Texts:

• Baym, Nina and others.   The Norton Anthology of American Literature.   Shorter 7^th Edition  (Belly-Banded Two-Volume Set)  --  W.W.Norton  
• Chopin, Kate.   The Awakening  2^nd edition,  edited by Nancy Walker  --  Bedford/St. Martin’s  
• McDermott, Alice.    After This  --  Dell  
• Melville, Herman.  The Confidence Man  2nd edition, edited by Hershel Parker and Mark Niemeyer -- W.W. Norton (Critical Edition)

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Wk 1:  Introduction to American Culture and American Literature:  Theories, Themes, and Myths
Tuesday, January 15


General sites of interest to those studying American Literature and Culture:

• A Hypertext on American History From the Colonial Period Until Modern Times  --  Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• History Matters  [US History on the Web]  --  American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY) and the Center for History and New Media (George Mason University)
• American Memory  --  The Library of Congress
• American Studies Crossroads Project  --  American Studies Association and Georgetown U.  
  
• American Studies Hypertexts  --  U. of Virginia
• Outline of American Literature --  Kathryn VanSpanckeren,  U. of Tampa
• American Literature sites  --  Donna M. Campbell,  Washington State U.
• American Literature on the Web  --  Akihito Ishikawa, Nagasaki U., Japan
• American Authors on the Web  --  Mitsuharu Matsuoka,  Nagoya U., Japan
• PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide  --  Paul P. Reuben,  California State U., Stanislaus
• Norton Anthology of American Literature Student Website
• Heath Anthology of American Literature Instructor's Guide
  
• Web Resources for Early American Literature: A Beginning  --  Lehigh U.  
• Academy of American Poets
• American Verse Project  --  U. of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
• Modern American Poetry  --  Cary Nelson, U. of Illinois
• Modern and Contemporary American Poetry  --  Al Filreis, U. of Pennsylvania
  
• Electronic Poetry Center  --  SUNY, Buffalo
• Poetry [Magazine] Foundation  (including the magazine online)
• The American Poetry Review
  
• online poetry anthologies and books of poems  --  Bartleby.com
• The American Novel  --  PBS
• 49th Parallel E-Journal  (devoted to American and Canadian studies)  --  U. of Birmingham, U.K.
  
• Society for the Study of American Women Writers
• A Celebration of Women Writers  --  Mary Mark Ockerbloom,  U. of Pennsylvania   [including many American writers]

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Wk 2:  From Puritan Beginnings to the Age of Reason and Revolution
Tuesday, January 22

*****  Note:  This week's readings are online readings.   The background readings are NOT required readings.

• American Puritanism:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• The Five Points of Calvinism  (from the Synod of Dort, 1619)  --  David J. Voelker,  U. of Wisconsin--Green Bay    (pdf file)  
  
• The American Sense of Puritan  --  Scott Atkins, U. of Virginia
• timeline of literary activities in Colonial America  --  American Passages:  A Literary Survey

• Anne Bradstreet
• The Prologue
• Contemplations
• The Author to Her Book
• Before the Birth of One of Her Children
• Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
• In Honor of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory
• To My Dear and Loving Husband
• Mary Rowlandson
• from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
  
  • The First Remove
  • The Second Remove
  • The Third Remove
  • The Twelfth Remove
  • The Twentieth Remove
• commentary on Mary Rowlandson  --  American Passages:  A Literary Survey
• Early American Captivity Narratives  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Edward Taylor 
• The Preface
• Meditation 8 (First Series)
• Meditation 96:  Let Him Kiss Me With the Kisse of His Mouth
  
• The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended
  
• Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children
• Upon a Wasp Chilled of Cold
• Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
  
• Huswifery
• notes on Edward Taylor  --  Donna M. Campbell,  Washington State U.  
• Puritan Meditation Tradition  --  Donna M. Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  
• Jonathan Edwards
• Personal Narrative  (pdf file)
• NATIVE AMERICANS: CONTACT AND CONFLICT
  
  • Pontiac’s Speech at Detroit
  • Samson Occom  (Mohegan)
  • from Samson Occom’s autobiography
  • Thomas Jefferson’s citation of Chief Logan’s speech from Notes on the State of Virginia
  • Red Jacket to the U.S. Senate
  • Tecumseh’s speech to the Osages
  • another version
    
• Benjamin Franklin
• The Way to Wealth
• Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America
• from The Autobiography
  
