The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
September 7 | Introduction |
September 9 | T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" (Dore, 260-262) Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" (Dore, 27) Marianne Moore, "The Fish" (Dore, 55-56) Robert Frost, "A Considerable Speck" (Dore, 47) |
September 14 | Langston Hughes, "Afro-American Fragment" (Dore, 165) and "Harlem" (Dore 206) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God |
September 16 | Hurston, continued. |
September 21 | Hurston, continued |
September 23 | Hurston, continued |
September 28 | Hurston, continued |
September 30 | William Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" (Dore, 115), "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" (Dore, 119) and Macbeth |
October 5 | Macbeth, continued |
October 7 | Macbeth, continued |
October 12 | Macbeth, continued |
October 14 | Macbeth, continued |
October 19 | Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed" (Dore, 215-216) Wilfred Owen, "Arms and the Boy" (Dore, 216) Dylan Thomas, "The Hand That Signed the Paper Felled a City" (Dore 221) Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time |
October 21 | Hemingway, continued |
October 26 | Hemingway, continued |
October 28 | Hemingway, continued |
November 2 | Mid-term Examination |
November 4 | Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" (Dore 109) Ogden Nash, "Love under the Republicans (Or Democrats)" (Dore 109-110) John Donne, "Song" (Dore, 122-123) Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
November 9 | Albee, continued |
November 11 | Albee, continued |
November 16 | Albee, continued |
November 18 | Albee, continued |
November 23 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" (Dore, 100-101) Rudyard Kipling, "Mandalay" (Dore, 93-94) |
November 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
November 30 | "Fare Thee Well" (Dore 216-217) Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine |
December 2 | Erdrich, continued --Bring draft of paper for peer-review-- |
December 7 | Erdrich, continued --Paper Assignment Due-- |
December 9 | Erdrich, continued |
December 14 | Erdrich, continued |
December 16 | Erdrich, continued William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" |
--Final Exam during Finals Week-- |