Syllabus

Schedule

Assignments

Extras

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.

January 22	Introduction, course overview
Unit One: Conflicted Symbols
January 24	Robert Frost, "Mowing," "After Apple Picking"
January 27	Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"
January 29	Frost, "The Code, " "The Oven Bird"
January 31	Frost, "The Wood Pile"
February 3	Frost, "For Once, Then, Something", "The Black Cottage," FROST LINK DEADLINE
February 5	Frost, "Birches"
February 7	Charles Chesnutt, The House behind the Cedars, chs. 1-7
February 10	Chesnutt, chs. 8-14
February 12	Chesnutt, chs. 15-22
February 14	Chesnutt, chs. 23-30
February 17	Chesnutt, chs. 31-33, CHESNUTT LINK DEADLINE
February 19	EXAM ONE
Unit Two: Power Plays
February 21	William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I.
February 24	Shakespeare, Acts II-III
February 26	Shakespeare, Acts IV-V
February 28	Shakespeare's Macbeth, performances and intepretations
March 3	Shakespeare's Macbeth, conclusions, SHAKESPEARE LINK DEADLINE
March 5	Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, "The Book of the Grotesque," "Hands," "Paper Pills," "Mother"
March 7	Anderson, "The Philosopher," "Nobody Knows," "Godliness"
March 10	Anderson, "A Man of Ideas," "Adventure," "Respectability," "The Thinker"
March 12	Anderson, "Tandy," "The Strength of God," "The Teacher"
March 14	Anderson, "Loneliness," "An Awakening," "Queer"
March 17, 19, 21	Spring Break
March 24	Anderson, "The Untold Lie," "Drink"
March 26	Anderson, "Death," "Sophistication," "Departure", ANDERSON LINK DEADLINE
March 28	EXAM TWO
Unit Three: The Outsider
March 31	Sylvia Plath, "Balloons"
April 2	Plath, "Lady Lazarus," "Daddy"
April 4	Plath, "Cut," "Berck-Plage"
April 7	Plath, "Ariel," "Fever 103°"
April 9	Plath, "The Bee Meeting," "The Arrival of the Bee Box"
April 11	Plath, "Gulliver"
April 14	Plath, "Words", PLATH LINK DEADLINE
April 16	Ondaatje, The English Patient, ch. I.—The Villa
April 18	Ondaatje, ch. II.—In Near Ruins
April 21	Ondaatje, ch. III.—Sometime a Fire
April 23	Ondaatje, ch. IV.—South Cairo 1930-1938
April 25	Ondaatje, ch. V.—Katharine
April 28	Ondaatje, ch. VI.—A Buried Plane
April 30	Ondaatje, ch. VII.—In Situ, ONDAATJE LINK DEADLINE
May 2	Ondaatje, ch. VIII.—The Holy Forest
May 5	Ondaatje, ch. IX.—The Cave of Swimmers
May 7	Ondaatje, ch. X.—August
May 9	Ondaatje, concluding thoughts
May 12	FINAL EXAM FROM NOON TO 2PM.