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I'll use the margins to note works that would be great to have in this course but didn't fit. It's a work in progress, but I'll add a few as we go. Related to the Harlem Renaissance and the African American experience: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937. Excerpts (at least) from Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery, 1901 (chapters 1, 3, and 14), and W.E.B. Dubois's The Souls of Black Folks, 1903 (Chapters 1 and 3). John Dos Passos's USA Trilogy, 1930, 1932, 1936 | 20th-Century American Fiction (EL 349W, Fall 2012) <--Currently Developing EL349 Wiki - Author Links - More Am Lit Links - Site Menu - Contact/Home Books to buy are linked to Amazon.com pages. Recommended Book: The MLA Handbook (6th Edition!!) Recommended Book: They Say / I Say What You Can Buy for a Dollar Compute the Relative Historical Value of a US Dollar SCHEDULE Jump to: Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3 - Week 4 - Week 5 - Week 6 - Week 7 Week 8 - Week 9 - Week 10 - Week 11 - Week 12 - Week 13 - Week 14 - Final Week 1 (Sept. 5 and 7) Day 1: No Class Yet Day 2: Discussion of "Oread" (H.D.) & "The Emperor of Ice Cream" (Wallace Stevens) (Possibly more...) Day 3: Excerpts from Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson). Click here for Anderson e-texts ("Grotesque," "Hands," "Paper Pills," "Godliness" I-IV). Also: Modernism Handout. Due: Self Intro on Wiki Week 2 (Sept. 10, 12, and 14) Due Friday: 5 Contributions to Timeline of 20th-Century America (at Wiki) Day 1: Cane (Jean Toomer), Part 1; Also In Class: Intro to Author Inquiry Project and Research Parkour Day 2: Cane, Part 2 Day 3: Cane, Part 3 Week 3 (Sept. 17, 19, and 21) Due Monday: Claim Author on Wiki Due Friday: Proof of ILL Use Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #1 (Winesburg, Cane, or Gatsby) Day 1: The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Chapters 1 and 2 Day 2: Gatsby, through mid-Chapter 7, "So we drove on toward death..." Day 3: Gatsby, to the end A 6-year-old guesses what The Great Gatsby is about, based just on the cover: "I
think it's a book about a haunted theme park and it stars a magical
magic guy and he's good and evil and he's trying to get rid of the
ghosts. And I think at the end, since it's haunted by a ghost, he tried
to make the park go on fire and it did."
Week 4 (Sept. 24 , 26, and 28) Day 1: Ernest Hemingway (selections) "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" "Indian Camp" "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" "A Clean Well Lighted Place" Day 2: Passing (Nella Larsen), Parts 1 and 2 Day 3: Passing, to the end (Part 3) Week 5 (Oct. 1, 3, and 5) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Notes / Research Update (Author Inquiry Project) Day 1: As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner), to Vardaman section ending in the word "fish," p. 84 in Vintage 1990 edition Day 2: As I Lay Dying, to Addie section ending ""to them salvation is just words too," p. 176 in Vintage 1990 edition Day 3: As I Lay Dying, to the end Week 6 (Oct. 8, 10, and 12) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #2 (Hemingway, As I Lay, Steinbeck, Welty, or O'Connor) Day 1: John Steinbeck (selections) "The Leader of the People" The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 5 Day 3: Eudora Welty (selections) "A Worn Path" "Why I Live at the P.O." "Petrified Man" Day 2: Flannery O'Connor (selections)
Meet in Robinson 240!!!! "Greenleaf"
"Everything That Rises Must Converge" "Parker's Back" Week 7 (Oct. 15, 17, and 19) Midterm is Friday! Day 1: TBA/Catch Up/Midterm Prep Day 2: Inquiry Project Work Day Day 3: MIDTERM Week 8 (Oct. 22, 24, and 26) Due Before You Leave for Break: Author Inquiry Project (Thursday, 5:00 pm, at Latest) Day 1: Author Inquiry Work Day Day 2: Critical Analysis Prewriting Day Day 3: Fall Break Week 9 (Oct. 29 and 31, Nov. 2) Due by Lunchtime on Tuesday: Author Inquiry Project Due Friday, Any Time: Five Salient Facts About Your Author on the Wiki Timeline Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Initial Claim for Critical Analysis (Critical Analysis) Week 10 (Nov. 5, 7, and 9) Due Monday, 5:00 pm: Initial Claim for Critical Analysis (Critical Analysis) Day 1: Ragtime (E. L. Doctorow), Parts 3 and 4 Meet in Robinson 240!!!! Day 2: The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston), Chapters 1-2 Day 3: The Woman Warrior, Chapters 3-4 Week 11 (Nov. 12, 14, and 16) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #3 (Ragtime or Woman Warrior) Day 1: The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston), Chapter 5 Day 2: White Noise (Don Delillo), Part 1, "Waves and Radiation" Day 3: White Noise, Part 2, "The Airborne Toxic Event" Week 12 (Nov. 19, 21, and 23) Due Monday, 5:00 pm: Middle Paragraph (Critical Analysis) AND Due Before You Leave for Break: Middle Paragraph Critique + Middle Paragraph Critiqued Week 13 (Nov. 26, 28, and 30) Due Monday, 5:00 pm: Critical Analysis Day 1: Excerpts (Handout/TBA) from Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud) Day 2: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Chris Ware), to Here Day 3: Jimmy Corrigan, to the End Week 14 (Dec. 3, 5, and 7) Due Monday, 5:00 pm: Any Short Critical Response REVISIONS (See Revision Guidelines) Due Friday, 5:00 pm: Critical Response #4 (White, Jimmy, or Extremely Loud) Day 1: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer), to p. 107 Day 2: Extremely Loud, to p. 216 Day 3: Extremely Loud, to the End Week 15 (Dec. 10 + Dec. 12) Day 1: Final Meeting, Reading TBA FINAL: Wednesday, December 12, 1:00-3:00 pm. Email Dr. Johnson | If I were doing a set of short stories for Faulkner, rather than a novel, this is a likely list of texts: "Dry September" "Two Soldiers" "Shall Not Perish" "A Rose for Emily" Someday, I'd love to get one of O'Connor's two novels into the course: Wise Blood or The Violent Bear It Away. | ||
