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, Ninth Edition.
| Part One: Realism and Naturalism | ||
| W | January 11 | Introduction |
| F | January 13 | Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (66-70), "The Wound Dresser" (76-78) |
| W | January 18 | Emily Dickinson, Poems 124, 207, 225, 320, "There's a Certain Slant of Light" (revised version of 320) |
| F | January 20 | QUIZ ON WHITMAN AND DICKINSON Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Introduction-Chapter X (119-154) |
| W | January 25 | Twain, Chapters XI-XVIII (154-193) |
| F | January 27 | Twain, Chapters XIX-XXV (193-227) |
| W | February 1 | Twain, Chapters XXVI-XXXIII (227-265) BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING (revised date) |
| F | February 3 | Twain, Chapters XXXIV-end (265-302) |
| W | February 8 | MIDTERM EXAM |
| F | February 10 | Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle" (467-497) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (842-855), "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" (856) PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
| W | February 15 | Booker T. Washington, From Up from Slavery, Chapters I, II (699-723) |
| F | February 17 | W. E. B. DuBois, From The Souls of Black Folk, (885-901) |
| Part Two: Modernism | ||
| W | February 22 | QUIZ ON JAMES, GILMAN, WASHINGTON AN DUBOIS Robert Frost, "Mowing" (219-220), "Mending Wall" (220-221), ", "The Death of the Hired Man" (221-225) |
| F | February 24 | Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning" (273-276) |
| W | March 1 | Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar" (276) William Carlos Williams, "The Young Housewife" (283-284), "The Red Wheelbarrow" (288), "This Is Just to Say" (289) |
| F | March 3 | T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (355-359) William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, pp. 669-689 (Darl, Cora, Darl, Jewel, Darl, Cora, Dewey Dell, Tull, Anse, Darl, Peabody, Darl, Vardaman) |
| March 6-10 | Spring Break | |
| W | March 15 | Faulkner, pp. 689-709 (Dewey Dell, Vardaman, Tull, Darl, Cash, Vardaman, Tull, Darl, Cash, Darl, Vardaman, Darl, Anse, Darl, Anse, Samson) |
| F | March 17 | Faulkner, pp. 710-729 (Dewey Dell, Tull, Darl, Tull, Darl, Vardaman, Tull, Darl, Cash, Cora) |
| W | March 22 | Faulkner, pp. 729-750 (Addie, Whitfield, Darl, Armstid, Vardaman, Moseley, Darl, Vardaman, Darl, Vardaman, Darl) |
| F | March 24 | Faulkner, pp. 750-764 (Vardaman, Darl, Cash, Peabody, MacGowan, Vardaman, Darl, Dewey Dell, Cash) |
| W | March 29 | QUIZ ON FAULKNER Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (835), "Mother to Son" (835-836), "The Weary Blues" (836), "Mulatto" (837-838) |
| Part Three: Literature after World War II | ||
| F | March 31 | Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman, Act I (221-251) |
| W | April 5 | Miller, Act II, Requiem (251-286) |
| F | April 7 | The Death of a Salesman in performance |
| W | April 12 | Elizabeth Bishop, "At the Fishhouses" (61-62), "The Armadillo" (64-65) PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| F | April 14 | Robert Hayden, "Middle Passage" (150-154) |
| W | April 19 | Robert Lowell, "Memories of West Street and Lepke" (299-301), "Skunk Hour" (301-302) N. Scott Momaday, From The Way to Rainy Mountain (674-684) |
| F | April 21 | Sherman Alexie, "At Navajo Valley Tribal School" (1166-1167), "Pawn Shop" (1167-1168), "Sister Fire, Brother Smoke" (1168), "From Tourists" (1168-1169), "The Exaggeration of Despair" (1169-1170), "Crow Testament" (1170-1171) ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| W | April 26 | August Wilson, Fences, Act 1 (921-948) |
| F | April 28 | Wilson, Act 2 (948-967) |
| F | May 5 | FINAL EXAM, 2:00-3:55pm |
12 January 2017