English 10C

English Literature, 1832 to the Present

Fall 2005
MWF 12-12:50
Royce 190

 Professor Grossman
Office: 1332 Rolfe Hall
MW 1-2 & by appointment

                                                                                              

 

Teaching staff

 

            Ms. Lana Finley, Ms. Beth Goodhue, Mr. Sam See

 

Required texts

 

Alfred Tennyson, Selected Poems (Dover)

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Penguin)

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover)

Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market (Dover)

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford)

Wilfred Owen, World War I British Poets (Dover)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, Brace)

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land & Other Poems (Dover)

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (Vintage)

 

Please purchase only the particular editions ordered; we will refer to page numbers unique to each edition. You should read each novel’s endnotes and other editorial matter, including appendices.

 

Requirements

 

Two 4-page close-reading papers due: Friday, October 21 and Monday, November 14

One final 5-page close-reading paper, due Friday, December 9

Two pass/fail quizzes, in lecture class: Wednesday, November 2 and Friday, December 9

 

Approximate distribution of grades for written work

papers = 85% (paper 1 = 20%; 2 = 30%; 3 = 35%)

quizzes = 15% or course failure (pass 2 = A; pass 1 = F; pass 0 = F for the course)

 

Class participation: your final calculated grade is reviewed and adjusted for your class participation. Your final grade may remain the same, it may be raised, or it may be lowered. Typically adjustments are of 1/3 of a grade, but in rare cases may be much larger.

 

In addition:

      • Lively participation in your section is expected. Active participation in lecture is encouraged, but not required.
      • Papers are due in lecture on their due date. No extensions granted after a due date.
      • You are strongly encouraged to meet individually with your teachers during the quarter to work on your writing.
      • You must use your email account. If you use an account other than the one provided by the university, you will need to update your address in ecampus, “tools and resources.”
      • Ecampus contains important course information, including our lecture slides, sample quizzes, and specific advice about writing the close-reading papers for this course.
      • My email is grossman@humnet.ucla.edu. Feel free to contact me; I appreciate hearing your suggestions and thoughts about the course.

Finally, a word about academic integrity. Academic integrity is fundamental to University life and to your own education. Always be sure to note any outside sources you use, and don’t hesitate to ask about the correct ways of citing them. Plagiarizing, which means taking words or ideas from a published or unpublished source without proper acknowledgment, is wrong and violates your UCLA Student Conduct Code. (This course may use TurnItIn.com.)

 

Schedule

 

9/30    Introduction

10/3    Alfred Tennyson, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

10/5    Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”

10/7    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

 

10/10  Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

10/12  Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

10/14  Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

 

10/17  Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

10/19  Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”

10/21  Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover,” “How They Brought…”                    Paper 1                      

 

10/24  Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”

10/26  Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”

10/28  Doyle, “A Scandal In Bohemia,” “The Speckled Band”

 

10/31  Doyle, “A Case of Identity,” “The Man with the Twisted Lip,”

11/2    Doyle, “Five Orange Pips”                                                                               Quiz

11/4    WWI poets: Owen, “Dulce et decorum est,” “Arms and the Boy”

 

11/7    WWI poets: Sassoon, “They;” Gurney, “The Target”                        

11/9    WWI poets: Sassoon, “Repression of War Experience,” “Picture Show”

11/11  Veterans Day

 

11/14  Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway                                                                          Paper 2

11/16  Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

11/18  Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

 

11/21  Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway                                                                       

11/23  T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

11/25  Thanksgiving Break                                                                                        

 

11/28  Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day      

11/30  Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

12/2    Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

 

12/5    Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

12/7    Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

12/9    Conclusion                                                                                                      Quiz/Final Paper