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Instructor: Ann Warren Office: Office Village 4 Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9-9:30 am, and by appointment Phone: 310-233-4247 E-Mail: annw708@earthlink.net |
Course Schedule: Week 1 Course Schedule: Weeks 2-5 Course Schedule: Weeks 6-9 Course Schedule: Weeks 10-15 Course Schedule: Final Exam |
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Week 1 Sept. 2-6 INTRODUCTION Themes and issues in American Literature: 1865-1900 Writing About Literature Go to Lecture 1 No Discussion Questions due this week |
Check out the English 208 Message Board and introduce yourself to the class: |
| Week 2 Sept. 8-13 Late 19th Century Fiction Go to Lecture 2 Go to Discussion Questions 1 |
Reading: Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Week 3 Sept. 15-20 Late 19th Century Fiction Go to Lecture 3 Go to Discussion Questions 2 |
Reading: James, Daisy Miller The Turn of the Screw |
| Week 4 Sept. 22-27 Late 19th Century Fiction Go to Lecture 4 Go to Discussion Questions 3 |
Reading: Crane, The Red Badge of Courage |
| Week 5 Sept. 29-Oct. 4 Early 20th Century Poetry Go to Lecture 5 No Discussion Questions due this week  Paper 1 due
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Reading: Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy" "Modernities" Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" "Acquainted With the Night" Eliot, "The Burial of the Dead" from The Wasteland Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West" "Sunday Morning" Williams, "A Sort of a Song" "Tract" Hughes, "Let America Be America Again" "Dream Variations" |
| Week 6 Oct. 6-11 Early 20th Century Fiction Go to Lecture 6 Go to Discussion Questions 4 |
Reading: Anderson, "The Book of the Grotesque" from Winesburg, Ohio "Mother" from Winesburg, Ohio Faulkner, "Centaur in Brass" Hemingway, "Soldiers Home" Parker, "You Were Perfectly Fine" |
| Week 7 Oct. 13-18 Early 20th Century Fiction Go to Lecture 7 Go to Discussion Questions 5 |
Reading: Choose one of the following novels to read; read the entire work: Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby OR West, The Day of the Locust |
| Week 8 Oct. 20-25 Early 20th Century Fiction Go to Lecture 8 Go to Discussion Questions 6 |
Reading: Hammett, The Thin Man |
| Week 9 Oct. 27-Nov. 1 Early 20th Century Fiction Go to Lecture 9 Go to Discussion Questions 7 |
Reading: Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely |
| Week 10 Nov. 3-8 Mid to Late 20th Century Poetry Go to Lecture 10 No Discussion Questions due this week Paper 2 due
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Reading: Brooks, "The Bean Eaters" "A Song in the Front Yard" Roethke, "In a Dark Time" "The Geranium" Lowell, "Sailing Home From Rapallo" "Epilogue" Ginsberg, "Howl" Plath, "Lady Lazarus" Baraka, "A New Reality is Better than a New Movie!" |
| Week 11 Nov. 11-15 Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction Go to Lecture 11 Go to Discussion Questions 8 |
Reading: Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues" From The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: --Silko, "Tony's Story," 579 --Lahiri, "A Temporary Matter," 321 --Bass, "The Hermit's Story," 22 |
| Week 12 Nov. 17-22 Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction No new lecture this time Go to Discussion Questions 9 |
Reading: From The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: --Bloom, "Silver Water," 72 --Cisneros, "Never Marry a Mexican," 109 --Desaulniers, "After Rosa Parks," 129 --Doerr, "The Caretaker," 152 --Yarbrough, "The Rest of her Life," 628 |
| Week 13 Nov. 24-26 Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction No new lecture this time No Discussion Questions due this week |
Reading: Choose one of the following novels to read; read the entire work: Auster, The Book of Illusions Frazier, Thirteen Moons Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
| Week 14 Dec. 1-6 Late 20th and Early 21st Century Fiction No new lecture this time No Discussion Questions due this week Paper 3 due |
Reading: Finish the novel you chose (Auster, Frazier, or Wao) |
| Week 15 Dec. 8-13 CATCH YOUR BREATH Week | No reading assignment for this week |
| Week 16 FINAL EXAM Final Exam due |
The final exam is due on or before Monday, December 15th, by midnight. No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately. |