English 1001
Syllabus
Schedule
Assignments
Supplementary Information
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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. Works followed by a star (*) are in The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry.
| September 4 |
Introduction |
| September 6 |
Structure in Poetry / Gjertrud Schnackenberg, "Signs"* / Richard Wilbur, "Looking into History"* / A. R. Ammons, "Reflective"* |
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| September 11 |
Edgar Bowers, "An Afternoon on the Beach"* / Allen Ginsberg, from "Howl"* / C. K. Williams, "The Gas Station"* |
| September 13 |
Sylvia Plath, "Colossus,"* "Lady Lazarus"* / Louise GlŸck, "Lamentations"* |
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| September 18 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "Filling Station,"* "In the Waiting Room,"* "Poem"* |
| September 20 |
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour,"* "The Mouth of the Hudson,"* "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"* |
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| September 25 |
Robert Lowell, "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"* (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRING WORKING DRAFT OF POETRY ANALYSIS
TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
| September 27 |
Herman Melville, "Billy Budd, Sailor," ch. 1-8 |
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| October 2 |
Melville, ch. 9-17. . . . . . . . . TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF POETRY ANALYSIS. |
| October 4 |
Melville, ch. 18-end |
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| October 9 |
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage"* / Audre Lorde, "Afterimages"* |
| October 11 |
Alice Walker, The Color Purple. pp. 1-70 |
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| October 16 |
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| October 18 |
No class |
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| October 23 |
Walker, pp. 71-130 |
| October 25 |
Walker, pp. 131-198 |
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| October 30 |
Walker, pp. 199-end |
| November 1 |
Walker, concluding thoughts |
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| November 6 |
Anne Sexton, "The Room of My Life"* / Robert Pinsky, "Poem about People"* / Howard Moss, "The Wars"* |
| November 8 |
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly, Act 1 |
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| November 13 |
Hwang, Act 2 |
| November 15 |
Hwang, Act 3 |
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| November 20 |
Charles Simic, "My Shoes"* / Randall Jarrell, "Next Day"* / Howard Nemerov, "Money"* |
| November 22 |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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| November 27 |
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, pp. 1-84
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRING WORKING DRAFT OF ESSAY
TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
| November 29 |
Erdrich, pp. 85-166 |
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| December 4 |
Erdrich, pp. 167-258. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAY. |
| December 6 |
Erdrich, pp. 259-297 |
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| December 11 |
Erdrich, pp. 298-end |
| December 13 |
Robert Hass, "Heroic Simile,"* "Meditation at Lagunitas"* |
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| December 20 |
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FINAL EXAM FROM 12:00 TO 1:55PM |
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