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Week 1 |
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01.13 Monday: |
Basic introduction |
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01.15 Wednesday: |
Quiz 1: Syllabus |
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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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01.17 Friday: |
Types of Conflict |
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• demo-Antagonists and Conflict |
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Classification of Literature and Literary Modes |
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• demo-Conflict and Classification |
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Franz Kafka, Selection from “The Metamorphosis” —supplemental |
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Week 2 |
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01.20 Monday: |
No class; MLK Day
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01.22 Wednesday: |
Definitions of: Myth • Fable |
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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”and “The Fox and the Goat” |
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01.24 Friday: |
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Definitions of: Parable • Folk Tales |
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• demo-Definitions of Early Genres |
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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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Week 3 |
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01.27 Monday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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01.29 Wednesday: |
Literary Criticism: APA versus MLA- part 1 • Academic Paragraphs |
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Quiz 2: Fables |
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• demo-APA versus MLA |
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01.31 Friday: |
Literary Criticism: APA versus MLA- part 2 • Academic Summary |
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• demo |
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Quiz 3: APA |
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Exercise 1: Academic Summary of Literary Work, due Feb. 03 |
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“Summarize to demonstrate your understanding,” A Writer's Reference, pp 72-73 |
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Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” trans. by Andrew Lang |
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Week 4 |
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02.03 Monday: |
Assignment 1: APA paper: Overview
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• Comparison/Contrast Analysis < building themes |
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• Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis |
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Exercise 1: Academic Summary due |
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Literary Criticism – part 1 • Thesis Statements • Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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• demo |
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• Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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02.05 Wednesday: |
Literary Criticism – part 2: Basic Construction of an Analysis |
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• demo |
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02.07 Friday: |
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol |
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• demo |
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Elements of European Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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Week 5 |
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02.10 Monday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose Girl” —supplemental
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• demo: Freytag's Pyramid |
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02.12 Wednesday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “GodFather Death” —supplemental |
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• demo: Comparisons of Elements |
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Group Discussions 1: “Godfather Death” • Presentations of Group |
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02.14 Friday: |
Narration • Irony • Gothic Ideology |
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• demo-Types of Narration |
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• demo-Irony |
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" —supplemental |
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APA Research Paper Preliminary Exercise |
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Week 6 |
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02.17 Monday: |
Atmospheric Settings |
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• demo-Poe and Anti-heros |
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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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Group Discussions 2: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” |
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APA Research Paper Preliminary Exercise Due |
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02.19 Wednesday: |
Group Discussions 2: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” |
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Presentations of Group Discussions |
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02.21 Friday: |
Quiz 4: Reading Comprehension: Hemingway |
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Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p. 525-528 |
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• demo |
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Week 7 |
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02.24 Monday: |
Assignment 1-prt.1: APA Abstract due |
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Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544-555 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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02.26 Wednesday: |
Quiz 5: Reading Comprehension: Gilman |
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—“The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544-555 |
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02.28 Friday: |
Modernism in Fiction |
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James Joyce, “Eveline” p. 525-528 |
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• demo-Eveline as an Anti-hero |
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Week 8 |
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03.03 Monday: |
Quiz 6: Reading Comprehension: Faulkner |
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William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p. 302-307 |
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• demo-Story's Chronology |
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• demo |
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• demo-Example of Faulkner's Extreme Writing Style |
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03.05 Wednesday: |
— “A Rose for Emily” p. 302-307 |
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03.07 Friday: |
Assignment 1-part 2: APA paper due |
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— “A Rose for Emily” p. 302-307 |
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Spring Break |
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03.10 - 03.16 Spring Break |
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Week 9 |
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03.17 Monday: |
Group Discussions 3: Joao Guimaraes Rosa, “The Third Bank of the River” p. 296 |
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03.19 Wednesday: |
Assignment 2: MLA paper: Overview |
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Analysis of Cinema |
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03.21 Friday: |
Presentations of Group Discussions: Joao Guimaraes Rosa |
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Week 10 |
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03.24 Monday: |
Sophocles, Antigone, p 803-811: Prologue, Parados, Scene 1 |
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Quiz 7: Reading Comprehension: Prologue, Parados, opening scene 1 |
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• demo— general overview of Greek Drama |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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03.26 Wednesday: |
— Antigone,p 811-815: Scene 2; 816-819: Scene 3 |
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• demo-Analysis of Opposition |
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03.28 Friday: |
— Antigone, p 823-825: Ode 4; 825-826: Paean; 826-830: Exodus |
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• demo-Analysis of Approach |
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• Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone |
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Week 11 |
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03.31 Monday: |
How to Read Poetry • Poetic Devices, part 1 || April is National Poetry Month |
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• demo-introduction |
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• examples |
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04.02 Wednesday: |
Poetical Devices and Terminologies-part 2 |
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• demo-Approaches to Poetry |
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• demo-Poetic Devices |
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• demo–CommonThemes in Poetry |
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04.03 Thursday: |
Last Day to Withdraw |
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04.04 Friday: |
Quiz 8: Poetic Devices |
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English-Irish Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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• examples |
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Assignment 2 - part 1: Intro for MLA paper due |
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Week 12 |
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04.07 Monday: |
Formal Tradition of Haiku |
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• examples-one page for printing |
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• examples-class demo |
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• demo |
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• Yet Another Definition of Haiku |
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Quiz 9: Haiku |
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04.09 Wednesday: |
Modernism in Poetry |
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Group Discussions 4: Modernism |
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04.11 Friday: |
Presentations of Group Discussions |
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Preview of T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591 |
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Week 13 |
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04.14 Monday: |
Quiz 10: Reading Comprehension: Eliot |
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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591 |
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• demo |
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04.16 Wednesday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591 |
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04.18 Friday:
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Spring Holiday—no class |
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Week 14 |
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04.21 Monday: |
Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 311 |
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Group Discussions 5: Sylvia Plath |
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Assignment 2 - part 2: MLA paper due |
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04.23 Wednesday: |
Presentations of Group Discussions: Plath |
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• demo |
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04.25 Friday: |
Postmodernism: Seamus Heaney, “Digging” p. 318-319 |
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Video Clip of Heaney reading "Digging" |
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Preparation for Final-part 1 |
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Week 15 |
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04.28 Monday: |
Preparation for Final-part 2 |
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Postmodernism Contemporary Poetry |
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04.30 Wednesday: |
Postmodernism Contemporary Poetry |
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Lynda Hull “Ornithology” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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05.02 Friday:
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Postmodernism Contemporary Poetry |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth” —supplemental |
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Finals Week |
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05.05 Monday: |
Noon – 1:50 pm |
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• Bring Blue Book to class |
