American Lit, 1915-Present (2005)


Class Topics and Due Dates


01/27/05 Course Overview

01/27/05 Major Themes
01/27/05 Read: Fitzgerald, ''Bernice Bobs Her Hair''

01/27/05 Intro to Blogging
02/01/05 Due: Three Blog Entries

02/03/05 Gender and Justice
02/03/05 Due: Ex 1-1: Close Reading
02/03/05 Read: Glaspell, ''A Jury of Her Peers''
02/03/05 Read: Rice, The Adding Machine

02/10/05 Flappers and Philosophers
02/10/05 Read: Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

02/17/05 Literary Criticism
02/17/05 Read: Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
02/17/05 Read: Article on Fitzgerald 1
02/17/05 Read: Article on Fitzgerald 2
02/21/05 Due: Ex 1-2: Close Reading (delayed)

02/24/05 Gender and Modernism
02/24/05 Read: Eliot, ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''
02/24/05 Read: Henry Adams on Mechanism and Modernism
02/24/05 Read: Treadwell, Machinal
02/24/05 Read: Jerz, Technology in American Drama (selection)

03/03/05 Poetry Unit 1

03/03/05 Paper 1 Workshop
03/03/05 Due: Portfolio 1
03/03/05 Due: Paper 1 Worksheet: Pre-writing for Paper 1 (2%)
03/03/05 Read: Pound, ''In the Old Age of the Soul''
03/03/05 Read: Ransom, ''Judith of Bethulia''
03/03/05 Read: Crane, ''To Brooklyn Bridge''
03/03/05 Read: Lehman, ''The World Trade Center''
03/03/05 Read: Plath, ''Daddy''
03/03/05 Read: Cummings, ''my father moved through dooms of love'' (optional)
03/03/05 Read: Frost, "Never Again Would The Birds' Song Be the Same"
03/15/05 Due: Paper 1 Due (Tue) (5%)
03/17/05 Midterm Exam

03/17/05 Theater and Film
03/17/05 Read: A Streetcar Named Desire
03/17/05 Read: Articles TBA

03/31/05 Short Stories
03/31/05 Read: Moore, ''You're Ugly, Too''
03/31/05 Read: O'Connor, ''Greanleaf''
03/31/05 Read: Parker, ''Here We Are''

04/07/05 Short Stories 2
04/07/05 Read: Houston, ''The Best Girlfriend You Never Had''
04/07/05 Read: Toomer, ''Blood-Burning Moon''
04/07/05 Read: Proulx, ''The Half-Skinned Steer''

04/14/05 Race and Class
04/14/05 Read: McBride, The Color of Water Miracle at St. Anna
04/14/05 Read: Arie, ''Italy to try three former Nazis''

04/21/05 Poetry Slam
04/21/05 Due: Ex 2-2: Literary Research
04/21/05 Due: Oral Interpretation

04/28/05 Paper 2 Workshop
04/28/05 Read: Jones, ''I Want to Live''
04/28/05 Due: Ex 2-3: Term Paper Draft and Peer Review
04/28/05 Read: Short Stories TBA
04/28/05 Read: Bishop, ''The Farmer's Children''

05/05/05 Bildungsroman and The Quest
05/05/05 Due: Portfolio 2
05/05/05 Read: The Secret Life of Bees
05/05/05 Read: Article
05/06/05 Due: Paper 2 (Revision)

05/12/05 Final Exam