English 3564
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. Page references in parentheses below refer to the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. C, D, E, Ninth Edition.
| W | January 12 | Introduction |
| Part One: Realism and Naturalism | ||
| M | January 17 | No Class—MLK Holiday |
| W | January 19 | Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (66-70) Emily Dickinson, Poems 124, 202, 207, 320, 591 (92-103) |
| M | January 24 | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chs. I-V (119-134) |
| W | January 26 | Quiz on Whitman, Dickinson, and Twain Twain, Chs. VI-IX (134-152) |
| M | January 31 | Twain, Chs. XVI-XVIII (174-193) Peer Editing of Passage Analysis Papers |
| W | February 2 | Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle" (467-497) |
| M | February 7 | Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chs. I-XIII (548-578) Passage Analysis Paper Due |
| W | February 9 | Chopin, Chs. XIV-XXIII (579-609) |
| M | February 14 | Chopin, Chs. XXVI-XXXIX (609-639) |
| W | February 16 | Midterm Examination |
| M | February 21 | Booker T. Washington, From Up from Slavery, Chs. I, II, and XIV (701-724) |
| W | February 23 | W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Forethought, Chs. I and III (920-936) |
| Part Two: Modernism | ||
| M | February 28 | Robert Frost, "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man" (220-227) |
| W | March 2 | Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" (273-276) |
| March 7-11 | Spring Break | |
| M | March 14 | Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night, Acts 1-2 (389-428) |
| W | March 16 | O'Neill, Acts 3-4 (429-467) |
| M | March 21 | Quiz on O'Neill and Modernist Poets Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat" (517-525) |
| W | March 23 | Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Mulatto," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Note on Commercial Theater," "Theme for English B" (835-844) |
| Part Three: Post-World-War-II Literature | ||
| M | March 28 | Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo," "In the Waiting Room" (64-67) Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke," "Skunk Hour" (299-301) |
| W | March 30 | Quiz on Hughes, Hurston, Bishop, and Lowell Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" (150-154) |
| M | April 4 | Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, pp. 1-54 Peer-Editing of Literary Analysis Papers |
| W | April 6 | Silko, pp. 55-138 |
| M | April 11 | Silko, pp. 138-201 |
| W | April 13 | Silko, pp. 201-262 Final Draft of Literary Analysis Due |
| M | April 18 | Quiz on Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony August Wilson, Fences, Act 1 (921-948) |
| W | April 20 | Wilson, Act 2 (948-967) |
| M | April 25 | Louise Erdrich, "Fleur" (1112-1121) |
| W | April 27 | George Saunders, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" (1153-1165) |
| W | May 4 | Final Exam, 2-3:50pm |
10 January 2022