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. Page references in parentheses below refer to the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. C, D, E, Ninth Edition.

Part One: Realism and Naturalism

W	January 16	Introduction

M	January 21	Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday—No class meeting today.
W	January 23	Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (66-70) Emily Dickinson, Poems 39, 112, 207, 320 (both versions), 359, 479

M	January 28	Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter X (119-154)
W	January 30	QUIZ ON WHITMAN AND DICKINSON Twain, Chapters XI-XVIII (154-193)

M	February 4	Twain, Chapters XIX-XXV (193-227) BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING
W	February 6	Twain, Chapters XXVI-XXXIII (227-265)

M	February 11	Twain, Chapters XXXIV-end (265-302)
W	February 13	MIDTERM EXAM

M	February 18	Henry James, "The Real Thing" (450-467) PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS
W	February 20	Booker T. Washington, From Up from Slavery,, Chapters I, II (699-724)

M	February 25	RESPONSE PAPER ON JAMES, WASHINGTON AND DU BOIS W. E. B. DuBois, from The Souls of Black Folk (918-954)

Part Two: Modernism

W	February 27	Robert Frost, "Mowing" (219-220), "Mending Wall" (220-221), "Home Burial" (225-228), "After Apple-Picking" (228)

M	March 4	Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar" (276), "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (277-278) T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" (365-378)
W	March 6	T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" (continued discussion)

March 11-15 Spring Break

M	March 18	Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (835), "The Weary Blues" (836), "Note on Commercial Theatre" (840), "Madam and Her Madam" (841-842), "Madam's Calling Cards" (843)
W	March 20	Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, chs. 1-5 RESPONSE PAPER ON MODERNIST POETRY DUE.

M	March 25	Hurston, chs. 6-10
W	March 27	Hurston, chs. 11-16

M	April 1	Hurston, chs. 17-20

	Part Three: Literature after World War II

W	April 3	QUIZ ON HURSTON Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo" (64-65), "In the Waiting Room" (66-68)

M	April 8	Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" (150-154)
W	April 10	Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke" (299-301), "Skunk Hour" (301-302) Frank Bidart, "Ellen West" (786-797)

M	April 15	N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain, Preface, Prologue, Introduction, The Setting Out PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO
W	April 17	Momaday, The Going On, The Closing In, The Epilogue

M	April 22	Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" (622), "Daddy" (626) Robert Pinsky, "The Street" (810-812) RESPONSE PAPER ON POST-WORLD-WAR-II POETRY DUE
W	April 24	Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" (743-753) ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS

M	April 29	Louise Erdrich, "Fleur" (1112-1122)
W	May 1	George Saunders, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" (1153-1164)

W	May 8	FINAL EXAM, 8:00-9:50am