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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| Tuesday |
January 18 |
Introduction |
| Thursday |
January 20 |
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" |
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| Tuesday |
January 25 |
Emily Dickinson, Poems 49, 216 (both versions), 328, 547, 632 |
| Thursday |
January 27 |
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter XIV |
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| Tuesday |
February 1 |
Twain, Chapters XV-XXI |
| Thursday |
February 3 |
Twain, Chapter XXII-XXXI
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
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| Tuesday |
February 8 |
Twain, Chapter XXXI to the end |
| Thursday |
February 10 |
Henry James, "The Real Thing"
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
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| Tuesday |
February 15 |
Sarah Orne Jewett, "The Foreigner" |
| Thursday |
February 17 |
Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery, pp. 746-760 |
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| Tuesday |
February 22 |
Washington, pp. 760-end |
| Thursday |
February 24 |
W. E. B Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk up to p. 893 |
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| Tuesday |
March 1 |
Du Bois, pp. 893-901
Stephen Crane, "The Blue Hotel" |
| Thursday |
March 3 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
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| Part II. Modernism |
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| Tuesday |
March 8 |
Robert Frost, "The Tuft of Flowers," "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "After Apple Picking," "Out, Out-" |
| Thursday |
March 10 |
Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar," "Sunday Morning" |
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| Tuesday |
March 15 |
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, pp. 1695-1719 |
| Thursday |
March 17 |
Faulkner, pp. 1719-1744 |
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| March 20-26 Spring Break |
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| Tuesday |
March 29 |
Faulkner, pp. 1744-1770 |
| Thursday |
March 31 |
Faulkner, pp. 1770-end |
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| Tuesday |
April 5 |
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Silhouette," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Democracy" |
| Thursday |
April 7 |
T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" |
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| Tuesday |
April 12 |
Eliot, continued
William Carlos Williams, "The Young Housewife," "Spring and All," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "Death," "This Is Just to Say" |
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| Part III. Literature after World War II |
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| Thursday |
April 14 |
Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" |
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| Tuesday |
April 19 |
Robert Hayden, "The Middle Passage"
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour"
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo," "In the Waiting Room" |
| Thursday |
April 21 |
William Gibson, Neuromancer, Parts 1-2 |
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| Tuesday |
April 26 |
Gibson, Part 3
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
| Thursday |
April 28 |
Gibson, Part 4-Coda |
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| Tuesday |
May 3 |
N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain
Louise Erdrich, "Fleur"
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. |
| Thursday |
May 5 |
Charles Simic, "Prodigy"
Charles Wright, "Poem Half in the Manner of Li Ho"
Robert Pinsky, "Shirt" |
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| Monday |
May 9 |
FINAL EXAMINATION, 4-5:55PM |
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