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Week 1 |
08.30 |
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Tuesday: |
Basic introduction
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Academic Load |
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Essay Guidelines |
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• blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander |
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Thursday: |
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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Week 2 |
09.06 |
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Tuesday: |
Types of Conflict
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• demo-Antagonists and Conflict |
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Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature |
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• demo-Conflict and Classifiation |
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Thursday: |
Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales
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• demo-Early Genres |
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Myth: Herakles Wrestling Death from the Greek Myth “Admetus and Alcestis” |
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Fable: Aesop, “The Old Man and Death” |
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Parable: Buddha, “The Parable of the Elephant” |
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Folk Tales: Alabama-Coushatta Native American Folk Tale |
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>Coyote as Trickster-Animal Spirit Guide
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Week 3 |
09.13 |
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Tuesday: |
Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales |
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• demo |
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• another blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander |
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• Another View of Archetypes |
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Creating a Literary Analysis |
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Thursday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl”
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• demo-Freytag's Pyramid |
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Week 4 |
09.20 |
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Tuesday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “Godfather Death” |
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• demo-Comparisons of Elements |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due 10.06 <UPDATED 09.24.11 |
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Thursday: |
Overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” p 225 |
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• demo-Fertility Symbols |
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• demo 2-Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism |
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Creating a Literary Analysis |
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• demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 1 |
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Week 5 |
09.27 |
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Tuesday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” p 225 |
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Short Story Structure • Setting •
Creating a Literary Analysis-part 2 |
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• demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 2 |
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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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Thursday: |
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” p 236
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• demo-Types of Narration and Irony |
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• demo-Gothic Ideology |
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Week 6 |
10.04 |
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Tuesday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287 |
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• demo-Faulkner |
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• demo-Definition of Tragic Hero |
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>Faulkner's Interpretation |
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>William Faulkner on the Web
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Thursday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3 |
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• demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics |
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Week 7 |
10.11 |
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Tuesday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294 |
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• demo-Hemingway |
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Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246 |
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• demo-Chopin |
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Thursday: |
Review For MidTerm |
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Expectations for Final Project, due 11.22 |
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Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis |
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• Basic Outline for Analytical Research: Step-by-Step |
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• demo-Student paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne |
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Week 8 |
10.18 |
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Tuesday: |
MidTerm |
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Thursday: |
Flash Fiction |
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• demo-Flash Fiction defined |
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•—and then again... |
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Emily St. John Mandel, "Hint Fiction: Brevity is the Soul of What?" |
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NPR news item: "Hint Fiction Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story" |
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> (To listen to archive recording of item, click here.) |
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Virginia Woolf “A Haunted House” supplemental |
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Sandra Cisneros “Geraldo No Last Name” p 392 |
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Week 9 |
10.25 |
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Tuesday: |
Sophocles, Antigone p 722 |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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Thursday: |
Sophocles, Antigone p 722 |
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• Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone |
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• Image of caryatid |
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Week 10 |
11.01 |
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Tuesday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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Article Synopsis, due 11/08 |
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Thursday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo |
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Eve Merriam "How to Eat a Poem" |
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William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say" |
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Anne Sexton, "Two Hands" |
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• blog commentary-reprint of a lecture by Jack Spicer |
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Week 11 |
11.08 |
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Tuesday: |
English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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Review of Sophocles, Antigone p 722 |
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• demo-Analysis of Approach |
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• demo-Analysis of Opposition |
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Thursday: |
Test: Sophocles, Antigone |
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Tenative Thesis due |
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Week 12 |
11.15 |
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Tuesday: |
Poetical Devices and Terminologies
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• demo |
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Thursday: |
Haiku p 513-514, supplemental |
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• demo |
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e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 608 |
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“l(a” supplemental |
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“13” supplemental |
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Poetry Assignment, due 11.22 |
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Preliminary Works Cited Page due |
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Friday: |
Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W” |
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Week 13 |
11.22 |
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Tuesday: |
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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• demo |
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Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” supplemental |
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• video: Sylvia Plath Reads "Lady Lazarus" |
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> Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas Hughes commits suicide || March 16, 2009 |
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• demo |
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Ted Hughes, "Suttee" supplemental |
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Poetry Assignment, due |
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Thursday: |
Thanksgiving Holiday
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week 14 |
11.29 |
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Tuesday: |
Introduction to Poems of Witness/Protest Poems
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• demo-Blake's Views of Revolution |
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William Blake, “London” p 574 |
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William Blake “The Sick Rose” p 573 |
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Two versions of “The Chimney Sweep” supplemental |
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Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” supplemental |
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Thursday: |
History of the Sonnet
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• demo |
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Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spencer, & poems attributed to W. Shakespeare |
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Dissection of Two English Renaissance Sonnets |
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Review of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas |
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> Other Examples: |
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Spiritedly, She Considers the Choice—” supplemental |
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Lady Mary Wroth supplemental |
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Final Project Due |
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week 15 |
12.06 |
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Tuesday: |
William Shakespeare |
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Sonnet 18: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” p 487 |
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Sonnet 29: “When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes” p 564 |
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Sonnet 130: “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” p 566 |
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> Illustration |
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> Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594 (Fitzwilliam Museum) |
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Thursday: |
Modern and Contemporary Sonnets
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e. e. cummings, three poems supplemental |
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Contemporary Poets: |
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Susan Mitchell "Havana Birth" supplemental |
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Lynda Hull "Ornithology" supplemental |
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• demo |
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• Video Recording of a reading by Lynda Hull |
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• Mark Rothko Chapel |
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week 16 |
Final Exams: 12.09 - 12.15 < Click for full exam schedule |
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December 13, Tuesday: |
10:15 am -12:15 pm |
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