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EL5221: The Linguistic Analysis of Literature 2006-07 Semester 1 Schedule of Seminars & Programme Details |
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Seminars to be held every week on | ||
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Day |
Time |
Venue |
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Tuesday |
6—9 pm |
ELL Semiotics Lab |
Note 1: This is a consolidated programme.
Note 2: For the details on the further readings for most of the topics
indicated below,
you can refer to the
alphabetically arranged
Detailed List of Further Readings.
| Week | Date | Topic (students are to read the lecture notes indicated by the links prior to the lectures; note that the discussion after each of the lectures will be based on the previous week's lecture -- hence the handouts are indicated in the previous week's slot). |
| 1 | 15/8 | Introduction: The linguistic analysis of
literature and stylistics; & what can you do with parts of speech?: lecture notes
nos. 1, 2
and 3. Further readings: ● 'Language and literature in tertiary education: The case for stylistics' by Steve Buckledee ● 'Towards a pedagogical stylistics' by Urszula Clark and Sonia Zyngier; ● 'Institutionalized utterances, literature, and language teaching' by Ian MacKenzie; ● 'Vagrant sympathies: From stylistic analysis to a pedagogy of style' by John Tinker ● '7 secrets of good prose: ways to pare and polish your work as you revise' by Constance Hale The Writer, 115 (June 2002): 48-50 (available through Infotrac). ● More readings are given in the discussion handout (below). Introduction of term paper topic: The advantages of systemic grammar in the linguistic analysis of literature Introduction of project topic: Is the linguistic analysis of literature of relevance in the teaching of literature or language? (readings: the readings for this lecture by Buckledee, Clark and Zyngier and by MacKenzie mentioned above) |
| 2 | 22/8 | The analysis of the clause and its
parts: lecture notes nos. 2,
3
& 6. Further reading: ● 'Adjectives and the work of modernism in an age of celebrity' by Aaron Jaffe [only pp. 1-9, although you may find the rest of the article interesting as well] ● 'Adverbial function in English verse: The case of thus' by Gareth Twose and C. B. McCully. |
| 3 | 29/8 | The linguistic analysis of poetry: lecture notes nos.
4 &
5. Further reading: ● 'The use of meter' by W. D. Snodgrass The Southern Review, 35.4 (Autumn 1999): 806 (also available through Infotrac). ● 'Little boxes: The effects of the stanza on poetic narrative' by Catherine Addison Style 37.2 (Summer 2003): 124-43 (also available through Infotrac) ● 'Towards a theory of poetic change' by C. B. McCully. ● 'Formal variation in the rhymes of Robert Pinsky’s The Inferno of Dante' by Kristin Hanson. ● 'On some serious next millennium rap ishhh' by H. Samy Alim |
| 4 | 5/9 | Mood and modality in literary works: lecture
notes nos. 6, 7, 8
& 8a. Further reading: ● 'Chronology, time, tense and experientiality in narrative' by Monika Fludernik. |
| 5 | 12/9 | Transitivity in literary works: lecture notes
nos. 9 & 10. Further reading: ● 'Transitivity and mental transformation...' by Yinglin Ji and Dan Shen. ● 'From “Under the Rose” to V.:...' by M. A. Martínez Poetics Today 23.4, (2002): 633-656 [read from p. 241 onwards]. |
| 6 | 19/9 |
Style, point of view and rhythm: lecture notes no.
11. Further reading: ● 'Point of view in drama...' by Dennis Mcintyre. Sentence structure and clause complexing: lecture notes nos. 12 & 13. Further readings: ● 'Consequences of a conjunction' by James Longenbach. ● 'Syntax: rhythm of thought, rhythm of song'. by Ellen Bryant Voigt [uses a different linguistic model, but some interesting observations here]. |
| — | 26/9 | Mid-semester break |
| 7 | 3/10 | Clause complexing: lecture notes nos.
12 & 13).
Theme-rheme: lecture notes nos. 15 & 16. Further readings: ● Task 12: Theme and Rheme ● Discourse Analysis and Grammar by Fernando Trujillo ● Textual Organization of Academic Writing by Duane Leonard & Tiina Hukari |
| 8 | 10/10 | Cohesiveness and coherence in literary works: lecture notes
nos. 17, 18a, 18c &
18d; further notes will be posted on the Web. Further readings: ● 'Coherence and changes in the unknown world' by Frances Ferguson. ● 'The ubiquitous artifact: on coherence' by Barry Allen. ● Cohesion and Stylistics: A Case Study by Arieh Sherris (M.A. dissertation, Linguistics: TESOL) ● 'The absence of connectives and the maintenance of coherence in publicity texts' by Verónica Vivanco Journal of Pragmatics 37 (2005): 1233–1249. |
| 9 | 17/10 |
Speech and thought presentation: lecture notes nos. 19 &
20. |
| 10 | 24/10 |
Hari Raya Puasa |
| 11 | 31/10 | Metaphor: lecture notes no.
21. Further reading: ● 'Anger and heat: A study of figurative language' by Jean Witherow. ● 'Grammatical metaphors in English' by Miriam Taverniers Moderna Språk 98.1 (2004): 17-26. New Class test Submission of term paper. |
| 12 | 7/11 | Stylistic analysis of postcolonial literatures
1 Main text: ● Language of Postcolonial Literatures (website) Further readings: ● 'Jim’s language and the issue of race in Huckleberry Finn' by Lisa Cohen Minnick ● 'Intentionality and the markedness model in literary codeswitching' by Steven Gross Journal of Pragmatics 32 (2000): 1283-1303. ● 'Pidgin and code-switching:...' by Juan Li Project presentations 1 |
| 13 | 14/11 | Stylistic analysis of
postcolonial literatures 2 Main text: ● Language of Postcolonial Literatures Project presentations 2; submission of project reports |
| Exam | 5/12 | Time: 1 pm. |
Last revised: 13 October 2006