Ryerson University

Dept. of English
ENG 108 – The Nature of Narrative, I
Fall 2007

Dr. Jonathan Rollins

Email: jrollins@arts.ryerson.ca
Office: JOR 525A
Office hours: Tuesday, Wednesday 10:30-11:30am, or by appointment

Attached below is a REVISED reading and assignment schedule.

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9: WEEKLY BREAKDOWN updated October 1, 2007
Any further changes to the reading schedule will be announced in class and posted on Blackboard
(my.ryerson.ca)

LECTURE SCHEDULE SEMINAR SCHEDULE

W Dates Lecture Assigned Seminar Assigned Seminar SEMINAR &
eek Topic Reading Topic Reading COURSE
ASSIGNMENT
5 Oct 1- Novel Shelley, Workshop: Principles of editing; Edit your paper to
5 Frankenstein Editing avoiding common hand in TWO weeks
mistakes from NOW
Handout/overheads
in class
6 Oct 8- Poetry Selected Love lyrics (Notice: new due date for your edited essay assignment!
12 Lyric 1. Sir Thomas You have one extra week to rewrite!!)
“Descriptions of the Monday CANCELLED for THANKSGIVING
Contrarious Seminars:
Passions in a Tue, Wed, Handouts/ overheads Assigned exercises on
Lover” (1557) Thurs in class blackboard
2. Christopher Seminars:
Marlowe, “The Editing,
Passionate continued
Shepherd” (1599),
3. Sir Walter
Raleigh “The
Nymph’s Reply”
(1600)
4. C. Day Lewis
“Song” (1938)
(course pack)

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7 Oct Poetry Selected Love lyrics Workshop: Handouts/overheads Assigned exercises on
15-19 Lyric 5. Shakespeare Researching in class Blackboard
Sonnets 18, 130 2ndary -Begin researching
(1609) sources, MLA your essay II
7 Oct 6. Aphra Behn, “A format
contd 15-19 Thousand Martyrs I EVERYONE: SUBMIT TYPED, EDITED ESSAY I (10%)
Have Made” (1688) TO BLACKBOARD THURSDAY OCTOBER 18, 2007, by
7. Anne Finch, “The 9pm. Submit a photocopy of your graded in-class
Unequal Fetters” essay plus comments to your TA at the seminar this
(1713) week.
(Course pack) More details on Blackboard under Course
Documents
8 Oct Poetry Anne Carson, Introducing Assigned exercises on
22-26 Narrative Autobiography of Evidence, Blackboard
Red (1998) logic and -Continue to develop
(bookstore) transitions your essay II
9 Oct Poetry Carson, Intertextuality 1. “Intertextuality” Assigned exercises on
29- Narrative Autobiography of (course package) Blackboard
Nov 2 Red -Continue to develop
essay II
10 Nov 5- Drama Shakespeare, Verbal/Visual Illustrated Proofread your essay
9 Hamlet (1603) Graphic novels Shakespeare II
(bookstore) examples in class
11 Nov Hamlet Adaptation 1. “Adaptation” Assigned exercises on
12-16 (course package) Blackboard

EVERYONE: SUBMIT ESSAY II to BLACKBOARD by

9pm Thursday, NOVEMBER 15 (30%). More details
on Blackboard under Course Documents.

12 Nov Film Tom Stoppard, Appropriation 1. “Appropriation” Assigned exercises on

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 19-23 Rosencrantz and (course package) Blackboard
Guildenstern are Rosencrantz &
Dead (1996) Guildenstern and
DVD: library or rent other examples
or own
Nov Hamlet and R&G Workshop: Handouts/ overheads Assigned exercises
13 26-30 Sight poem in class on Blackboard

14 Dec 3 Monday Handouts/overheads

(Mon. Seminars in class
group only: tba
only)

EXAM period FINAL EXAM AS SCHEDULED 30%