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Week 1 07.11.11 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
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Essay Guidelines |
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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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• blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander secondary reading |
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• blog-commentary from Honest Publishing secondary reading |
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Tuesday: |
Types of Conflict
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Literary Modes, Classification of Literature |
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• demo-Conflict and Classification |
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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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Wednesday: |
Figurative Language •
Archetypes and Symbol •
Elements of Fairy Tales
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• demo |
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• Another View of Archetypes |
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• another blog commentary from writer and illustrator Jed Alexander secondary reading |
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Creating a Literary Analysis |
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• demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 1 |
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• demo-Freytag's Pyramid |
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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl” supplemental |
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Thursday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “Godfather Death” supplemental |
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Old St. Matthew's Cemetery |
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Short Story Structure • Setting •
Creating a Literary Analysis-part 2 |
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• demo-Comparisons of Elements |
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• demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part2 |
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• Item of Interest: Blog Commentary from SurLaLune |
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• Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due 07.22.11 |
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Friday: |
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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Week 2 07.18.11 |
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Monday: |
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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Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” secondary reading |
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>Video clip of death watch beetle |
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Tuesday: |
• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246 |
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• demo-Chopin |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” supplemental |
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• demo-Gilman |
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Wednesday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294 |
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• demo-Hemingway |
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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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> Selected Clips of Faulkner Responding to Questions |
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Thursday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3 |
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• demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics 1 |
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James Joyce, “Araby” secondary reading |
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Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” p 306 |
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• demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics 2 |
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Friday: |
Expectations for Final Project || Begin Preliminary Research • • • • •
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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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Formal Declaration of Thesis due 07.29.11 |
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• demo-Student paper comparing E.A. Poe with N. Hawthorne |
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• demo-Student paper comparine Hawthorne's Beatrice with Joyce's Eveline |
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• Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis due |
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Week 3 07.25.11 |
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Monday: |
Review for Midterm
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• Study Guides and Discussion Questions |
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Library Orientation: Literary Databases introduced |
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Assignment 2: Article Synopsis |
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Tuesday: |
Midterm |
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Flash Fiction |
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• demo-Flash Fiction defined |
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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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Carolyn Forché, “The Colonel” supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
Sophocles, Antigone p 722 |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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• Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone starring Irene Papas |
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• Image of caryatid |
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• Assignment 2: Article Synopsis due |
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Thursday: |
Sophocles, Antigone p 722 |
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Friday: |
Formal Declaration of Thesis due |
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How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo |
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• Richard Siken, audio clips from Fish House Press |
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>Q&A: Hearing a Poem and Reading a Poem |
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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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• blog commentary-reprint of a lecture by Jack Spicer secondary reading |
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English/Irish Folk Ballads |
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• demo-Ballads |
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•video: "Lucy Wan"
•video: "The Unquiet Grave"
•video: "I am Stretched on Your Grave" |
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Week 4 08.01.11 |
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Monday: |
Poetical Devices and Terminologies
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• demo |
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Haiku p 513-514, supplemental |
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• demo |
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Yet Another Definition of Haiku |
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• Creative Writing Assignment due Thursday 08.04.11 |
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Tuesday: |
Last day for dropping class with grade of 'W' |
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e. e. cummings, “l(a” “13” supplemental |
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e. e. cummings, “in Just” p 608 |
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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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Wednesday: |
Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus” supplemental |
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>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" secondary reading |
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Sylvia Plath, “Mirror” p 637 secondary reading
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Emily Dickinson, “I Like a Look of Agony” secondary reading
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>The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini — close up and full image |
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Stephen Dobyns, "The Delicate, Plummeting Bodies" secondary reading |
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Tentative Works Cited Page due date (at least four sources) |
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Thursday: |
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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• Illustration |
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Two versions of “The Chimney Sweeper” secondary reading |
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Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” supplemental |
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• demo-Ginsberg |
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• Creative writing assignment due |
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Friday: |
History of the Sonnet |
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• demo |
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Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spenser, attributed to W. Shakespeare |
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• demo-Dissection of Two English Renaissance Sonnets |
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• Review of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas |
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Final Paper due |
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• Creative Writing Assignment 2 due Thursday 08.10.11 |
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Week 5 08.08.11 |
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Monday: |
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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> Illustration |
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> Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594 (Fitzwilliam Museum) |
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Sonnet 130: “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” p 566 |
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Tuesday: |
Modern and Contemporary Sonnets
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e. e. cummings, three poems supplemental |
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Marylin Hacker, “You Did Say, Need Me Less and I’ll Want You More” supplemental |
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Three Contemporary Poets |
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• demo |
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• Mark Rothko Chapel |
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Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth” supplemental |
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Lynda Hull “Ornithology” supplemental |
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> video: reading by Lynda Hull |
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Wednesday: |
Final exam |