American Literature 171/1

Time: 10:00-10:50 a.m. / Classroom # 208 

Syllabus

 
Weeks

Dates

 Description
1 Week

Introduction:

  
  S  18/9 General Introduction
     
1 Week T-Thu 20-22/9 History: Literature to 1700 (p. A 1-16)
   S 25/9   John Smith’s “From General history of Virginia (p. A 55-72)
  T 27/9 William Bradford’s ”From Plymouth Plantation” Book I Chapter IX + X (pp. A104,114-120)+ Book II Chapter XI (pp.120-126)
  Thu 29/9 Cont. Bradford’s narrative
    S 2/10

History: 1700-1820, (pp. A357-67)
  T 4/10

Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa” (p. A751-53) ; “The Natural Rights of Negroes”    (p.A763-64)
  T 18 /10 History: 1820-1865 (pp. B929-50)
   Thu 20/10 Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle (pp. B951-964)
  S 23/10

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”  (pp. B1272-75,1289-98)
  S 23/10 Response #1Due
  S  30/10   Cont. Hawthorne's story & Poe's "The Raven" (pp. B1528-32, 1536-39)
  T 1/11  Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven (pp. B1528-32, 1536-39) + Jacob's Narrative
  Thu 30/10  Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (p. B1808-29)
  S 13/11

History: 1865-1914 (pp. C 1-16)
   T 15/11  Mid-Term Exam
  Thu  24/11

Dickinson’s “My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun”   (p. C192)
   S27/11- T 29/11

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter I-X (pp. C219-253)+   Chapters XXXI-XXXVI (pp. C356-381) + Chapter XL(pp.393-97) + Chapter XLII (pp. 401-7)
  T 29/11

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman “The Revolt of  Mother” (p. C733)
  S 4/12 Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (pp.   C746-64)
  T  6/12

 W. E. B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folks (pp.    C877-901)
  Thu 15/12 

 Charlotte Gilman “The Yellow Wall-paper” (p.   C832)
  Thu 8/12

2nd. Response Due extended to Sunday 11/12
  S 18/12 History: 1914-45 (pp. D1071-86)
  S 25/12  T. S. Eliot’s  “The Love Song of J. Alfred  Prufrock” (p. D 1420)
     
   

Zora Neale Hurston:  The Eatonville Anthology: I. "The Pleading Woman" (1507-8) +  "V. The Way of a Man with a Train" (1508-9) + "XII. The Head of the Nail" (1512-3) + "XIV." (1514-5); and "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" (1516-8))
  S 25/12 F. Scott Fitzgerald  “Winter Dreams” (p. D 1642)
  T 27/12  Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks of   Rivers”  (p. D 1892); “Harlem:  A dream  Deferred”
   

 History: Literature Since 1945 (pp. E   1953-65) /Drama
   

      Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman  (pp. E2111-76)
  Thu 29/12

Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz (p. E   2694)
  Thu 29/12

3rd. Response Due
  T 3/1/2012   Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” (p. E 2972)
  T 3/1/2012  Review Session ???
  Thu. 12/1/ 2012 Final Exam [8:00-10:00 a.m., Room#208]

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