Spring 2012

Syllabus

Advanced Composition on Humanities: English 302H09 & 302H26

Short Talk Schedule

Short Talks for English 302H09 and 302H26

Bibliography and Notes Formats for All Students

• MLA Documenation Format.
• CSE Documentation Format.
• APA Documentation Format

Learning to Write an Abstract for 302H09

• Instructions
  
• Practice I
  
• Practice II

Student Models

• On Chretien de Troyes's Erec and Enide
• On Religion, Sex, and Suicide in A Month in the Country
• On New Ideas, Freedoms, Possibilities in Girls Sleuths

• Outline for Proposal for Essay #1
• Model Proposal for #1
• Guidelines and suggestions
• On Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Banjo Lesson
• On "Bernini's Apollo and Daphne"
  
• On The Red Fox Inn, Middleburg, Virginia"
  

• Outline for Proposal
• Guidelines and suggestions
• The matter to be covered: Language Arts, 87:3:

  1. On what principles are books are chosen for students;
  2. Is the goal of engaging students reached;
  3. what can be done to improve the process of choice or research

• 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"
  
• Maggie Cadeaux's "Turning a News Story into a Novel": On Bel Canto
  
• Ashley Morgan's The Namesake: Father and Son
• Ashley Morgan's The Namesake: on the landscape, background and visual images in the movie; on the use of scenes in the novel
• Adam Gruendl's Alfred Shaughnessy, Simon Langton and June Wyndham-Davies's "Afterwards" (the series Shades of Darkness, adapted from Edith Wharton's ghost story
• Laura Rogers's Daisy Miller: More than a Faithful Film
• Lane Jones's Daisy Miller: Suggestive Uses of Landscape in the Film.
• 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

• Outline for Proposal for #3
  
• "When I was Puerto Rican": about assimilation
  
• "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"
  
• "On Rereading The Wind in the Willows"
  

Professional Online Materials: Advanced Composition on the Humanities

• For J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country
  • Brief life and works encyclopedia entry
  • Quince Tree Press
  • Ellen Moody's blog: J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country, and Patrick O'Connor and Simon Gray's film of the same name: people caught within forces of nature, culture, history
  • 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 Jhumpa Lahiri and The Namesake
  • Atext (pdf) of Gogol's "The Overcoat"
  • Life, works and writing of Gogol
  • Overview of "The Overcoat"
  • "The Overcoat" as a ghost story.
  • Natalie Friedman's "From Hybrids to Tourists: Children of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 50:1 (2008): 28.
  • Class lecture as a blog by Dr Moody: Jhumpa Lahiri's Namesake: the difficulty of finding, creating, holding to an identity, with comment on the film and a comment on the book, The Namesake: A portrait of the film by Mira Nair.
  • David H. Lynn's "The Virtues of Ambition", a review of The Namesake, Kenyon Review, New Series, 26:3 (Summer 2004): 160-66.
  • Mandira Sen's "Names and Nicknames," review in Women's Review of Books, 21:6 (2004):9-10.
  • Michiko Kakutani's "From Calcutta to Suburbia: A Family's Perplexing Journey," New York Times, September 2, 2003.
  • Sarah Kerr's "Displaced Passions," New York Review of Books, 55:8 (May 8, 2009)
• For Bobbie Ann Mason and The Girl Sleuth: On the trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, and Cherry Ames
  • On Bobbie Ann Mason's memoir, Clear Springs
  • Lisa Hinrichsen's "'I can't believe it was really real:' Violence, Vietnam, and Bringing War Home in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country, Southern Literary Journal, 40:2 (Spring 2008:232-248,318.
  • Life and writing of Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Bibliography for Children's Literature
  • A list of good books for "In Search of Lost Time"
  • Nancy Drew.
  • Judy Bolton.
  • The Hardy Boys
• For Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House
• For Walter van Tilburg Clark and The Ox-Bow Incident
• For Winston Graham and Ross Poldark
  Ellen Moody's "Ross Poldark: the revenant", together with a life and works of Graham (in the comments), Ellen and Jim Have a Blog Two, Ellen Moody's Website: Mostly on English and Continental and Womens' Literature, January 2011
  • Ellen Moody's An Eighteeenth Century Cornish Che Guevara: the 1975-76 mini-series, Ellen and Jim Have a Blog Two, Ellen Moody's Website: Mostly on English and Continental and Womens' Literature, January 2011
  • Ellen Moody's Teaching Ross Poldark: Pleasures and Uses of Historical Romance and fiction", Ellen and Jim have a blog, two, Ellen Moody's Website: Mostly on English and Continental and Womens' Literature, January 2011
  • Ellen Moody's Winston Graham’s Poldark’s Cornwall: 3 types of historical fiction", Ellen and Jim Have a Blog Two, Ellen Moody's Website: Mostly on English and Continental and Womens' Literature, January 2011
• For Andrea Levy and Small Island
  • Andrea Levy's "This is my England", brief on line autobiography, Encuentro con la Cultura del Caribe - Historia, Sociología, Antropología, Arqueología, Literatura, 4.11.08.
  • Ellen Moody's "Andrea Levy’s Small Island & the 2009 mini-series: painful disillusionments, inescapable identities", Ellen Moody's Website: Mostly on English and Continental and Womens' Literature, January 2011
  • Laura Albritton's "Review" of Andrea Levy's Small Island, Harvard Review, 29 (2005):235-237
  • Njeri Githrie, "Empire Bites Back: Food Politics and the Making of a Nation in Andrea Levy's Work", Callaloo, 35:3 (2010):857-73.
• Internet Movie Database information for: A Month in the Country, The Namesake, The Haunting, The Ox-Bow Incident, Poldark, Small Island