Complete all assigned reading before coming to class. Please keep in mind that all reading assignments are subject to change. All page numbers refer to the editions/ISBNs that I have ordered. For some readings (including all of the poetry), you will download and print the text, which is available on the Readings portion of the class blog. All of the literary term assignments are found in Cuddon’s The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.
Aug 20. Th Introductions (Frost, “The Road Not Taken”), Syllabus
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Aug. 25 T J. Hillis Miller, “How to Read Literature” (online)
Frost, “Mending Wall”; Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”
Literary terms: literature, iambic, pentameter
Aug. 27 Th Voice: Williams, “This is Just to Say”; Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”; R. Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover”
Literary terms: narrator, persona, viewpoint, poetry
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Sep. 1 T Sonnets: D. G. Rossetti, “A Sonnet is a Moment’s Monument”; Keats, “On the Sonnet”; Wordsworth, “Nuns Fret Not”; Collins, “Sonnet”
Literary terms: sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet, Spenserian sonnet
Last day of Add/Drop/Swap
Sep. 3 Th Paper One Due: one-page paper on one word from “Tintern Abbey”
William Wordsworth, from “Preface to the Second Edition of the Lyrical Ballads,” “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” “[She dwelt among the untrodden ways],” “[Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known]”
Literary terms: romanticism, lyric, ballad
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Sep. 8 T Poetic Convention: Donne, “The Flea”; Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”; Jonson, “[Come, my Celia, let us prove]”; cummings, “[(ponder,darling,these busted statutes]”
Literary terms: carpe diem, metaphysical
Sep. 10 Th Dickinson, “[Because I could not stop for Death—]”, “[We do not play on Graves—]”, “[I heard a fly buzz when I died]”, “[Wild Nights—Wild Nights]”; Collins, “Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes”
Literary terms: slant rhyme, allusion
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Sep. 15 T Paper Two Due: two-page paper on one stanza from “Punishment”
Pinsky, “Poem with Lines in Any Order (Poem)”; Heaney, “Punishment”; Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
Literary terms: TBA
Sep. 17 Th T. S. Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (online)
Hemingway, “A Very Short Story” (107-108), “Big Two-Hearted River: Part I” (163-169), “Big Two-Hearted River: Part II” (173-180)
Literary terms: irony, new criticism
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Sep. 22 T Class cancelled
Sep. 24 Th Paper Three Due: three-page paper on one sentence in “Soldier’s Home”
Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home” (111-116), “In Another Country” (206-210), “Now I Lay Me” (276-282)
Literary terms: short story
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Sep. 29 T Hemingway, “Indian Camp” (67-70), “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (39-56), “A Way You’ll Never Be” (306-315)
Literary terms: TBA
Oct. 1 Th Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” (online)
Literary terms: essay
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Oct. 6 T Stevens, “The Emperor of Ice Cream”; Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”; Williams, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”; Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Literary terms: TBA
Oct. 8 Th Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” and “The Philosophy of Composition” (online)
Literary terms: alliteration, consonance, assonance
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Oct. 13 T Fall Break
Oct. 15 Th Larsen, Passing, Part One (1-34)
Literary terms: novel
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Oct. 20 T Larsen, Passing, Parts Two and Three (35-82)
Literary terms: modernism, realism
Oct. 22 Th Essays on Passing, TBA
Literary terms: TBA
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Oct. 27 T Plath, “Morning Song,” “Barren Woman,” and “Lady Lazarus”; Dickinson, “[After great pain, a formal feeling comes—]”
Literary terms: confessional poetry
Oct. 29 Th Paper Four Due: six-page paper on Passing
Trethewey, Native Guard, 1-24
Literary terms: blues, blues stanza
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Nov. 3 T Trethewey, Native Guard, 25-46
Literary terms: TBA
Nov. 5 Th Trethewey, Native Guard, continued
Liteary terms: crown of sonnets, ghazal
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Nov. 10 T Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author” (online)
Michel Foucault, “What is an Author?” (online)
Literary terms: author, death of (that’s one term, not two)
Nov. 12 Th Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 1-30
Literary terms: postmodernism, ekphrasis
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Nov. 17 T Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 31-79
Literary terms: satire
Nov. 19 Th Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 80-152
Literary terms: detective story
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Nov. 24 T Class canceled
Nov. 26 Th Thanksgiving Break
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Dec. 1 T Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Dakota, The Art of Sleep, The Art of Silence
Literary terms: TBA
Dec. 3 Th Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Bust Down the Doors!, Bust Down the Doors Again! (Gates of Hell-Victoria Version), Operation Nukorea
Course Conclusions
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Final Papers Due By…
Section 004 (12:30-1:45): Monday, Dec. 7, 5:30 pm
Section 005 (2:00-3:15): Thursday, Dec. 10, 10:30 am