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Week 1 |
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12.16 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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Conflict • 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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• Academic Paragraphs |
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Exercise 1: Academic Summary, due 12.18 |
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Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood” (retold in English by Andrew Lang) |
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12.17 Tuesday: |
Three Universal Themes in Literarture |
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Definitions of: Myth • 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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• Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native Americans |
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“How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas” |
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Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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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 - APA versus MLA (part 1) |
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• Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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• Guidelines for Generating an Abstract |
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Preliminary APA Abstract Assignment 1 due 12.19 |
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12.18 Wednesday: |
Literary Criticism - APA versus MLA (part 2) |
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• demo: Literary Criticism |
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• demo: Comparisons of Critical Philosophies |
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• demo: Paper Construction - Academic Paragraphs |
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Nadine Gordimer, “Once Upon a Time” p 110 |
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• demo |
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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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Exercise 1: Academic Summary, due |
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Assignment 1: APA Comparison/Contrast Analysis, due 12.23 |
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12.19 Thursday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p 544
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• demo-Gilman |
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James Joyce, “Eveline” p 529 |
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• demo-Definition of Anti-hero |
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Preliminary APA Abstract Assignment 1 due |
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12.20 Friday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 525 |
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• demo |
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William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" p 302 |
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• demo-Story's Chronology |
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• demo |
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Week 2 |
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12.23 Monday: |
Assignment 1: APA Comparison/Contrast Analysis, due |
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Expectations for MLA Paper |
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• Assignment 2: Final Project: Paper due: 12.30 |
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• Thesis due: 12.26 |
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• Tentative Works Cited due 12.26 |
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Sophocles Antigone p 803 |
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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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12.24 Tuesday: |
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, “The Third Bank of the River” p 296 |
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• demo |
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• Group Informal Discussions |
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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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12.25 Wednesday: |
Holiday: No Class |
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12.26 Thursday: |
English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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•video: "The Unquiet Grave" |
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•video: "I am Stretched on Your Grave" |
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Haiku |
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• demo |
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• examples-class demo |
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Final Project MLA Thesis due |
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12.27 Friday: |
MLA Guidelines Expectations |
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• demo |
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Modernism in Poetry |
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William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” p 916 |
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e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13”—supplemental |
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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 591 -preview |
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Week 3 |
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12.30 Monday: |
Assignment 2: Final MLA Paper due |
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Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of "W" |
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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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12.31 Tuesday: |
Seamus Heaney, “Digging” p 318-319 |
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• demo |
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Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” p 311-313 |
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• demo |
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Emily Dickinson, “I Heard a Fly Buzz” —supplemental |
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• demo |
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01.01 Wednesday: |
Holiday: No Class |
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01.02 Thursday: |
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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Review |
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01.03 Friday: |
Final Exam |
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