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Week 1 |
07.12 |
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Thursday: |
Basic introduction |
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Introduction to Literary Analysis Process |
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• Guidelines for Reading |
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• Intertextuality |
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• Literary Devices |
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• demo-Critical Analysis and the Reading Process |
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Week 2 |
07.16 - 07.19 |
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Monday: |
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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Summarize to demonstrate your understanding, A Writer's Reference, pp 72-73 |
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Exercise 1: Academic Summary, due 07.19 |
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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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Tuesday: |
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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• demo: Freytag's Pyramid |
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Wednesday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, “GodFather Death” —supplemental |
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• demo: Comparisons of Elements |
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Literary Criticism - part 1 |
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• demo |
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• Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis, due 07.30 |
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Preliminary Thesis Assignment 1 due 07.23 |
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Thursday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappaccini's Daughter” p 366 -378 |
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• demo: Fertility Symbols |
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• demo 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism |
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• demo: Milton and Hawthorne |
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Literary Criticism - part 2 |
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• demo < updated 07.21.12 |
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Exercise 1: Academic Summary, due |
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Week 3 |
07.23 - 07.26 |
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Monday: |
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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Tuesday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 624 - 632 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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Wednesday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 616
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• demo-Definition of Anti-hero |
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Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 611 |
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• demo |
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Midterm Study Guide |
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Preliminary Thesis Assignment 1 due |
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Thursday: |
MidTerm |
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Week 4 |
07.30 - 08.02 |
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Monday: |
Expectations for Final Project: Paper |
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Final Project: Paper due: 08.13
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Thesis due: 08.08 |
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Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step |
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Review of MLA paper guidelines: signal phrases, in-text notes |
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• A Writer's Reference, pp 371-372, 376-379,382-384, 388-395 |
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Review of MLA guidelines: works cited page |
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• A Writer's Reference, pp 398-401, 407-408 |
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Tuesday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 1026 Overview |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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• demo-Analysis of Opposition |
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• demo-Analysis of Approach |
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• Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone |
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• Image of caryatid |
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Library Orientation: Literary Databases • Synopsis of an Academic Article |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due |
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Article Synopsis, due 08.07 |
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• demo-Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis– review |
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Wednesday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo |
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Poetical Devices and Terminologies |
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• demo-Approaches to Poetry |
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• demo |
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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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Thursday: |
English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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•video: "The Unquiet Grave"
•video: "I am Stretched on Your Grave" |
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Week 5 |
08.03 - 08.06 |
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Monday: |
Haiku —supplemental (for printing 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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e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13”—supplemental |
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William Carlos Williams “Danse Russe” p 685 |
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Tuesday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 679 |
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• demo |
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Article Synopsis, due |
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Wednesday: |
History of the Sonnet— Italian forms: F. Petrarch |
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History of Sonnet— English forms: Henry Howard, Edmund Spenser |
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Supplemental Sonnets: F. Petrarch, H. Howard, E. Spenser |
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• demo |
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Thesis due |
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Thusday: |
Tenative Works Cited page due |
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Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of "W" |
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Reveiw of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas |
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History of the Sonnet—English form attributed to William Shakespeare |
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Sonnet 18: "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" p 667 |
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Sonnet 29: "When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes" |
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Sonnet 126 "O, Thou My Lovely Boy" |
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Sonnet 130 "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” p 130 |
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Modern and Contemporary Sonnets |
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e. e. cummings, three poems —supplemental |
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Week 6 |
08.13 - 08.16 |
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Monday: |
Final Paper due |
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Modern and Contemporary Sonnets |
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John Berryman, “Sonnet 115” —supplemental |
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Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More” —supplemental |
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Lynda Hull “Ornithology” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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Tuesday: |
Flash Fiction |
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Virginia Woolf "A Haunted House" —supplemental (flash fiction) |
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Carolyn Forché "The Colonel" p 911(prose poem) |
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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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• demo–Short Forms of Stories |
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Wednesday: |
Review |
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Thursday: |
Final Exam |
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• Bring Blue Book to class |
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