American Lit, 1915-Present (2005)


Class Topics and Due Dates

"; ?>01/27/05 "; ?>Course Overview"; ?>
"; ?>01/27/05 "; ?>Major Themes"; ?>
"; ?>01/27/05 "; ?>Fitzgerald, ''Bernice Bobs Her Hair''"; ?>
"; ?>01/27/05 "; ?>Intro to Blogging"; ?>
"; ?>02/01/05 "; ?>Three Blog Entries"; ?>
"; ?>02/03/05 "; ?>Gender and Justice"; ?>
"; ?>02/03/05 "; ?>Ex 1-1: Close Reading"; ?>
"; ?>02/03/05 "; ?>Glaspell, ''A Jury of Her Peers''"; ?>
"; ?>02/03/05 "; ?>Rice, The Adding Machine"; ?>
"; ?>02/10/05 "; ?>Flappers and Philosophers"; ?>
"; ?>02/10/05 "; ?>Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby"; ?>
"; ?>02/17/05 "; ?>Literary Criticism"; ?>
"; ?>02/17/05 "; ?>Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby"; ?>
"; ?>02/17/05 "; ?>Article on Fitzgerald 1"; ?>
"; ?>02/17/05 "; ?>Article on Fitzgerald 2"; ?>
"; ?>02/21/05 "; ?>Ex 1-2: Close Reading (delayed)"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Gender and Modernism"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Eliot, ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Henry Adams on Mechanism and Modernism"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Treadwell, Machinal"; ?>
"; ?>02/24/05 "; ?>Jerz, Technology in American Drama (selection)"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Poetry Unit 1"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Paper 1 Workshop"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Portfolio 1"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Paper 1 Worksheet: Pre-writing for Paper 1 (2%)"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Pound, ''In the Old Age of the Soul''"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Ransom, ''Judith of Bethulia''"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Crane, ''To Brooklyn Bridge''"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Lehman, ''The World Trade Center''"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Plath, ''Daddy''"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Cummings, ''my father moved through dooms of love'' (optional)"; ?>
"; ?>03/03/05 "; ?>Frost, "Never Again Would The Birds' Song Be the Same""; ?>
"; ?>03/15/05 "; ?>Paper 1 Due (Tue) (5%)"; ?>
"; ?>03/17/05 "; ?>Midterm Exam"; ?>
"; ?>03/17/05 "; ?>Theater and Film"; ?>
"; ?>03/17/05 "; ?>A Streetcar Named Desire"; ?>
"; ?>03/17/05 "; ?>Articles TBA"; ?>
"; ?>03/31/05 "; ?>Short Stories"; ?>
"; ?>03/31/05 "; ?>Moore, ''You're Ugly, Too''"; ?>
"; ?>03/31/05 "; ?>O'Connor, ''Greanleaf''"; ?>
"; ?>03/31/05 "; ?>Parker, ''Here We Are''"; ?>
"; ?>04/07/05 "; ?>Short Stories 2"; ?>
"; ?>04/07/05 "; ?>Houston, ''The Best Girlfriend You Never Had''"; ?>
"; ?>04/07/05 "; ?>Toomer, ''Blood-Burning Moon''"; ?>
"; ?>04/07/05 "; ?>Proulx, ''The Half-Skinned Steer''"; ?>
"; ?>04/14/05 "; ?>Race and Class"; ?>
"; ?>04/14/05 "; ?>McBride, The Color of Water Miracle at St. Anna"; ?>
"; ?>04/14/05 "; ?>Arie, ''Italy to try three former Nazis''"; ?>
"; ?>04/21/05 "; ?>Poetry Slam"; ?>
"; ?>04/21/05 "; ?>Ex 2-2: Literary Research"; ?>
"; ?>04/21/05 "; ?>Oral Interpretation"; ?>
"; ?>04/28/05 "; ?>Paper 2 Workshop"; ?>
"; ?>04/28/05 "; ?>Jones, ''I Want to Live''"; ?>
"; ?>04/28/05 "; ?>Ex 2-3: Term Paper Draft and Peer Review"; ?>
"; ?>04/28/05 "; ?>Short Stories TBA"; ?>
"; ?>04/28/05 "; ?>Bishop, ''The Farmer's Children''"; ?>
"; ?>05/05/05 "; ?>Bildungsroman and The Quest"; ?>
"; ?>05/05/05 "; ?>Portfolio 2"; ?>
"; ?>05/05/05 "; ?>The Secret Life of Bees"; ?>
"; ?>05/05/05 "; ?>Article"; ?>
"; ?>05/06/05 "; ?>Paper 2 (Revision)"; ?>
"; ?>05/12/05 "; ?>Final Exam"; ?>