ASSIGNMENT
SCHEDULE -- American Literature After Civil War --
Spring 2010 -- 11th Edition
Note: Assignments in
[brackets] require no reading notes. All others require reading
response journals submitted to TurnItIn.com before
each class period begins (300-word minimum per author. See TurnItIn.com categories for specific assignments).
Jan
13 Introduction to Course / Syllabus / Review
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18
Martin Luther King
Day – no class meeting
20 Whitman [
video]
Lecture
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25
“An Age of Expansion” [889-897 Quiz]; Whitman 898-933
27
Whitman 934-955; 957bot-967; 970-976top
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Feb
1
Dickinson 986-988; Letters 1014-1020
[Assign poems] [video]
3 Dickinson
[orals] Selected [989-1014mid] Begin Reading HUCKLEBERRY FINN
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8
Dickinson " " " "
10 Frontier
Humor / Realism / Crosscurrents (Whitman, Adams, Cable, Washington) 1052-1064
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15 Harte
1178-1185 / Jewett 1208-1216
17 Intro to Mark Twain – [video] -- Finish
reading Huckleberry Finn
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22
Twain 1021-1031top; 1048bot-1051
HUCKLEBERRY FINN QUIZ [Bring #2 pencil.]
24 Howells 1065-1076top / Introduction to James
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Mar
1 James 1076-1078;
1135mid-1164top
3 James
Daisy Miller [video] [1079-1118] Late Session
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8-10 SPRING BREAK
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15
James The Wings of the Dove [video]
17 MAJOR EXAM [Computer Lab
TBA] {Last week to withdraw with “W”}
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22
“The Turn of the Century” [1193-1196 Quiz] / Wharton 1352bot-1363
24
Crane 1331; 1367mid-1386
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29 “Literary Renaissance” [1413-1418 Quiz] / Dreiser
1386bot-1401top / Robinson 1419-1426mid
ALSO Read “The Man Against
the Sky” at http://www.bartleby.com/233/126.html
31
Cather 1426mid-1448top / Anderson 1478bot-1486mid
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Apr 5
O’Neill – The Hairy Ape
1616-1648top / Long Day’s Journey Into Night [video] Late Session
7
O’Neill – Long Day’s Journey [video] Late Session
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12 “Literature of Social and Cultural Challenge” [1607-1613 Quiz] / Fitzgerald
1686-1701[video]
14 “Second WW and Its Aftermath” [1773-1783 Quiz] / Hemingway
1744-1746top / ALSO Read “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” at http://www.duke.edu/~ss57/macomber.pdf
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19
Faulkner 1717bot-1743 / Dos Passos
1701bot-1717 {Last week to withdraw WP/WF}
21 “Century Ends . . .” [2031-2038 Quiz] / O’Connor 1955mid-1969 / Roth
1994-2006mid
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26 Frost – [video] 1448-1474mid
28 Study Day – No class meeting -- [Make-up for late sessions]
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FINAL EXAM: Monday, May 3rd 3:00-5:00 p.m. (Computer Lab TBA)