English 2906
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.
| Module One: Introduction | ||
| Th | January 12 | Introduction |
| T | January 17 | M. A. R. Habib, Literary Studies, Part One (Chs. 1-2) |
| Th | January 19 | Habib, Part Two (Chs. 3-4) |
| T | January 24 | Habib, Part Three (Chs. 5-6) Peer Edit Book Review |
| Th | January 26 | Habib, Part Four (Chs. 7-8) Quiz on Topics in Habib's Literary Studies |
| Module Two: John Keats, Poetry, and Close Reading | ||
| T | January 31 | Habib, Ch. 11 John Keats, Sonnet II [To * * * * * *] (50), Sonnet III [Written on the Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison] (50-51), Sonnet VII [O Solitude! If I Must with Thee Dwell] (52) |
| Th | February 2 | Habib, Chs. 18-19 Keats, Sonnet X [To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent] (54), "Ode on Indolence" (334-336) First librarian visit Book Review Due |
| T | February 7 | Anonymous, Review in Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, October 1817 (95-97) Keats, Letter to George and Tom Keats, December 21, 27?, 1817 (107-109) Nicholas Roe, "Lisping Sedition: Poems, Endymion, and the Poetics of Dissent" (573-583) |
| Th | February 9 | Keats, "[I Stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill]" (21-27), "To ————-" (375-376) Paul de Man, "[The Negative Path]" (537-546) Quiz on Keats |
| T | February 14 | Letter to J. H. Reynolds, February 19, 1818 (126-127), "[Dear Reynolds, Last Night as I Lay My Bed]" (133-136) Stuart Sperry, "The Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" (583-592) |
| Th | February 16 | Midterm Exam |
| T | February 21 | Keats, "The Eve of St. Mark" (307-311) |
| Th | February 23 | Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes" (445-456) Jack Stillinger, "The Hoodwinking of Madeline: Skepticism in 'The Eve of St. Agnes'" (604-614) |
| T | February 28 | Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (461-462) Jeffrey N. Cox, "Cockney Classicism: History with Footnotes" (614-625) Peer-edit Poem Analysis Paper |
| Module Three: Literary History and Critical Approaches | ||
| Th | March 2 | Habib, Chs. 9-10 Career Services visit |
| T-Th | March 6-10 | Spring Break |
| T | March 14 | Discussion of Senior Portfolios for English Majors Habib, Chs. 12-13 |
| Th | March 16 | Habib, Chs. 15-17 Second librarian visit: introduction to key words, evaluation of sources, the MLA database Poem Analysis Paper Due |
| Module Four: Beloved and Research Skills | ||
| T | March 21 | Habib, Ch. 20 Toni Morrison, Beloved, "124 was spiteful" (3) — "it would have closed" (67) |
| Th | March 23 | Morrison, "Rainwater held on to pine needles" (68) — "the hem darkened in the water" (124) |
| T | March 28 | Morrison, "Out of sight of Mister's sight" (125) — "the far side of the trees" (195—end of Part One) |
| Th | March 30 | Morrison, "124 was loud" (199—beginning of Part Two) — "You are mine" (256) |
| T | April 4 | Morrison, "It was a tiny church" (257) — "Beloved" (322—end of the novel) |
| Th | April 6 | Quiz on Beloved Elizabeth B. House, "Toni Morrison's Ghost: The Beloved is Not Beloved" |
| T | April 11 | Contemporary Reviews of Beloved Contexts: Margaret Garner, Owen Dodson Andrew Chan, "Wild Pain" (film review) |
| Th | April 13 | Paul Henderson, "Tangled Roots, a Bloody Forest: Trees, Trauma, and Black Female Bodies in Beloved" Peer-Edit Critical Analysis Paper |
| T | April 18 | Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, "Gendering the Genderless: The Case of Toni Morrison's Beloved" |
| Th | April 20 | Andrew Hock Song Ng, "Toni Morrison's Beloved: Space, Architecture, Trauma" Critical Analysis Paper Due |
| Module Five: Conclusion | ||
| T | April 25 | Poster presentations |
| Th | April 27 | Poster presentations |
| Th | May 4 | Final Exam, 8-9:55am |
11 January 2023