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Week 1 08/24 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
General Essay Modes
Guidelines for Reading
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Wednesday: |
General Essay Guidelines |
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> Literary Analysis Guidelines |
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> Vitalpoetics: An on-line Critical Literary Theory Magazine |
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Types of Conflict
Literary
Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature
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Friday: |
Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tales supplemental handout
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Aesop's Fables supplemental handout |
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> Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth Admetus and Alcestis |
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> On-line Collection of Aesop Fables |
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> Important Terms: Literary Devices |
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Various Journals online supplemental |
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Week 2 08/31 |
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Monday: |
Fairy Tales
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Archetypes |
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Jakob & Wilhelm Grim "The Goose Girl" |
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Wednesday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grim "GodFather Death" |
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> An On-line Collection of Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales |
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> Analysis of selected Fairy Tales |
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Friday: |
Nadine Gordimer "Once Upon a Time" p 127 |
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Assignment 1: Diagnostic Analysis |
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Week 3 09/07 |
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Monday: |
School Holiday |
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Wednesday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” supplemental handout
> Official Edgar Allan Poe site |
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Friday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” supplemental handout
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> Colin Dray: Death of the ‘I’: Double-Suicide in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ |
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> The Mystery regarding the sounds heard in TTH |
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Assignment 2: Comparative Analysis |
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Week 4 09/14 |
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Monday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” p 366 |
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Wednesday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 624 |
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Friday: |
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” supplemental handout
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> Faulkner's Interpretation |
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> William Faulkner on the Web |
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> William Faulkner's Home in Oxford, MS: Rowan Oak |
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Week 5 09/21 |
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Monday: |
James Joyce “Eveline” p 616 |
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Wednesday: |
James Joyce “Araby” supplemental handout |
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Friday: |
Richard Wright “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” supplemental handout
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Week 6 09/28 |
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Monday: |
Carolyn Forche "The Colonel" p 911 |
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Jamaica Kincaid "Girl" p 415 |
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Wednesday: |
Ray Bradbury “I See You Never” supplemental handout |
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> Official Ray Bradbury site |
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Friday: |
Virginia Woolf "A Haunted House" supplemental handout |
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Week 7 10/05 |
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Monday: |
W. S. Merwin "Phoebe" supplemental handout
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Wednesday: |
Ray Bradbury “The October Game” supplemental handout |
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Friday: |
In-class exercise- part 1 |
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Week 8 10/12 |
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Monday: |
In-class exercise-part 2 |
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Wednesday: |
Review |
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Friday: |
Midterm |
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Week 9 10/19 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction to Literary Criticism Research |
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Final Project expectations |
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Wednesday: |
Library Orientation |
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Friday: |
How to declare a thesis |
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Declaration of Thesis due Monday 11.02 |
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Week 10 10/26 |
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Monday:
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How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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> Modern American Poets |
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Wednesday: |
English/Irish Folk Ballads: "Lucy Wan" "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" "The Unquiet Grave" |
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> On-line Collection of traditional & contemporary folk songs |
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Friday: |
Haiku |
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Basho supplemental handout |
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Haiku Society of America |
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Week 11 11/02 |
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Monday: |
Richard Wright supplemental handout |
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James Wright, "Lying in a Hammock" supplemental handout |
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Wednesday: |
William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe" p 685 |
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Anne Sexton "Cinderella" p 157 |
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Sylvia Plath "Daddy" p 406 |
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Friday: |
Sylvia Plath "Lady Lazarus" supplemental handout |
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> S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide March 16, 2009 |
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Emily Dickinson "#241 (I Like a Look of Agony)" supplemental handout |
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The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup |
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and Full image |
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Assignment 3: Poetry Explication, due 11.16 |
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Week 12 11/09 |
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Monday: |
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" p 679 |
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Wednesday: |
Allen Ginsberg "A Supermarket in California" p 999 "America" p 995 |
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Walt Whitman "Out of the Cradle" p 143 |
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> Pearls Before Swine comic strip |
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Friday: |
William Blake "London" p 1020 |
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"The Sick Rose" |
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"The Chimney Sweep" (from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience) |
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supplemental handout |
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Week 13 11/16 |
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Monday: |
e. e. cummings "l(a" "in Just" supplemental handout |
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"13" |
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Wednesday: |
Sonnet Introduction |
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Friday: |
Sonnet: Petrarch to English Renaissance, Edmund Spenser supplemental handout |
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> An On-line Collection of English Sonnets |
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> Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism |
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> Edmund Spenser - The Complete Amoretti and Epithalamion |
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> Lady Mary Wroth - a female perspective on the English sonnets |
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> Sonnets created in Spanish |
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Week 14 11/23 |
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Monday: |
William Shakespeare "Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare thee)" p 667
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William Shakespeare "Sonnet 116 (Let Me Not)" p 666 |
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William Shakespeare "Sonnet 29 (When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes)" |
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William Shakespeare "Sonnet 130 (My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun)" |
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Wednesday: |
Various Sonnets supplemental handout |
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Friday: |
School Holiday |
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Week 15 11/30 |
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Monday: |
Student/Teacher Conference Day |
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Wednesday: |
Lynda Hull "Ornithology" supplemental handout |
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> Mark Doty: A Personal Response to "Ornithology" |
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Susan Mitchell "Havana Birth" supplemental handout |
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Seamus Heaney "Digging" p 414 |
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Friday: |
Review for Final |
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Finals 12/07 |
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Class meets at scheduled time for final exam. |
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