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English 4150 A: Studies in 20th-Century British Literature

Literature Review Assignment

PDF Syllabus: Section A MW 2-3:15.
November 13, 2008: Syllabus Update
MS Word Syllabus

  1. How to read difficult novels.

  2. The 3x5 Index Card: your summative and analytical response to reading assignments.

  3. How to take an essay exam.

  4. How to respond to short answer questions on an exam.

  5. Advice for Writing a Literature Review.
    More advice for compiling a literature review.

  6. Advice about Writing a Literary Argument.

  7. How-to-Edit Effectively...and improve your grade

Class Handouts.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (19-76)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (76-99)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (99-135)
(fact: I can't cover both of these chapters in one lecture. Chapters IV & V for Monday)
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (135 to the end)
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, (7-63)
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, (64-113)
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, (114-176) and Gandhi (19-91)
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, (7-100)
Gandhi (92-151) and E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, (100-322)
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (100-322)

Midterm Exam: Possible Answers

Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge (3-235)
Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge (236-314)
Janet Frame, Faces in the Water (9-146)
Janet Frame, Faces in the Water (147-254)
Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown (3-63)
Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown (64-158)
Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown (159-198)
Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown (199-462)
Doris Lessing, The Summer Before the Dark (1-69)
Doris Lessing, The Summer Before the Dark (70-247)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (7-113)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (114-189)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (190-301)
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (301-458)