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.
| Part I. Realism and Naturalism |
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| Wednesday |
September 6 |
Introduction |
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| Monday |
September 11 |
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Cavalry Crossing a Ford," "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown" |
| Wednesday |
September 13 |
Emily Dickinson, Poems 49, 185, 214, 216 (both versions), 435, 709, 712 |
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| Monday |
September 18 |
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter XI |
| Wednesday |
September 20 |
Twain, Chapters XII-XVIII |
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| Monday |
September 25 |
Twain, ChapterS XIX-XXV
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
| Wednesday |
September 27 |
Twain, Chapters XXVI-XXXIII |
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| Monday |
October 2 |
Twain, Chapter XXXIV to the end
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
| Wednesday |
October 4 |
Henry James, "The Real Thing"
Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery, pp. 746-760 |
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| Monday |
October 9 |
Washington, pp. 760-end |
| Wednesday |
October 11 |
W. E. B Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk up to p. 893 |
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| Monday |
October 16 |
Du Bois, pp. 893-901
Stephen Crane, "The Blue Hotel" |
| Wednesday |
October 18 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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| Part II. Modernism |
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| Monday |
October 23 |
Robert Frost, "Mowing," "The Tuft of Flowers," "Mending Wall," "Home Burial," "After Apple Picking" |
| Wednesday |
October 25 |
Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar," "Sunday Morning" |
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| Monday |
October 30 |
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, pp. 1695-1719 |
| Wednesday |
November 1 |
Faulkner, pp. 1719-1744 |
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| Monday |
November 6 |
Faulkner, pp. 1744-1770 |
| Wednesday |
November 8 |
Faulkner, pp. 1770-end |
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| Monday |
November 13 |
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Mulatto," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Democracy" |
| Wednesday |
November 15 |
T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" |
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| Monday |
November 20 |
Eliot, continued
William Carlos Williams, "The Young Housewife," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "Death," "This Is Just to Say" |
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| Part III. Literature after World War II |
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| Wednesday |
November 22 |
Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" |
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| Monday |
November 27 |
Robert Hayden, "The Middle Passage"
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour"
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo," "In the Waiting Room" |
| Wednesday |
November 29 |
Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Parts 1-2 |
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| Monday |
December 4 |
Kerouac, Part 3
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
| Wednesday |
December 6 |
Kerouac, Parts 4-5 |
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| Monday |
December 11 |
N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain
Louise Erdrich, "Fleur"
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. |
| Wednesday |
December 13 |
Charles Simic, "Prodigy"
Richard Wilbur, "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Robert Pinsky, "Shirt" |
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| Tuesday |
December 19 |
FINAL EXAMINATION, 10-11:55AM |
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