English 3411
Schedule
Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
| T | January 17 | Introduction |
| Th | January 19 | Ernest Hemingway, "On the Quai at Smyrna," "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The End of Something," "The Three-Day Blow" |
| T | January 24 | Hemingway, "The Battler," "A Very Short Story," "Soldier's Home," "The Revolutionist," "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot," "Cat in the Rain," "Out of Season" |
| Th | January 26 | Hemingway, "Cross-Country Snow," "My Old Man," "Big Two-Hearted River: Parts I and II" |
| T | January 31 | Hemingway Quiz Richard Wright, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," "Big Boy Leaves Home" |
| Th | February 2 | Wright, "Down by the Riverside" BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
| T | February 7 | Wright, "Long Black Song" |
| Th | February 9 | Wright, "Fire and Cloud" |
| T | February 14 | Wright, "Bright and Morning Star" PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
| Th | February 16 | Wright Quiz Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," "The River" |
| T | February 21 | O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," "A Stroke of Good Fortune" |
| Th | February 23 | O'Connor, "The Artificial Nigger," "A Circle in the Fire" |
| T | February 28 | O'Connor, "Good Country People," "The Displaced Person" |
| Th | March 1 | Jorge Luis Borges, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," "The Garden of Forking Paths" MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
| T | March 6 | Borges, "The Lottery in Babylon," "Pierre Menard, The Author of Quixote" |
| Th | March 8 | Borges, "The Library of Babel," "Funes the Memorious," "The Shape of the Sword" |
| March 12-16 | Spring Break | |
| T | March 20 | Borges, "Death and the Compass," "Three Versions of Judas, "The Immortal" |
| Th | March 22 | Borges Quiz Tillie Olsen, "Tell Me a Riddle" |
| T | March 27 | Raymond Carver, "Why Don't Your Dance," "Viewfinder," "Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit" |
| Th | March 29 | Carver, "Gazebo," "I Could See the Smallest Things," "Sacks" |
| T | April 3 | Carver, "The Bath," "Tell the Women We're Going," "After the Denim" |
| Th | April 5 | Carver, "So Much Water So Close to Home," "The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off," "A Serious Talk" |
| T | April 10 | Carver, "The Calm," "Popular Mechanics," "Everything Stuck to Him," "What We Talk about When We Talk about Love," "One More Thing" |
| Th | April 12 | Carver Quiz Donald Barthelme, "Me and Miss Mandible," "The Emerald" |
| T | April 17 | Barthelme, "The King of Jazz" George Saunders, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline," "Isabelle" |
| Th | April 19 | Saunders, "The Wavemaker Falters," "The 400-Pound CEO" |
| T | April 24 | Saunders, "Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz," "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror" |
| Th | April 26 | Saunders Quiz Presentations ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| T | May 1 | Presentations |
| Th | May 3 | Presentations |
| F | May 11 | Final Exam, 10-11:55am |
27 January 2012