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Week 1 07-13 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
General Essay Modes
Guidelines for Reading
General Essay Guidelines
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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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Tuesday: |
Types of Conflict
Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature
Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tale supplemental handout
Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide
Images of 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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Wednesday: |
Various Journals supplemental handout
Fairy Tales / Folk Tales
Archetypes and Symbol / Figurative Language / 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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Friday: |
Creating a Literary Analysis
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” p 207
Discussion questions for Monday 07-20 |
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Week 2 07-20 |
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Monday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 217
Official Edgar Allan Poe site
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” supplemental handout
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 2: Comparative Analysis, due Monday 07-27
Discussion questions for Wednesday 07-22 |
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Tuesday: |
Library Orientation
Final Project expectations
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Wednesday: |
Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 227
Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” supplemental handout |
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Thursday: |
William Faulkner “A Rose for Emily”
Faulkner's Interpretation
William Faulkner on the Web
William Faulkner's Home in Oxford, MS: Rowan Oak |
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Friday: |
Virginia Woolf "A Haunted House" supplemental handout
Ray Bradbury: “I See You Never” supplemental handout
Official Ray Bradbury site
Sandra Cisneros “Geraldo No Last Name” p 435
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Week 3 07-27 |
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Monday: |
review
Basic introduction to Literary Criticism Research
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Tuesday: |
Midterm
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Wednesday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry
Summary versus Analysis Demo
Modern American Poets |
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Thursday: |
Haiku supplemental handout
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 |
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Friday: |
Emily Dickinson, "#365 (Because I Could Not Stop for Death)" p 1201
"#241 (I Like a Look of Agony)" supplemental handout
"#216 (Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers)" p 599
The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup and Full image
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Week 4 08-03 |
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Monday: |
English/Irish Folk Ballads: "Lucy Wan," "The Unquiet Grave," "I am Stretched on Your Grave" |
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Anonymous English Lyric "Western Wind" p 717
On-line Collection of traditional & contemporary folk songs |
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Tuesday: |
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" p 620
Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" Group Discussion supplemental handout
S. Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide || March 16, 2009
Last Day to Drop Class with a 'W' |
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Wednesday: |
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
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Thursday: |
e. e. cummings, "in Just" p 627
"l(a" supplemental handout
e. e. cummings collection in Austin, TX
History of the Sonnet supplemental handout
Francesco Petracrch, "Sonnet XX" (Italian sonnet)
Edmund Spencer, "Sonnet IX" (Spencerian sonnet)
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Friday: |
William Shakespeare (English sonnet)
"When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes" p 577
"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" p 521
"My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun" p 579
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 5 08-10 |
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Monday: |
John Donne, "Death Be Not Proud" p 580 |
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William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much With Us" p 587 |
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Billy Collins, "Sonnet" p 544
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Tuesday: |
Review
Final Paper due
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Wednesday: |
Final |
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