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 & 302H26

• 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"
  

• Essay #2 and Outline for Proposal explained.

• 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.
  
• Serial Storytelling; or, The Art of the Season-long mini-series, from Poldark to Downton Abbey: a blog-essay by Dr Moody.
• 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"
  
• Bibliography for Children's Literature
• A list of good books for "In Search of Lost Time"

  Q.E.P essays gone over and discussed (Bobbie Ann Mason, Bob Dixon, and Language Arts essays below)

Professional Online Materials: Advanced Composition on the Humanities

• For J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country
  • Brief life and works encyclopedia entry
  • 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.
  • Quince Tree Press
• For Jhumpa Lahiri and The Namesake
  • Natalie Friedman's "From Hybrids to Tourists: Children of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 50:1 (2008): 111-27.
  • 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.
  • Deepika Bahri's "Touched by Mira Nair's Vivid, Sonorous Account of Immigrant Life in an Adopted Home City," Film Quarterly, 61:1 (Fall 2007):10-15.
  • Sarah Kerr's "Displaced Passions," New York Review of Books, 55:8 (May 8, 2009)
  • Atext (pdf) of Gogol's "The Overcoat"
  • Life, works and writing of Gogol
  • Overview of "The Overcoat"
  • "The Overcoat" as a ghost story.
• From QEP Enhancement research projects
  • For Bobbie Ann Mason and The Girl Sleuth: On the trail of Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, and Cherry Ames
    • Dr Moody's blog on Bobbie Ann Mason's The Girl Sleuth, with a potted history of children's literature, from Reveries under the Sign of Austen.
    • Dr Moody's blog on Deborah O'Keefe's Good Girl Messages, from Ellen and Jim have a blog, too.
    • 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
    • Nancy Drew.
    • Judy Bolton.
    • The Hardy Boys
  • From Bob Dixon's Catching Them Young 1 & 2: Sex, Race, and Class; Political Ideas in Children's Fiction
    • Class: "Snakes and Ladders":43-75
    • Empire: Fiction Follows the Flag":73-98, 114
    • The Supernatural: Religion, Magic, and Mystification":120-29, 145-63.
    • Dr Moody's blog on Bob Dixon's Catching Them Young: "What picture of the world is presented to children through literature?"
  • From National Council of Teachers Database
    • Language Arts, 87:3 (2010)
    • Valerie Bang-Jensen, "A Children’s Choice Program: Insights into Book Selection, Social Relationships, and Reader Identity": 169-76.
    • Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, More than Book Talks: Preservice Teacher Dialogue after Reading Gay and Lesbian Children’s Literature": 188-98.
    • Denise Davila and Lisa Patrick, "Asking the Experts: What children have to say about their reading practices":199-210.
    • Denise Davila and Lisa Patrick, "What Did You Think of the Book: Kids Speak Up":225-31
    • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, "Profiles and Perspectives: The Road to Shadowland":215-19.

• For Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House
  • Dr Moody's website: Gothics and ghosts, vampires, witches, and l'écriture-femme, see for definitions and explanations, Vampires and ghost stories defined and distinguished
  • Dr Moody's review and summary of Richard Davenport-Hines's The Gothic: 400 Years of Excess, Evil, Horror and Ruin
  • Dr Moody's blog: Shirley Jackson's novel, The Haunting of Hill House, and Robert Wise's 1963 film, The Haunting: quintessential gothic and film noir.
  • Martha Ragland's "Shirley Jackson," American Novelists Since World War II: Second Series. Ed. James E. Kibler. Detroit: Gale Research, 1980. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 6. Literature Resource Center. Web. 14 Jan. 201.
  • Roberta Rubenstein's "House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature,15.2 (Fall 1996):309-331.
  • George E. Haggerty's "'Queer Company': The Turn of the Screw and The Haunting of Hill House, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 202. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 131-50.
  • Stephen Jay Schneider's "Thrice-told tales: the Haunting, from novel to film ... to film," Journal of Popular Film and Television, 30.3 (Fall 2002):166ff. From Literature Resource Center.
• For Walter van Tilburg Clark and The Ox-Bow Incident
  • L. L. Lee, "Walter Van Tilburg Clark,", American Novelists, 1910-1945. Ed. James J. Martine. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale Research, 1981. From Literature Resource Center.
  • L. L. Lee, "Walter Van Tilburg Clark's Ambiguous American Dream", College English, 26:5 (1965):382-387
  • Kenneth Hada's "The Ox-Bow Incident," The Explicator, 59.3 (Spring 2001): p147. From Literature Resource Center
  • Dr Moody's blog on Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident (author and work), William Wellman's film adaptation
  • Janet Dead, "Searching for new Western Literary Criticism", Modern Fiction Studies, 46.4 (2000) 949-958
• 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.