ENGL 730: Contemporary British Literature

Fall, 2009; MWF 10:30 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.

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Professor Karin Westman

108B English/Counseling Services

Office: 532-2171; Office Hours: M, W 9-10 a.m. and by app't.

Email: westmank@ksu.edu

Required Texts

Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day(1988)

Osborne, Look Back in Anger (1956)

Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning(1958; UK Edition)

Lodge, Changing Places (1975)

Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary (1997)

Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) (Norton Critical Edition)

Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)

Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989)

Churchill, Cloud 9 (1978)

Smith, White Teeth (2000)

Rosoff, How I Live Now (2004)

Stoppard, Arcadia (1993)

Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1980)

Selected poetry, fiction, and critical 1xbet online casino [CP]

Selected films, t.v. shows, and music

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This course 1xbet online casino be an introductory, but intensive, survey of representative contemporary British writers from about 1950 to the present. We 1xbet online casino focus on writers' responses to earlier traditions of realism and modernism, exploring the techniques of narrative fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry offered by their work; we 1xbet online casino also trace the themes that these authors raise as they both respond and contribute to the increasingly postmodern and postcolonial experience of British culture. Cultural, historical, and theoretical context 1xbet online casino be integrated into discussion by means of lecture and secondary readings and resources, allowing us to situate our close readings of the texts within the historical moment of their production and reception.

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• To become familiar with a particular period of British literary and cultural history
• To develop and apply critical skills for reading, thinking, and writing about several literary genres
• To use relevant cultural and historical information when interpreting literary texts
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1xbet online casino Participation and Attendance: Class participation is, of course, required. To participate, you must complete the reading assigned for each class session, think carefully about what you have read, and come to class ready to share 1xbet online casino ideas. 1xbet online casino attendance is therefore important. You will not be penalized for 1xbet online casino first three absences; thereafter, 1xbet online casino final course grade will drop one grade (i.e., B+ to B) for each day missed. Excessive absences (six or more) may result in failure of the course. While I appreciate 1xbet online casino offering explanations for absences, the only way to excuse an absence is to provide me with an official letter from 1xbet online casino dean or an official notice of illness from the Health Center or 1xbet online casino doctor.

1xbet online casino and Response 1xbet online casino : All students will write one shorter paper (5 pages in length); undergraduates will also write a longer paper (7-8 pages in length), while graduate students will also write a longer paper with secondary sources (10 pages in length), an essay review of four articles or a book-length study about one of our authors, and a one-page abstract for the longer paper. All papers will be on topics of 1xbet online casino choosing in connection with our assigned readings. Papers should follow the general rules of composition and be typed or word-processed with standard double-spacing, 1-inch margins, and either 11- or 12-point typeface. Title pages and cover sheets are unnecessary. Pages should be numbered, stapled together, proof-read, and spell-checked. Papers are due by the date and time on the syllabus; late papers will be penalized one grade (i.e.: A to B) for each day late. (Note: The University’s Honor Code obliges you to cite the source of any idea that is not 1xbet online casino own. Otherwise, you have plagiarized. If you do plagiarize, you will fail this course.)

You will also write five weekly response papers (2 pp in length) in response to our readings. Response papers are designed to ready you for class discussion and to explore ideas you could develop further in 1xbet online casino longer papers. They are due the day we discuss the material. In 1xbet online casino response paper, you should not repeat previous class discussions or provide a mere summary of the reading. Instead, 1xbet online casino response should begin to analyze the reading assigned for that class session, selecting a issue or theme or question you feel to be significant. (Please refer to the sample response paper distributed the first day of class.) You can choose when to complete 1xbet online casino five responses, with the following guidelines in mind: 1) you can only write a response for a day when we have reading due, 2) one (and only one) response must be for a critical essay or critical reading, 3) two responses must respond to novels, and 4) three responses should be completed before October 16th, with the first being due for everyone on Friday, August 28th. Responses will be graded on a 1-5 scale: 5=A, 4=B, 3=C, 2=D, 1=F. I do not accept late response papers.

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Computing: Technology increasingly plays an important role in our academic and professional careers. Consequently, you will be asked to use some different kinds of technology, including an online message board discussion and electronic resources. Our work with technology is designed not only as another forum for exploring our reading, but also as a way for you to sharpen 1xbet online casino communication skills, media skills, and web skills for our digital age.

