Week 01

Week 01. Orientation: Genre, history, critical approaches 

Introduction of Textbook.

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Eleventh Edition, is a diverse, flexible, and balanced text that offers the most carefully edited apparatus and the most interesting and useful treatment of the contexts of literature. A best seller since its first edition, The Norton Introduction to Literature continues to meet the needs of today s students and instructors, offering trusted guidance for analyzing texts, writing thoughtfully, and appreciating literature."

The Five Parts Of Plot.(textbook page 85)

Even compact and simple plots, like that of "The Shroud", have the same five parts or phrase as lengthy and complex plots: (1.) exposition, (2.) rising action, (3.) climax or turning point, (4.) falling action, and (5.) conclusion or resolution. The following diagram, named Freytag's pyramid after the nineteenth- century German scholar Gustav Freytag, maps out a typical plot structure:

                               Freytag's Pyramid