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Week 1 |
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12.17 Monday: |
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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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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“Summarize to demonstrate your understanding,” A Writer's Reference, pp 72-73 |
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Exercise 1: Academic Summary, due 12.18 |
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Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood,” trans. by Andrew Lang |
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[For more information visit: www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0333.html#perrault] |
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12.18 Tuesday: |
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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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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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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Literary Criticism - part 1 |
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• demo |
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• Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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Exercise 1: Academic Summary, due |
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Preliminary Thesis/Introduction Assignment 1 due 12.20 |
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12.19 Wednesday: |
Literary Criticism - part 2 |
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• demo |
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Nadine Gordimer, “Once Upon a Time” p 110 |
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• demo |
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Aesop, “The Man,the Boy, and the Donkey” —supplemental |
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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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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis, due 12.24 |
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Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544 |
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• demo-Gilman |
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12.20 Thursday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 529
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• demo-Definition of Anti-hero |
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Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 525 |
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• demo |
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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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Preliminary Thesis Assignment 1 due |
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12.21 Friday: |
William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" p 302 |
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Library Orientation: Literary Databases • Synopsis of an Academic Article |
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Exercise 2: Article Synopsis, due 12.26 |
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Week 2 |
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12.24 Monday: |
Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis, due |
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Exercise 2: Article Synopsis, due 12.26 - handout |
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Sophocles Antigone p 803 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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Expectations for Final Paper |
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• Assignment 2: Final Project: Paper due: 12.31 |
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• Thesis due: 12.27 |
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• Tentative Works Cited due 12.27 |
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• Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step |
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12.25 Tuesday: |
Holiday: No Class |
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12.26 Wednesday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo |
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Poetic 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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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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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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Exercise 2: Article Synopsis, due |
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12.27 Thursday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591 |
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• demo |
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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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Final Project Thesis due |
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Tenative Works Cited page due |
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12.28 Friday: |
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 581 |
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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” |
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> Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594 (Fitzwilliam Museum) |
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Modern and Contemporary Sonnets |
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e. e. cummings, three poems —supplemental |
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Week 3 |
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12.31 Monday: |
Assignment 2: Final Paper due |
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Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of "W" |
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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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Groups Meet and Discuss Objectives |
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01.01 Tuesday: |
Holiday: No Class |
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01.02 Wednesday: |
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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Groups Meet and Reassess Goals |
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Review |
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01.03 Thursday: |
Group 1-3 Presentations |
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Contemporary Poetry |
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Lynda Hull “Ornithology” —supplemental |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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01.04 Friday: |
Final Exam Submitted |
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