Schedule
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.
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September 3 |
Introduction |
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September 5 |
Sonnets: Nicolas Boileau, "Its Origin" (247)
Robert Burns, "Its Length" (248)
William Wordsworth, "Its Enclosure" (249), "Its History" (25) |
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September 8 |
Dante Alighieri, "Broken Thoughts" (25)
Petrarch, "Love the Tyrant" (29) |
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September 10 |
Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Hands Off!" (37)
Sir Philip Sidney, "Poetry's Source" (44) |
F |
September 12 |
Edmund Spenser, "Eternizing Her" (68)
William Shakespeare, "146" (89) |
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M |
September 15 |
John Donne, "Death Rebuked" (94)
John Milton, "On His Blindness" (102) |
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September 17 |
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, "To Her Self Portrait" (107)
William Wordsworth, "Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways" (123)
Edgar Allan Poe, "To Science" (149) |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 1 on Sonnets |
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September 19 |
William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan" (196)
Elizabeth Bishop, "Sonnet" (230)
Richard Wilbur, "O" (233) |
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M |
September 22 |
Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Part I |
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September 24 |
Dai, Part II, pp. 45-75 |
Response to Web-X 1 due |
F |
September 26 |
Dai, Part II, pp. 76-105 |
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M |
September 29 |
Dai, Part III, pp. 109-146 |
W |
October 1 |
Dai, Part III, pp. 146-end |
F |
October 3 |
PART ONE EXAM |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Dai |
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M |
October 6 |
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, pp. 1-32 |
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October 8 |
Shelley, Volume I, Chapters 1-5 |
F |
October 10 |
Shelley, Volume I, Chapters 6-8 |
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M |
October 13 |
Shelley, Volume II, Chapters 1-3 |
W |
October 15 |
Shelley, Volume II, Chapters 4-9 |
F |
October 17 |
Shelley, Volume III, Chapters 1-4 |
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M |
October 20 |
Shelley, Volume III, Chapters 5-7 |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Shelley |
W |
October 22 |
Cormac McCarthy, The Road, pp. 1-49 |
F |
October 24 |
McCarthy, pp. 49-93 |
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M |
October 27 |
McCarthy, 93-135 |
W |
October 29 |
McCarthy, 135-178 |
F |
October 31 |
McCarthy, 178-221 |
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M |
November 3 |
McCarthy, 221-end |
W |
November 5 |
McCarthy, conclusion |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on McCarthy |
F |
November 7 |
PART TWO EXAM |
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M |
November 10 |
William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I |
W |
November 12 |
Shakespeare, Act II |
F |
November 14 |
Shakespeare, Act III |
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M |
November 17 |
Shakespeare, Act IV |
W |
November 19 |
Shakespeare, Act V |
F |
November 21 |
Shakespeare, conclusion |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Morrison |
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M |
November 24 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Imaginary Iceberg" (4) |
W |
November 26 |
Bishop, "The Monument" (23), "The Fish" (42) |
F |
November 28 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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M |
December 1 |
Bishop, "At the Fishhouses" (64), "The Prodigal" (71) |
W |
December 3 |
Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" (91) "Questions of Travel" (93) |
F |
December 5 |
Bishop, "The Armadillo" (103), "Filling Station" (127) |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Bishop |
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M |
December 8 |
Bishop, "Under the Window: Ouro Prêto" (153) |
W |
December 10 |
Bishop, "In the Waiting Room" (159) |
F |
December 12 |
Bishop, "Sonnet" (192) |
Response to Web-X 2 due |
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Th |
December 18 |
FINAL EXAMINATION FROM 10 TO 11:55AM
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