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     English 2327-Am. Lit. 1: 40017 || room 269 room 269:   M  T W Th Fr     08.00 am - 09.55 am
     
     Syllabus || Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 
 

     
  Week 1           07-12  
 
Monday:   
Basic introduction
Critical Analysis
Guidelines for Reading
    demo-introduction
General Essay Guidelines
demo-conflict
     
   
 
Tuesday:   
Anthology of American Literature: pp 1-2 (stop at "Exploration and Colonization")
Classifications of Folk Tales and Myth
Archetypes and Symbol
    demo
     
   
 
Wednesday:  
Native American Folk Tales     supplemental handout
     Alabama-Coushatta Tribe, "How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas"
     Tlingit Tribe
     Iroquois-Language Tribes

         .: for comparison: King James Version of Genesis
    Iroquois Leaque, from "The Constitution of the Five Nations" p 37
         .: full version of the Iroquois Nation Constitution
    Assignment 1, due Monday July 26
    Contact me for availability of articles.
   
 
Thursday:  
Anthology of American Literature: pp 2-4 (stop at "The Renaissance, the Reformation, and Cultural Change")
Anthology of American Literature: pp 10-11
Christopher Columbus pp 14 - 22
The Complete Christopher Columbus Letter:
          Facsimile
          The Latin Transcription
          Translated
 
Bartolome de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies      supplemental handout
          • Apologetic History of the Indies
          • Tears of the Indians: Reproduction of the first English translation
     
   
 
Friday:  
Anthology of American Literature: pp 4-9
John Smith, "A Description of New England" p 40-42, 56-59, 60-61, 63
              The Complete Text from John Smith
 
 
William Bradford, p 64-67, 68, 69
    demo-Causes and Effects
    William Shakespeare, Sonnets
Thomas Taylor, Meditations from the Creatures
    demo-Puritan Beliefs
     
  Week 2           07-19
 
Monday:  
Jonathan Edwards, "Images or Shadows of Divine Things" p 293-298
    John Donne, “Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed”     
    demo-Ideologies
     
   
 
Tuesday:  
John Cotton "God's Promise to His Plantation" sermon
              "The Divine Right to Occupy the Land" sermon      supplemental
    John Winthrop, p 98 and A Model of Christian Charity p 109 (“A City Upon a Hill" sermon)
              The Complete Journals and Letters of John Winthrop
    William Bradford, p. 74-75
     
   
 
Wednesday:  
William Bradford, "from Chapter XXIV: Mr. Roger Williams"p 85
Roger Williams, p 120-126
State of Rhode Island considering changing its name
John Winthrop, Journals of John Winthrop p 119-120
     
   
 
Thursday:  
Library Orientation
    Cotton Mather "The Wonders of the Invisible World:
          Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature,
           the Number, and the Operations of the Devils" p 183
    demo-women
     
   
 
Friday:  
Anne Bradstreet, p 134-135
"Contemplations" p137
"Prologue" p 136
"The Author to Her Book" p 147
    demo-Bradstreet
     
  Week 3           07-26
 
Monday:  
review
Anne Bradstreet, “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” p 148

    demo-Protestantism
     
   
 
Tuesday:  
Anne Bradstreet
          "Upon the Burning of Our House" p 153
          "Prologue" p 136
    demo-ballads
     
   
 
Wednesday:  
Edward Taylor, p 167
          "Prologue" p 167

              To contrast with Taylor: William Shakespeare, monologue from Hamlet
              “Meditations” (#6, #8, #38) p 169-173
     
    • Final Project expectations
   
   
 
Thursday: 
Midterm
     
   
 
Friday: 
Red Jacket, p 651
    Thomas Jefferson, p 522-526
    demo-democracy
 
Phillis Wheatley p 526-527
          "On Being Brought from Africa to America" p 529
          "On Imagination" p 531
          "To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works" p 532
 
 
          "Ocean" — poem from the intended second edition
    demo-Phillis Wheatley / Benjamin Rush
    demo-slavery
    Cornell University: Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
    Anti-Slavery Essay 1773: Benjam Rush
     
  Week 4           08-02
 
Monday:  
Washington Irving p 713, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" p 730
    The Castle of Indolence John Thomson:     early publication      modernized language publication
     
   
 
Tuesday: 
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” p 918
              “Sonnet — Silence” p 899
    demo-Poe and the Gothic Tradition
    demo-Poe and the Sonnet
 
Last Day to Drop Class with a 'W'
     
   
 
Wednesday:  
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Minister's Black Veil” p 1112
    demo-comparisons/contrasts of Poe and Hawthorne
     
   
 
Thurs.-Friday: 
Walt Whitman
    demo-Whitman
    "Song of Myself"-demo, 1892 edition
              section 1, p 2130
              section 5, p 2132
              section 11, p 2136
              section 51, p 2174
        Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass p 2115
     
  Week 5           08-09
 
Monday:  
Walt Whitman, "As Adam Early in the Morning" p 2179
          "The Sleepers" p 2219-2226
    Edgar Allan Poe "A Dream Within a Dream" supplemental
    demo-Whitman and Poe
     
   
 
Tuesday:  
Emily Dickinson, p 2248-2249
          #365 ("Because I Could Not Stop for Death") p 2265
    demo-Dickinson
              #241 ("I Like a Look of Agony") p 2253
               Detail of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini —Full image
          #216 ("Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers") p 2252
          # 754 ("My Life Had Stood — A Loaded Gun") p 2267
     
   
 
Wednesday:  
Final Paper due
Final Exam