Course Name	Special Topics for English Poetry
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Hyeuk Kyu Joo
	Department	English

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Explain the role of the self in English Literature and summarize the signification of                  "Me ritrovai" in the act of reading.

2. Describe the cultural circumstance of each work and identify how it shaped the main                characters under discussion.

3. Discuss what might be called "Satanic rhetorics" in inaugurating the logic of the self.

4. Compare and contrast the four texts under discussion using concepts employed in class, which       include but are never limited to: subjectivity, anxiety and influence, good and evil, and              writing as an act of (dis-)placing the self.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Milton, John. Paradise Lost. ed. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004

Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. http://www.gailgastfield.com/mhh/mhh.html

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818). ed. J. Paul Hunter. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Intro. Andrew Delbanco. New York: Penguin, 2002.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments:

Topics for discussion, all related to course objectives, will be posted on the class web page( http://cafe.naver.com/hyeuk001). Individual students are required to give their own responses to each of them in a timely manner. Topics are various; responses should be penetrating and concise.

Grading Scheme:

Final grade is calculated with these variously weighted assignments:

Reading Response (Web Posting)     400 pt.

Presentation                         200 pt.

Reading Quizzes                     200 pt.

Attendance                           100 pt. (one unexcused absence acceptable)

Paper (5-7 pp.)                      400 pt. (on a subject of your choice pertinent to this class)

COURSE SCHEDULE

* The Inauguration of Me; the Opening of Literature

Week 1: John Milton's Paradise Lost (1674)

Week 2: Milton Continued

Week 3: Milton Continued

Week 4: Milton Continued

Week 5: Milton Continued

Week 6: William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–93)

Week 7: Blake Continued

Week 8: Blake Continued

Week 9: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)

Week 10: Shelley Continued

Week 11: Shelley Continued

Week 12: Herman Melville Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale (1851)

Week 13: Melville Continued

Week 14: Melville Continued

Week 15: Melville Continued

(* This is a living plan and is subject to change upon prior notice. Changes will be announced in class and/or via the web notice)

Course Outline: Under the subtile of "The Inauguration of Me; the Opening of Literature," this course is necessarily to be dedicated to perusing related cannonical literary works; namely, Paradise Lost (1674), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–93), Frankenstein (1818), Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale (1851). Included also are watching and discussing film versions of original texts.

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 751-5888; e-mail: hyeuk001@hanmail.net