Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Faculdade de Letras
Departamento de Anglo-Germânicas
Prof.ª: Michela Rosa Di Candia
NARRATIVE II COURSE PLAN (2016/1) – ROOM H-107
April 4- Introduction to the course
April 6- Text: “Technical Problems and Principles in the Composition of Fiction.”
April/11- Modernism I “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” (Ernest Hemingway)
April 13- “A Rose for Emily” (William Faulkner)
April 18- The Harlem Renaissance “Thank U Man” / “Theme for English 8″1 “I Too”(Langston Hughes)
April/20- “A Telephone Call” (Dorothy Parker] \
April/ 25- The Jazz Age – Introduction to The Great Gatsby
April 27- The Great Gatsby (chapter 1)
May 2- The Great Gatsby (chapters 2 and 3)
May 4- The Great Gatsby (chapters 4 and 5)
May 9- The Great Gatsby (chapters 6 and 7)
May 11- The Great Gatsby (chapter 7)
May 16- The Great Gatsby (chapters 8 and 9)
May 18- Introduction to lames Joyce’s Ireland Eveline
May 23- Joyce’s “Araby” — (Written assignment on TGG)
May 25- “The Dead” (James Joyce)
May 30- “The Dead”
June l-“Life of Ma Parker” (Katherine Mansfield)
June 6- Mansfield’s ‘The Garden party”
June 8 – “Lappin and Lapinova”(Virginia Woolf)
June 13- Woolf’s “The Legacy”
June 15- “The Clever One” (Maeve Brennan)
June 20- First words on Alice Walker
June 22- Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
June 27- The Color Purple
June 29 – The Color Purple
July 4- The Color Purple
July 6- Final test on The Color Purple
July 11- RESULTS
EXPECTATIONS
You are expected to come to class with the scheduled readings completed. There will be time for discussion and questions in class: don’t be shy. Written activities are due on the scheduled dates; late tasks will be penalized.
EVALUATION
i- | The Great Gatsby- ORAL PRESENTATION (5 pts) |
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT (5 pts)- Deadline: May 18.
ii- | The Color Purple– FINAL TEST (10 pts) |
FINAL GRADE: Sum / 2 = 10
ORAL PRESENTATION
Each student will be responsible for the presentation of relevant aspects of a chosen chapter of the novel The Great Gatsby. Students must consider a representative theme of character of the story.
GUIDELINE FOR THE WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
- The object can be a representative theme are aspect of the story
- A contrastive analysis of characters
- An analysis of a relevant element of the story (character, setting, time, point of view).
REMINDERS
- Center your analysis on the chosen text
- Don’t use words are concepts which are not familiar to you
- Use your own words, don’t copy from sources (if necessary, quote)
- List all your sources in your bibliography list (internet sites included)
- Use the theoretical concepts
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GATES, Henry Louis; APPIAH, Anthony. (eds.) Alice Walker Critical Perspectives- Past and Present. New York: Amistad, 1993.
GRAY, Antony (ed.) The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield. Great Britain: Wordsworth Editions, 2006.
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FITZGERALD, Scott F. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 2004 [1925].
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WOOLF, Virginia. A Roam of One’s Own. San Diego: A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc., 2005 [1929].