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EL 206 | American Literature After 1865 (Spring 2013) Am Lit 2 (Course Homepage) - FJ Contact/Home - Course Wiki - Simple Site Menu Author Links: Before ~1860 | 1860 - 1910 | 1910 - 1945 | 1945 ff Timelines (Best with a Fast Net Connection) American
Literature Timeline (Developing)
Am Lit Timeline + Some Brit Lit and Presidents (Developing) American Literature Links, General Paul
Reuben's Perspectives in American Literature Site
Donna Campbell's American Authors Site American Masters Series (PBS) American Literature (Online Texts) American Passages (Annenberg) Voices and Visions (13 American Poets, Annenberg) Perspectives on American Literature (Paul P. Reuben) Voices from the Gaps (University of Minnesota) Lesley Ginsberg's American Literature, 1865 ff, Links American Studies Crossroads Project American Studies at University of Virginia Find e-Texts Project
Gutenberg
Open Library (by the Internet Archive) "Read Print" Online Books and Texts U VA Modern English eTexts ManyBooks.net More Stuff Find
the Relative/Historical Value of a Dollar
Hyper Concordance to Many Major Writers (M. Matsuoka) 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 (Feb. 5 and 7) Due Friday: Sign up for research subject (on wiki) before Friday's class. Day 1: No Class Yet
Day 2: Course Introduction Day 3: Twain (Indexed as Samuel Clemens): "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog," Huck Finn Chapters 1-2, 31 (@Bb); watch "Wikis in Plain English" (online) Remember
to begin your questions and comments journal!
Week 2 (Feb. 10, 12, and 14) Due Monday: Self intro on course wiki (link above) before class. Day 1: Folk Tales: “When Brer Deer
and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race”; “Who Ate Up the Butter?”;
“Malitis”; “The Flying Africans” + Harris (all selections) ///
Note: Where you find the transcribed dialects hard to
"translate," try reading aloud.
Day 2: Howells: “from The Editor’s Study,” “Editha” Day 3: James: Daisy Miller (Parts I and II) + Review "Realism" Handout (Available on Bb) Optional/Recommended:
This
week would be a good time to meet with classmates and workshop
your reading responses. Or to take a draft of your reading
response to the Writing Center for a consultation.
Keep up with your questions and comments journal! Week 3 (Feb. 17, 19, and 21) Due Friday at 5:00: Critical Response 1 Day 1: Daisy
Miller (Parts III and IV)
Day 2: Garland: “Up the Coulé” Day 3: Crane: “The Open Boat,” “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” selected poems (all) + Review "Naturalism" Handout (Available on Bb) Week 4 (Feb. 24 and 26) Monday: Remember that you need to either PRINT online texts or have some way (Kindle? iPad? Laptop?) to view your electronic copy in class. Day 1: London: “South of the
Slot,” “To
Build a Fire” (online)
Day 2: Freeman: “A New England Nun”; Jewett: “A White Heron” Day 3: No Class (Faculty Development Day) Are
you keeping up with your questions and comments journal?
Week 5 (Mar. 3, 5, and 7) Friday: Exam 1 is on Friday! Day 1: Chopin: “Desiree’s Baby”;
Wharton: “The Valley of Childish Things”
(Notes:
Wharton is in Vol. D! You can also find "The Valley" here,
if you'd like a printable/online version. Read only Chapter 1
of "The Valley," if you choose the online version.)
Day 2: Wharton: “The Other Two,” “Roman Fever” Day 3: EXAM 1 Optional/Recommended:
This would be a good week to meet with some of your classmates
and study together for the exam.
