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.

Modernism
W	January 23	Introduction-Modernism and Its Legacy
M	January 28	Wallace Stevens, "Earthy Anecdote," "The Plot against the Giant," "Domination of Black," "Metaphors of a Magnifico," "Anecdote of the Jar"
W	January 30	Stevens, "Six Significant Landscapes," "Anatomy of Monotony," "Study of Two Pears," "So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch"
M	February 4	Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West," "The Man with the Blue Guitar," "A Thought Revolved"
W	February 6	Stevens, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Sunday Morning"

M	February 11	Willa Cather, My Antonia, Introduction, Book I
W	February 13	Cather, Books II

M	February 18	Cather, Books III-IV
W	February 20	Cather, Book V

M	February 25	Midterm Examination

After Modernism

W	February 27	Raymond Carver, "Why Don't You Dance?" "Viewfinder," "Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit," "Gazebo"

M	March 3	Carver, "I Could See the Smallest Things," "Sacks," "The Bath," "Tell the Women We're Going"
W	March 5	Carver, "After the Denim," "So Much Water So Close to Home," "The Third Thing that Killed My Father Off," "A Serious Talk"

M	March 10	Carver, "The Calm," "Popular Mechanics," "Everything Stuck to Him," "What We Talk about When We Talk about Love," "One More Thing"
W	March 12	David Mamet, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, pp. 1-27

	March 17-21	Spring Break

M	March 24	Mamet, pp. 27-48
W	March 26	Mamet, pp. 48-end Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, "The World's Greatest Fishermen"

M	March 31	Erdrich, "Saint Marie," "Wild Geese," "The Island," "The Beads"
W	April 2	Erdrich, "Lulu's Boys," "The Plunge of the Brave," "Flesh and Blood"

M	April 7	Erdrich, "A Bridge," "The Red Convertible," "Scales," "Crown of Thorns"
W	April 9	Erdrich, "Love Medicine," "Resurrection," "The Good Tears"

M	April 14	Erdrich, "The Tomahawk Factory," "Lyman's Luck," "Crossing the Water"
W	April 16	George, Saunders, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," "Isabelle," "The Wavemaker Falters"

M	April 21	Saunders, "The 400-Pound CEO," "Offloading Mrs. Schwartz," "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror"
W	April 23	Saunders, "Bounty"

M	April 28	Saunders, "Bounty," continued Robert Pinsky, "The City Dark," "Ginza Samba," "In Berkeley"
W	April 30	Pinsky, "City Elegies," "Avenue," "Impossible to Tell," "Shirt," "The Night Game" Bring a draft of your research paper to class for peer editing.

M	May 5	Pinsky, "The Factory," "The Ghost Hammer," "At Pleasure Bay," "History of My Heart," "The Street"
W	May 7	Pinsky, "Poem about People," "Waiting," "Discretions of Alcibiades," "Sadness and Happiness" Research Paper due

T	May 13	Final Exam 4-5:55pm