English 101: Rhetoric 1 The First Year Experience: "Forbidden Knowledge" Hendricks--Fall  2004 --Texts and Calendar --

• Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" -- from The Republic
• Homer, The Odyssey
• Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
  
• Edwin Rolfe,  Trees Became Torches:  Selected Poems
  
• Paul Negri, ed.  Great American Short Stories
• William Logan,  Night Battle
  
• Debra Greger,  Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters
  
• Ethan and Joel Coen,  O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  
• Recommended: 
  
• Sally Barr Ebest, et al.  Writing from A to Z.  3rd ed.
• a good college dictionary  (Websters, American Heritage, Random House) 
  

• Tu Aug 31:    Introduction to Class

• Th Sept 2:     Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" 
  

• Introductory Notes on Classical Greece  --  Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, Canada
• Plato  --  Island of Freedom
• "The Allegory of the Cave"  --  S. Marc Cohen,  U. of Washington
• on Plato's Theory of Forms  --  S. Marc Cohen, U. of Washington
• on Plato's The Republic and "The Allegory of the Cave"  --  Gordon L. Ziniewicz
• Plato  --  Thomas Brickhouse,  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Plato's Political Philosophy --  W. J. Korab-Karpowicz,  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• Tu Sept 7:    Essay #1 -- in class:  on The Odyssey     Topic:  "Is Odysseus a hero?  If not, on what level is he worthy of our attention?" 
  

• Th Sept 9:    The Odyssey:  Discussion of "heroism" and "the journey"
  

• Homer  --  Island of Freedom
  
• Lecture on The Odyssey  --  Ian Johnston, Malaspina University-College, Canada
• The Odyssey:  Introductory Lecture  --  John Protevi,  Louisiana State U.
• Gender in The Odyssey  --  John Protevi,  Louisiana State U.
• The Odyssey:  Vengeance is Sweet  --  John Protevi,  Louisiana State U.

• Tu Sept 14:    Shakespeare,  Measure for Measure  Acts 1-3
  

• Th Sept 16:    Measure for Measure  Acts 4-5
  

• Measure for Measure  --  Sparknotes.com
• Measure for Measure  --  Pink Monkey.com
• Measure for Measure  --  ClassicNote
  
• critical essays on Measure for Measure  --  Shakespeare Studies at the U. of Texas
  
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet --  Terry A. Gray

• Tu Sept 21:      TBA 

• Th Sept 23:      TBA
  

• Shenandoah Shakespeare Express Schedule: 

• Tuesday, Sept. 21:       7:00 pm    Measure for Measure
• Wednesday, Sept. 22:  7:00 pm    She Stoops to Conquer
• Thursday, Sept. 23:      7:00 pm    Measure for Measure
• Friday, Sept. 24:           7:00 pm    Twelfth Night
  
• Saturday, Sept. 25:       1:00 pm    Measure for Measure
• Saturday, Sept. 25:       7:00 pm    She Stoops to Conquer      (All shows in Kilpatrick Auditorium in the Smith Building)
  

• Shenandoah Shakespeare Express home page
  

• Tu Sep 28:    The Odyssey:  Discussion of "Food" and "Hospitality"
  

• Th Sep 30:    The Odyssey:  Discussion of "The Gods" and "Religion" 
  

• The Odyssey  --  Sparknotes.com
  
• The Odyssey  --  Classicnote.com
• summary of The Odyssey  --  Mythweb
• Homer  --  Richard Hooker,  Washington State U. 
  
• "The Value of Hospitality" [in The Odyssey]  --  Cory Biggs, Melissa Joseph, Mollie Bennet, Dustin Manning, Jonas Schrodt  --  U. of Indiana
• Hidden Themes from Homer's Odyssey  --  U. of Indiana
• Homeric Questions [on "Hospitality"]  --  N. S. Gill, About.com
• Greek Mythology  --  Encyclopedia Mythica
• Greek Gods  --  Hellas On-Line

• Tu Oct 5:      Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" and Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"  

• Th Oct 7:      ***  Mid-term exam 

• What Is a Short Story?  --  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  
• History and Characteristics of the Short Story  --  Mary Ann Gillies,  Simon Fraser U., Canada
• A Short History of the Short Story  --  Julia Kamysz Lane,  Book
  

• "Young Goodman Brown"  --  Storybites
  
• student essays on "Young Goodman Brown"  --  Florida Gulf Coast University
• excerpts from criticism on "Young Goodman Brown"  --  Kavis Fleming, Virginia Commonwealth U.
  
