EL3221: Literary Stylistics 2006-07 Semester 1 Schedule of Lecture Sessions

Week	Date	Topic Students are to read the relevant lecture notes indicated by the links prior to each lecture. All the lectures are interactive, and you will find it easier to fruitfully contribute to the sessions if you are better prepared.
1	15/8	Introduction to the course: Stylistics / literary criticism / linguistics / semiotics (lecture notes no. 1) Introduction to the project topic: the linguistic sounds of songs Introduction to the long assignment topic: stylistic analysis of a Joyce short story.
2	22/8	The stylistic analysis of nouns and verbs, (lecture notes nos. 2)
3	29/8	The stylistic analysis of adverbs, adjectives and the clause and its parts (lecture notes nos. 3 & 6)
4	5/9	The sounds of poetry & linguistic patterns in songs 1 (lecture notes nos. 4 & 5)
5	12/9	The sounds of poetry & linguistic patterns in songs 2 (lecture notes nos. 4 & 5); Discussion of project work.
6	19/9	Point of view (lecture notes no. 11); Speech and thought presentation 1 (lecture notes nos. 19 & 20)
—	26/9	Mid-semester break
7	3/10	Speech and thought presentation 2 (lecture notes nos. 19 & 20)
8	10/10	Metaphor (lecture notes no. 21); Pragmatics and literary style 1 (lecture notes nos. 22 & 23)
9	17/10	Pragmatics and literary style 2 (lecture notes nos. 22, 23 & 24)
10	24/10	Hari Raya Puasa
11	31/10	Project presentations 1
12	7/11	Project presentations 2; Stylistic analysis of postcolonial literatures 1 (main text: Language of Postcolonial Literatures: book's website)
13	14/11	Project summarizers' presentation; Stylistic analysis of postcolonial literatures 2 (main text: Language of Postcolonial Literatures) & Review of course