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 below refer to the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. C, D, E, Eighth Edition.
| Part One: Realism and Naturalism | ||
| T | January 21 | Introduction |
| Th | January 23 | Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (67-71) Emily Dickinson, Poems 112, 202, 320 (94-97) |
| T | January 28 | Dickinson, Poems 591, 620 (103-104) |
| Th | January 30 | QUIZ ON WHITMAN AND DICKINSON Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter VIII (130-159) |
| T | February 4 | Twain, Chapters IX-XVII (159-194) |
| Th | February 6 | Twain, Chapters XVIII-XXV (195-235) BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
| T | February 11 | Twain, Chapters XXVI-XXXII (235-268) |
| Th | February 13 | Twain, Chapters XXXIII-end (268-309) EXAM ONE |
| T | February 18 | Kate Chopin, The Awakening, Chapters I-X (561-585) PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
| Th | February 20 | Chopin, Chapters XI-XXIX (585-607) |
| T | February 25 | Chopin, Chapters XX-XXIX (607-629) |
| Th | February 27 | QUIZ ON KATE CHOPIN Chopin, Chapters XXX-XXXIX (629-652) |
| T | March 4 | Booker T. Washington, From Up from Slavery, Chapters I, II (675-689) |
| Th | March 6 | Washington, Chapter XIV (689-697) W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, (885-901) |
| Part Two: Modernism | ||
| T | March 11 | Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" (232-233), "The Death of the Hired Man" (233-237), "The Wood-Pile" (241) |
| Th | March 13 | QUIZ ON WASHINGTON, DUBOIS, FROST Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" (285-288), "Anecdote of the Jar" (288-289), "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (291-292) |
| March 17-21 Spring Break | ||
| T | March 25 | William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (698-720) |
| Th | March 27 | Faulkner (720-739) |
| T | April 1 | Faulkner (740-761) |
| Th | April 3 | Faulkner (761-782) |
| T | April 8 | Faulkner (782-793) |
| Th | April 10 | QUIZ ON FAULKNER Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (871), "The Weary Blues" (872), "Note on Commercial Theatre" (876), "Madam and Her Madam" (877-878), "Madam's Calling Cards" (878-879) |
| Part Three: Literature after World War II | ||
| T | April 15 | Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo" (81-82), "In the Waiting Room" (83-85) Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" (167-171) |
| Th | April 17 | Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke" (316-218), "Skunk Hour" (318-319) |
| T | April 22 | Flannery O'Connor, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (437-444) |
| Th | April 24 | N. Scott Momaday, From The Way to Rainy Mountain (677-687) PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| T | April 29 | Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman, Act One (238-268) |
| Th | May 1 | Miller, Act Two (268-302), Requiem (302-303) ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| T | May 6 | Kay Ryan, "Say Uncle" (989), "The Material" (991), "Carrying a Ladder" (991-992), "Lighthouse Keeping" (992), "Home to Roost" (993), "Things Shouldn't Be So Hard" (993-994) |
| Th | May 8 | Junot Diaz, "Drown" (1240-1248) |
| W | May 14 | EXAM TWO, 4:00-5:55pm |
27 January 2014