2009_331_syllabus

Henry James	English 331: Seminar in the American Novel Spring 2009 Jefferson Hendricks English Department Centenary College of Louisiana	Zora Neale Hurston
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Texts/Syllabus

Henry James, The American (1877) -- Signet Classics ISBN-10: 0451529669 / ISBN-13: 978-0451529664
“Mark Twain,” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) Bedford/St. Martin’s (2^nd ed.) -- ISBN-10: 0312400292 / ISBN-13: 978-0312400293
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) -- Bedford/St. Martin’s (2^nd ed.) -- ISBN-10: 0312195753 / ISBN-13: 978-0312195755
Jack London, The Call of the Wild in The Portable Jack London (1903) -- Penguin -- ISBN-10: 0140179690 / ISBN-13: 978-0140179699
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920) -- Dover Thrift -- ISBN-10: 0486298035 / ISBN-13: 978-0486298030
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- Scribner -- ISBN-10: 0743273567 / ISBN-13: 978-0743273565
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926) -- Scribner -- ISBN-10: 0743297334 / ISBN-13: 978-0743297332
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930) -- Vintage ISBN-10: 067973225X / ISBN-13: 978-0679732259
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) -- Harper Perennial -- ISBN-10: 0061120065 / ISBN-13: 978-0061120060

Wk 1: Wed. Jan 14: No Class

*** [I will be attending the Sundance Film Festival from Wed. Jan 14 to Mon Jan 19 but will have email access; if you need to contact me by phone, ask Ms. Palmer in the English office (Jackson Hall 307) to call me for you. We will begin class on Wed. Jan 21 with Henry James's The American, which you are expected to have finished and be prepared to discuss in class that day. Serious students will also begin reading as much as possible of the background readings for Week I.]

Background Readings:

The Novel -- Wikipedia
The Romance -- Wikipedia
Gothic, Novel, and Romance: Brief Definitions -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
The Early American Novel: Introductory Notes -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
"The Early American Novel" -- Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, The Columbia History of the American Novel
"Realism and 'Absent Things in American Life'" -- Amy Kaplan [The "Introduction" to The Social Construction of American Realism, pp. 1-14]
Narrative -- Marie-Laure Ryan
Fiction Theory -- Wikipedia
Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative -- Manfred Jahn, U. of Cologne, Germany
The American Novel -- American Masters, PBS
"It Was a Dark and Stormy Night; Or, Why Are We Huddling about the Campfire?" -- Ursula K. Le Guin, Critical Inquiry [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Why We Read Fiction?" -- Lisa Zunshine, U. of Kentucky
"How Do Stories Convince Us? Notes Towards A Rhetoric of Narrative" -- John Rodden, College Literature
American Fiction -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

Wk 2: Wed. Jan. 21: Henry James -- The American

Background Readings:

Henry James -- Wikipedia
Henry James -- Alfred Habegger
Henry James -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen
Henry James -- Daniel Mark Fogel, Louisiana State U. (PBS American Masters)
Henry James -- Joseph Warren Beach, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
The American -- Wikipedia
The American -- SparkNotes
"Preface" to Vol. 2 of the New York edition of James's novels, which includes The American
James's The American: A (New)man is Being Beaten -- Eric Haralson, American Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Tradition and Modernity in Henry James's The American" -- Marita Nadal, U. of Zaragoza, Spain
"The American and Le Roman Policier" -- Susan Gunter, Westminster College/ Sofia University
"Henry James's Mathematics" -- Philip Acree Cavalier, Catawba College
"Christopher Newman's Haircloth Shirt: Wordly Asceticism, Conversion, and Auto-Machia in The American" -- Pericles Lewis, Studies in the Novel
"The American and the Romance of Modernity" -- Chiyo Yoshii, Papers on Language and Literature [Literature Resource Center @ ML, CC]
"The American: Innocence Abroad" in Henry James: The Early Novels -- Robert Emmet Long [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
Henry James page -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites -- Richard Hathaway, SUNY, New Paltz
articles on Henry James -- The Guardian Online, U. K.
Henry James -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

*** Tues Jan 20: Film: A. P. Tureaud Story @ Robinson Film Center 7:30 pm

*** Thurs Jan 22: Paul Muldoon reads his poetry and receives the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence @ 7:30 in Bynums Common

Wk 3: Wed. Jan 28: "Mark Twain" -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Required Readings:

"The Life of Samuel Clemens and the Reception of Huckleberry Finn," pp. 19-26.
"A Portfolio of Illustrations from the 1885 Edition," pp. 264- 274.