Week 6 (Mar. 10, 12, and 14) Due Friday at 5:00: Critical Response 2 Day 1: Oskison: “The Problem of
Old Harjo”; Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Bonnin): from The
School Days of
an Indian Girl
Day 2: Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton): "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian" (in the text) and "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" (Available via Bb) Day 3: MODERNISM PRIMER: Pound: "A Retrospect," "In a Station of the Metro"; H.D.: "Oread"; Eliot: "Preludes"; Sandburg: "Chicago," "Fog" + Review Modernism Handout (Available on Bb) Optional/Recommended:
Another good week to meet with classmates and workshop your
reading responses.
Week 7 (Mar. 17, 19, and 21) Due Friday at 5:00: Questions and Comments Journal, Part 1 Day 1: Anderson: “Hands”;
Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants"; Stein: from The
Making of Americans
Day 2: Hemingway: “The Killers” (Bb); Cummings: “Buffalo Bill’s,” “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls,” “pity this busy monster, manunkind,” “plato told,” “next to of course god America i” (online) Day 3: Williams: “The Young Housewife," “Portrait of a Lady,” “The Red Wheelbarrow” (online), "The Great Figure" (online), “This is Just to Say” (online); Stevens: “The Snow Man,” "Anecdote of the Jar," “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” (online) <<SPRING BREAK>> Week 8 (Mar. 31, Apr. 2 and 4) Day 1: Washington: Up
from Slavery Chapters
3 and 14;
Dubois: The Souls of Black
Folk Chapters 1 and 3
Day 2: Toomer: “Blood Burning Moon”; Hughes: “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (prose); “The Negro Speaks of Rivers, “The Same,” “Harlem,” “The Weary Blues” (p. 1931 in 6th ed.) Day 3: Cullen: “Incident,” “Pagan Prayer,” “Yet Do I Marvel, “Heritage”; Hurston: “Sweat” Optional/Recommended:
Meet with classmates? Workshop your reading response?
Week 9 (Apr. 7, 9, and 11) NEXT Monday: Notice that Exam 2 will be next week on Monday! Due Friday at 5:00: Reading Response 3 (But I suggest you do it earlier to give yourself more breathing room before the exam.) Day 1: Masters: “Petit, the Poet,”
“Seth Compton,” “Lucinda Matlock”; Frost: “Mending Wall,” “The
Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Day 2: Faulkner: "Barn Burning" Day 3: Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Optional/Recommended:
Exam prep with classmates?
Week 10 (Apr. 14, 16, and 18) Monday: Exam 2 is on MONDAY! Day 1:
EXAM
2
Day 2: Welty: “The Wide Net”; O’Connor: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Day 3: Good Friday Week 11 (Apr. 21, 23, and 25) Due Friday at 5:00: Critical Response 4 Day 1: Walker: “Laurel," “Everyday
Use” (Available on Bb)
Day 2: Baldwin: “Sonny’s Blues” Day 3: Baraka: “Dutchman” + Advice: Begin Drafting and Reading for Your Upcoming Reflective Essay Optional/Recommended:
Reading response workshop? Or meet to discuss the upcoming
reflective essay?
Week 12 (Apr. 28 and 30, May 2) Due Friday at 5:00: Questions and Comments Journal, Part 2 Due Friday at 5:00: Any Critical Response Revisions (See Guidelines/Assignment) Day 1: Barth: “Lost in the
Funhouse”
Day 2: Oates: “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” Day 3: Beats: Ginsberg: “A Supermarket in California,” “Howl,” “America”; Kerouac: “The Vanishing American Hobo” Week 13 (May 5, 7, and 9) Due Friday at 5:00: Critical Response Reflective "Meditation" Essay Day 1: Danticat: "New York Day
Women," "Children of the Sea" (On Bb)
Day 2: Okada: from No-No Boy; Diaz: "Drown" (On Bb) Day 3: Alexie: “Because My Father . . .”; Cisneros: “Eleven” Bonus (Not Required): "Oral Tradition" (Clip for Smoke Signals, Dir. Alexie) Week 14 (May 12 + Exam) Day 1: TBA
EXAM 3: Tues., May 13, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM Optional/Recommended:
Exam prep with classmates.
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