Fall 2008

Syllabus

Advanced Composition (Humanities):
English 302H06 (Tues/Thurs, 7:30-8:45 am, Fine Arts Building B112)
English 302H07 (Tues/Thurs, 9:00-10:15 am, Robinson A109)

Short Talk Schedules

Bibliography and Notes Formats for All Students

• MLA Style (Modern Language Association): a list of entries with explanations (from Writers' Workshop).
• CBE Style (Council of Biology Editors): Chapter 6 of The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers.
• APA Style (American Psychological Association): the Fifth Edition of the APA Publication Manual (from Writers' Workshop).

Learning to Write an Abstract for 302BN2

• Instructions
  
• Practice I
  
• Practice II

Student Models

• On Chretien de Troyes's Erec and Enide
• Two short talks on Last Orders: The Shifting Point of View in the Novel and use of an Ensemble Cast in the Film

• Outline for Proposal for Essay #1
• Guidelines and suggestions
• "On Bernini's Apollo and Daphne"
  
• On the Red Fox Inn, Middleburg, Virginia"
  

• "Plainsong"
  
• "Melissa Etheride's Royal Station 4/16"
  

• Guidelines for writing a Literary Essay.
  
• Jennifer Klopsis, "The Class System in the Two Novels"
  
• Mariam Popal's A comparison of Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest with Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
  
• Jill De Witt's "Gothic Landscape in Trollope's An Eye for an Eye"
  

• We will use models in Timothy Corrigan's A Short Guide for Guide to Writing About Film.
  
• Marco Werlang's "Opening Scenes in A Month in the Country"
  
• Virginia Emery's "What Human Beings Treasure Most, from Last Orders, book and film
  
• Bart Hart's Social Stratification and Class Consciousness in 19th Century England: Stephen Frears's Mary Reilly

• "On Rereading The Wind in the Willows"
  
• "Go Ask Alice: A Believable Diary About Drug Use"
  
• "A Rediscovery of the Velveteen Rabbit"
  
• "E. B. White and Charlotte's Web
  
• "A Memory to Live By: Where the Red Fern Grows"
  

Online Materials

• For J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country
  • Brief life and works encyclopedia entry
  • Quince Tree Press
  • Rosemary McGerr, "It's not all that easy to find your way back to the Middle Ages: Reading the Past in A Month in the Country," Criticism, 47:3 (2005). Under GMU databases, "Literature and Language," Project Muse.
• For Patchett's Bel Canto
  • Life and works of Ann Patchett by Nancy Posey, Gale Literary Database at GMU
    
  • Articles on 1996/97 Peru hostage crisis, mostly from The New York Times
    
  • Book Reviews and Interviews about Ann Patchett's Bel Canto
    
  • David Welch interviews Patchett for Powell.com
    
  • from Gwen Ifill interviews Patchett for PBS
    
• For Graham Swift's Last Orders
  • From the Victorian Web: Graham Swift: An Overview, consisting of essays and much information on the man and his books
    
• For Bobbie Ann Mason's The Girl Sleuth and children's literature:
  • Nancy Drew.
  • A Judy Bolton archive.
  • Bibliography for Children's Literature
  • A list of good books for "In Search of Lost Time"
• For Azar Nafisi and Reading Lolita in Teheran
  • Azar Nafisi: life and works
  • An interview on Bill Moyers' NOW
• For Henry James and Daisy Miller
  • The Ladder: A Henry James website
• For Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice
  • Jane Austen Information website: Republic of Pemberly
  • Jane Austen Society of North America
  • Jane Austen on Film
• Internet Movie Database information for: A Month in the Country, Last Orders, Daisy Miller, Pride and Prejudice, You've Got Mail, Bridget Jones' Diary