English 3564
Syllabus
Schedule
Assignments
Extras
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Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the needs of the class. I will announce any changes to this schedule should the need present itself. With the exception of Miss Lonelyhearts, all of the readings come from the Norton Anthology of American Literature.
| September 4 | Introduction |
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| Part I: Realism and Naturalism |
| September 9 | Emily Dickinson, Poems 49, 214, 216, 249, 258, 712, 1545 |
| September 11 | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter XII |
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| September 16 | Twain, Chapters XIII-XIX |
| September 18 | Twain, Chapters XX-XXX |
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| September 23 | Twain, Chapter XXXI to the end |
| September 25 | Bret Harte, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat"
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT ONE FOR PEER-EDITING. |
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| September 30 | Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle" |
| October 2 | Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters I-X
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT ONE. |
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| October 7 | Chopin, Chapters XI-end |
| October 9 | Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery |
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| October 14 | W. E. B Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk |
| October 16 | Stephen Crane, "The Blue Hotel" |
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| Part II: Modernism High and Low |
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| October 21 | Edgar Lee Masters, "Trainor the Druggist," "Margaret Fuller Slack;"
Edward Arlington Robinson, "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevy" |
| October 23 | MIDTERM EXAM |
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| October 28 | Robert Frost, "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "The Wood Pile," "Out, Out-"
Sherwood Anderson, "'Queer'" |
| October 30 | Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "The Idea of Order at Key West"
Ezra Pound, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" |
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| November 4 | H. D. "Mid-day," "Fragment 113"
Marianne Moore, "Poetry," "To a Snail"
William Faulkner, "Barn Burning" |
| November 6 | Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts, pp. 1-30 |
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| November 11 | West, 30-end |
| November 13 | Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Mother to Son," "The Weary Blues," "Mulatto," "Silhouette," "Democracy" |
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| Part III: After World War II |
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| November 18 | Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, Scenes 1-4 |
| November 20 | Williams, Scenes 5-11 |
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| November 25 | Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
BRING A DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT TWO TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
| November 27 | Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" |
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| December 2 | David Mamet, "Glengarry Glen Ross" |
| December 4 | Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room"
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage"
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour"
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS. |
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| December 9 | Allen Ginsburg, "Howl"
Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus," "Daddy" |
| December 11 | Robert Pinsky, "Shirt"
Review for final exam |
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| December 16 | Final Exam from 4 to 5:55pm |
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