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 |
Epiphany, Czeslaw Milosz's A Book of Luminous Things:
D. H. Lawrence, "Maximus"
Kikaku's Haiku
Issa's Haiku
Jean Follain, "Music of Spheres"
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "In the Middle of the Road"
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M |
September 14 |
Follain, "Taxidermist"
Wislawa Szymborska, "In Praise of Self-Deprecation" |
W |
September 16 |
Robert Morgan, "Bellrope"
Wallace Stevens, "A Study of Two Pears"
William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow" |
F |
September 18 |
Antonio Machado, "Rainbow at Night"
William Stafford, "Vacation"
Bronislaw Maj, "Seen Fleetingly from a Train" |
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M |
September 21 |
Po Chü-I, "After Collecting the Autumn Taxes"
Joseph Brodsky, "Odysseus to Telemachus" |
W |
September 23 |
Tomas Transtršmer, "Outskirts"
Walt Whitman, "Cavalry Crossing a Ford"
Ted Kooser, "Late Lights in Minnesota" |
Web-X 1 on a poem from the Milosz Collection due |
F |
September 25 |
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross, Act One, Scene One |
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M |
September 28 |
Mamet, Act One, Scenes Two and Three |
W |
September 30 |
Mamet, Act Two |
Response to Web-X 1 due |
F |
October 2 |
Mamet, Act Two, continued |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Mamet |
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M |
October 5 |
PART ONE EXAM |
W |
October 7 |
Jane Austen, Persuasion, Volume I, Chapters I-V |
F |
October 9 |
Austen, Volume I, Chapters VI-IX |
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M |
October 12 |
Austen, Volume I, Chapters IX-XII |
W |
October 14 |
Austen, Volume II, Chapters I-III |
F |
October 16 |
Austen, Volume II, Chapters IV-IX |
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M |
October 19 |
Austen, Volume II, Chapters X-XII |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Austen |
W |
October 21 |
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, "The Book of the Grotesque," "Hands," "Paper Pills" |
F |
October 23 |
Anderson, "Mother," "The Philosopher," "Nobody Knows" |
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M |
October 26 |
Anderson, "Godliness, A Tale in Four Parts" |
W |
October 28 |
Anderson, "A Man of Ideas," "Adventure," "Respectability," "The Thinker" |
F |
October 30 |
Anderson, "Tandy," "The Strength of God," "The Teacher," "Loneliness" |
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M |
November 2 |
Anderson, "An Awakening," "'Queer,'" "The Untold Lie," "Drink" |
W |
November 4 |
Anderson, "Death," "Sophistication," "Departure" |
F |
November 6 |
Anderson, concluding thoughts |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Hemingway |
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M |
November 9 |
PART TWO EXAM |
W |
November 11 |
Alice Walker, The Color Purple, pp. 30-38 |
F |
November 13 |
Walker, pp. 39-79 |
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M |
November 16 |
Walker, pp. 80-123 |
W |
November 18 |
Walker, pp. 124-167 |
F |
November 20 |
Walker, pp. 168-207 |
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M |
November 23 |
Walker, pp. 208-251 |
W |
November 25 |
Walker, pp. 252-end |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on Silko |
F |
November 27 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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M |
November 30 |
Tom McCarthy, Remainder, Chapters 1-2 |
W |
December 2 |
McCarthy, Chapters 3-4 |
F |
December 4 |
McCarthy, Chapters 5-6 |
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M |
December 7 |
McCarthy, Chapters 7-8 |
W |
December 9 |
McCarthy, Chapters 9-10 |
F |
December 11 |
McCarthy, Chapters 11-12 |
Web-X Deadline for Web-X 2 on McCarthy |
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M |
December 14 |
McCarthy, Chapters 13-14 |
W |
December 15 |
McCarthy, Chapters 15-16 |
Response to Web-X 2 due |
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Sat |
December 19 |
FINAL EXAMINATION FROM NOON TO 1:55PM |
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