English 3564
Syllabus
Schedule
Assignments
Extras
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Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the needs of the class. I will announce any changes to this schedule should the need present itself. With the exception of Miss Lonelyhearts, all of the readings come from the Norton Anthology of American Literature.
September 4 | Introduction |
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Part I: Realism and Naturalism |
September 9 | Emily Dickinson, Poems 49, 214, 216, 249, 258, 712, 1545 |
September 11 | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter XII |
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September 16 | Twain, Chapters XIII-XIX |
September 18 | Twain, Chapters XX-XXX |
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September 23 | Twain, Chapter XXXI to the end |
September 25 | Bret Harte, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT ONE FOR PEER-EDITING. |
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September 30 | Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle" |
October 2 | Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters I-X
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT ONE. |
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October 7 | Chopin, Chapters XI-end |
October 9 | Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery |
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October 14 | W. E. B Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk |
October 16 | Stephen Crane, "The Blue Hotel" |
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Part II: Modernism High and Low |
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October 21 | Edgar Lee Masters, "Trainor the Druggist," "Margaret Fuller Slack;"
Edward Arlington Robinson, "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevy" |
October 23 | MIDTERM EXAM |
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October 28 | Robert Frost, "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "The Wood Pile," "Out, Out-"
Sherwood Anderson, "'Queer'" |
October 30 | Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "The Idea of Order at Key West"
Ezra Pound, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" |
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November 4 | H. D. "Mid-day," "Fragment 113"
Marianne Moore, "Poetry," "To a Snail"
William Faulkner, "Barn Burning" |
November 6 | Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts, pp. 1-30 |
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November 11 | West, 30-end |
November 13 | Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Mother to Son," "The Weary Blues," "Mulatto," "Silhouette," "Democracy" |
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Part III: After World War II |
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November 18 | Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Scenes 1-4 |
November 20 | Williams, Scenes 5-11 |
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November 25 | Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
BRING A DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT TWO TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
November 27 | Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" |
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December 2 | David Mamet, "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
December 4 | Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room"
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage"
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour"
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS. |
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December 9 | Allen Ginsburg, "Howl"
Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus," "Daddy" |
December 11 | Robert Pinsky, "Shirt"
Review for final exam |
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December 16 | Final Exam from 4 to 5:55pm |
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