Introduction to Literature, Fall 2009

English 112L

Dr. Herman Asarnow

Updated 11/10/2009

If you have questions about the books or the course, please contact me via e-mail at: asarnow@up.edu or by calling me at my office: 503-943-7244.

Please click to read this article about adequate sleep and learning. It’s brief and useful!

Syllabus & Course Guidelines & Paper Evaluation Standards & Elements of an Effective English Argument Paper

Link to interview with author John Updike about his short story "A & P":  http://www.spike.com/video/interview-with-john/1183234

Paper #1 Assignment 

Paper #2 Assignment

Reading My Comments on Your Papers 

Review sheet for Test #1

Paper #3 Assignment

REVIEW SHEET FOR TEST #3

              Willa Cather

Willa Cather's A Lost Lady: Study Questions and biographical material on Cather

A Lost Lady, plot outline, Part I

A Lost Lady, plot outline, Part II

 

 

On the first day of class, I’m going to make reference to the following images.  Can you think of any ways that these images might relate to a discussion about what literature is?

Click here to see 18th-century Chinese tobacco leaf dinner plates and porcelain from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Click here to see the "Rose Point" sterling silver service pattern.