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.
Module One: Introduction |
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January 12 |
Introduction |
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M. A. R. Habib, Literary Studies, Part One (Chs. 1-2) |
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January 19 |
Habib, Part Two (Chs. 3-4) |
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January 24 |
Habib, Part Three (Chs. 5-6)
Peer Edit Book Review |
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January 26 |
Habib, Part Four (Chs. 7-8)
Quiz on Topics in Habib's Literary Studies |
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Module Two: John Keats, Poetry, and Close Reading |
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Habib, Ch. 11
John Keats, Sonnet II [To * * * * * *] (50), Sonnet III [Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison] (50-51), Sonnet VII [O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell] (52) |
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February 2 |
Habib, Chs. 18-19
Keats, Sonnet X [To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent] (54), "Ode on Indolence" (334-336)
First librarian visit
Book Review Due |
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February 7 |
Anonymous, Review in Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, October 1817 (95-97)
Keats, Letter to George and Tom Keats, December 21, 27?, 1817 (107-109)
Nicholas Roe, "Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent" (573-583) |
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February 9 | Keats, "[I Stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill]" (21-27), "To -" (375-376)
Paul de Man, "[The Negative Path]" (537-546)
Quiz on Keats |
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February 14 |
Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 19, 1818 (126-127), "[Dear Reynolds, Last Night as I Lay My Bed]" (133-136)
Stuart Sperry, "The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" (583-592) |
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February 16 |
Midterm Exam |
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February 21 |
Keats, "The Eve of St. Mark" (307-311) |
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February 23 |
Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes" (445-456)
Jack Stillinger, "The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in 'The Eve of St. Agnes'" (604-614) |
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February 28 |
Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (461-462)
Jeffrey N. Cox, "Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes" (614-625)
Peer-edit Poem Analysis Paper |
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Module Three: Literary History and Critical Approaches |
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March 2 |
Habib, Chs. 9-10
Career Services visit |
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March 6-10 |
Spring Break |
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March 14 |
Discussion of Senior Portfolios for English Majors
Habib, Chs. 12-13 |
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March 16 |
Habib, Chs. 15-17
Second librarian visit: introduction to key words, evaluation of sources, the MLA database
Poem Analysis Paper Due |
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Module Four: Beloved and Research Skills |
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March 21 |
Habib, Ch. 20
Toni Morrison, Beloved, "124 was spiteful" (3) "it would have closed" (67) |
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March 23 |
Morrison, "Rainwater held on to pine needles" (68) "the hem darkened in the water" (124) |
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March 28 |
Morrison, "Out of sight of Mister's sight" (125) "the far side of the trees" (195end of Part One) |
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March 30 |
Morrison, "124 was loud" (199beginning of Part Two) "You are mine" (256) |
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April 4 |
Morrison, "It was a tiny church" (257) "Beloved" (322end of the novel) |
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April 6 |
Quiz on Beloved
Elizabeth B. House, "Toni Morrison's Ghost: The Beloved is Not Beloved" |
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April 11 |
Contemporary Reviews of Beloved
Contexts: Margaret Garner, Owen Dodson
Andrew Chan, "Wild Pain" (film review) |
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April 13 |
Paul Henderson, "Tangled Roots, a Bloody Forest: Trees, Trauma, and Black Female Bodies in Beloved"
Peer-Edit Critical Analysis Paper |
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April 18 |
Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, "Gendering the Genderless: The Case of Toni Morrison's Beloved" |
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April 20 |
Andrew Hock Song Ng, "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Space, Architecture, Trauma"
Critical Analysis Paper Due |
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Module Five: Conclusion |
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April 25 |
Poster presentations |
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April 27 |
Poster presentations |
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May 4 |
Final Exam, 8-9:55am
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