SAMPLE READING AND WRITING
SCHEDULE
Please note:
Assignments are to be read on the day they appear on the syllabus. In addition
to reading each selection listed, I expect you to read the relevant introductory
sections that precede each author's work. (Page numbers are in parentheses.)
This reading schedule and list of activities is subject to change.
If you are absent on a day when changes are made in the syllabus, it is
your responsibility to find out what the assignment is.
Papers must be given to me in-class at the beginning of class the day they
are due. Papers placed in my mailbox, even on the due date, are considered
late. Late papers are reduced a letter grade per day.
Reading quizzes will be frequent and unannounced--and may not be made up.
Hello
Mon, Jan 22 The nature of the course. Our focus & concern in this class.
Why read literature & what good is it?
The Englightenment---The
Eighteenth Century
Mon, Jan 29 "Introduction to the Englightenment (1-9); Voltaire
(316), Candide (Chapters 1-16)
Mon, Feb 5 Finish reading Candide and write a draft of paper #1.
Romanticism
Mon, Feb 12 Draft due of Paper #1 for peer
Voltaire, Candide (Chapters 17-30); Swift (229), "A Modest Proposal" (282)
For group-led discussion of poetry (see handout), choose from among the following
poems:
Blake (540), "The Lamb" & "The Tyger"; "The
Chimney Sweeper" both Innocence & Experience; Blake, "London" (547);
Wordsworth (549), "The World is Too Much With Us" (560); Keats
(599), "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (602); Coleridge (586), Kubla
Khan" Dickenson's poems (823)---choose two thematically related poems;
Yeats (1414), "The Second Coming" (1420)
Mon, Feb 19 Paper #1 due. Introduction to the Nineteenth Century and Romanticism
(417-426); Rousseau, Confessions (427) Keats (599), "Ode to a Nightengale" (605)
review.
Whitman, Song of Myself (753)
Work together in groups to prepare for group-led discussions of poetry.
Student-led poetry presentations
Mon, Feb 26 Group-led poetry
discussions.
Spring Break (March 5-11)
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Realist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Literature
Mon, Mar 12 Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1180)
Mon, Mar 19 cont. The Death
of Ivan Ilyich
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (Part I) (1063)
Student-led story presentations---Modern Prose
Wed, Mar 21 Dostoevsky, Notes
from Underground (Part II)
Peer review for paper #2.
Prepare for group-led discussions of stories. Choose from among the following
stories listed for March 26 & April 2.
Mon, Mar 26 Chekhov, "The Lady With the Dog" (1281)
Woolf, "A Room of One's Own" (chapter 3) (1628)
Camus, "The Guest" (1868)
Mon, Apr 2 Paper #2 due
Borges, "The Garden of the Forking Paths" (1905)
Borowski, "Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber" (2013)
Lessing, "the Old Chief Mshlanga (2001)
Culture and Imperialism
Mon, Apr 9 The Mission (movie)
Mon, Apr 16 Discussion of
movie; begin Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Chapters 1-14) (2060)
Mon, Apr 23 Things Fall Apart (chapters 15-24)
Draft of paper #3 due for peer review.
Mon, Apr 30 Paper #3 due
Things Fall Apart (chapters 25-end)
Conclusion of course.
Review for final exam.
(See course description for a brief description of the exam.)
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