English 1582
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.
| W | January 12 | Introduction |
| Part One: Gender and Caste | ||
| M | January 17 | No class—Martin Luther King Holiday |
| W | January 19 | Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, Acts One and Two |
| M | January 24 | Ibsen, Act Three |
| W | January 26 | Quiz on A Doll's House Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable, pp. 3-32 |
| M | January 31 | Anand, pp. 32-62 |
| W | February 2 | Anand, pp. 62-97 |
| M | February 7 | Anand, pp. 97-139 |
| W | February 9 | Part One Examination |
| Part Two: Colonization and Its Consequences | ||
| M | February 14 | Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, chs. 1-4 |
| W | February 16 | Achebe, chs. 5-8 |
| M | February 21 | Achebe, chs. 9-11 |
| W | February 23 | Achebe, chs. 12-15 |
| M | February 28 | Achebe, chs. 16-19 |
| W | March 2 | Achebe, chs. 20-25 Quiz on Things Fall Apart |
| March 7-11 Spring Break | ||
| M | March 14 | Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, chs. 1-3 |
| W | March 16 | Hamid, chs. 4-5 |
| M | March 21 | Hamid, chs. 6-8 |
| W | March 23 | Hamid, chs. 9-12 |
| M | March 28 | Part Two Examination |
| Part Three: Words and Warfare | ||
| W | March 30 | Anna Swir, "A Cardboard Suitcase," "My Father Would Recall," "My Mother, Miss Stasia," "Soup for the Poor," "An Artist Moves," "Before Dawn" Peer-Editing of Character Analysis Papers |
| M | April 4 | Swir, "My Father's Workshop," "He Did Not Jump from the Third Floor," "Mother Dying," "She Came to Say Farewell," "He Sang All His Life," "I Wash the Shirt," "He Strode against the Tide" |
| W | April 6 | Swir, "Woman Unborn," "Maternity," "Iron Currycomb," "The Same Inside," "Large Intestine," "I Starve My Belly for a Sublime Purpose" Final Draft of Character Analysis Due |
| M | April 11 | Swir, "She Does Not Remember," "The Greatest Love," "Poetry Reading," "I Must Fight an Angel," "A Woman Writer Does Laundry," "Anxiety," "I Look with My Eyes Flooded by Tears" |
| W | April 13 | Ha Jin, An Ocean of Words, "A Report," "Too Late," "Uncle Piao's Birthday Dinners" Quiz on Anna Swir's Poems |
| M | April 18 | Jin, "Love in the Air," "Dragon Head" |
| W | April 20 | Jin, "A Contract," "Miss Jee," "A Lecture" |
| M | April 25 | Jin, "The Russian Prisoner," "The Fellow Townsman" |
| W | April 27 | Jin, "My Best Soldier," "An Ocean of Words" |
| W | May 4 | Final Exam, 8-9:50am |
10 January 2022