| |
Week 1 01/12 |
|
| |
Monday: |
Basic introduction
General Essay Modes
Guidelines for Reading
General Essay Guidelines
|
| |
 |
Literary Analysis Guidelines |
| |
|
Vitalpoetics: An on-line Critical Literary Theory Magazine |
| |
Wednesday: |
Types of Conflict
Literary
Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature
Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tale
Aesop
Important Terms: Literary Devices
|
| |
|
On-line Collection of Aesop Fables |
| |
Friday: |
Various Journals online supplemental
Assignment 1: Narrative
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Week 2 01/19 |
|
| |
Monday: |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day / no class |
| |
Wednesday: |
Fairy Tales
Archetypes
Jakob & Wilhelm Grim "The Goose Girl" |
| |
Friday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grim "GodFather Death" |
| |
|
An On-line Collection of Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales |
| |
|
Analysis of selected Fairy Tales |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 3 01/26 |
|
| |
Monday: |
Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth Admetus and Alcestis
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” p 1463 |
| |
Wednesday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 186
Official Edgar Allan Poe site
Author John Updike dies at 76 years |
| |
Friday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” p 319
|
| |
|
Colin Dray: Death of the ‘I’: Double-Suicide in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ |
| |
|
The Mystery regarding the sounds heard in TTH |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
Week 4 02/02 |
|
| |
Monday: |
Creating a Literary Analysis
Assignment 2: Comparative Analysis, due 2.09 |
| |
Wednesday: |
Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 772 |
| |
Friday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 557
|
| |
|
|
| |
Week 5 02/09 |
|
| |
Monday: |
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”
Faulkner's Interpretation |
| |
Wednesday: |
William Faulkner “Wash” p 981
Assignment 3: Comparative Analysis, due 02.23 Monday |
| |
Friday: |
William Faulkner
|
| |
|
William Faulkner on the Web |
| |
|
William Faulkner's Home in Oxford, MS: Rowan Oak |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 6 02/16 |
|
| |
Monday: |
Richard Wright “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” supplemental handout |
| |
Wednesday: |
Ray Bradbury “The October Game”
Official Ray Bradbury site |
| |
Friday: |
Virginia Woolf "A Haunted House" supplemental handout |
| |
|
| |
Week 7 02/23 |
|
| |
Monday: |
Ray Bradbury: “I See You Never” supplemental handout
|
| |
Wednesday: |
James Joyce “Araby” p 790 |
| |
Friday: |
Ursula K. LeGuin “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p.1139 |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 8 03/02 |
|
| |
Monday: |
Jorge Luis Borges “The House of Asterion” p99 |
| |
Wednesday: |
review |
| |
Friday: |
Midterm |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 9 03/09- 09/13 Spring Break / no classes this week |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 10 03/16 |
| |
Monday:
|
Basic introduction to Literary Criticism Research
Final Project expectations |
| |
Wednesday: |
Library Orientation |
| |
Friday: |
How to declare a thesis
Declaration of Thesis due Monday 03.23 |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 11 03/23 |
| |
Monday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
| |
|
English Folk Ballad: Lucy Wan |
| |
|
On-line Collection of traditional & contemporary folk songs |
| |
|
Modern American Poets |
| |
Wednesday: |
Haiku
Basho, p 14 plus supplemental handout |
| |
Friday: |
Sylvia Plath, "Cut" p 15 |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 12 03/30 |
| |
Monday: |
James Wright, "Lying in a Hammock" p 16
supplemental handout |
| |
|
S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide March 16, 2009 |
| |
Wednesday: |
Emily Dickinson, "#241 (I Like a Look of Agony)" p 539 |
| |
|
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup
and Full image |
| |
Friday: |
Emily Dickinson, supplemental handout
Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" p 551
Assignment 3: Poetry Dissertation, due 04.13 |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 13 04/06 |
| |
Monday: |
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" p 541 |
| |
Wednesday: |
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" p 541 |
| |
Friday: |
School Break / no classes Friday |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 14 04/13 |
| |
Monday: |
William Blake introduced
"The Chimney Sweep" (from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience)
supplemental handout |
| |
Wednesday: |
William Blake, "The Sick Rose" p 117 |
| |
Friday: |
e. e. cummings, "l(a" p 133
"in Just" supplemental handout |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 15 04/20 |
| |
Monday: |
W. S. Merwin supplemental handout
"Phoebe" |
| |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_(mythology) |
| |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_(bird) |
| |
|
|
| |
Wednesday: |
History of the Sonnet: Petrarch to English Renaissance, Edmund Spenser
supplemental handout |
| |
|
An On-line Collection of English Sonnets |
| |
|
Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism |
| |
|
The Complete Amoretti and Epithalamion |
| |
|
Lady Mary Wroth — a female perspective on the English sonnets |
| |
Friday: |
William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 73" p 267
William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 130" p 758 |
| |
|
Sonnets created in Spanish |
| |
|
|
| |
Week 16 04/27 |
| |
Monday: |
Lynda Hull / Susan Mitchell supplemental handout |
| |
|
Mark Doty: A Personal Response to "Ornithology" |
| |
Wednesday: |
W.S. Merwin supplemental handout |
| |
Friday: |
review for final / how this material applies to other subjects |
| |
|
|
| |
Finals Week 05/06 |
| |
Monday: |
No class. |
| |
Wednesday: |
On Wednesday, class will meet at scheduled time for final exam. |
| |
Friday: |
No class. |
