Schedule

The following schedule is tentative and subject to change according to the demands of the course.

January 17Introduction
January 19Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, pp. 3-14
 
January 22Woolf, pp. 14-40
January 24Woolf, pp. 40-65
January 26Woolf, pp. 65-82
 
January 29Woolf, pp. 82-124
January 31Woolf, pp. 125-143
February 2Woolf, pp. 145-170
 
February 5Woolf, pp. 170-209
February 7Woolf, concluding thoughts
February 9WORKING DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE FOR PEER EDITING
 
February 12MacKinnon, Gillies, Behind the Lines
February 14Behind the Lines
February 16Wilfred Owen, "Strange Meeting," "Insensibility," "Arms and the Boy"
FINAL DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE
 
February 19Owen, "Greater Love," "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young," "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Dulce et Decorum Est"
February 21Owen, "Exposure," "The Show," "Spring Offensive," "The Last Laugh," "The Letter," "Conscious"
February 23Owen, "A Terre," "Disabled," "Mental Cases," "The Chances," "The Dead-Beat"
 
February 26Owen, "S. I. W." "Smile, Smile, Smile," "Inspection," "The Calls," "At a Calvary near the Ancre"
February 28Owen, "Le Christianisme," "Soldier's Dream," "Sonnet," "The Next War"
March 2MID-TERM EXAMINATION
 
March 5Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, ch. I-IV
March 7Hemingway, ch. V-VIII
March 9Hemingway, ch. IX-XII
 
March 12-March 16--SPRING BREAK
 
March 19Hemingway, ch. XIII-XVII
March 21Hemingway, ch. XVIII-XIX
March 23Hemingway, concluding thoughts
 
March 26Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, pp. 1-29
March 28Silko, pp. 29-62
March 30Silko, pp. 62-113
 
April 2Silko, pp. 113-179
April 4Silko, pp. 180-213
April 6Silko, pp. 214-262
 
April 9Silko, concluding thoughts
April 11Harold Pinter, The Homecoming, beginning of Act One
April 13Pinter, Act One
 
April 16WORKING DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE FOR PEER EDITING
April 18Pinter, Act Two
April 20Pinter, performance
 
April 23Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, ch. 1-2
FINAL DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE
April 25Pynchon, ch. 3-4
April 27Pynchon, ch. 5-6
 
April 30Pynchon, concluding thoughts
May 2Review for final exam
May 4Class Canceled
 
May 10FINAL EXAM FROM 10:00AM TO 11:55AM

John D. Schwetman
January 19, 2001