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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January 13 |
Introduction |
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January 18 |
Martin Luther King Holiday |
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January 20 |
Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "The River" |
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January 25 |
O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," "A Stroke of Good Fortune" |
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January 27 |
O'Connor, "A Circle in the Fire," "Good Country People"
Presentation sign-up deadline |
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February 1 |
O'Connor Quiz
Richard Wright, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," "Big Boy Leaves Home" |
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February 3 |
Wright, "Down by the Riverside"
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF SHORT-STORY ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
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February 8 |
Wright, "Long Black Song" |
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February 10 |
Wright, "Fire and Cloud"
SHORT-STORY ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
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February 15 |
Wright, "Bright and Morning Star" |
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February 17 |
Wright Quiz
Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," "The Garden of Forking Paths" |
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February 22 |
Borges, "Pierre Menard, The Author of Quixote," "Funes the Memorious," "Death and the Compass" |
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February 24 |
Borges, "Three Versions of Judas," "The Immortal," "The Story of the Warrior and the Captive" |
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February 29 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
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March 2 |
John Barth, "Frame-Tale," "Night-Sea Journey," "Ambrose, His Mark" |
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March 7-11 |
Spring Break |
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March 14 |
Barth, "Water-Message," "Petition" |
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March 16 |
Barth, "Lost in the Funhouse," "Menalaiad" |
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March 21 |
Barth Quiz
Alice Munro, "To Reach Japan," "Amundsen" |
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March 23 |
Munro, "Gravel," "Haven" |
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March 28 |
Munro, "Corrie," "In Sight of the Lake" |
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March 30 |
Munro, "The Eye," "Night," "Voices," "Dear Life" |
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April 4 |
Munro Quiz
Ha Jin, "A Report," "Too Late," "Uncle Piao's Birthday Dinners" |
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April 6 |
Jin, "Dragon Head" |
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April 11 |
Jin, "A Contract," "Miss Jee," "A Lecture"
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
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April 13 |
Jin, "The Russian Prisoner," "The Fellow Townsman" |
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April 18 |
Jin, "My Best Soldier," "Ocean of Words"
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
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April 20 |
Jin Quiz
George Saunders, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," "Isabelle" |
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April 25 |
Saunders, "The Wavemaker Falters," "The 400-Pound CEO" |
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April 27 |
Saunders, "Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz," "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror" |
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May 5 |
FINAL EXAM, 4-5:50PM |
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