Online Message Board: To offer an additional venue for discussion, we'll start using an online message board. Each student should post at least one a week to the message board, responding to an existing thread of the conversation or initiating another; weekly postings will count for 10% of 1xbet online casino class participation grade. The weekly bulletin board will run from Friday to Thursday, to encourage you to post right after as well as right before our weekly class discussions.

I'll monitor these conversations, and may also participate, but I see the message board primarily as a way for you to raise issues we haven't addressed -- or addressed fully or to 1xbet online casino satisfaction -- during our regular class meetings. Though extra postings to the message board will not automatically replace participation in our class discussions, successful contributions above and beyond 1xbet online casino weekly posting can certainly improve 1xbet online casino class participation grade.

An average posting should run about one or two paragraphs in length. In other words, 1xbet online casino postings do not need to be long; however, they need to be substantive: they must be long enough to convey clearly the problem you are taking up and 1xbet online casino point of view, connecting 1xbet online casino comment to others' comments whenever possible. I will offer models of successful comments early in the semester.

To post to the bulletin board, follow these directions:

1. Go to my homepage at http://www.ksu.edu/english/westmank/ and click on our course (ENGL 635), and then “Message Board” to login to K-State Online and go directly to the “Message Board.” (1xbet online casino may also login to the K-State Online course page for ENGL 635, click on “Collaboration” and then select “Message Board.”)
   
2. 1xbet online casino should see all the messages posted to date and the newest threads ones first.
   
3. To post, choose to “reply,” so you can engage directly in the conversation and 1xbet online casino message can “thread” beneath the one you’re responding to. I also encourage you to change the subject line so it reflects the content of 1xbet online casino message.
   

Email: I highly recommend email as a way of touching base with me about 1xbet online casino work for the class -- a kind of virtual office hours. You can send me queries about reading or writing assignments, 1xbet online casino thesis statement for an essay, or anything else that could be handled with a quick exchange of messages. I check my email throughout the day, but please remember that I am not perpetually online.

Online, Video, and Audio Resources: Along with some required viewing (two episodes of the t.v. show "The Prisoner," Jordan's The Crying Game), I will refer 1xbet online casino to resources available online or on video to complement our readings and discussions. A "Web Resources" link from our course homepage will take 1xbet online casino to a page of links devoted to contemporary British culture and literature. From there, 1xbet online casino can, for instance, peruse current and back issues of the Guardian's Book pages (an excellent way to keep up with the most recent literary news), learn about postcolonial literature or the partition of India, or find biographies and web resources on our authors. I will add and update these resources as the semester progresses; if you locate a site or page which you find valuable, please let me know, and I'll consider adding it to the existing resource links. On television, the daily broadcast of the &1xbet online casino ;BBC World News&1xbet online casino ; (M-Sat, 10p.m.) on PBS, and &1xbet online casino ;Prime Minister's Questions&1xbet online casino ; (Sun, 8 p.m. & 11p.m.) on C-SPAN can provide some further insight into contemporary British culture.

Conferences: I want you to succeed in this course, and I am happy to meet with you about 1xbet online casino work and 1xbet online casino progress. I encourage you to see me before papers are due, or if you have questions about material we discuss in class. Please feel free to stop by during office hours (M, W 9:00-10:00 a.m.), or contact me by phone or email to arrange a more convenient time to meet.

Note: If 1xbet online casino have any condition such as a physical or learning disability that will make it difficult for 1xbet online casino to carry out the work as I have outlined it or which will require academic accommodations, please notify me in the first two days of the course.

Grading: Undergraduate Students: The two papers will count for 40% of 1xbet online casino final grade (15% and 25% respectively); the response papers will count for 20% of 1xbet online casino final grade. Class participation (20%) and a final exam (20%) complete the requirements.

Graduate Students: The shorter paper will count for 10%, the essay review will count for 10%, and the longer paper and its abstract will count for 25% of 1xbet online casino final grade. The response papers will count for 20% of 1xbet online casino final grade. Class participation (20%) and a final exam (15%) complete the requirements.

Schedule of Classes

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