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Week 1 09-01 |
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Tuesday: |
Basic introduction • General Essay Guidelines
Guidelines for Reading |
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> Demonstration of the Literary Analysis Process |
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> Literary Analysis Guidelines |
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> Vitalpoetics: An on-line Critical Literary Theory Magazine |
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Thursday: |
Types of Conflict
Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature
Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tale supplemental handout
>Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide
>Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth Admetus and Alcestis supplemental handout
Aesop, "The Old Man and Death" supplemental handout |
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>On-line Collection of Aesop Fables |
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Important Terms: Literary Devices |
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Week 2 09-08 |
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Tuesday: |
Various Journals supplemental handout
Fairy Tales / Folk Tales
Archetypes and Symbol /Short Stories |
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Thursday: |
Jakob & Wilhelm Grim, "The Goose Girl" supplemental handout
Jakob & Wilhelm Grim, "GodFather Death" supplemental handout
An On-line Collection of Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales
>Analysis of selected Fairy Tales |
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Week 3 09-15 |
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Tuesday: |
Creating a Literary Analysis
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” p 207 |
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Thursday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 217
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” supplemental handout
>Official Edgar Allan Poe site
>Colin Dray: Death of the ‘I’: Double-Suicide in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’
>The Mystery regarding the sounds heard in TTH
>Video clip of death watch beetle
• Assignment 1: Comparative Analysis, due 10-01 |
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Week 4 09-22 |
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Tuesday: |
Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 227
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Thursday: |
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” supplemental handout |
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Week 5 09-29 |
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Tuesday: |
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” p 315
>Faulkner's Interpretation
>William Faulkner on the Web
>William Faulkner's Home in Oxford, MS: Rowan Oak |
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Thursday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3 |
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Week 6 10-06 |
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Tuesday: |
James Joyce, “Araby” p 290
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Thursday: |
Richard Wright, “A Man Who Was Almost a Man” p 333
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Week 7 10-13 |
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Tuesday: |
Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” supplemental handout
Ray Bradbury, “I See You Never” supplemental handout
Sandra Cisneros, “Geraldo No Last Name” p 435 |
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Thursday: |
Review for Midterm |
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Week 8 10-20 |
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Tuesday: |
Midterm |
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Thursday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry • Summary versus Analysis Demo
>Modern American Poets
Anonymous, “Western Wind” p 717
English/Irish Folk Ballads: "Lucy Wan," "The Unquiet Grave," "I am Stretched on Your Grave" |
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Week 9 10-27 |
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Tuesday: |
Haiku supplemental
William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarow” p 619
James Wright, “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio” p 652
“Lying in a Hammock” supplemental handout
Sylvia Plath, “Mirror” p 656
>S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide || March 16, 2009 |
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Thursday: |
Emily Dickinson, “#365 (Because I Could Not Stop for Death)” p 1201
“#216 (Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers)” p 599
Final Project Expectations |
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Week 10 11-03 |
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Tuesday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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Thursday: |
Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis
Emily Dickinson, “#754 (My Life had Stood a Loaded Gun)” supplemental handout
"#241 (I Like a Look of Agony)” supplemental handout
>The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup and Full image
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Week 11 11-10 |
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Tuesday: |
Formal Declaration of Thesis due
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 620 |
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Thursday: |
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” supplemental handout
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>S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide || March 16, 2009 |
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• Assignment 2: Comparative Analysis, due Tuesday 11-24 |
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Week 12 11-17 |
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Tuesday: |
William Blake, “The Sick Rose” p 117
“The Chimney Sweep” from Songs of Innocence supplemental handout
“The Chimney Sweep” from Songs of Experience supplemental handout
Camille Paglia, Critical commentary from Break, Blow, Burn supplemental handout
e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 627
“l(a” supplemental handout
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Thursday: |
History of the Sonnet-part 1 supplemental handout
Friday is the last Day to Drop Class with a ‘W’. |
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>Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism
>Edmund Spencer's Complete Amoretti and Epithalamion
>Lady Mary Wroth — a female perspective on the English sonnets
>Sonnets created in Spanish |
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Week 13 11-24 |
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Tuesday: |
History of the Sonnet-part 2 supplemental handout
Francesco Petracrch, “Sonnet XX” (Italian sonnet)
Edmund Spencer, “Sonnet IX” (Spencerian sonnet) |
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Thursday: |
Thanksgiving Holiday; no classes |
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Week 14 12-1 |
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Tuesday: |
William Shakespeare (English sonnet)
“Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes” p 577
“Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” p 521
“Sonnet 126: O Thou My Lovely Boy” supplemental handout
“Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” p 579 |
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Thursday: |
Lady Mary Wroth supplemental handout
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz supplemental handout
John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” p 580
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Week 15 12-08 |
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Tuesday: |
William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” p 587
e. e. cummings, “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in” supplemental handout
>two additional poems by cummings
Billy Collins, “Sonnet” p 544 |
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Thursday: |
Review |
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Week 16 12-15 |
Finals week |
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Final Paper due
Class meets at scheduled time for final exam. |
