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. In addition, please note that Friday classes last until 9:45am.
Part One: Realism and Naturalism |
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January 19 |
Introduction |
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January 21 |
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Song of Myself" |
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January 24 |
Emily Dickinson, Poems 39, 124, 207, 591 |
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January 26 |
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter VII |
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January 28 |
Twain, Chapters VIII-XV |
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January 31 |
Twain, Chapters XVI-XVIII |
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February 2 |
Twain, Chapters XIX-XXIV |
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February 4 |
Twain, Chapters XXV-XXIX
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
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February 7 |
Twain, Chapters XXX-XXXVI |
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February 9 |
Twain, Chapters XXXVII-end |
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February 11 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
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February 14 |
Henry James, "The Real Thing"
PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
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February 16 |
Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters I-VIII |
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February 18 |
Chopin, Chapters IX-XVI |
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February 21 |
Chopin, Chapters XVII-XXIV |
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February 23 |
Chopin, Chapters XXV-XXXI |
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February 25 |
Chopin, Chapters XXXII-end |
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February 28 |
Booker T. Washington, From Up from Slavery |
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March 2 |
Washington, continued
W. E. B. DuBois, From The Souls of Black Folk |
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March 4 |
DuBois, continued |
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Part Two: Modernism |
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March 7 |
Robert Frost, "Mowing," "The Tuft of Flowers," "Mending Wall" |
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March 9 |
Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man," "After Apple-Picking," "The Wood-Pile" |
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March 11 |
Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" |
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March 14-18 |
Spring Break |
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March 21 |
William Faulkner, Light in August, Chapters 1-2 |
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March 23 |
Faulkner, Chapters 3-4 |
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March 25 |
Faulkner, Chapters 5-6 |
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March 28 |
Faulkner, Chapters 7-8 |
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March 30 |
Faulkner, Chapters 9-11 |
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April 1 |
Faulkner, Chapters 12-13 |
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April 4 |
Faulkner, Chapters 14-15 |
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April 6 |
Faulkner, Chapters 16-17 |
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April 8 |
Faulkner, Chapters 18-19 |
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April 11 |
Faulkner, Chapters 20-21 |
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April 13 |
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Mulatto," "Madam and Her Madam" |
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Part Three: Literature after World War II |
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April 15 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room"
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" |
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April 18 |
Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke," "Skunk Hour" |
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April 20 |
Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People" |
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April 22 |
N. Scott Momaday, From The Way to Rainy Mountain
PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
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April 25 |
Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman, Act One |
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April 27 |
Miller, Act Two |
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April 29 |
Miller, Requiem
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
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May 2 |
Robert Pinsky, "The Street," "Shirt" |
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May 4 |
Max Apple, "Bridging" |
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May 6 |
Louise Erdrich, "Fleur" |
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May 11 |
Final Exam, 10-11:55am |
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