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First Paper due |
Thursday, September 25 |
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Midterm: |
Thursday, 9 October |
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Second Paper due |
Thursday, 6 November |
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Last Day to Drop |
Friday, 21 November |
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Final Paper due |
Thursday, 11 December |
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Final Exam |
Thursday, 18 December |
"Reading Literature," 2 - 7
"Understanding Literature: Experience, Interpretation, evaluation," 7 - 9
Fiction - Part One
Chapter One - Reading Stories
"Reading Stories," 21 -26
Chapter Two - Types of Short Fiction, 37 - 42
Chapter Three - Elements of Fiction
"Plot and Structure," 43 - 45
"Character," 54 - 56
"Setting," 60 - 61
"Point of View," 71 - 73
"Language and Style," 80 - 81
"Theme," 85 - 86
"Irony and Symbol," 92 - 95
Chapter Four - Writing About Fiction, 107 - 122
Stories:
Luke, "The Prodigal Son," 21
Chopin, "The story of an Hour," 32
Aesop, "The Wolf and the Mastiff," 38
Carver, "Cathedral," 506
Bambara, "The Lesson," 499
Walker, "Everyday Use," 654
Kincaid, "Girl," 569
Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily," 73
O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," 195
Lawrence, "The Rocking-Horse Winner," 96
Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing," 433
Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado," 138
Chapter Seven - Reading Poems - 670 - 680
Chapter Eight - Types of Poetry - 683 - 684
Chapter Nine - Elements of Poetry
Voice: Speaker and Tone, 686
Diction, 695
Imagery, 703
Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor
Symbolism and Allegory, 715
Syntax, 721
Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance
Rhythm and Meter, 736
Structure: Closed Form and Open Form, 744
Theme, 755
Chapter Eleven - Writing about Poetry, 805 - 820
Poems
Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays," 671
Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," 674
Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," 678
Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz," 689
Crane, "War Is Kind," 687
Browning, "My Last Duchess," 688
Rich, "Rape," 702
Bishop, "First Death in Nova Scotia," 704
Wallace, "The Double Play," 712
Frost, "The Road Not Taken," 719
Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," 720
Hardy, "The Man He Killed," 725
Cummings, "Me up at does," 727
Sexton, "Her Kind," 743
Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow," 744
"Cummings, "[Buffalo Bill's], 749
Chapter 7 - What Is a Poem?
“Ars Poetica,” MacLeish,
“Poetry,” Moore, 875
“Constantly Risking Absurdity,” Ferlinghetti,
Chapter 8 - The Elements of Poetry: a Poet’s Means
“A Word Is Dead,” Dickinson
“Fog,” Clampitt
“Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now,” Housman
“Not Waving but Drowning,” Smith
Chapter 9 – The Elements of Poetry: a Poet’s Meanings
“Richard Cory,” Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Jabberwocky,” Lewis Carroll
“Fog” Carl Sandburg
“To His Coy Mistress,” Andrew Marvell
Chapter 10 - The Types of Poetry: a Poet’s Forms
“Oh, When I Was in Love with You,” Housman
“Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Keats
“Death Be Not Proud,” Dunn
“Reflection on Ice-Breaking,” Nash
“The last time I slept with the Queen,” Thomas
Chapter 11 - The Types of Poetry: Other Poetic Forms
“The Man splitting Wood in the Daybreak,” Kinnell
“A Story about the Body,” Hass
“Four Haikus,” Basho
“In a Station by the Metro,” Pound
“The Red Wheelbarrow,” Williams
“My Last Duchess,” Browning
Chapter 12 – Poets Speaking Out: Poems about Politics, Society, and the Environment
“War Is Kind,” Stephen Crane
“The Man He Killed,” Hardy
“Instead of a Preface,” Akhmatova
“Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” Randall Jarrell
Chapter 15 - Poems and Poets
“The Tyger,” Blake
“We Real Cool,” Brooks
“Buffalo Bill’s,” cummings
“Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” Dickinson
“Birches,” Frost
“The Road Not Taken,” Frost
from “Howl,” Ginsberg
“Theme for English B,” Hughes
“Dream Deferred,” Hughes
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,” Shakespeare
“Ozymandias,” Shelley
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” Thomas
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” Whitman
“A Noiseless Patient Spider,” Whitman
“The Second Coming,” Yeats
Chapter 18 - What Is a Play?
Chapter 19 - The Elements of Drama: a Playwright’s Means
Chapter 20 - Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Drama
Chapter 21 - Plays and Playwrights
A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry
A Doll House, Ibsen
Death of a Salesman, Miller
Trifles, Glaspell
The Glass Menagerie, Williams
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Shakespeare
Update: 28 September 2001