  • [Part Two]   pp.  35-42 only
    
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
  
  • from Letters from an American Farmer   
  • from Letter Three:  What is an American?    [read sections 48-91]
• Thomas Jefferson
• an annotated Declaration of Independence @ Wikipedia
  
• Phillis Wheatley
• On Being Brought from Africa to America
• To the University of Cambridge, in New England
• Thoughts on the Works of Providence
• To S.M., A Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
• To His Excellency General Washington 
• To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth

Background Readings:

• Fire and Ice:  Puritan and Reformed Writings
• Puritan History:  Past, Present, and Future  --  Gavin Finley   [a view from the perspective of a contemporary American Evangelical]
• Early American and Colonial Literature to 1700  --   James Madison U., Virginia
• Colonial and Revolutionary Literature  --  W. P. Trent and others,  Vol 15 of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature  (1907-1921)
• Anne Bradstreet page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Mary Rowlandson page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Edward Taylor page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Colonial Period,  1700-1800:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Jonathan Edwards page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Benjamin Franklin page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Thomas Jefferson page  --  The White House
• Thomas Jefferson  --  Wikipedia
  
• Phillis Wheatley page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• The European Enlightenment  --  Richard Hooker,  Washington State U.
  
• American Revolution  --  Wikipedia
  
• The American Revolution.com
• The American Revolution.org
• Timeline of the American Revolution  --  PBS
• Time of US Revolutionary History  (1760-1789)  --  Wikipedia
  
• A Guide to the American Revolution  --  Kenneth Drexler,  Library of Congress
• Deism  --  Wikipedia
• Deism  --  Terry Matthews,  Wake Forest U.   [with an emphasis on Deism in the South]

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Wk 3:   American Romanticism:  Transcendentalism and The Gothic
Tuesday, January 29

• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• The Birthmark
  
• Edgar Allan Poe
• The Raven
• Annabel Lee
• Ligeia
  
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• The Purloined Letter
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The American Scholar
• Henry David Thoreau
• from Walden, or Life in the Woods
  
  • Economy
  • Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
• Walt Whitman
• Song of Myself
  
• Emily Dickinson
• 112 (67) [Success is counted sweetest]
• 202 (185) [“Faith” is a fine invention]
• 260 (288) [I’m Nobody! Who are you?]
• 269 (249) [Wild Nights—Wild Nights!]
• 320 (258) [There’s a certain Slant of light]
• 339 (241) [I like a look of Agony]
• 359 (328) [A Bird came down the Walk—]
• 372 (341) [After great pain, a formal feeling comes—]
• 448 (449) [I died for Beauty—but was scarce]
• 479 (712) [Because I could not stop for Death—]
• 519 (441) [This is my letter to the World]
• 591 (465) [I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—]
• 620 (435) [Much Madness is divinest Sense—]
• 760 (650) [Pain—has an Element of Blank—]
• 764 (754) [My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—]
• 1096 (986) [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]

Background Readings:  

• Early Nineteenth Century and Romanticism:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• American Transcendentalism:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Transcendentalism  --  Wikipedia
• Transcendentalism  --  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  
• Transcendentalists
  
• American Transcendentalism Web  --  Anne Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth U.  
  
• Dark Romanticism:  The Ultimate Contradiction
• Nathaniel Hawthorne page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
• Edgar Allan Poe page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson  --  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• a study guide to Emerson's essay "Self -Reliance"  --  
  
• Henry David Thoreau page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Walt Whitman page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Emily Dickinson page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.

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Wk 4:   No Class/Mardi-Gras Break
Tuesday, February 5
 

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Wk 5:    Herman Melville's The Confidence Man
Tuesday, February 12

• Herman Melville  --  Wikipedia
• Herman Melville biography  --  Hennig Cohen,  Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 3: Antebellum Writers in New York and the South  (1979)
• Melville Society Extracts
  
• The Confidence Man:  His Masquerade  --  Scott Eric Atkins,  U. of Virginia
• "Melville's Quarrel With Fiction"  --  Nina Baym, U. of Illinois
• "Deceiving America:  The 'Marks of Dishonesty' in Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Confidence Man"  --  Andrew Green,  U. of Birmingham
• Bartleby, the Scrivener  --  Haskell Springer, U. of Kansas
• a bio of Melville and three of his poems  --  Poets.org
  