Background Readings

Mark Twain -- Wikipedia
Mark Twain -- Alan Gribben, Auburn U., Montgomery (PBS American Masters)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens "Mark Twain" -- Everett Emerson, Heath Anthology of American Literature
Mark Twain -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen
a Mark Twain chronology -- PBS
a Mark Twain biography -- PBS
Mark Twain in His Times -- Stephen Railton, U. of Virginia
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: Text, Illustrations, and Early Reviews -- Virginia H. Cope, U. of Virginia
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Wikipedia
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- SparkNotes
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- CliffsNotes
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- ClassicNotes
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Study Guide -- Michael J. Cummings
Huck Finn in Context: A Teaching Guide -- Culture Shock, PBS
"Teaching Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin, U. of Texas, Austin [Culture Shock, PBS]
"Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" -- Mark Twain
review of Graff, Gerald, and James Phelan (eds.). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy -- David Tomlinson, U. S. Naval Academy [our text for this class]
from "Banned in Concord: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Classic American Literature" -- Myra Jehlen, The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain
from "'Say It Ain't So, Huck': Second Thoughts on Mark Twain's Masterpiece" -- Jane Smiley, Harper's
"'Say It, Jim': The Morality of Connection in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" -- Laurel Bollinger, College Literature
"'There's More Honor': Reinterpreting Tom and the Evasion in Huckleberry Finn" -- Kevin Michael Scott, Studies in the Novel
"Not Trying to Talk Alike and Succeeding: The Authoritative Word and Internally-Persuasive Word in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" -- Paul Lynch, Studies in the Novel
"Racism and Real Life: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in the Undergraduate Survey of American Literature" -- Annemarie Hamlin and Constance Joyner, Radical Teacher
Mark Twain -- John C. Gerber, U. of Iowa [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
Mark Twain page -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
Mark Twain online project -- U. of California, Berkeley
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 Circular -- articles from 2002 - 2008
articles on Mark Twain -- The Guardian Online, U. K.
Mark Twain -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

*** Tues Jan 27: Citizen King plays @ Centenary Film Society

Wk 4: Wed. Feb 4: criticism on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

"Why Study Critical Controversies?" pp. 1-15
"The Controversy Over the Ending: Did Mark Twain Sell Jim Down the River?"

Lionel Trilling, "A Certain Formal Aptness"
T.S. Eliot, "The Boy and the River: Without Beginning or End"
Leo Marx, "Mr. Eliot, Mr. Trilling, and Huckleberry Finn"
Toni Morrison, "Jim's Africanist Presence in Huckleberry Finn"
Stanley Margolis, "Huckleberry Finn; or, Consquences"
Sacvan Bercovitch, from "Deadpan Huck"

"The Controversy over Race: Does Huckleberry Finn Combat or Reinforce Racist Attitudes?"
- Julius Lester, "Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- Justin Kaplan, "Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn"
- Peaches Henry, "The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn"
- Gerry Brenner, "More than a Reader's Response: A Letter to 'De Ole True Huck'"
- James Phelan, "On the Nature and Status of Covert Texts: A Reply to Gerry Brenner's 'Letter to 'De Ole True Huck'"
- Jonathan Arac, from Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target
- Jane Smiley, from "Say It Ain't So, Huck: Second Thoughts on Twain's 'Masterpiece'"
- Seymour Chwast, "Selling Huck Down the River"
"The Controversy over Gender and Sexuality: Are Twain's Sexual Politics Progressive, Regressive, or Beside the Point?"
- Nancy A. Walker, "Reformers and Young Maidens: Women and Virtue in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- Myra Jehlen, "Reading Gender in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- Frederick Crews, "Walker versus Jehlen versus Twain"
- Martha Woodmansee, "A Response to Frederick Crews"
- Leslie Fiedler, "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!"
- Christopher Looby, "'Innocent Homosexuality': The Fiedler Thesis in Retrospect"

Wk 5: Wed. Feb 11: Kate Chopin -- The Awakening

Required Readings:

"Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts," pp. 1-21.
"Contextual Documents," pp. 140-166.

