Schedule of Reading and Activities
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Homework (due on date)
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Class activities
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1/20 |
Introductions, syllabus. Issues of American Identity What is Literature for? Opening passage of HF, Stretchers and the truth
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| 1/22 | Read: HF Chapters I-X Think about Huck's problematic relationship with authority, authorities, the author, and his own authority. Is he a reliable narrator? Whatare the ironies of his narration? |
Discuss The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Genre/Novel/Realism/Regionalism Journalism Clemens/Twain bio Innocence/Guilt Authority |
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1/27 |
Read: HF Chapters XI-XIX .
Here is a link to a hypertext version of the novel with critical responses and contextual information.
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| 1/29 | Read HF Chapters XX-XXV
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2/3 |
Read HF Chapters XXVI-XXXI |
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| 2/5 | Read HF Chapters XXXII-End |
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2/10 |
Read: link to Henry James, Daisy Miller and read Chapters 1-2.
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| 2/12 | Read: Daisy Chapter 3-4 |
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2/17 |
Read: Daisy Reread |
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| 2/19 | Read: Norris McTeague |
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| 2/24 | Read: Norris, McTeague
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| 2/26 | Read: Norris, McTeague
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McTeague and the (impossibility of the) American Dream . |
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| 3/3 | Read: Norris, McTeague Blog at least one entry per week
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Introduce Analytical Paper I Complete discussion of McTeague/Naturalism/Symbolism Begin review of term so far and look forward to following weeks. |
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| 3/5 | Read: link to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
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The situation of Women in late 19th Century, the "Rest Cure," and the question of the author as artist as new voices arise. Discussion of Gilman's story and several other writers who were gaining audiences at the time. |
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| 3/10 | Read: link to Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" Cather's columns about Oscar Wilde (handouts) |
Discuss Cather and Cather's psychological realism/naturalism. Group discussion about the story. |
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| 3/12 | Read: Cather "Paul's Case" View "The Great Train Robbery"
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3/17 |
Read: Wharton: The Age of Innocence (Intro + 75 pp)
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Finish discussion of "Paul's Case" Introduce Wharton and the The Age of Innocence The emergence of a woman author and artist |
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| 3/19 | Read: Innocence
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Cont. discussion |
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| 3/24 | Read: Innocence
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Discuss Innocence |
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3/26 |
Read: Complete Innocence |
Discuss Innocence/ Midterm review |
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| Week 11 Modernism/New Voices/Poetry | |||
| 3/31 | Read:
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Midterm |
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| 4/2 | Read: Eliot, Pound, Williams, Harlem
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SPRING B R E A K |
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| 4/14 | Read: The Sun Also Rises
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Analytical Paper I due |
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| 4/16 | Read:The Sun Also Rises
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| Week 14 Modernism/Regionalism | |||
| 4/21 | Read: The Sun Also Rises
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Finish The Sun Also Rises |
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| 4/23 | Read:The Sun Also Rises |
Symbolism, the representative image, close reading, The Sun Also Rises |
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| 4/28 | Read: "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"; William Carlos Williams; Harlem Renaissance (link to BLOG for details) Print out this PDF for the poems we'll focus on. |
Harlem Renaissance Poetry; William Carlos Williams; an American Aesthetic and the power of social consciousness. |
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| 4/30 | Read: Faulkner "That Evening Sun" (link) |
Read "That Evening Sun" |
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| 5/5 | Read: Bowles "A Distant Episode" (handout) ; Ginsberg "Howl": Elizabeth Bishop "Filling Station" ; Gary Snyder "Kyoto; March" ; Sylvia Plath "Daddy" |
The Beats, Confessionalism, and the Exotic |
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| 5/7 | Read: O'Connor "Good Country People"; Carver "Cathedral" |
The Short Story; Minimalism; and the power of Irony |
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| 5/12 | Read: Gish Gen (handout) |
Assign Analytical Essay II A Multicultural America: Who Are We? |
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| 5/14 | Read: Morrisson A Mercy (through Chapter 3) Watch: Morrisson on her novel (an interview)
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Discuss A Mercy | |
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| 5/19 | Read: Morrisson A Mercy (complete the novel) |
Discuss A Mercy | |
| 5/21 | Write: Analytical Essay II (due on day of Final, May 28th) Read: Morrisson A Mercy
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Conclusions/ Review for Final Discuss A Mercy |
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| 5/28 | Final Exam Thursday, May 28, 11:10-1:40 Final Essay due. Bring 2 Blue Books for Exam |
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