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Week 1 08/29 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction |
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• Essay Guidelines |
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Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality, Literary Devices
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• demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process |
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• blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander |
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• blog-commentary from Honest Publishing secondary reading |
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Wednesday: |
Types of Conflict
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• demo-Antagonists and 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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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” |
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Fable: Aesop, “The Old Man and Death” |
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Parable: Buddha, “The Parable of the Elephant” |
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Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native Americans, |
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“How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas” |
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>Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide |
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Week 2 09/05 |
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Monday: |
Labor Day |
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Wednesday: |
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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• another blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander |
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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose Girl” —supplemental |
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Week 3 09/12 |
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Monday: |
Jacob & 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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• demo: Literary Criticism Overview-part 1 |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis || due Wednesday 10/05 |
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Wednesday: |
Nadine Gordimer, “Once Upon a Time” p 127 |
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• overview demo |
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• demo: Literary Criticism Overview-part 2 |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” part 1, p 366 -378 |
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• demo: Fertility Symbols
• demo 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism |
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Week 4 09/19 |
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Monday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” part 2, p 378-389
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• demo: Milton and Hawthorne |
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Wednesday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" —supplemental |
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• demo-Types of Narration and Irony |
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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• demo-Video clip of death watch beetle |
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Week 5 09/26 |
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Monday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 624 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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Wednesday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” —supplemental |
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• demo-Faulkner |
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• demo-Definition of Tragic Hero |
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> Chronology |
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>William Faulkner on the Web |
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> Rose colors and their symbols |
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> Selected Clips of Faulkner Responding to Questions |
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> Faulkner's Style |
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Week 6 10/03 |
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Monday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 616 |
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• demo-Definition of Anti-hero |
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Wednesday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 611 |
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• demo |
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Flash Fiction |
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• demo .:—and then again, perhaps not... |
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Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel” p 911 |
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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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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due |
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Week 7 10/10 |
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Monday: |
• Expectations of Final Project |
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• Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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Sophocles Antigone p 1026 |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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• Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone |
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• Image of caryatid |
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Wednesday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases • Annotation of Articles |
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Library Essay Assignment due Monday 10/17 |
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Week 8 10/17 |
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Monday: |
Review for Midterm |
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Review Sophocles Antigone p 1026 |
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Wednesday: |
Midterm |
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Week 9 10/24 |
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Monday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo |
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• Richard Siken, audio clips from Fish House Press |
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>Q&A: Hearing a Poem and Reading a Poem |
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Eve Merriam, “How to Eat a Poem” |
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William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say” |
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Anne Sexton, “Two Hands” |
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• blog commentary-reprint of a lecture by Jack Spicer |
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English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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Wednesday: |
English/Irish Folk Ballads-part 2 |
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•video: "The Unquiet Grave"
•video: "I am Stretched on Your Grave" |
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Poetical Devices and Terminologies |
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Christopher Higgs, "What is Experimental Literature?" - part 1 |
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• demo-Approaches to Poetry |
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Week 10 10/31 |
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Monday: |
Poetical Devices and Terminologies-part 2 |
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• demo-Approaches to Poetry |
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• demo |
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Wednesday: |
Haiku —supplemental (for handouts) |
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• Haiku Poems |
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• demo |
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Yet Another Definition of Haiku |
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Creative Writing Assignment due Wednesday 11/09 |
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e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13”—supplemental |
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Week 11 11/07 |
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Monday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 679 |
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• demo |
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• video: Recitation of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” |
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• video: T. S. Eliot recites "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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William Carlos Williams “Danse Russe” p 685 |
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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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> "The Disquieting Muses" by Giorgio de Chirico 1916, Metaphysical Modern Art |
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Assignment 2: Poetry Analysis |
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Friday: |
Last day for withdrawal from class |
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Week 12 11/14 |
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Monday: |
Emily Dickinson, “#241 (I Like a Look of Agony)” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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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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Stephen Dobyns, “The Delicate, Plummeting Bodies” —supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
William Blake, “The Sick Rose” —supplemental |
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Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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William Blake, “London” p 1020 |
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Week 13 11/21 |
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Monday: |
Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” p 999 |
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• demo |
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Walt Whitman, “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” p 143 |
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> Pearls Before Swine comic strip |
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Wednesday: |
History of the Sonnet |
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• demo |
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Supplemental Sonnets: F. Petrarch, H. Howard, E. Spenser |
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Thursday: |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week 14 11/28 |
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Monday: |
History of the Sonnet: Reveiw of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas |
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William Shakespeare “Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare)” p 667 |
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> Contemporary Illustration |
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> Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594 (Fitzwilliam_Museum) |
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William Shakespeare “Sonnet 126 (O, Thou My Lovely Boy)” |
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William Shakespeare “Sonnet 130 (My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun)” |
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Wednesday: |
Modern and Contemporary Sonnets |
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e. e. cummings, three poems —supplemental |
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John Berryman, "115" |
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Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More” —supplemental |
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Final Project due |
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Week 15 12/05 |
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Monday: |
Contemporary Poetry |
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Mark Rothko Chapel |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth” —supplemental |
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Lynda Hull “Ornithology” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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Wednesday: |
Contemporary Poetry Continued |
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Review for Final |
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Week 16 12/14 |
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Wednesday: |
Final Exam 1:00 pm- 2:50 pm |
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• Bring Blue Book to class |