Background Readings:

Kate Chopin -- Wikipedia
Kate Chopin -- Peggy Skaggs, Angelo State U.
The Awakening -- SparkNotes
The Awakening -- CliffsNotes
The Awakening -- ClassicNotes
"The Awakening: An Evaluation" -- Jane P. Tompkins, Feminist Studies [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"The Nullification of Edna Pontellier" -- Katherine Kearns, American Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Depression and Chopin's The Awakening" -- Steven T. Ryan, The Mississippi Quarterly
"Surviving Edna: A Reading of the Ending of The Awakening" -- Robert Treu, College Literature
“Awakened Men in Kate Chopin's Creole Stories” -- Pearl L. Brown, American Transcendental Quarterly
Kate Chopin -- Kate Scaggs, Angelo State U. [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
Kate Chopin page -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
Domestic Fiction -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
Local Color -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
Kate Chopin -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

*** Blackfriars's Shakespeare Troupe on campus

Wk 6: Wed. Feb 18: criticism on The Awakening

A Critical History of The Awakening

Feminist Criticism and The Awakening

What Is Feminist Criticism?
Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Feminist Perspective: Elaine Showalter, "Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book"

Gender Criticism and The Awakening

What Is Gender Criticism?
Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Gender Perspective: Elizabeth LeBlanc, "The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening"

New Historicism and The Awakening

What Is New Historicism?
New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography
A New Historicist Perspective: Margit Stange, "Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening"

Deconstruction and The Awakening

What Is Deconstruction?
Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography
A Deconstructionist Perspective: Patricia S. Yaeger, "'A Language Which Nobody Understood': Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening"

Reader-Response and The Awakening

What Is Reader-Response Criticism?
Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography
A Reader-Response Perspective: Paula A. Treichler, "The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis"

Combining Critical Perspectives on The Awakening:

Cynthia Griffin Wolff, "Un-utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin's The Awakening"

Wk 7: Feb 24/26: Mardi Gras Break/No Classes

Wk 8: Wed. Mar 4: Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

Background Readings:

Jack London -- Wikipedia
Jack London -- Joan D. Hedrick, Trinity U. (Hartford, Connecticut)
Jack London -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen
The Call of the Wild -- SparkNotes
The Call of the Wild -- CliffsNotes
The Call of the Wild -- ClassicNotes
The Call of the Wild: A Study Guide -- Michael J. Cummings
Jack London -- Earle Labor, Centenary College of Louisiana [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
"Jack London's Symbolic Wilderness: Four Versions" -- Earle Labor, Nineteenth-Century Fiction [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Call of the Whites: The Skeleton in Environmentalism's Closet is Nature" -- Charles Paul Freund, Reason
"'Congested Mails': Buck and Jack's 'Call'" -- Jonathan Auerbach, American Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"The Last Real Man in America: From Natty Bumppo to Batman" -- David Leverenz, American Literary History [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Socialism, Power, and the Fate of Style: Jack London in His Letters" -- William E. Cain, American Literary History [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
Jack London page -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
Jack London: Author and Adventurer -- Huntington Library, California
The World of Jack London -- Dave Hartzell
The Jack London Online Collection -- Roy Tennant and Clarice Stasz, Sonoma State U.
Jack London -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

Wk 9: Wed. Mar 11: continue The Call of the Wild and other writings by Jack London

Stories:

To the Man on Trail
In a Far Country
The Law of Life
A Relic of the Pliocene
Nam-Bok the Unveracious
To Build a Fire (1902)
Moon-Face
Bâtard
Love of Life
All Gold Canyon
The Apostate
To Build a Fire (1908)
The Chinago
Koolau the Leper
Good-by, Jack
Mauki
The Strength of the Strong
Samuel
A Piece of Steak
The Madness of John Harned
The Night-Born
War
Told in the Drooling Ward
The Mexican
The Red One

The Water Baby

Non-Fiction

On the Writer's Philosophy of Life
First Aid to Rising Authors
Review of Frank Norris's The Octopus
Excerpts from The People of the Abyss
How I Became a Socialist
Getting into Print
The Terrible and Tragic in Fiction
What Life Means to Me
Things Alive
Introduction to The Cry for Justice
Eight Factors of Literary Success

Wk 10: Wed. Mar 18: Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence

Background Readings:

