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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| W |
January 17 |
Introduction |
| F |
January 19 |
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer," "The Wound-Dresser" |
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| M |
January 22 |
Emily Dickinson, Poems 148, 199, 214, 258, 465 |
| W |
January 24 |
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter VII |
| F |
January 26 |
Twain, Chapters VIII-XVI |
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| M |
January 29 |
Twain, Chapters XVII-XXI |
| W |
January 31 |
Twain, Chapters XXII-XXVI |
| F |
February 2 |
Twain, Chapters XXVII-XXXII
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
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| M |
February 5 |
Twain, Chapters XXXIII-XXXVII |
| W |
February 7 |
Twain, XXXVIII to the end |
| F |
February 9 |
Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle"
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
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| M |
February 12 |
Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery, pp. 746-760 |
| W |
February 14 |
Washington, pp. 760-end |
| F |
February 16 |
W. E. B Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk |
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| M |
February 19 |
Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" |
| W |
February 21 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
| F |
February 23 |
Kate Chopin, The Awakening, chapters I-XIII |
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| M |
February 26 |
Chopin, chapters XIV-XIX |
| W |
February 28 |
Chopin, chapters, XX-XXV |
| F |
March 2 |
Chopin, XXVI-end |
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| Part II. Modernism |
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| M |
March 5 |
Robert Frost, "Mowing," "The Tuft of Flowers," "Mending Wall" |
| W |
March 7 |
Frost, "Home Burial," "After Apple Picking" |
| F |
March 9 |
Sherwood Anderson, "Queer" |
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March 12-16 |
Spring Break |
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| M |
March 19 |
Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar," "Sunday Morning" |
| W |
March 21 |
Stevens, "Sunday Morning," continued |
| F |
March 23 |
William Faulkner, The Sound and Fury, pp. 3-37 |
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| M |
March 26 |
Faulkner, pp. 38-75 |
| W |
March 28 |
Faulkner, pp. 76-124 |
| F |
March 30 |
Faulkner, pp. 125-179 |
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| M |
April 2 |
Faulkner, pp. 180-264 |
| W |
April 4 |
Faulkner, pp. 265-end |
| F |
April 6 |
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Mulatto," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Democracy" |
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| M |
April 9 |
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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| Part III. Literature after World War II |
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| W |
April 11 |
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" |
| F |
April 13 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo," "In the Waiting Room" |
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| M |
April 16 |
Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour," "Memories of West Street and Lepke" |
| W |
April 18 |
Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1 |
| F |
April 20 |
Kerouac, Part 2
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
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| M |
April 23 |
Kerouac, Part 3 |
| W |
April 25 |
Kerouac, Parts 4-5 |
| F |
April 27 |
Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. |
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| M |
April 30 |
N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| W |
May 2 |
Louise Erdrich, "Fleur" |
| F |
May 4 |
Charles Wright, "Two Stories"
Rita Dove, "Geometry," "Parsley" |
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| Th |
May 10 |
FINAL EXAMINATION FROM 10 TO 11:55AM |
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