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.
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January 22 |
Introduction |
| Part I: Realism and Naturalism |
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January 24 |
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" |
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January 27 |
Emily Dickinson, Poems 216, 465, 632 |
| W |
January 29 |
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter XVI |
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January 31 |
Twain, Chapters XVII-XXIV |
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February 3 |
Twain, Chapter XXV-XXXII |
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February 5 |
Twain, Chapter XXXIII to the end |
| F |
February 7 |
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT ONE FOR PEER EDITING. |
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February 10 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" |
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February 12 |
Charles Chesnutt, "The Wife of His Youth"
Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery, pp. 746-760 |
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February 14 |
Washington, pp. 760-end
ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE IN CLASS. |
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February 17 |
W. E. B Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk |
| W |
February 19 |
Du Bois, continued
Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" |
| Part II: Modernism |
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February 21 |
Edgar Lee Masters, "Serepta Mason," "Trainor the Druggist," "Doc Hill," "Margaret Fuller Slack," "Abel Melveny," "Lucinda Matlock" |
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February 24 |
Robert Frost, "Mowing," "The Wood Pile" |
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February 26 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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February 28 |
Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" |
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March 3 |
Marianne Moore, "Poetry," "To a Snail" |
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March 5 |
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, "April 7, 1928" |
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March 7 |
Faulkner, "June 2, 1910" |
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March 10 |
Faulkner, "April 6, 1928" |
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March 12 |
Faulkner, "April 8, 1928" |
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March 14 |
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Mother to Son," "The Weary Blues," "Mulatto," "Silhouette" |
| March 17, 19, 21 Spring Break |
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March 24 |
T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" |
| W |
March 26 |
Eliot, "The Waste Land" |
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March 28 |
Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night, Act 1 |
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March 31 |
O'Neill, Act 2 |
| W |
April 2 |
O'Neill, Acts 3-4 |
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April 4 |
Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" |
| Part III: After World War II |
| M |
April 7 |
Ralph Ellison, from Invisible Man, Prologue, Chapter I |
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April 9 |
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act One |
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April 11 |
Miller, Act Two |
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April 14 |
Miller, Act Two, continued |
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April 16 |
Richard Wilbur, "A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness," "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" |
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April 18 |
N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| M |
April 21 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room" |
| W |
April 23 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo"
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour" |
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April 25 |
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" |
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April 28 |
BRING DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT TWO TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
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April 30 |
A. R. Ammons, "Easter Morning"
Donald Barthelme, "The Balloon" |
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May 2 |
Gloria Anzaldua, "El sonavabitche" |
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May 5 |
Louise Erdrich, "Fleur"
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS. |
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May 7 |
Charles Wright, "Two Stories," "Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho"
Robert Pinsky, "The Street" |
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May 9 |
Review for final exam |
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May 14 |
FINAL EXAM FROM 8 TO 9:55AM |
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