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Week 1 |
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08/28 Tuesday: |
Basic introduction
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Academic Load |
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Essay Guidelines |
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Intro to Literary Analysis Process |
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08/30 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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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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Week 2 |
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09/04 Tuesday: |
Literary Modes, Movements, and Genres of Literature-part 2
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• demo-Conflict and Classifiation-part 2 |
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Definitions of: Myth • Fable • Parable • Folk Tales |
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• demo-Early Genres |
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09/06 Thursday: |
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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• demo-Native American Folktales |
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Week 3 |
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09/11 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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09/13 Thursday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl”
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• demo-Freytag's Pyramid (TheShort Story Structure) |
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Exercise 1: Summarize Literary Work, due 09/18 |
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Week 4 |
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09/18 Tuesday: |
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “Godfather Death” |
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• demo-Comparisons of Elements |
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Creating a Literary Analysis |
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• demo-Literary Criticism Overview-part 1 |
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• demo- Guideline for Thesis |
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Assignment 1: Comparison/Contrast Analysis |
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• Thesis and proposal due 10/04 |
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• Full paper due 10/16 |
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09/20 Thursday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” part 1, p 225 |
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• demo-Fertility Symbols |
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Week 5 |
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09/25 Tuesday: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” part 2, p 225 |
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• demo 2-Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transcendentalism |
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• Student Example of Literary Introduction |
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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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09/27 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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• demo-Atmospheric Setting |
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Week 6 |
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10/02 Tuesday: |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” supplemental |
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• demo-Gilman |
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Kate Chopin, “The Story of An Hour” p 246 |
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• demo-Chopin |
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10/04 Thursday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287-293 |
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• demo-Faulkner |
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• demo-Chronology |
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• Assignment 1: Comparison Paper thesis due |
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Week 7 |
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10/09 Tuesday: |
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p 287-293 |
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>Faulkner's Interpretation |
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10/11 Thursday: |
James Joyce, “Eveline” p 3-7 |
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• demo-Anti-Hero Characteristics |
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Week 8 |
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10/16 Tuesday: |
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 294 |
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• demo-Hemingway |
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• Assignment 1: Comparison Paper full paper due |
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10/18 Thursday: |
Review For MidTerm |
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Overview of Expectations for Final Project, Paper due: 11/29 |
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• Review of MLA guidelines: signal phrases, in-text notes |
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<see Student Daily Packet, page 9> |
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• Review of MLA guidelines: works cited page |
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Final Project Thesis due: 11/15 |
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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 9 |
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10/23 Tuesday: |
MidTerm |
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10/25 Thursday: |
Library Orientation: Literary Databases |
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Final Project Expectations Reviewed |
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Article Synopsis, due 11/13 |
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Thesis due 11/15 |
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Tentative Works Cited Page due 11/15 |
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Final Project Due 11/29 |
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Week 10 |
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10/30 Tuesday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 722-757 |
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• demo-Royal House of Thebes |
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• demo-Analysis of Opposition |
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11/01 Thursday: |
Sophocles Antigone p 722-757 |
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• demo-Analysis of Approach |
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• Scene II from 1961 Greek film Antigone |
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• Image of caryatid |
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Article Synopsis Form |
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Week 11 |
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11/06 Tuesday: |
How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry |
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• demo-Approaches to Poetry |
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11/08 Thursday: |
Test over Antigone |
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Poetical Devices and Terminologies |
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• demo-Devices and Terminologies |
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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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Week 12 |
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11/13 Tuesday: |
Haiku p 513-514, supplemental |
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• Individual Haiku Pages |
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• demo |
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11/15 Thursday: |
Modernist Poetry |
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e. e. cummings |
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“l(a” supplemental |
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“13” supplemental |
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T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602 |
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• demo |
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11/16 Friday: |
Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W” |
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Week 13 |
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11/20 Tuesday: |
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 602 |
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• demo |
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• Article Synopsis due today |
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• Final Project Thesis and Tentative Works Cited due today |
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Haiku Assignment |
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11/22 Thursday: |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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week 14 |
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11/27 Tuesday: |
Works Cited Demo: Anthology Entries |
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History of Sonnet— Italian forms: Petrarch |
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• demo |
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Francesco Petrarch, Henry Howard, Edmund Spencer, & a poem attributed to W. Shakespeare |
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11/29 Thursday: |
History of Sonnet— English forms: Howard, Spenser
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Review of Three Popular Sonnet Formulas |
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week 15 |
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12/04 Tuesday: |
• Final project due |
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History of the Sonnet English— poems attributed to 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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> Miniature of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, 1594 (Fitzwilliam Museum) |
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12/06 Thursday: |
Modern Sonnets
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e. e. cummings, three poems supplemental |
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Marilyn Hacker supplemental |
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Contemporary Poetry |
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Susan Mitchell "Havana Birth" supplemental |
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• demo |
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Study Guide for Final |
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week 16 |
Final Exams < Click for full exam schedule |
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12/13 Thursday: |
12:30 pm -02:30 pm |
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