Edith Wharton -- Wikipedia
Edith Wharton -- Elizabeth Ammons, Tufts U.
Edith Wharton -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen
"Edith Wharton's Passionate Realism" [review of Hermione Lee's biography Edith Wharton] -- Michael Gorra, Smith College [Times Literary Supplement -- London]
Edith Wharton's World: Portraits of People and Places -- National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Mount: Estate and Gardens
The Age of Innocence -- SparkNotes
The Age of Innocence -- CliffsNotes
The Age of Innocence -- ClassicNotes
The Age of Innocence -- Wikipedia
photos of a first edition of The Age of Innocence
"Jamesian Structures in The Age of Innocence and Related Stories" -- Adeline R. Tintner Twentieth Century Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Vulgarity and Red Blood in The Age of Innocence" -- Linette Davis, The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"The Transparent Eyes of May Welland in Wharton's The Age of Innocence" -- Evelyn E. Fracasso Modern Language Studies [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Walter Pater's Renaissance and Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence" -- Robert Hardy @ Domestic Goddesses. Kim Wells, editor.
"Mythological Versions of May and Ellen: a Reading of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence" -- Floramaria Deter @ Domestic Goddesses. Kim Wells, editor.
Edith Wharton -- Margaret P. McDowell [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
the Edith Wharton collection at the Beinecke Library, Yale U.
The Edith Wharton Society
articles on Edith Wharton -- The Guardian Online, U. K.
Edith Wharton -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature

Wk 11: Wed. Mar 25:

*** AIPAD in New York: March 26-29

Wk 12: Wed. Apr 1: F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

Background Readings:

F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Wikipedia
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- John F. Callahan, Lewis and Clark College
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen
The Great Gatsby -- SparkNotes
The Great Gatsby -- CliffsNotes
The Great Gatsby -- ClassicNotes
The Great Gatsby: A Study Guide -- Michael J. Cummings
Fitzgerald's Eras: Social and Political Backgrounds of the 1920s and 1930s -- Matthew J. Bruccoli, U. of South Carolina
"The Promised Land" -- Hugh Kenner, The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Citizen Kane, The Great Gatsby, and Some Conventions of American Narrative" -- Robert L. Carringer, Critical Inquiry [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"F. Scott Fitzgerald and Romantic Destiny" -- Richard Lehan, Twentieth Century Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Sangria in the Sangreal: The Great Gatsby as Grail Quest" -- D. G. Kehl and Allene Cooper, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"'Material Without Being Real': Photography and the End of Reality in The Great Gatsby" -- Laura Barrett, Studies in the Novel
"Style as Politics in The Great Gatsby" -- Janet Giltrow and David Stouck, Studies in the Novel
"Stereotyping in Autobiography and Historiography: Colonialism in The Great Gatsby" -- Michael Holquist, Poetics Today [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Kenneth Eble, U. of Utah [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary @ The U. of South Carolina
F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers -- Princeton U.
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Guardian Online, U. K.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

Wk 13: Wed. Apr 8: Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises

Background Readings:

Ernest Hemingway -- Wikipedia
Ernest Hemingway -- Margaret Anne O'Connor, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ernest Hemingway -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen
Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time -- National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
selected poems of Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway reading from his works
The Sun Also Rises -- SparkNotes
The Sun Also Rises -- CliffsNotes
The Sun Also Rises -- ClassicNotes
"The Wooing of Ernest Hemingway" -- Scott Donaldson, American Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"The Sun Also Rises: A Memory of War" -- William Adair, Twentieth Century Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Performance Art: Jake Barnes and 'Masculine' Signification in The Sun Also Rises" -- Ira Elliott, American Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"(Re)Teaching Hemingway: Anti-Semitism as a Thematic Device in The Sun Also Rises" -- Gay Wilentz, College English [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Three Comments on '(Re)Teaching Hemingway: Anti-Semitism as a Thematic Device in The Sun Also Rises'" -- Pearl Greenberg Berg, Maurice H. Cummings and Sanford J. Smoller, College English [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"A Comment on '(Re)-Teaching Hemingway: Anti-Semitism as a Thematic Device in The Sun Also Rises" -- Jesse Bier, College English [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Gay Wilentz Responds" -- Gay Wilentz, College English [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"The Sexual Geography of Expatriate Paris" -- Donald Pizer, Twentieth Century Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Confession, Charity, and Community in The Sun Also Rises" -- Doris A. Helbig, South Atlantic Review [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"'The Saloon Must Go, and I Will Take It With Me': American Prohibition, Nationalism, and Expatriation in The Sun Also Rises -- Jeffrey A. Schwarz, Studies in the Novel
"Brett Ashley: The Beauty of It All" -- Linda Patterson Miller [Literature Resource Center @ ML, CC]
Ernest Hemingway -- Earl Rovit [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
The Hemingway Review -- articles from 1994 - 2008
articles on Hemingway -- New York Times
articles on Ernest Hemingway -- The Guardian Online, U. K.
The Hemingway Resource Center
The Hemingway Society
Ernest Hemingway -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

