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Day Class Topics Readings Due (from Introduction to Literature) Terms
F1 Introductions, surveys
Close Reading & Annotation
F3 Sound & structure *Sonnet 73, 650 Brought 657 *Grandeur 670 Henry 648 connotation
Image & metaphor Autumn 659 Concord 661 Byzantium 672 *Spring 675 enjambement
DG organization Child 730 *Dover 666 Papa 603 Father 728 metaphor
Hughes: Blues 518, Rivers 761, Blues 762, Ruby 763 parallelism
personification
F5 Irony, paradox *anyone 524 Ozymandias 590 *Sonnet 593 Oak 571 conceit
& "symbolism" Death Song 722 *Musee 686 Poem 690 *America 682 irony
Writing about poetry Daystar 727 Colonel 616 Wheelbarrow 561 Supermarket 698 parody
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F8 Speakers, tone Spider 521 *The Man 540 *Mistress 592 *Duchess 536 diction
Disc. Group Mtg. Wreck 579 Helen 678 Mother 515 Mother 543 persona
*Disc. Start, quiz *Loyalty 697 Runaways 567 Borderlands 712 Acquainted 754 tone
Dickinson: Slant 738, Soul 739, World 740, Miles 741, Truth 743
F10 Drama: movements & Trifles: 783793 Freytag's Pyramid
dimensions genre, plot
F12 Short Analysis #1 Due Antigone: 799800, 836848 (through Scene II) catharsis, chorus
Characters and conflicts in medias res
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F15 Tragedies and resolutions Antigone: 848862 tragedy
Poetry and performance tragic flaw
F17 Fiction: The basics Misery 61 Goodman 96 Civil Peace 350 Everyday 409 allegory
Writing about prose Two Kinds 447 Skin Deep (X) melodrama
point of view
F19 Irony and ambiguity Revelation 141 Carried 418 M'lle 241 Rose 287 Gothic
Layers of meanings Fleur 461 Girl 440 stream of conc.
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F22 Discussion Group Mtg. Wallpaper 244 Moths 475 Gloaming 481 Old Man 346 magic realism
Disc. Starters, Quiz Orientation (X) Jigsaw Man (X) theme
F24 Short Analysis #2 Due Chopin shorts: Hour 19, Figs 42, Storm 65, Desiree 69; "Criticism" 1403-4
F26 No Class: Start The Awakening
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M1 Literary Periods Awakening:1969 Old & Mid. Eng., Renaiss., Romantic, Vict., Mod.
Reading Chopin "Intro" 318 Early Nat'l., Realistic, Naturalistic, Har. Ren., Mod.
M3 "New Criticism" Awakening 69114 New Criticism
Something about Edna... affective and intentional fallacies
M5 Quiz (Chopin's world) Awakening 114137 "Critical" 141157 Begin Friday E-mails
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M8 All in your head "Reader" 297 "Psycho...." 218 archetype
"Construction" 308 "Thanatos" 233 myth & myth criticism
M10 Under the influence "Feminist" 158 "Historicism" 190 gender, gay & lesbian crit.
"Tradition" 169 "Personal" 201 Marxism
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M22 Revision Due "Deconstruction" 259 cultural criticism
No there, there "Language" 270 post-modernism
M24 Disc. Group Mtg.
Disc. Starters
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M29 Possibilities with critical perspectives; wrapping up Chopin
M31 Starting from scratch: "Sweat" 2540 Hughes (Intro to Lit): "...Mountain" 769
Hurston "Gilded" 135146
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A5 Exploration Due "Intro" 3 "Research" 43 "Looking" 211
Authorial contexts
A7 Cultural contexts "Negot'n" 73 "Blues/Gen" 107 "Speakerly" 119
Quiz
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A12 Critical contexts "Artist" 169 "Comedy" 183 "Hero" 193 A14 Abell Library: Literary Research (Tentative Topics Due) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A19 Joining the conversation
Disc. Group Mtg.ÑDisc. Starters Due
A21 Abell Library: Research Day ("Flashback" text nominations due by Friday)
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A26 No Class: Conference Week
Annotated Bibliography due by 5:00 pm
A28 Flashbacks: Re-re-readings, connections, explorations
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M3 Presentations
M5 Presentations
Final Essay Due
M7 Presentations
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