feb.15-26)
Week 7 (Mar.1,3) Shepard, True West (in Seven Plays)
Week 8 (Mar.8,10) True West
Essay 2 (In-Class): Friday, March 12
Week 9 (Mar.15,17) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Week 10 (Mar.22,24) Jane Eyre
Week 11 (Mar.29,31) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
*Note: No discussion seminar on
Friday, April 2 (Good Friday)
Week 12 (Apr.7) Wide Sargasso Sea
*Note: No lecture on Monday,
April 5 (Easter Monday)
Week 13 (Apr.12,14) Conclusion; Review
Essay 3 (Take-Home): Due Wednesday, April 14
*Note: Classes end on Thursday,
April 15
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Essay 1 (in-class) – January 29 15
Essay 2 (in-class) – March 12 15
Essay 3 (home-1500 words) - due April 14 35
Class work (including participation in seminar
and attendance) 10
Final Examination 25
PLEASE NOTE: REGULAR ATTENDANCE AT LECTURES AND SEMINARS IS COMPULSORY.