Wk 14: Wed. Apr 15: William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

Background Readings:

William Faulkner -- Wikipedia
William Faulkner -- John Lowe, Louisiana State U.
William Faulkner -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen
As I Lay Dying -- SparkNotes
As I Lay Dying -- CliffsNotes
As I Lay Dying -- ClassicNotes
"'Voice' in Narrative Texts: The Example of As I Lay Dying" -- Stephen M. Ross, PMLA [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age" -- John T. Matthews, boundary 2 [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"As I Lay Dying's Heterogeneous Discourse" -- Dorothy J. Hale, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Predestination and Freedom in As I Lay Dying" -- Charles Palliser, American Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
Words and Images in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying -- Yonjae Jung, Case Western Reserve
"Perception and the Destruction of Being in As I Lay Dying" -- Homer B. Pettey, The Faulkner Journal
"The Ideology of Autonomy: Form and Function in As I Lay Dying" -- Ted Atkinson, The Faulkner Journal
"Faulknerian Tragedy: The Example of As I Lay Dying" -- Robert Merrill, The Mississippi Quarterly
"The Abjection of Addy and Other Myths of the Maternal in As I Lay Dying" -- Diana York Blaine, The Mississippi Quarterly
"'This was the answer to it': Sexuality and Maternity in As I Lay Dying" -- Jill Bergman, The Mississippi Quarterly
"Fit and Surfeit in As I Lay Dying" -- Benjamin Widiss, Novel: A Forum on Fiction
William Faulkner -- Frederick J. Hoffman, U. of Wisconsin [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
William Faulkner on the Web
The Faulkner Journal -- articles from 2003-2008
William Faulkner -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

Wk 15: Wed. Apr 22: Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

Background Readings:

Zora Neale Hurston -- Wikipedia
Zora Neale Hurston -- Robert E. Hemenway, U. of Kansas
Zora Neale Hurston -- Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography Supplement: Modern Writers, 1900-1998
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- SparkNotes
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- CliffsNotes
Their Eyes Were Watching God -- ClassicNotes
a discussion of Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Edgar Whan, Marilyn Atlas, and Annette Oxindine, Wired for Books (audio and transcript)
interview with Carla Kaplan, author of Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
"'Tuh De Horizon and Back': The Female Quest in Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Missy Dehn Kubitschek, Black American Literature Forum [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"Free Mules, Talking Buzzards, and Cracked Plates: The Politics of Dislocation in Their Eyes were Watching God" -- Sharon Davie, PMLA [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"The Erotics of Talk: 'That Oldest Human Longing' in Their Eyes Were Watching God" -- Carla Kaplan, American Literature [JSTOR @ ML, CC]
"'… Ah said Ah'd save de text for you'": Recontextualizing the sermon To Tell Story in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Dolan Hubbard, African-American Review
"'The Hierarchy Itself': Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and the Sacrifice of Narrative Authority" -- Ryan Simmons, African-American Review
"Voice and interiority in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God" -- Maria J. Racine, African-American Review
"Predators in the 'Glades: A Signifying Animal Tale in Their Eyes Were Watching God" -- Brian R. Roberts, Southern Quarterly
"Reading Hurston Writing" -- John Laudun, African-American Review
"Discerning Nostalgia in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God" -- Maureen McKnight, Southern Quarterly
Zora Neale Hurston -- Lillie P. Howard, Wright State U. [Twayne Author Series @ ML, CC]
Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities -- Eatonville, Florida
compilation of audio recordings of Zora Neale Hurston from her time working for the WPA in Florida during the 1930s -- State Archives of Florida
Zora Neale Hurston -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus (PAL: Perspectives in American Literature)

Wk 16: Apr 29: No Class: Tutorials on research essay to be arranged

Wk 17: May 4-8 -- Final Exams