• approaches to teaching Melville  --  Carolyn L. Karcher,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• a bibliography on Melville
• Herman Melville  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)

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Wk 6:   Fulfilling the Promise:  Race and Gender in Ante-Bellum America
Tuesday, February 19

• SLAVERY, RACE, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
  
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • from Notes on the State of Virginia
  • David Walker
  • from David Walker's Appeal in Four Articles
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • To the Public
  • Angelina E. Grimké
  • from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851
  • Martin R. Delany
  • from Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent
• Margaret Fuller
• from The Great Lawsuit:  Man versus Men.  Woman versus Women
  
  • [Four Kinds of Equality]
  • [The Great Radical Dualism]
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly
  
  • Chapter VII. The Mother’s Struggle
  • Chapter IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man
  • Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade
• "Fanny Fern"  (Sarah Willis Parton)
• Male Criticism on Ladies’ Books
• "Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern"
  
• Harriet Jacobs
• from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  
  • I. Childhood
  • VII. The Lover
  • X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life
  • XIV. Another Link to Life
  • XXI. The Loophole of Retreat
  • XLI. Free at Last
• Frederick Douglass
• What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
• Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
• Lemorne versus Huell
  
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Eliza Harris
  • Ethiopia
  • The Fugitive’s Wife
  • The Tennessee Hero
  • Bury Me in a Free Land

Background Reading:

• Africans in America  --  PBS
• Slavery and the Making of America  --  PBS
• Timeline of American Slavery  --  PBS
• Slavery in America:  History
  
• The Anti-Slavery Movement  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Abolitionism  --  Wikipedia
• The African-American Mosaic:  Abolition  --  Library of Congress
  
• American Abolitionism  --  Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis
• Margaret Fuller  --  American Transcendentalism Web
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture  --  Stephen Railton, U. of Virginia
• Uncle Tom's Cabin  --   American Studies,  U. of Virginia
• Uncle Tom's Cabin  --  SparkNotes
• Frederick Douglass Papers  --  Library of Congress
• Timeline from A History of the American Suffragist Movement  --  Doris Weatherford
• The Women's Rights Movement  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• "The Roots of Individualist Feminism in 19th Century America"  [ Part One  and  Part Two ] --  Wendy McElroy

***  Tuesday, February 19:  One hour in-class short answer exam 

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Wk 7 :   Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism
Tuesday, February 26

• Mark Twain
• The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Henry James
• Daisy Miller:  A Study
• Sarah Orne Jewett
• A White Heron
• Charles W. Chestnutt
• The Passing of Grandison
  
• Jack London 
• The Call of the Wild
• THEORIES OF REALISM AND NATURALISM
• William Dean Howells
• from Novel Writing and Novel Reading:  An Impersonal Explanation
• Henry James
• from The Art of Fiction
• Frank Norris
• from A Plea for Romantic Fiction
• Theodore Dreiser
• True Art Speaks Plainly
  
• Jack London
• from What Life Means to Me
• DEBATES OVER “AMERICANIZATION”
• Frederick Jackson Turner
• from The Significance of the Frontier in American History
• Theodore Roosevelt
• from American Ideals
• True Americanism
  
• from The Strenous Life
• Helen Hunt Jackson
• from A Century of Dishonor
• José Martí
• from Our America
• Charles W. Chesnutt
• A Defamer of His Race
• Jane Addams
• from Twenty Years at Hull House
• Anna Julia Cooper
• from  One Phase of American Literature

Background Reading:

• Mark Twain  --  Wikipedia
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens  "Mark Twain"  --  Everett Emerson,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• a Mark Twain chronology  --  PBS
• a Mark Twain biography  --  PBS
  
• Mark Twain  online project  --  U. of California, Berkeley
• "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"  --  Mark Twain
  
• The Mark Twain They Didn't Teach Us About in School  --  Helen Scott,  International Socialist Review
• Acting Naturally:  Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance  --  Randall Knoper  (full text of book from U. of California P, 1995)
• Getting to Be Mark Twain  --  Jeffrey Steinbrink  (full text of book from U. of California P, 1991)
• Travelling in Mark Twain  --  Richard Bridgman  (full text of book from U. of California P, 1987)
• Mark Twain page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  
• Mark Twain  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Henry James  --  Wikipedia
• Henry James  --  Alfred Habegger,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Daisy Miller  --  SparkNotes
• Daisy Miller  --  Cliff sNotes @ Yahoo
  
