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 9 |
Introduction |
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September 11 |
Langston Hughes, "Afro-American Fragment," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Sun Song," "Aunt Sue's Stories," "Danse Africaine," "Negro" |
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September 14 |
Hughes, "American Heartbreak," "October 16," "As I Grew Older," "My People," "Dream Variations" |
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September 16 |
Hughes, "Sunday Morning Prophecy," "The Weary Blues," "Sylvester's Dying Bed," "Early Evening Quarrel" |
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September 18 |
Hughes, "Life Is Fine," "Still Here," "Mama and Daughter," "Ballad of the Girl Whose Name Is Mud," "Mulatto" |
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September 21 |
Hughes, "Ku Klux," "Uncle Tom," "Porter," "Silhouette," "One-Way Ticket," "Note on Commercial Theater" |
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September 23 |
Hughes, "Madam's Past History," "Madam and Her Madam," "Madam and the Number Writer," "Deferred," "Harlem" |
Online Forum Deadline for Forum 1 on Hughes |
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September 25 |
Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night, Act One |
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September 28 |
O'Neill, Act Two |
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September 30 |
O'Neill, Act Three |
Response to Forum 1 due |
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October 2 |
O'Neill, Act Four |
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October 5 |
O'Neill, conclusion |
Online Forum Deadline for Forum 2 on O'Neill |
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October 7 |
PART ONE EXAM |
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October 9 |
Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters I-VII |
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M |
October 12 |
Chopin, Chapters VIII-XII |
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October 14 |
Chopin, Chapters XIII-XVI |
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October 16 |
Chopin, Chapters XVII-XXI |
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October 19 |
Chopin, Chapters XXII-XXVI |
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October 21 |
Chopin, Chapters XXVII-XXXIII |
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October 23 |
Chopin, Chapters XXXIII-XXXIX |
Online Forum Deadline for Forum 2 on Chopin |
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M |
October 26 |
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Chapters I-VII |
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October 28 |
Hemingway, Chapters VIII-XII |
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October 30 |
Hemingway, Chapters XIII-XIX |
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M |
November 2 |
Hemingway, Chapters XX-XXIV |
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November 4 |
Hemingway, Chapters XXV-XXVIII |
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November 6 |
Hemingway, Chapters XXIX-XXXIII |
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November 9 |
Hemingway, Chapters XXXIV-XXXVII |
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November 11 |
Hemingway, Chapters XXXVIII-XLI |
Online Forum Deadline for Forum 2 on Hemingway |
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November 13 |
PART TWO EXAM |
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November 16 |
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, pp. 1-37 |
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November 18 |
Silko, pp. 38-78 |
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November 20 |
Silko, pp. 78-120 |
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M |
November 23 |
Silko, pp. 121-163 |
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November 25 |
Silko, pp. 164-200 |
F |
November 27 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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November 30 |
Silko, pp. 200-end |
Online Forum Deadline for Forum 2 on Silko |
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December 2 |
Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke," "Skunk Hour," "The Nihilist as Hero" |
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December 4 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "Brazil, 1 January 1502," "The Armadillo," "In the Waiting Room" |
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December 7 |
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" |
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December 9 |
May Swenson, "Unconscious Came a Beauty"
John Hollander, "Swan and Shadow" |
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December 11 |
Richard Wilbur, "Looking into History," "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" |
Online Forum Deadline for Forum 2 on any poem from the McClatchy collection |
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December 14 |
Philip Levine, "The Horse," "They Feed They Lion" |
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December 15 |
Audre Lorde, "Afterimages" |
Response to Forum 2 due |
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December 17 |
FINAL EXAMINATION FROM 8 TO 9:55AM |
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