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.
REMEMBER: Friday classes last twice as long as Monday and Wednesday classes.
| W |
September 3 |
Introduction |
| Part I: Realism and Naturalism |
| F |
September 5 |
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
Emily Dickinson, Poems 216, 465, 632 |
| M |
September 8 |
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Introduction-Chapter XVI |
| W |
September 10 |
Twain, Chapters XVII-XXIV |
| F |
September 12 |
Twain, Chapter XXV-XXXII |
| M |
September 15 |
Twain, Chapter XXXIII to the end |
| W |
September 17 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper |
| F |
September 19 |
Bring working draft of Assignment One for peer editing.
Henry James, "The Real Thing" |
| M |
September 22 |
Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery, pp. 746-760 |
| W |
September 24 |
Washington, pp. 760-end |
| F |
September 26 |
W. E. B Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk
Assignment One due in class. |
| M |
September 29 |
Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" |
| W |
October 1 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
| Part II: Modernism |
| F |
October 3 |
Edgar Lee Masters, "Serepta Mason," "Trainor the Druggist," "Doc Hill," "Margaret Fuller Slack," "Abel Melveny," "Lucinda Matlock"
Robert Frost, "Mowing," "The Wood Pile" |
| M |
October 6 |
Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" |
| W |
October 8 |
Stevens, continued
Marianne Moore, "Poetry," "To a Snail" |
| F |
October 10 |
William Faulkner, Light in August, chs. 1-2 |
| M |
October 13 |
Faulkner, chs. 3-5 |
| W |
October 15 |
Faulkner, chs. 6-8 |
| F |
October 17 |
Faulkner, chs. 9-12 |
| M |
October 20 |
Faulkner, chs. 13-16 |
| W |
October 22 |
Faulkner, chs. 17-19 |
| F |
October 24 |
Faulkner, chs. 20-21 |
| M |
October 27 |
Faulkner, closing thoughts |
| W |
October 29 |
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Mother to Son," "The Weary Blues," "Mulatto," "Silhouette" |
| F |
October 31 |
T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" |
| M |
November 3 |
Eliot, "The Waste Land" |
| W |
November 5 |
William Carlos Williams, "The Young Housewife," "Spring and All," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "Death," "This Is Just to Say" |
| F |
November 7 |
Sherwood Anderson, "Queer" |
| Part III: After World War II |
| M |
November 10 |
Allen Ginsburg, "Howl" |
| W |
November 12 |
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act One |
| F |
November 14 |
Miller, Act Two |
| M |
November 17 |
Miller, Act Two, continued |
| W |
November 19 |
Richard Wilbur, "A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness," "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" |
| F |
November 21 |
Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" |
| M |
November 24 |
N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| W |
November 26 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room" |
| F |
November 28 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo"
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour" |
| M |
December 1 |
Bring draft of Assignment Two to class for peer editing. |
| W |
December 3 |
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" |
| F |
December 5 |
Donald Barthelme, "The Balloon" |
| M |
December 8 |
Louise Erdrich, "Fleur"
Assignment Two due in class. |
| W |
December 10 |
Charles Wright, "Two Stories"
Robert Pinsky, "Shirt" |
| F |
December 12 |
Review for final exam |
| F |
December 19 |
Final Exam from 8 to 9:55am |
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