• Daisy Miller  --  Wikipedia
• Henry James page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  
• The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
  
• Henry James  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Sarah Orne Jewett -- Wikipedia
• Sarah Orne Jewett  --  Elizabeth Ammons,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• approaches to teaching Sarah Orne Jewett  --  Elizabeth Ammons,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Sarah Orne Jewett page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  
• Charles Wadell Chestnutt  --  Wikipedia
• Charles Wadell Chestnutt  --  William L. Andrews,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• approaches to teaching Charles Wadell Chestnutt  --  William L. Andrews,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Charles W. Chestnutt page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
  
• Jack London  --  Wikipedia
• Jack London  --  Joan D. Hedrick,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• The Call of the Wild  --  SparkNotes
  
• The Call of the Wild  --  CliffsNotes@ Yahoo
• Jack London page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  
• William Dean Howells  --  Wikipedia
• William Dean Howells  --  Gary Scharnhorst,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• approaches to teaching William Dean Howells  --  John W. Crowley,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• William Dean Howells page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  
• Frank Norris  --  Wikipedia
• approaches to teaching Frank Norris  --  Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.,  
• Frank Norris page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  
• Theodore Dreiser  --  Widipedia
• Theodore Dreiser bio  --  Spartacus
  
• Theodore Dreiser  page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  
• Frederick Jackson Turner  --  Wikipedia
• Frederick Jackson Turner  --  PBS
• Frederick Jackson Turner  --  Jeffrey B. Flagg,  Bowling Green State U.  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt  --  Wikipedia
• Roosevelt's concept of "The Strenuous Life"  --  Wikipedia
  
• Helen Hunt Jackson  --  Wikipedia
• Helen Hunt Jackson bio  --  
  
• Helen Hunt Jackson  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• José Martí  --  Wikipedia
•  José Martí --   Enrique Sacerio-Garí,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• approaches to teaching Jose Marti  --  Enrique Sacerio-Garí,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Jane Adams  --  Wikipedia
• Jane Adams bio  --  Women in History
  
• Jane Adams  --   Maurice Hamington,  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  
• Anna Julia Cooper  --  Wikipedia
• Anna Julia Cooper  --   Richard Yarborough, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Anna Julia Cooper bio  --  Robin Kadison Berson,  Chicken Bones:  A Journal

***  Friday, February 29:  1000-word essay on Melville's The Confidence Man

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Wk 8 :   Reading Fiction/Reading Theory
Tuesday, March 4

• Kate Chopin, The Awakening

• Background Reading; 
• Kate Chopin  --  Peggy Skaggs,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Kate Chopin page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
  

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Wk 9:     The Rise of Modernism:  Poetry
Tuesday, March 11

• Robert Frost
• The Death of the Hired Man
• Fire and Ice
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Design
• Wallace Stevens
• The Snow Man
• The Emperor of Ice Cream
• Sunday Morning
• Anecdote of the Jar
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
• The Idea of Order at Key West
• William Carlos Williams
• The Young Housewife
• Portrait of a Lady
• The Red Wheelbarrow
• This Is Just to Say
• The Dance ("In Brueghel’s great picture, The Kermess")
• Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
• Ezra Pound
• To Whistler, American
• Portrait d’une Femme
• A Pact
• In a Station of the Metro
• The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
• from The Cantos 
  
  • I  (“And then went down to the ship”)
• Marianne Moore
• Poetry 
• To a Snail
• The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
• In Distrust of Merits
  
• T. S. Eliot
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 
• Gerontion 
• The Hollow Men 
• E. E. Cummings
• O sweet spontaneous
• Buffalo Bill’s
• next to of course god america i
• i sing of Olaf glad and big
• anyone lived in a pretty how town
• Langston Hughes
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Mother to Son
• I, Too
• The Weary Blues
• Mulatto
• Song for a Dark Girl
• Visitors to the Black Belt
• Note on Commercial Theatre
• Democracy
• Theme for English B

Background Reading:

• A Brief Guide to Modernism  --  Poets.org
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• Robert Frost  --  Wikipedia
• Robert Frost @ Poets.org 
• Robert Frost @ Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  --  Cary Nelson and Edward Bruner 
• Robert Frost timeline  -- Jeff Ketzle
• Frost's early poetry  --  Bartleby.com
  