• critical approaches to "Young Goodman Brown"  --  Bedford/St. Martin's 
  
• "Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'Young Goodman Brown': A Psychoanalytic Reading"  --  Bedford/St. Martin's  (pdf file)
  
• "Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'Young Goodman Brown' and Erring in the Wilderness: A Postcolonial Reading" -- Bedford/St. Martin's (pdf file)
• "The Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 and 'Young Goodman Brown'"  -- Joseph R. Modugno, North Shore Community College, Danvers, MA
• Poe's Life  -- James Southall Wilson,  Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia
• "The Tell-Tale Heart"  --  Karen Bernardo, Storybites
  
• "Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'"  --  Martha Womack
  
• "Frantic Forensic Oratory:  Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'"  --  Brent Zimmerman,  Style
• "Credibility and Authorial Strategies in 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Yellow Wallpaper"  --  Tadhg O'Higgins,  U. of California, Berkeley
• The Poe Decoder
  

• Tu Oct 12:   Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," and Kate Chopin, "A Pair of Silk Stockings" 
  

• Th Oct 14:   Henry James, "The Real Thing," and Jack London, "To Build a Fire" 
  

• "The Yellow Wallpaper"  --  ClassicNote.com
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"  --  Karen Bernardo, Storybites
  
• "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Poetics of the Inside"  --  Beth Snyder
• "The Yellow Wallpaper" (Gretehen Lynne Greene) and "In Control" (Adam Leed)  --  Virginia Wesleyan College
• "The Awakening and The Yellow Wallpaper: An Intertextual Comparison of the 'Conventional' Connotations of Marriage and Propriety"  --  James Mahin
• Kate Chopin's home in Cloutierville, Louisiana  --  Linda McGovern,  Literary Traveler
• Kate Chopin  --  Women Writers.net

• Tu Oct 19:      Fall Break:  No Class 

• Th Oct 21:      Writing Workshop  -- review Essay #2 
  
  

• Tu Oct 26:      Willa Cather, "Paul's Case" and Sherwood Anderson, "The Egg" 
  

• Th Oct 28:      F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and Ernest Hemingway, "The Killers"
  
  

• Willia Cather bio  --  Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• Willa Cather's "Paul’s Case"  --  Karen Bernardo,  StoryBites
• "Paul's Case"  --  Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
  
• critical approaches to "Paul's Case"  --   Paul R. Bixby
  
• Sherwood Anderson bio  --  Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• F. Scott Fitzgerald bio  --  Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  U. of South Carolina
  
• The Hemingway Resource Center
  

• Tu Nov 2:      from William Logan, Night Battle 

1)  "Florida in January"  p. 3

2)  "Sundays in the South"  pp. 4-5

3)  "Blues for Penelope" p. 15

4)  "Small Bad Town" p. 18

5)  "Bad Dream" p. 47

• Th Nov 4:      from Debra Greger,  Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters  --  poems TBA 

On-Line Resources:

• "William Logan"  --  Richard Flynn,  Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 120: American Poets Since World War II, Third Series
• "Versed Nightmare" [on William Logan]  --  Eric McHenry, Slate 
  
• Logan web page @ the U. of Florida
  
• William Logan poetry reviews -- The New Criterion
  
• "Grabbing Poetry by the Seat of the Pants" [interview with Logan and Greger]  --  Cooper Cruz,  Weekly Planet
• Greger web page @ the U. of Florida
• review of Desert Fathers, Uranium Daughters  --  Mehera Dennison

• *** Essay #3  due Monday, Nov. 8  by 2:00 pm to Becky Palmer, Humanities Secretary (Jackson Hall 307)

• Tu  Nov 9:      poems from Logan and Greger,  TBA
  

• Th  Nov 11:    poems from Logan and Greger,  TBA

• Tu Nov 16:    Writing Workshop --  review Essay #3
  

• Th Nov 18:    Edwin Rolfe:  Poetry and Politics During the Great Depression
  
• "Lyric Politics:  The Poetry of Edwin Rolfe"  --  Cary Nelson
  
• "Asbestos,"  p. 82
• "Winter's Ghost Plagues Them," p. 83
• "Season of Death," p. 84
• "Faces No Longer White," p. 87
• "Prophecy in Stone," p. 89

• Tu Nov 30:   Edwin Rolfe and The Spanish Civil War:  The Politics of Poetry During War

• Read all the poems in the Spanish Civil War section of Trees Became Torches, pp. 43-66. 
  
• Pay close attention to  "Epitaph," ""Elegy for Our Dead," and "First Love." 
  

• Th Dec 2:     Edwin Rolfe and The Red Scare:  McCarthyism in the 1950s

• Read all the poems in the "Summons to the Inquisition" section of Trees Became Torches, pp. 119-136. 
  
• Pay close attention to "Now the Fog," "Ballad of the Noble Intentions," "A Poem to Delight My Friends Who Laugh at Science Fiction," and "Little Ballad for Americans -- 1954."