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ENG 254 Survey of
American Literature, Winter 2008
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Texts:
Nina Baym, ed., The
Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th Edition, Volumes
C, D, and E.
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Calendar: These are
the assigned readings in The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
Please read each of the readings before class for the date listed
and be prepared to express thoughtful opinions. We will change
readings and due dates as needs and interests dictate.
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Writing |
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M 7 Jan |
Introduction |
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W 9 Jan |
American
Humor
Mark
Twain 100-04
Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn Ch. 1-21,108-205 |
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2 |
M 14 Jan |
Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn Ch. 22-end, 205-94 |
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W 16 Jan |
From
Roughing It 303-07
From
Letters from the Earth 307-21
The
War Prayer 322-24
Image,
Snap the Whip, Winslow Homer C2
Native
American Assimilation and Resistance
Charlot
385
[He
has filled graves with our bones] 385-87
Zitkala
Sa 1105-06
Impressions
of an Indian Childhood 1107-13
The
School Days of an Indian Girl 1113-21
An
Indian Teacher among Indians 1121-24
Why
I am a Pagan 1130-32
Image,
Women Watching a Sun Dance, Amos Bad Heart Bull
Image,
An Indian Horse Dance, Kills Two C6 |
Quiz |
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3 |
M 21 Jan |
Martin Luther
King Holiday—no class |
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W 23 Jan |
Regionalism,
Local Color & Americanization
Debates
over "Americanization" 1147-48
Frederick
Jackson Turner 1148-49
From
The Significance of the Frontier in American History 1149-53
Theodore
Roosevelt
From
American Ideals 1153-56
From
The Strenuous Life 1156-59
José
Martí 1164-65
From
Our America 1165-66
Anna
Julia Cooper 1174-75
From
One Phase of American Literature 1175-76
Realism
and Naturalism 911-12
Theodore
Dreiser 926-27
True
Art Speaks Plainly 927
Jack
London 928
From
What Life Means to Me 928-30
Image,
Both Members of This Club, George Bellows C7
Kate
Chopin 529-31
The
Awakening 535-80 |
Essay
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4 |
M 28 Jan |
The Awakening 580-625 |
Quiz |
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W 30 Jan |
African
American Spokespersons
Anna
Julia Cooper 645-46
Woman
versus the Indian 647-63
Booker
T. Washington 663-65
from
Up from Slavery 665-87
W.
E. B. Du Bois 893-94
from
The Souls of Black Folk 894-910 |
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5 |
M 4 Feb |
Modernist
Alienation & Experimentation
Modernist Manifestos 1499-1500
F. T. Marinetti, Mina Loy, Ezra Pound, Willa Cather, William
Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes 1500-13
Ezra Pound 1477-79
A Pact 1481
In a Station of the Metro 1482
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter 1482
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 1484-92
T. S. Eliot 1574-76
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 1577-80
The Waste Land, I. Burial of
the Dead 1587-89
The Hollow Men 1599-1602
Image, Portrait of a German
Officer, Marsden Hartley C1
Gertrude
Stein 1356-58
From
The Making of Americans 1358-70 |
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W 6 Feb |
Ernest Hemingway 1980-82
Letter of August 18, 1918, to His
Parents 1377-79
The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1983-99
Image, Night Hawks, Edward Hopper C8
Katherine Ann Porter 1690-91
Flowering Judas 1691-1700 |
Reading
Response |
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M 11 Feb |
Wallace Stevens 1439-41
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1442
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 1443
Sunday Morning 1443-46
Anecdote of the Jar 1446
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 1448-50
Image, Golden Bird, Constantin Brancusi C2
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1803-04
Recuerdo
1804
I
Think I Should Have Loved You Presently 1805
[I,
being born a woman] 1805
Apostrophe
to Man 1805-06
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Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex 1806
Susan Glaspell 1411
Trifles 1412-21 |
Quiz |
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W 13 Feb |
Harlem
Renaissance
Langston Hughes 2026-27
The Negro Speaks of Rivers 2027
I, Too 2028
The Weary Blues 2029
Mulatto 2029-30
Song for a Dark Girl 2031
Image, Black Belt, Archibald J. Motley C3
Zora Neale Hurston 1700-01
The Eatonville Anthology 1701-10
How It Feels to Be Colored Me 1710-13
The Gilded Six-Bits 1713-21 |
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7 |
M 18 Feb |
Modernist
Experimentation in the Novel
William Faulkner 1858-60
As I Lay Dying 1860-1907 |
Reading
Response |
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W 20 Feb |
As I Lay Dying 1907-55 |
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M 25 Feb |
Postwar
African American Literature
Amiri Baraka 2743-44
Dutchman 2745-58
Alice Walker 2468-69
Everyday Use 2469-75
Yusef Komunyakaa 3075-76
Poems and prose 3076-82
Image, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin C5 |
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W 27 Feb |
Postwar
American Indian Literature
N. Scott Momaday 2764-65
From The Way to Rainy Mountain 2766-75
Leslie Marmon Silko 3082-83
Lullaby 3083-90
Sherman Alexie 3239-40
Poems and story 3240-48
Image, The American Indian, Fritz Scholder C4 |
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9 |
M 3 Mar |
Narrative
Experimentation: Beats & Others
Jack Kerouac 2439-40
From Big Sur 2440-60
Donald Barthelme 2679-80
The Balloon 2680-83
Image, Blam, Roy Lichtenstein C2
Image, Estate, Robert Rauschenberg C3
Annie Dillard 3016-17
From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
3017-28
Image, Earthrise and Lunar Horizon from Apollo 8 C4
William T. Vollman 3232-33
Red Hands 3233-39 |
Essay |
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W 5 Mar |
Late
20th Century Drama
Sam
Shepard 2959-60
True
West 2960-99 |
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| 10 |
M 10 Mar |
Engaged
Literature
Art
Speigelman 3090-91
from
Maus 3091-3107
Kurt
Vonnegut 2460-61
From
Slaughterhouse Five 2461-72
Writing
in a Time of Terror 3205
From
The 9/11 Commission Report 3206-10
Image,
World Trade Center Burning, Peter Morgan C7
Kimiko
Hahn 3212
Her
Very Eyes 3212
Naomi Shibhab Nye 3216
Shoulders
3216 |
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W 12 Mar |
"Signature"
Poems of Six Poets
Sylvia Plath 2698-2700
Morning Song 2700
Daddy 2704-06
Adrienne
Rich 2649-51
Diving
into the Wreck 2656-57
Mary Oliver 2792-94
The Black Snake 2794
In Blackwater Woods 2993-94
Allen Ginsberg 2574-76
Howl 2576-84
Footnote to Howl 2583-84
Robert
Lowell 2392-94
For the Union Dead 2407-09
Billy Collins 2920-21
Forgetfulness 2921
I Chop Some Parsley 2924-25
Review,
Preview |
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| 11 |
M 17 Mar |
Final
Exam |
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