M. Introduction to Course | Review Syllabus |Edmodo

W. Theories of the novel

F. Theories of the novel Reading: Bahktin (pdf on edmodo) | An overview of literary periods

M. American Gothic | Reading: The Morgesons

W. Reading: The Morgesons | Optional Reading: Sybil Weir's "The Morgesons: A Neglected Feminist Bildungsroman" (pdf on edmodo)

F. Reading: The Morgesons | Critical Reading: Feldman's "A Talent for the Disagreeable: Elizabeth Stoddard Writes The Morgesons" (pdf on edmodo)

9.6, 9.8, 9.10

LABOR DAY: NO CLASS

W. Modernism and Discourse | Reading: As I Lay Dying

F. Reading: As I Lay Dying | Critical Readings: Dorothy J. Hale's "As I Lay Dying's Heterogeneous Discourse" (pdf on edmodo) and selected works from Norton critical Edition...

9.13, 9.15, 9.17

M. Reading: As I Lay Dying | Critical Readings: Stephen M. Ross' "'Voice' in Narrative Texts: The Example of As I Lay Dying" and Shari Benstock's reply to Ross (pdfs on edmodo) (see also selected readings in Norton Critical Edition)

W. Reading: The Optimist's Daughter

F. Reading: The Optimist's Daughter

9.20, 9.22, 9.24

M. Modernism and the African-American novel | Reading: The Invisible Man | Supplementary Reading: W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk (excerpt and link to full text on edmodo)

W. Reading: The Invisible Man

F. Reading: The Invisible Man

9.27, 9.29, 10.1

M. Reading: The Invisible Man | Critical Reading: William Lyne's "The Signifying Modernist: Ralph Ellison and the Limits of Double Consciousness" (pdf on edmodo)

W. Reading: The Invisible Man | Assignment: Midterm Research Paper (5-7pp with 5 peer reviewed sources)

F. Coming of Age and the American Novel | Reading: Catcher in the Rye | Critical Reading: Carol and Richard Ohman's "Reviewers, Critics, and The Catcher in the Rye" (pdf on edmodo)

10.4, 10.6, 10.8

M. Reading: Catcher in the Rye | Critical Reading: James Bryan's "The Psychological Structure of The Catcher in the Rye" (pdf on edmodo)

W. Reading: Catcher in the Rye

F. Conferences: Midterm Essay

10.11, 10.13

M. Due: Midterm Research Paper

W. (midterm grades due) Midterm Exam

FALL BREAK

10.18, 10.20, 10.22

M. Controversy and the American Novel | Reading: Lolita

W. Reading: Lolita | Critical Reading: Eric Rothstein's "'Lolita': Nymphet at Normal School" (pdf on edmodo)

F. Reading: Lolita

10.25, 10.27, 10.29

M. Native American Renaissance and the novel | Reading: Love Medicine | Supplementary Reading: MAPS on Louise Erdrich, "Dear John Wayne" (poem) and criticism of poem (link on edmodo)

W. Magical Realism | Reading: Love Medicine

F. Reading: Love Medicine | Critical Reading: Barbara L. Pittman's "Cross-Cultural Reading and Generic Transformations: The Chronotope of the Road in Erdrich's Love Medicine" (pdf on edmodo)

11.1, 11.3, 11.5

M. Reading: Love Medicine

W. Race and the Postmodernist novel | Reading: Beloved

F. Reading: Beloved | Critical Reading: Toni Morrison's "Site of Memory" (online here)

11.8, 11.10, 11.12

M. Reading: Beloved | Critical Reading: Jean Wyatt's "Giving Body to the Word: The Maternal Symbolic in Toni Morrison's Beloved" (pdf on edmodo)

W. Reading: Beloved | Optional Readings: James Berger's "Ghosts of Liberalism: Morrison's Beloved and the Moynihan Report" and PMLA Reader Responses to Berger (pdfs on edmodo)

F. Reading: Berube's "Teaching Postmodern Fiction Without Being Sure That the Genre Exist" (pdf on edmodo) | Lecture: Postmodernism (notes "postmodernism.doc" on edmodo)

Reminder: IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, BEGIN NOW THINKING ABOUT POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR YOUR FINAL RESEARCH ESSAY, WHICH IS DO IN LESS THAN THREE WEEKS!

11.15, 11.17, 11.19

M. The Postmodernist Western | Reading: Blood Meridian

W. Reading: Blood Meridian

F. Reading: Blood Meridian | Critical Reading: Dana Phillips' "History and the Ugly Facts of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian" (pdf on edmodo)

THANKSGIVING BREAK 11.20-11.28

11.29, 12.1, 12.3

M. Assignment: Final Research Paper (8-10pp with 8-10 peer reviewed sources)

W. Library Research Day for Final Research Paper

F. Conference Sign-up | Peer Discussion: Final Research Paper

M. Conferences: Final Research Paper

W. Final Research Paper Due

F. Review for Final Exam|Course Evaluations

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