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Week 1 07.12.10 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
7 Ways to Fail a Class
Literary Analysis Process
Guidelines for Reading
Intertextuality
Literary Devices
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• General Essay Guidelines
• demo |
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Tuesday: |
Types of Conflict
Literary Modes, Classification of Literature
• Reading Journals
Myth: Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth Admetus and Alcestis
Fable: Aesop, "The Old Man and Death"
Parable: Buddha, "The Parable of the Elephant"
Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tale
>Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide
Figurative Language
Archetypes and Symbol
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• demo-Conflict and Classifiation |
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Wednesday: |
Elements of Fairy Tales
Jakob & Wilhelm Grim “The Goose Girl”• “God Father Death” supplemental |
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• demo: Figurative Language • Archetypes • Elements of Fairy Tales
• demo: Comparisons of Elements
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Thursday: |
Creating a Literary Analysis
Short Story Structure • Setting
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• demo: Literary Criticism Overview
• demo 2: Freytag's Pyramid |
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Friday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” p 225
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• demo: Fertility Symbols
• demo 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism
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• Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due Friday 07.23.10 |
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Week 2 07.19.10 |
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Monday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236
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• demo |
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Tuesday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” supplemental
video:
• death watch beetle
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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Wednesday: |
Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246
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• demo |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” supplemental |
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Thursday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287
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• demo |
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>Faulkner's Interpretation
>William Faulkner on the Web
>William Faulkner's Home in Oxford, MS: Rowan Oak |
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Friday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3
“Araby” supplemental
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• demo |
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Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” p 306
• Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due < |
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Week 3 07.26.10 |
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Monday: |
Review for Midterm
Library Orientation: Literary Databases introduced
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Final Project Expectations || Begin Preliminary Research |
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.: Student example-paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne |
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Tuesday: |
Flash Fiction
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• demo |
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Virginia Woolf “A Haunted House” supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel” supplemental
Ray Bradbury: “I See You Never” supplemental
Sandra Cisneros “Geraldo No Last Name” p 392 |
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Thursday: |
Midterm |
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Friday: |
• Poetry Reading Journals
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry
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• demo |
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Eve Merriam "How to Eat a Poem"
William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say" |
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• demo-Limericks |
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English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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video:
• "Lucy Wan"
• "The Unquiet Grave"
• "I am Stretched on Your Grave"
Formal Declaration of Thesis due |
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Week 4 08.02.10 |
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Monday: |
Poetical Devices and Terminologies
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Tentative Works Cited Page due (at least four sources) |
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• demo |
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Haiku supplemental |
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• demo |
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William Carlos Williams, “Danse Russe” p 600, “The Red Wheelbarrow” p 601
James Wright, “Lying in a Hammock” supplemental
e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13” supplemental
Sylvia Plath, “Mirror” p 637 |
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Tuesday: |
Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of "W"
Emily Dickinson, “#365 (Because I Could Not Stop for Death)” p 585
plus supplemental
>The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — closeup and Full image |
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Wednesday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602 |
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video:
• Recitation of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Thursday: |
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” supplemental
video:
• Sylvia Plath Reads "Lady Lazarus"
> Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide || March 16, 2009 |
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Friday: |
William Blake “The Sick Rose” p 573 • Illustration
Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep” supplemental
e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 608
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Week 5 08.09.10 |
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Monday: |
History of the Sonnet |
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Final Paper due || essay rubric
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• demo |
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Various Sonnets:
Francesco Petracrch, “Sonnet XX” (Italian sonnet) supplemental
Edmund Spencer, “Sonnet IX” (Spencerian sonnet) supplemental
William Shakespeare (English sonnet) • Illustration
“Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes” p 564
“Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” p 487
“Sonnet 126: O Thou My Lovely Boy” supplemental
“Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” p 566 |
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>Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism
>Lady Mary Wroth — a female perspective on the English sonnets
>Sonnets created in Spanish |
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Tuesday: |
Sonnets, continued
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Spiritedly, She Considers the Choice—” supplemental
Lady Mary Wroth supplemental
John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud” p 567
William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” p 575
e. e. cummings, “somewhere I have never travelled” supplemental
“If I have made, my lady, intricate” supplemental
“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in” supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
Final exams |
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