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.
| Part One: Realism and Naturalism | ||
| T | January 17 | Introduction |
| Th | January 19 | Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" |
| T | January 24 | Emily Dickinson, Poems 39, 112, 124, 202, 207, 320, 448 |
| Th | January 26 | Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter VIII |
| T | January 31 | Twain, Chapters IX-XVI |
| Th | February 2 | Twain, Chapters XVII-XXI BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
| T | February 7 | Twain, Chapters XXII-XXVIII |
| Th | February 9 | Twain, Chapters XXIX-XXXV PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
| T | February 14 | Twain, Chapters XXXVI-end |
| Th | February 16 | MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
| T | February 21 | Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle" |
| Th | February 23 | Booker T. Washington, From Up from Slavery |
| T | February 28 | Charles Chesnutt, "The Wife of His Youth" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-paper" |
| Th | March 1 | W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk |
| T | March 6 | Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" |
| Part Two: Modernism | ||
| Th | March 8 | Robert Frost, "Mending Wall," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Home Burial," "Out, Out—" |
| March 12-16 | Spring Break | |
| T | March 20 | Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning," "Anecdote of the Jar," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" |
| Th | March 22 | William Carlos Williams, "The Young Housewife," "Spring an All," "The Red Wheelbarrow," "This Is Just to Say," "The Dance" |
| T | March 27 | William Faulkner,The Sound and the Fury, "April Seventh, 1928" |
| Th | March 29 | Faulkner, "June Second, 1910," pp. 76-124 |
| T | April 3 | Faulkner, "June Second, 1910," pp. 125-179 |
| Th | April 5 | Faulkner, "April Sixth, 1928" |
| T | April 10 | Faulkner, "April Eighth, 1928" |
| Th | April 12 | T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "The Weary Blues," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Note on Commercial Theater" |
| Part Three: Literature after World War II | ||
| T | April 17 | Elizabeth Bishop, "At the Fishhouses," "The Armadillo" Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke," "Skunk Hour" |
| Th | April 19 | Richard Wilbur, "'A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness," "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" Frank O'Hara, "Why I Am Not a Painter" PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| T | April 24 | N. Scott Momaday, From The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| Th | April 26 | Donald Barthelme, "The Balloon" Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| T | May 1 | August Wilson, Fences, Act 1 |
| Th | May 3 | August Wilson, Act 2 |
| M | May 7 | Final Exam, noon-1:55pm |
29 January 2011