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20th-Century American Fiction (EL 349W, Fall 2010) EL349 Wiki - Author Links - More Am Lit Links - Site Menu - Contact/Home (This page is a work in progress, and the schedule--including dates--is not all correct yet.) Books to buy are linked to Amazon.com pages. Writing assignments and due dates available on printed syllabus (see Bb or FJ). Recommended Book: The MLA Handbook (7th Edition!!) Recommended Book: They Say / I Say What You Can Buy for a Dollar Compute the Relative Historical Value of a US Dollar Week 1 (Sept. 8 and 10) Day 1: No Class Yet Day 2: Discussion of "Oread" (H.D.) & "The Emperor of Ice Cream" (Wallace Stevens) Day 3: Excerpts from Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson) Week 2 (Sept. 13, 15, and 17) Days 1-3: Cane (Jean Toomer) Week 3 (Sept. 20, 22, and 24) Days 1-3: The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Week 4 (Sept. 27 and 29, Oct. 1) Day 1: Ernest Hemingway (TBA) Day 2: Contexts: Harris, Washington, and Dubois (Handouts) Day 3: TBA Week 5 (Oct. 4, 6, and 8) Days 1-3: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston) Week 6 (Oct. 11, 13, and 15) Day 1: William Faulkner (TBA) Day 2: Flannery O'Connor (TBA) Day 3: Eudora Welty (TBA) Week 7 (Oct. 18, 20, and 22) Days 1: TBA Day 2: Midterm Prep Day 3: MIDTERM Week 8 (Oct. 25, 27, and 29) Day 1: Author Inquiry Work Day Day 2: Critical Analysis Prewriting Day Day 3: Fall Break Week 9 (Nov. 1, 3, and 5) Week 10 (Nov. 8, 10, and 12) Week 11 (Nov. 15, 17, and 19) Week 12 (Nov. 22, 24, and 26) Week 13 (Nov. 29, Dec. 1 and 3) Excerpts (Handout/TBA) from Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud) + Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Chris Ware) Week 14 (Dec. 6, 8, and 10) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer) Week 15 (Dec. 13 + Dec. 17) Day 1: Final Meeting, Reading TBA FINAL: Friday, December 17, 1:00-3:00 pm. Email Dr. Johnson | ||