English 62: Spring 1999 Syllabus

Shelley Reid, Austin College

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All assignments from the Heath Anthology except Gatsby, Lone Ranger, TBA, and short story (BAS) texts. Please skim the headnotes in the Heath for the authors assigned. Class Reading due Writing due
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F2      Intro: To be "modern"
 
F4      Central tenets               "Alienation" 1214             H.D. 1340:  "Sea Rose"       PA ext./int. pref.
                                     Eliot 1396:  "Tradition"                 "Helmsman"
                                     "Prufrock," "Waste Land:II"               "Oread," "Helen"
                                     "Dry Salvages I"              Moore 1501: "Poetry"
                                                                     "Nevertheless," "The Mind"
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F9      Images & Poets        Pound 1215: "Salutation"        Williams 1267  : "Figure," 
                             "Pact," "Metro"         "           Spring," "Elsie," "Red W."
                             "L'Art," "Retrospect"              "The Flower," "These"
  
F11     Discussion Group        Stein 1255: TBA             Lowell 1241: "Letter"           Disc. Starter
        Just outside the pack     Hemingway 1519: "Hills"      "Summer Rain"
                                                                 "Wakefulness" "Grotesque"    
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F16     Modernism & the         "Renaissance" 1578               Locke 1581: "New Negro"        Pt. Analysis 1
        Harlem Renaissance      Dunbar 377: "Mask," "Symp."     Hughes 1611: "...of Rivers," 
                                Du Bois 943:  "Souls I."          "Weary," "Negro," 
                               (Washington 916: "Ch. XIV")       "I, Too," "Harlem"
  
F18     "Alienation"?           Toomer 1592:  "Karintha"        McKay 1688:  "Dancer," "Die,"
        "Experimentation"?                     "Seventh"                              "Shadows"
                                Bennett 1651: "Usward"          Hurston 1672:  "Sweat"
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F23     Modern/ist?          Wharton 1012:  "Other Two"         Millay 1204:  "Spring" 
                             Frost 1146: Fear, Road, Out                     "Sonnet xli"
                        
F25     Essay Wkshp.         cummings 1385:  "Buffalo,"        Barnes 1323:  "Smoke"          E1 Draftstuff
        Pushing boundaries      "into," "my body," "Picasso"      Dos Passos 1762: TBA
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M2      Round the corner...     "Sheaf" 1349, Fearing 1353       Faulkner 1544: "Rose"           Essay #1
                                 Olsen 1358 (2265)              Roethke 2306: "Big Wind"
                                 Crane 1566: "Brooklyn"         Bishop 2319: "Fishhouses"
                
M4      "The Dream" &           Antin 875 "Chap. X"             Fitzgerald 1432:Gatsby Ch. 1-3  
        the Roaring 20s         "Carved" 2001: #51-69

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M9      Discussion Group                 Gatsby, Ch. 4-7                                        Disc. Starters
        
  
M11     Narrating Disjuncture               Gatsby, Ch. 8-9        "Stand" pp. 967-9       
        Retrenchments
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M23     Recap:  "-isms"        "Modern Age" 950­980              Ginsberg 2441: "America"
        Entr'acte                                                Baraka 2641: "Black People"
  
M25     What's "new"?           Carver 3099:  "Cathedral" BAS   Levertov 2398:  "Peace"          Pt. Analysis 2
                                Wright 2428:  "Ode"                      "Mornings"
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M30     Who speaks?            Clifton 2655:  "38th,"          Rich 2582:  "Wreck," "Power"
                                 "Accused," "Cemetery"            Lorde 2937:  "Power"
                                Morales 3184: "Child"
 
A1      Discussion Group        Walker 2690: "1955"            Mukherjee 3189: "Grief" BAS       Disc. Starters
        Dis/locations           Morris:  "Fellow" BAS          Harper 2726: "Nightmare"
                                O'Brien:  "Carried" BAS        Forche 3032: "Colonel"
                        
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A6      Relocations           Jordan 2734: "Rights"            Piercy 2742: "Woman"    
                                "Mandela"                         "To be of use," "Perpetual"
                              Harper : "History" (2730)        Cofer 3065:  "Latin Women"
 
A8      draft wksp          Morrison 3226: "1922"            Anaya 2631: "Ultima"              E2 Draftstuff
        Communities

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A13     Styles               Hinojosa-Smith 2919: "Some"     Sanchez 2647: "to blk"             Essay 2
                             Viramontes 3082:  "Cariboo"      Reed 2906: "I am"
  
A15     Nat. Am. stories     Momaday 2749: "Prologue,"        Alexie: Lone Ranger, thru "Hendrix"             
                                "IV," "XVI"                    Rose 3143: "Story Keeper"    
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A20     Borderlands          Lone Ranger, thru "Jesus"       Sanchez 2647:  "Masks"  
  
A22     Discussion Group        Lone Ranger thru "Tumor"     Lorde 2942:  "Art," "Stations"      Disc. Starters
        
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A27     Place & People      Lone Ranger thru "Witnesses"    Harjo 3116: "New O.""Anchorage" 
                            Mora 2789: "University"          Mirikitani 2989: "Breaking"
  
A29     Dis/continuity      Orozco:  "Orient'n" TBA          Soto 3093:  "Mexicans"               Pt. Analysis 3
                            Kingston 2944: "Tigers"           "Kearney"
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M4      Our current condition   Baxter: "Gryphon" BAS        Cisneros 3209:  "Miracles"      
                                Williams:  "Health" BAS      Hongo 2798: "Yellow," "Swing"
                                Anzaldúa 3041:  3054­3058       
 
M6      Recap:  "-isms" II      "Contemp. Period" 2012  "Postmodernity" 2821
        Anthology making        "New Comm's" 2455       "Preface" xxxv


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Final Exam Due:  Wednesday, May 12, 2:00 pm



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