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Week 1 01/20 |
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Wednesday: |
Basic introduction
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> Literary Analysis Guidelines |
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> Vitalpoetics: An on-line Critical Literary Theory Magazine |
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Friday: |
Guidelines for Reading
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General Essay Guidelines |
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Example of Pre-Writing > Free Writing and Listing Techniques |
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Week 2 01/25 |
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Monday: |
Important Terms: Literary Devices
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Types of Conflict |
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Literary
Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature |
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Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tales |
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Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth Admetus and Alcestis |
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Aesop's Fables |
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> On-line Collection of Aesop Fables |
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Wednesday: |
Fairy Tales |
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Archetypes |
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Charles Perrault, "Cinderella" |
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Jakob & Wilhelm Grim, "Aschenputtel" |
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Anne Sexton, "Cinderella" p 157 |
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Friday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grim, "The Goose Girl" |
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Week 3 02/01 |
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Monday: |
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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> An Online analysis of selected Fairy Tales |
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Wednesday: |
Nadine Gordimer, "Once Upon a Time" p 127 |
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Friday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” supplemental handout
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> Official Edgar Allan Poe site |
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> The Mystery regarding the sounds heard in TTH |
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> Video clip of death watch beetle |
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• Assignment 1: Diagnostic Analysis |
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Week 4 02/08 |
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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 02/15 |
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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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• Assignment 2: Comparative Analysis |
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Week 6 02/22 |
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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 03/01 |
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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: |
Literary Criticism Research and Techniques |
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• Final Project expectations |
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Week 8 03/08 |
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Monday: |
How to declare a thesis |
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• Declaration of Thesis due Wednesday 03.31 |
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Wednesday: |
Review |
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Friday: |
Midterm |
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Week 9 03/15 |
Spring Break |
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Week 10 03/22 |
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Monday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry • Reading Journals |
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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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> Modern American Poets |
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Wednesday: |
Library Orientation |
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Friday: |
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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Week 11 03/29 |
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Monday:
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Haiku |
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Wednesday: |
Basho and Richard Wright Haiku |
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Haiku Society of America |
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• Declaration of Thesis due |
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Thursday: |
Poetry Slam Performance |
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Friday: |
School Holiday April 2, 2010 |
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Week 12 04/05 |
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Monday: |
James Wright, three poems |
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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: |
Sylvia Plath "Daddy" p 406 |
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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 04/19 |
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Week 13 04/12 |
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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" and two versions of "The Chimney Sweep" |
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(from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience) |
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Week 14 04/19 |
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Monday: |
e. e. cummings "l(a" "13" "in Just" |
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Tuesday: |
Last Day to Drop a Class and Receive a 'W' |
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Wednesday: |
Sonnet Introduction |
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Friday: |
Various Sonnets: 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 15 04/26 |
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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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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: |
Various Sonnets —Handout |
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Week 16 05/03 |
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Monday: |
Lynda Hull "Ornithology" supplemental handout |
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> Mark Doty: A Personal Response to "Ornithology" |
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e. e. cummings: two poems |
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Wednesday: |
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 05/10 |
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Class meets at scheduled time for final exam. |
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