SPRING 2020

Course Title: Introduction to English Literature                  Course Code: 108

BS English,   Semester II

Credit Hours: 03                                                                  Wed- Fri  12- 1 p.m.

Instructor: Zareena Qasim                                               Email:  [email protected]

Objectives: 

The aim of this part of the curriculum is to introduce the students a popular genre of fiction. As a genre, short story has received relatively little critical attention, and the most valuable studies of the form that exist are often limited by region or era (e.g., Ray B. West’s TheShortStoryinAmerica1900-50). One recent attempt to account for the genre has been offered by the Irish short story writer Frank O’Connor, who suggests that stories are a means for “submerged population groups” to address a dominating community. Most other theoretical discussions, however, are predicated in one way or another on Edgar Allan Poe’s thesis that stories must have a compact, unified effect. However, the course offered, comprises stories written by distinguished writers from all over the globe.

  Course ontents:

1. Edgar Allen Poe                                The Man of The Crowd
2. Anton Chekov                                   The Man Who Lived in a Shell
3. James Joyce                                       The Dead
4.   Franz Kafka                                      The Judgment
5.   D.H. Lawrence                                  The Man Who Loved Islands
6.  V.S. Pritchett                                     The Voice.
7. Naguib Mahfouz                               Creates A Mythic History
8.   Nadine Cordimer                              Once Upon Time
9.   Ali A. Mazri                                       The Fort
10. HanifKureishi                                   My Son the Fanatic

Course Material:

Course Manual will consist of approximately 48 lessons (see “Course Outline” above to get an idea about the contents of these lessons). It will be provided to participants in PDF and MS Word formats. They can take printout and .read the material.

Projects:

Since the students are beginners so they need training in developing vision and insight to understand literature, they will be provided ample opportunities for that. they will be involved in creative process of writing short stories and poems so that the students with good imaginative facuty may take a start and get feed back on their endeavors. They will be encouraged to watch the movie adaptations of the texts included in the course so that they may develop a critical insight on the prestation of perspectives in written and cinematic versions. They will share their analysis with the class and will exchange the projects for peer review and finally will present it in the class.

Assesssment criteria:

Mid Term: 30

Project:     10

Presentation:  05

Participation:  05

Final exam:   50