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.
REMEMBER: Wednesday classes last twice as long as Monday and Friday classes.
| W |
September 8 |
Introduction |
| Part I: Realism and Naturalism |
| F |
September 10 |
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" |
| M |
September 13 |
Emily Dickinson, Poems 214, 258, 435, 449 |
| W |
September 15 |
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Introduction-Chapter XVI |
| F |
September 17 |
Twain, Chapters XVII-XXIV |
| M |
September 20 |
Twain, Chapter XXV-XXXII |
| W |
September 22 |
Twain, Chapter XXXIII to the end |
| F |
September 24 |
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT ONE FOR PEER EDITING.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper |
| M |
September 27 |
Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle" |
| W |
September 29 |
Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery, pp. 746-760 |
| F |
October 1 |
Washington, pp. 760-end
ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE IN CLASS. |
| M |
October 4 |
W. E. B Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk up to p. 893 |
| W |
October 6 |
Du Bois, pp. 893-901
Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" |
| F |
October 8 |
MIDTERM EXAM |
| Part II: Modernism |
| M |
October 11 |
Robert Frost, "Mowing," "Mending Wall," "The Wood Pile" |
| W |
October 13 |
Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" |
| F |
October 15 |
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, pp. 3-37 |
| M |
October 18 |
Faulkner, pp. 38-75 |
| W |
October 20 |
Faulkner, pp. 76-124 |
| F |
October 22 |
Faulkner, pp. 125-179 |
| M |
October 25 |
Faulkner, pp. 180-264 |
| W |
October 27 |
Faulkner, pp. 265-end |
| F |
October 29 |
Faulkner, concluding thoughts |
| M |
November 1 |
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Silhouette," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Democracy" |
| W |
November 3 |
Ezra Pound, "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley"
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| F |
November 5 |
William Carlos Williams, "The Young Housewife," "Spring and All," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "Death," "This Is Just to Say" |
| M |
November 8 |
Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night, Act 1 |
| W |
November 10 |
O'Neill, Act 2 |
| F |
November 12 |
O'Neill, Act 3 |
| Part III: After World War II |
| M |
November 15 |
Flannery O'Connor, "Good Country People" |
| W |
November 17 |
Robert Lowell, "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," "Skunk Hour" |
| F |
November 19 |
Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo," "In the Waiting Room" |
| M |
November 22 |
Richard Wilbur, "A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness," "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" |
| W |
November 24 |
Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" |
| F |
November 26 |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
| M |
November 29 |
N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| W |
December 1 |
Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus," "Ariel," "Daddy"
Charles Simic, "Fork," "Prodigy," "The Devils," "The White Room"
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| F |
December 3 |
BRING DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT TWO TO CLASS FOR PEER EDITING. |
| M |
December 6 |
Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" |
| W |
December 8 |
Donald Barthelme, "The Balloon"
Frank O'Hara, "The Day Lady Died" |
| F |
December 10 |
Louise Glück, "Terminal Resemblance"
Billy Collins, "Osso Buco"
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| M |
December 13 |
Louise Erdrich, Fleur
ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS. |
| W |
December 15 |
A. R. Ammons, "Easter Morning"
Robert Pinsky, "At Pleasure Bay" |
| F |
December 17 |
Review for final exam |
| F |
December 21 |
FINAL EXAM FROM 10 TO 11:55AM |
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