English 201
Appreciation of Literature
Schedule
Spring 2004
Tuesday 6-9 PM--FH 208
Helen Roulston


1. Jan. 13 Introduction

2. Jan. 20 1920 Novel The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
_____Panel Discussion
_____Due: Describe any 10 characters in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

3. Jan. 27 1993 Film The Age of Innocence (133 m) dir. Martin Scorsese
______Panel Discussion

4. Feb. 3 1604 Play Othello by William Shakespeare.
_____1952 Film Othello (92 min) dir. Orson Welles.
_____Due: Describe any 5 characters in Othello by William Shakespeare.

5. Feb. 10 1600 Play Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.
_____1993 Film Much Ado about Nothing (111 min) dir. Kenneth Branagh
_____Due: Describe any 5 characters in Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.

6. Feb. 17 1913 Play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
_____1938 Film Pygmalion (85 min) dir. Anthony Asquith/Leslie Howard
_____Due: Describe any 5 characters in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
_____Due: Essay 1 Compare a literary technique of any novel or play to the comparable technique in any film.
_____Take Home Midterm Exam Questions to Be Handed out

7. Feb. 24 1956 play My Fair Lady by Alan J. Lerner
_____1964 film My Fair Lady (170 m) dir. George Cukor
_____Due: List any 5 differences between Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and My Fair Lady by Alan J. Lerner
_____Due: Midterm Journal

8. Mar. 2 1891 Short Story “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Ambrose Bierce
_____1905 Short Story “Paul’s Case” Willa Cather
_____1914 Short Story “Araby” James Joyce
_____1942 Short Story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” James Thurber
_____1962 Film Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La Rivičre du hibou) (28 min) dir. Robert Enrico
_____Panel Discussion
_____Due: Describe a total of any 5 characters from the assigned stories. You must have at least 1 character from each assigned story.
_____Due: Take Home Midterm Exam

9. Mar. 9 1835 Short Story “Young Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorne
_____1840 Short Story “The Fall of the House of Usher” Edgar Allan Poe
_____1951 Short Story “The Veldt” Ray Bradbury
_____1953 Short Story “The Enormous Radio” John Cheever
_____Panel Discussion
_____Due: Describe a total of any 5 characters from the assigned stories. You must have at least 1 character from each assigned story.

10. Mar. 23 1892 Short Story “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman
_____1924 Short Story “The Hunger Artist” Franz Kafka
_____1965 Short Story “Everything that Rises Must Converge” Flannery O’Connor
_____1989 Film “The Yellow Wallpaper” (80 min) dir. John Clive
_____Panel Discussion
_____Due: Describe a total of any 5 characters from the assigned stories. You must have at least 1 character from each assigned story.
_____Due: Essay 2 Compare a literary technique of any short story or play to the comparable technique in any film.

11. Mar. 30 1939 Short Story “Barn Burning” William Faulkner
_____1927 Short Story “Hills like White Elephants” Ernest Hemingway
_____1935 Short Story “Babylon Revisited” F. Scott Fitzgerald
_____Selected Poems
_____Panel Discussion
_____Due: Describe a total of any 5 characters from the assigned stories. You must have at least 1 character from each assigned story.
_____Due: Original Sonnet to Be Explicated by Another Student

12. Apr. 6 Selected Poems
_____Panel Discussion
_____Due: Briefly give the main idea of each assigned poem.

13. Apr. 13 Selected Poems
_____Panel Discussion
_____Due: Briefly give the main idea of each assigned poem.
_____Due: Textual Explication of a Student Sonnet

14. Apr. 20 Selected Poems
_____Panel Discussion

15. Apr. 27 Selected Poems
_____Panel Discussion
_____Due: Journal
_____Due: Briefly give the main idea of each assigned poem.
_____Conclusion

Teaching


English 201 Syllabus


English 201 Spring 2004 Assigned Poems


Explication de Texte for Poems


Film Analysis Guidelines

Film Summaries, Film Casts, Film Makers