E23F TUTORIAL QUESTIONS
The questions for each week's tutorial are designed to help you assimilate the material covered in the lectures of the preceding week. As a result, for example, we will deal in week 2 with the questions based on the lectures delivered in week 1, etc.
Some pointers to bear in mind when preparing your answers:
Your ability to participate generally in tutorial discussions hinges on your familiarity with the material--it is, hence, in your interest to be as up to date as possible with the readings;
Ideally, you should attempt to answer all the questions listed as they are designed to help you to assimilate the material covered;
You should prepare carefully, perhaps by writing it out, the question(s) assigned to you with a view to presenting a brief but coherent response in class;
Your answer should be concise: it should take no more than a minute or two at most;
Your answer should demonstrate that you have engaged not only with my handouts (which you should not merely regurgitate) but, more importantly, with the primary / required readings listed--quotations cited from these sources would form a very useful part of your answer;
In your answer, you should attempt to make use as much as possible of the new terminology to which you have been exposed--it is in this way that you will gradually come to understand and get accustomed to using some of the new concepts to which you have been exposed;
Occasionally, we may run out of time in a given tutorial and not get to all the questions--in such a case, it is in your interest to complete the rest on your own;
Your final mark for tutorial participation / presentations will be based on the average derived from the marks accumulated for each presentation; and
Regular attendance at the tutorial is mandatory--you should note that if you miss without a good excuse a presentation which has been assigned to you, you will receive 0 marks for the presentation; it is in your interest, accordingly, to inform us of any circumstances which might prevent your presentation .
Accordingly, please prepare the following questions ahead of each week's tutorial.
Module One: Representation (the 'Mimetic' View of Literature)
Module Two: the Reader (the 'Pragmatic' View of Literature)
Module Three: the Author (the 'Expressive' View of Literature)
Module Four: Literary Form (the 'Objective' View of Literature)