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Week 1 08/30 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction |
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• Essay Guidelines |
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Wednesday: |
Guidelines for Reading
Intertextuality
Literary Devices
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• demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process |
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Friday: |
Types of Conflict
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Classification of Literature |
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Literary Modes |
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• demo-Conflict and Classification |
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Week 2 09/06 |
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Monday: |
School Closed; Labor Day
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Wednesday: |
Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales |
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• demo-Definitions of Early Genres |
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Myth: Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth “Admetus and Alcestis”
Fable: Aesop, “The Old Man and Death”
Parable: Buddha, “The Parable of the Elephant”
Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native Americans,
“How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas”
>Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide |
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Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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Friday: |
lecture canceled |
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Week 3 09/13 |
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Monday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose Girl” —supplemental
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Wednesday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm, “GodFather Death” —supplemental |
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• demo: Freytag's Pyramid |
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• demo: Comparisons of Elements |
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Friday: |
Comparison of Elements • Literary Criticism Overview
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• demo: Literary Criticism Overview-part 1 |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis || due Friday 10.01.10 |
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Week 4 09/20 |
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Monday: |
Nadine Gordimer, “Once Upon a Time” p 127 |
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• demo: Literary Criticism Overview-part 2 |
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Wednesday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism, Fertility Symbols |
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• demo: Fertility Symbols
• demo 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” part 1, p 366 -378 |
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Friday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” part 2, p 378-389 |
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• demo: Characters, Archetypes, Symbols, Setting |
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• demo2: Milton and Hawthorne |
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Banned Book Week: September 25-October 2, 2010 |
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Week 5 09/27 |
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Monday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” —supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
Group Discussions/Presentation |
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• demo-Types of Narration and Irony |
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Friday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 624
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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Week 6 10/04 |
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Monday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” —supplemental |
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• demo-Definition of Tragic Hero
>Faulkner's Interpretation
>William Faulkner on the Web |
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Wednesday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 616 |
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• demo-Definition of Anti-Hero |
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Friday: |
James Joyce, “Araby” —supplemental |
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Week 7 10/11 |
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Monday: |
Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” —supplemental
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Wednesday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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Friday: |
Review for Midterm |
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Week 8 10/18 |
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Monday: |
Midterm |
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Wednesday: |
Flash Fiction |
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Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel” p 911 |
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• demo .:—and then again, perhaps not... |
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Emily St. John Mandel, "Hint Fiction: Brevity is the Soul of What?" book review |
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11.13.2010: NPR news item: "Hint Fiction Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story" |
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(To listen to archive recording of item, click here.) |
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Friday: |
Jamaica Kincaid, “Girl“ p 415 |
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Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” —supplemental |
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Discuss final project expectations. |
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Week 9 10/25 |
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Monday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 1026 |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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Wednesday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 1026 |
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• Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone |
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• Image of caryatid |
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Friday: |
Ray Bradbury, “The October Game” —supplemental |
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Week 10 11/01 |
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Monday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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Formal Declaration of Thesis due |
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• demo |
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Eve Merriam, “How to Eat a Poem” |
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Nonsense Poems |
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• demo-Limericks |
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English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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Wednesday: |
Poetical Devices and Terminologies |
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• demo |
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Haiku |
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• demo |
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Friday: |
e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13”—supplemental
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James Wright, “Lying in a Hammock” —supplemental |
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Week 11 11/08 |
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Monday:
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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 679 |
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• video: Recitation of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” |
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• demo |
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Wednesday: |
Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 406 |
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> Sylvia Plath Reads “Daddy” |
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> S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide March 16, 2009 |
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• demo |
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Emily Dickinson, “#241 (I Like a Look of Agony)” —supplemental |
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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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Friday: |
William Blake, “London” p 1020
“The Sick Rose” —supplemental
Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep” —supplemental |
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Last Day to Drop Class and Receive a 'W' |
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Assignment 2: Poetry Analysis due Wednesday 11.24.10 |
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Week 12 11/15 |
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Monday-Wednesday: |
Allen Ginsberg, "America" p 995 |
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“A Supermarket in California” p 999 |
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Walt Whitman, “As Adam Early in the Morning” —supplemental |
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> Pearls Before Swine comic strip |
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Friday: |
History of the Sonnet: F. Petrarch, H. Howard, E. Spencer, attributed to W. Shakespeare |
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• demo |
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Week 13 11/22 |
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Monday: |
William Shakespeare “Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare)” p 667 |
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William Shakespeare “Sonnet 116 (Let Me Not)” p 666 |
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> Illustration |
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Wednesday: |
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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Friday: |
School Closed; Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week 14 11/29 |
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Monday: |
Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More” —supplemental |
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John Berryman, “Sonnet 115” —supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
William Carlos Williams “Danse Russe” p 685 |
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William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” p 1146 |
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Friday: |
e. e. cummings, three poems —supplemental |
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Final Project due. |
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Week 15 12/06 |
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Monday: |
Lynda Hull “Ornithology” —supplemental
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Wednesday: |
Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth” —supplemental |
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Seamus Heaney “Digging” p 414 |
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Friday: |
Review for Final |
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Finals Week |
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Class meets at scheduled time for final exam. |
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