• Wallace Stevens  --  Wikipedia
• Wallace Stevens @ Poets.org
• Wallace Stevens @  Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  --  Edward Brunner,  John Timberman Newcomb,  and Cary Nelson
• Groundbreaking Book: Harmonium by Wallace Stevens (1923)  @ Poets.org
• To Reinvent Invention:  John Hollander on Wallace Stevens  --  John Hollander,  Poets.org
  
• The Wallace Stevens Journal/Society
  
• Wallace Stevens bibliography  --  GW Nielsen
  
• William Carlos Williams  --  
• Ezra Pound  --  
• Marianne Moore  --  
• Marianne Moore @  Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  --  Patricia C. Willis and Cary Nelson
• Groundbreaking Book: Selected Poems by Marianne Moore (1935)  @ Poets.org
• Four letters from Marianne Moore  @ Poets.org
• T. S. Eliot  --  
• E. E. Cummings  --  
• Langston Hughes  --  
  

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Wk 10:    Easter Break  --  No Class 
Tuesday, March 18

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Wk 11:     The Rise of Modernism:  Fiction
Tuesday, March 25

• Sherwood Anderson
• from Winesburg, Ohio:   Hands and  Mother
• Katherine Anne Porter
• Flowering Judas
• Zora Neale Hurston
• How It Feels to Be Colored Me
• The Gilded Six-Bits
• Ernest Hemingway
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Winter Dreams
• Babylon Revisited
• William Faulkner
• Barn Burning
• Richard Wright
• The Man Who Was Almost a Man

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Tuesday, April 1
Wk 12:   Mid-Century Modernism:  Poetry and Fiction

• Elizabeth Bishop
• The Fish
• At the Fishhouses
• The Armadillo
• Sestina
• In the Waiting Room
• One Art
• Robert Lowell
• The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
• Mr. Edwards and the Spider
• Skunk Hour
• For the Union Dead
• Allen Ginsberg
• Howl
• Footnote to Howl
• A Supermarket in California
  
• Sylvia Plath
• Morning Song
• Lady Lazarus
• Daddy
• Blackberrying
• Child
• Saul Bellow
• from The Adventures of Augie March, Chapter 1
• Jack Kerouac
• from Big Sur, Chapters 12-14
• James Baldwin
• Going to Meet the Man
• Flannery O'Connor
• Good Country People

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Tuesday, April 8
Wk 13:   The John W. Corrington Award Winner for 2007

•  Alice McDermott,  After This  

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Tuesday, April 15
Wk 14:   Contemporary Poetry

• Adrienne Rich
• Storm Warnings
• Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
• A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
• Diving into the Wreck
• Transcendental Etude
• Michael S. Harper
• Dear John, Dear Coltrane
• American History
• Martin’s Blues
  
• Yusef Komunyakaa
• Facing It
• My Father’s Love Letters
• Slam, Dunk, & Hook
• When Dusk Weighs Daybreak
• Jasmine
• Rita Dove
• Banneker 
• Parsley 
• Adolescence—I 
• Adolescence—II 
• Rosa 
• Fox Trot Fridays
• Louise Erdrich
  
  • Dear John Wayne 
  • I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move 
  • Grief 
  • Fleur 
• Cathy Song
• The White Porch
• Lost Sister
• Heaven 
• Li-Young Lee
• Persimmons
• Eating Alone 
• Eating Together 
• This Room and Everything in It
• Sherman Alexie
• At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School
• Pawn Shop
• Crow Testament
• Do Not Go Gentle

Background Reading:

• Adrienne Rich
• Michael S. Harper
• Yusef Komunyakaa
• Rita Dove
• Louise Erdrich
• Cathy Song
• Li-Young Lee
• Sherman Alexie
• A Conversation with Sherman Alexie by Diane Thiel  --  Crossroads Online, American Poetry Society

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Tuesday, April 22
Wk 15:   Contemporary Fiction

• Toni Morrison
• Recitatif
• Thomas Pynchon
• Entropy
• Raymond Carver
• Cathedral
• Leslie Marmon Silko
• Lullaby
  
• Sandra Cisneros
• Woman Hollering Creek
  
• Jhumpa Lahiri 
  
  • Sexy

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Tuesday, April 29:  Review and Evaluations
Wk 16:  

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Final Exam:  Tuesday, May 6  --  4:00 - 7:00 pm   Jackson Hall 304