CENTRE OF EXTERNAL EDUCATION UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA BBL 3101 A SURVEY OF PROSE FORMS AND POETRY IN ENGLISH SEMESTER

I 2010/11 LECTURER: PN. ZAINOR IZAT ZAINAL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA 43400 UPM SERDANG SELANGOR TEL: 03-89468694 EMAIL: zainor@fbmk.upm.edu.my COURSE SYNOPSIS This course is an introduction to the major literary writers and their works. It also deals with the development and characteristics of various literary genres which include the short story, novel, poetry and drama. The participant will gain an understanding of the structure, stylistic peculiarities, tone and organization of selected literary texts and develop basic appreciation of literary elements. COURSE OBJECTIVES By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Define the short story, novel, drama, and poetry as literary genres; 2. State the literary elements that are prevalent in the different genres; 3. Describe the historical and social influence on selected literary texts.

COURSE SCHEDULE WEEK 1 TOPIC Understanding Fiction Plot READINGS/ACTIVITIES K & M Chapter 9 K & M Chapter 12 Module (Topic 1) Short stories: Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner K & M Chapter 13 K & M Chapter 15 Module (Topic 2) Short stories: Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield A & P by John Updike K & M Chapter 14 K & M Chapter 16

Character Point of View

Setting Tone, Style and Language

Module (Topic 3) Short Stories: The Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway 4 Symbol K & M Chapter 17 Theme K & M Chapter 18 Module (Topic 4) Short Stories: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson A Worn Path by Eudora Welty 5 Reading and Writing about K & M Chapter 11 Fiction Module (Topic 5) 6 Understanding Poetry K & M Chapter 22 Module (Topic 6) Poem: Poetry by Marianne Moore 7 Voice K & M Chapter 25 Word Choice, Word Order K & M Chapter 26 Module (Topic 7) Poems: To An Athlete Dying Young by A. E Housman The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats 8 Imagery K & M Chapter 27 Figures of Speech K & M Chapter 28 Module (Topic 8) Poems: I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth Oh, my love is like a red, red rose by Robert Burns 9 Sound K & M Chapter 29 Form K & M Chapter 30 Module (Topic 9) Poems: The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson I, Too by Langston Hughes MID-TERM EXAM *Exact date to be set by PPL* 10 Symbol K & M Chapter 31 Theme K & M Chapter 32 Reading and Writing about K & M Chapter 24 Poetry Module (Topic 10) Poems: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke 11 Understanding Drama K & M Chapter 36 Plot K & M Chapter 39 Module (Topic 11 & 12) Play: Trifles by Susan Glaspell 12 Character K & M Chapter 40 Play: A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen

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Theme

K & M Chapter 42

Reading and Writing about K & M Chapter 38 Drama Module (Topic 13) FINAL EXAM *Exact date to be set by PPL*

COURSE EVALUATION Assignment Mid-term Exam Final Exam 20 % (Due date: Week 10) 40% (To be set by PPL) 40% (To be set by PPL)

Mid-term Exam Format: All questions are subjective. Covers fiction and poetry. Emphasis is on literary elements found in both genres. Final Exam Format: All questions are subjective. Covers all genres but more emphasis will be given on drama. Assignment Task 1: Summarising the Poems (6 marks) Read and reread the following three poems on nature by William Stafford, Muhammad Haji Salleh and Latiff Mohidin. Think about what it is that each poem is trying to convey. Then write a short summary for each of the three poems, according to your own understanding. Each summary should not exceed 100 words. Task 2: Learning more about the Poets (6 marks) Find out more about the poets, either through the internet or library research. Then write out a biography for each of the three poets. Each biography should not exceed 100 words. Do NOT cut and paste your answer directly from the internet or books. You should paraphrase the parts you find interesting and write out in your own words. Task 3: Revisiting the Poems (8 marks) All three poems are about nature. Think about the three poems together. The question for you to answer is: Are they trying to communicate the same message about nature? What kind of environmental attitude is apparent in all three poems? Your answer should not exceed 250 words. Guidelines for Writing the Assignments:

Organize your points effectively to support your points. Use present tense when referring to the poems (The mouse deer dies or The rain appears) and the writing of the poet (Jackson illustrates or Chopin briefly describes the view). Use the past tense to describe events that actually occurred in the past (Chopin was born in 1851).

Your assignment should be typed on A4 paper using Times New Roman or Arial, 11-font size and 1.5-line spacing. Your assignment will be evaluated according to your ability to select the most important evidence needed to support the argument(s) advanced, as well as your ability to present both the argument(s) and supporting points concisely. Bear in mind that unacknowledged use of quotes, extracts or ideas constitutes plagiarism; the penalty for which will be severe.

POEM 1 Traveling Through The Dark By William Stafford Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson road. It is usually best to roll them into the canyon: that road is narrow; to swerve might make more dead. By glow of the tail-light I stumbled back of the car and stood by the heap, a doe, as recent killing; she had stiffened already, almost cold. I dragged her off; she was large in the belly. My fingers touching her side brought me the reason her side was warm; her fawn lay there waiting, alive, still, never to be born. Beside the mountain road I hesitated. The car aimed ahead its lowered parking lights; under the hood purred the steady engine. I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red; around our group I could hear the wilderness listen. I thought hard for us all my only swerving then pushed her over the edge into the river. POEM 2 Rain By Muhammad Haji Salleh perhaps, because the red hills are neighbours to the grey pot bellies of the clouds, they are beloved. in its season a whole sky falls for a whole morning straight or slanting, streaming to the banks, channels the senduduks roots, elephant grass and the remaining cement left on the road. a whole world copies the hills colours. the water bullets shoot at the houses climbing windows and creeping to the doors chinks till all turns into the hills hue. finally the clouds flow through the village

decreed by the waters will. POEM 3 The Old Tiger by Latiff Mohidin In the burning heat of the noonday sun the old tiger stops beside the highway the traffic is indifferent to it the workers in the city go on with their work school children go to school none gives the tiger any special attention only a baby cat looks hard in its eye - for a moment only and then walks slowly away towards the drain Across the road theres no more lalang tiger, keep to yourself our primordial roar, and move on your name weve turned into an ad. your face weve long forgotten TEXTS Compulsory: Kirsner, L.G. and Stephen Mandell. (2007). Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing. 6th ed. Boston: Thomson *Priced at RM68. Please contact Mr Tan (Pustaka Prinsip) at 012 2808241. Secondary: Baldick, Chris. (2004). Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford UP. Barnet, S and William E. Cain. (2000). A Short Guide to Writing About Literature. 8th ed. New York: Longman. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Goia. (2007) Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing.10th ed. New York: Pearson.