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.
Part One: Realism and Naturalism |
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January 17 |
Introduction |
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January 19 |
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" |
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January 24 |
Emily Dickinson, Poems 39, 112, 124, 202, 207, 320, 448 |
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January 26 |
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter VIII |
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January 31 |
Twain, Chapters IX-XVI |
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February 2 |
Twain, Chapters XVII-XXI
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
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February 7 |
Twain, Chapters XXII-XXVIII |
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February 9 |
Twain, Chapters XXIX-XXXV
PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
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February 14 |
Twain, Chapters XXXVI-end |
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February 16 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
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February 21 |
Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle" |
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February 23 |
Booker T. Washington, From Up from Slavery |
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February 28 |
Charles Chesnutt, "The Wife of His Youth"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-paper" |
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March 1 |
W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk |
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March 6 |
Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" |
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Part Two: Modernism |
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March 8 |
Robert Frost, "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Home Burial," "Out, Out" |
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March 12-16 |
Spring Break |
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March 20 |
Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" |
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March 22 |
William Carlos Williams, "The Young Housewife," "Spring an All," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "This Is Just to Say," "The Dance" |
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March 27 |
William Faulkner,The Sound and the Fury, "April Seventh, 1928" |
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March 29 |
Faulkner, "June Second, 1910," pp. 76-124 |
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April 3 |
Faulkner, "June Second, 1910," pp. 125-179 |
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April 5 |
Faulkner, "April Sixth, 1928" |
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April 10 |
Faulkner, "April Eighth, 1928" |
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April 12 |
T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Note on Commercial Theater" |
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Part Three: Literature after World War II |
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April 17 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "At the Fishhouses," "The Armadillo"
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage"
Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke," "Skunk Hour" |
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April 19 |
Richard Wilbur, "'A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness," "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Frank O'Hara, "Why I Am Not a Painter"
PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
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April 24 |
N. Scott Momaday, From The Way to Rainy Mountain |
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April 26 |
Donald Barthelme, "The Balloon"
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
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May 1 |
August Wilson, Fences, Act 1 |
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May 3 |
August Wilson, Act 2 |
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May 7 |
Final Exam, noon-1:55pm |
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