English 3564
Schedule
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. Page references below refer to the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. C, D, E, Eighth Edition.
| Part One: Realism and Naturalism | ||
| W | January 13 | Introduction |
| F | January 15 | Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (67-71) |
| M | January 18 | Martin Luther King Holiday |
| W | January 20 | Emily Dickinson, Poems 39, 112, 124, 359, 479, 620 |
| F | January 22 | QUIZ ON WHITMAN AND DICKINSON Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter VI (130-148) |
| M | January 25 | Twain, Chapters VII-XVII (148-188) |
| W | January 27 | Twain, Chapters XVIII-XIX (188-207) BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
| F | January 29 | Twain, Chapters XX-XXV (207-230) |
| M | February 1 | Twain, Chapters XXVI-XXXII (230-268) |
| W | February 3 | Twain, Chapters XXXIII-end (268-309) |
| F | February 5 | MIDTERM EXAM |
| M | February 8 | Henry James, "The Real Thing" Parts I-II (460-477) PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
| W | February 10 | Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters I-VII (561-576) |
| F | February 12 | Chopin, Chapters VIII-XII (576-588) |
| M | February 15 | Chopin, Chapters XIII-XXII (589-614) |
| W | February 17 | Chopin, Chapters XXIII-XXVIII (614-627) |
| F | February 19 | Chopin, Chapters XXIX-XXXIII (627-640) |
| M | February 22 | Chopin, Chapters XXXIV-XXXIX (640-652) |
| W | February 24 | QUIZ ON KATE CHOPIN Booker T. Washington, From Up from Slavery, Chapters I, II (675-689) |
| F | February 26 | Washington, From Up from Slavery, Chapters I, II, XIV (689-697) W. E. B. DuBois, From The Souls of Black Folk (885-901) |
| Part Two: Modernism | ||
| M | February 29 | Robert Frost, "Mowing" (231-232), "Mending Wall" (232-233), "After Apple Picking" (241) |
| W | March 2 | Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar" (288-289), "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (291-292), "Sunday Morning" (285-288) |
| F | March 4 | Stevens, "Sunday Morning" (continued) |
| March 7-11 | Spring Break | |
| M | March 14 | William Faulkner, Light in August, Chapters 1-3 |
| W | March 16 | Faulkner, Chapters 4-5 |
| F | March 18 | Faulkner, Chapters 6-8 |
| M | March 21 | Faulkner, Chapters 9-11 |
| W | March 23 | Faulkner, Chapters 12-13 |
| F | March 25 | Faulkner, Chapters 14-16 |
| M | March 28 | Faulkner, Chapters 17-19 |
| W | March 30 | Faulkner, Chapters 20-21 |
| F | April 1 | QUIZ ON FAULKNER Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (871), "The Weary Blues" (872), "Note on Commercial Theatre" (876), "Madam and Her Madam" (877-878), "Madam's Calling Cards" (878-879) |
| M | April 4 | Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night, Acts 1-2 (402-440) |
| W | April 6 | O'Neill, Act 3 (441-454) |
| F | April 8 | O'Neill, Act 4 (454-480) |
| Part Three: Literature after World War II | ||
| M | April 11 | Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo" (81-82), "In the Waiting Room" (83-85) Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" (167-171) |
| W | April 13 | PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| F | April 15 | Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke" (316-218), "Skunk Hour" (318-319), "Night Sweat" (319-320) |
| M | April 18 | Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People" (445-458) |
| W | April 20 | N. Scott Momaday, From The Way to Rainy Mountain (677-687) ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| F | April 22 | Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" (737-746) |
| M | April 25 | Robert Pinsky, "The Street" (809-811), "Shirt" (812-813), "At Pleasure Bay" (813-815) |
| W | April 27 | Louise Erdrich, "Fleur" (1143-1152) |
| F | April 29 | Junot Diaz, "Drown" (1240-1248) |
| W | May 4 | FINAL EXAM, 2:00-3:55pm |
6 April 2016