| Weeks |
Dates |
Description |
| 1 Week |
Introduction: |
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| T 14/2 | General Introduction | |
| Thu-T 16-21/2 | Read: Introduction 1-7 + Unit One: The Elements of Fiction (72-3; 78-81; 121-2; 124-6; 184-6; 212-7; 262-5; 294-7; 329-33) | |
| Thu 23/2 | Cont. Unit One: The Elements of Fiction | |
| 4 Weeks |
Prose Fiction: |
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| Thu 23/2 | Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour (p.15-16); | |
| T 28/2 | William Faulkner A Rose for Emily (91-98) | |
| Thu 1/3 | Cont. Faulkner’s | |
| S 4 /3 | Charles Dickens & The Victorian England (122-3) | |
| T 6/3 | Charles Dickens From Hard Times (p.122-23) | |
| Thu 8/3 | Ernest Hemingway Soldier's Home (p.187-92) | |
| S 11/3 | Alice Walker’s Roselily (handout); (p.253-57) | |
| T 13/3 | Cont. Roselily + Gothic Fiction [Handout, online, Dictionary of literary terms] | |
| Thu 15/3 | Response #1Due | |
| Thu 15/3 | Gothic in Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado (p.727-31) | |
| S 18/3 | Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find (p.449-59) | |
| T 20 /3 | Chitra Divakaruni Clothes (p.265-73) | |
| Thu 22/3 | Cont. Divakaruni's story | |
| S 25/3 | Mid-Term Exam (Part I) | |
| T 27/3 | Mid-Term Exam (Part II) Postponed till after the Edi Break | |
| 2 Weeks |
Drama: |
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In class we will start to read aloud scenes from the assigned plays. We will also watch a video tape of two of the plays. |
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| S 1/4 | Unit Three: The Elements of Drama (1363-5; 1381-84; 1524-6) | |
| T-Thu 3-5/4 | Susan Glaspell Trifles (p.1366-76) | |
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S 8/4 |
Modern Drama: Realism & Naturalism (p.1704-1708) & Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (p.1709-1757) | |
| T -T 10-17/4 | Cont. Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House + Dramatic Performances | |
| T 17/4 | Response #2Due | |
| 3 Weeks |
Poetry: |
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| Thu 19/4 | Unit Two: The Elements of Poetry
New version: 799-804; 814; 837; 864-6;870-3; 888-91; 894; 920-22; 924-8; 946-50; 970-4; 975; 1000 |
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| S 22/4 | William Blake's "The Tyger" (961-2) | |
| T 24/4 | Elizabeth Browning "How Do I love Thee? Let me Count the Ways" (p.1236) | |
| Thu 26/4 | Amy Lowell "The Pond" (p.846) | |
| S 29/4 | Sounds of Poetry [Rhyme & Rhythm] Visitor Dr. Behbehani | |
| T 1/5 | Ezra Pound In a Station of a Metro (p.861) Haiku poetry | |
| Thu 3/5 | Dickinson’s Because I could not stop for Death— (853) ; (1041-8; 1066) | |
| S 6/5 | I heard a Fly buss—when I died— (852) ; (1065) | |
| T 8/5 | Harlem Renaissance & Langston Hughes poetry: Hughes "Mother to Son" (917); (on-line) | |
| Thu 10/5 | "The Negro Speaks of the Rivers" (p.907); (1129-34) | |
| S 13/5 | Percy Shelley "Ozymandias" (p.1031) ; (1345) | |
| S 13/5 | Optional Response #3 Due | |
| T 15/5 | Andrew Marvell "To His Coy Mistress" (p.636-7); (p.812-3) | |
| Thu 17/5 | Exercises on Rhythm + Final Revision | |
| S-T 20-22/5 | Final Revision | |
| Wed.23/5 | Last Day of classes | |
| Sun. 3/6 | Final Exam [8:00-10:00 a.m., Room#208] | |
The instructor reserves all rights in amending this syllabus. Should there by any changes, students will be notified accordingly.