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Week 1 07/15 |
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Thursday: |
Basic introduction
Critical Analysis
Guidelines for Reading
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• demo
• General Essay Guidelines
• demo-conflict |
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Week 2 07/19 |
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Monday: |
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 1-2 (stop at "Exploration and Colonization")
Classifications of Folk Tales and Myth
Archetypes and Symbol
• Native American Folk Tales: "How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas" |
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• demo |
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Tuesday: |
• Native American Folk Tales supplemental handout
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe
Tlingit Tribe
Iroquois-Language Tribes
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.: for comparison: King James Version of Genesis |
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• Iroquois Leaque, from "The Constitution of the Five Nations" p 37
.: full version of the Iroquois Nation Constitution <scroll to article 99: "Religious Ceremonies Protected"> |
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• Iroquois LeaqueConstitution comparison to U.S. Constitution |
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Wednesday: |
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 2-4 (stop at "The Renaissance, the Reformation, and Cultural Change")
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 10-11
• Christopher Columbus pp 14 - 22
The Complete Christopher Columbus Letter:
Facsimile
The Latin Transcription
Translated |
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• demo |
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• Bartolome de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies supplemental handout
• Apologetic History of the Indies
• Tears of the Indians: Reproduction of the first English translation |
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Thursday: |
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 4-9
• John Smith, “A Description of New England” p 40-42, 56-59, 60-61, 63 |
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The Complete Text from John Smith |
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• William Bradford, p 64-67, 68, 69
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• demo-Causes and Effects |
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William Shakespeare, Sonnets
Thomas Taylor, Meditations from the Creatures |
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• demo-Puritan Beliefs |
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Week 3 07/26 |
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Monday: |
• Jonathan Edwards, "Images or Shadows of Divine Things" p 293-298
• William Bradford, p. 74-75
• John Donne, “Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed”
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• demo-Ideologies |
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• John Winthrop, p 98 and A Model of Christian Charity p 109 (“A City Upon a Hill" sermon)
The Complete Journals and Letters of John Winthrop
John Cotton "God's Promise to His Plantation" sermon
"The Divine Right to Occupy the Land" sermon supplemental
• Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast: Due Monday 08.02.10 |
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Tuesday: |
• William Bradford, "from Chapter XXIV: Mr. Roger Williams"p 85
• Roger Williams, p 120-126
State of Rhode Island considering changing its name
• Anne Hutchinson conflict, p 33-36
• John Winthrop, Journals of John Winthrop p 119-120 |
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• Cotton Mather "The Wonders of the Invisible World:
Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature,
the Number, and the Operations of the Devils" p 183 |
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• demo-women |
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Wednesday: |
Library Database Orientation
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• Anne Bradstreet, p 134-135 |
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"Prologue" p 136 |
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• demo-Bradstreet |
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Thursday: |
• Anne Bradstreet, p 134-135
"Contemplations" p137
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"The Author to Her Book" p 147
“A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” p 148 |
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Week 4 08/02 |
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Monday: |
• Midterm Review
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• demo-Protestantism |
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• demo-Democracy |
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• demo-Ballads |
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Tuesday: |
• Midterm |
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• Final Project Expectations |
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Wednesday: |
• Edward Taylor, p 167
"Prologue" p 167
“Meditations” (#6, #8, #38) p 169-173
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.: To contrast with Taylor: William Shakespeare, monologue from Hamlet |
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• Phillis Wheatley p 526-527
"On Being Brought from Africa to America" p 529
"On Imagination" p 531
"To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works" p 532 |
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• demo-Wheatley |
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• demo-Slavery |
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"Ocean" — poem from the intended second edition |
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• Anti-Slavery Document 1775: Benjamin Rush |
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• Cornell University: Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection |
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Thursday: |
•Washington Irving, p 713
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” p 730
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Week 5 08/09 |
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Monday: |
•Edgar Allan Poe, p 892-894
“The Fall of the House of Usher” p 918 |
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• demo-Poe and the Gothic Tradition |
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•Edgar Allan Poe, “Sonnet — Silence” p 899 |
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• demo-Poe and the Sonnet |
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Tuesday: |
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, p 1086-1088
“The Minister's Black Veil” p 1112
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• demo-comparisons/contrasts of Poe and Hawthorne |
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Wednesday: |
• Walt Whitman, p 2113-2114
Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass p 2115
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• demo-Whitman |
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• "Song of Myself"-demo, 1892 edition |
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section 1, p 2130 |
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section 5, p 2132 |
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section 11, p 2136 |
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section 51, p 2174 |
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Thursday: |
• Walt Whitman, "As Adam Early in the Morning" p 2179
"The Sleepers" p 2219-2226
• Edgar Allan Poe "A Dream Within a Dream" supplemental
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• demo-Whitman and Poe |
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Week 6 08/16 |
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Monday: |
• Emily Dickinson, #712 ("Because I Could Not Stop for Death") p 2265
#241 ("I Like a Look of Agony") p 2253
Detail of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini —Full image
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• demo-Dickinson |
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• demo-Language Poetry |
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Tuesday: |
• Emily Dickinson, #216 ("Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers") p 2252
# 754 ("My Life Had Stood — A Loaded Gun") p 2267
#997 (“Crumbling is not an instant’s Act”) supplemental
#465 (“I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died”) p 2259 |
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• demo-Dickinson 2 |
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Wednesday: |
• Emily Dickinson, #249 ("Wild Nights—Wild Nights") |
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#303 ("The Soul Selects Her Own Society") |
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• demo-Dickinson 3 |
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Thursday: |
Class will meet at scheduled time for Final Exam.
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