Week
1
Thurs |
Introduction
Why I Hate Symbols
Robert
Frost—“The
Road Not Taken” |
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Week
2
Tues |
Vladimir
Nabokov—“Good
Readers and Good Writers” (Xeroxes; Journal) |
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Discussion
Section: Educating Good Readers and Good Writers by Poetry |
| Thurs |
Robert
Frost—“Education
By Poetry,” “After
Apple Picking” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Steven
Johnson—“Metaphor
Monopoly” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Perrine—"The
Nature of Proof in the Interpretation of Poetry"
(Xeroxes)
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Week
3
Tues |
Ernest
Hemingway—In
Our Time (read entire book:Journal
"The Revolutionist") |
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Discussion
Section: Reading, Writing, and Thinking about Literature |
| Thurs |
Ernest
Hemingway—In
Our Time (Journal
"The Revolutionist" and "Indian
Camp") |
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Week
4
Tues |
Ernest
Hemingway—In
Our Time (Journal
"'Fun'
with Hemingway" Xeroxes)
Mary McCarthy—"Settling
the Colonel's Hash"
(Xeroxes)
John Bunyan—from
Pilgrim’s Progress (Xeroxes; optional) |
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Discussion
Section: Letting the Text Talk —
"'Fun'
with Hemingway"
Initial Journal
Conferences (to
be scheduled with TAs)
1
Page Reaction
Paper (on the
Gilbert) due in Thursday lecture
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| Thurs |
Sandra
Gilbert—“The
Queen’s Looking Glass”
(Xeroxes; Journal)
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Week
5
Tues |
Sandra
Gilbert—“The
Queen’s Looking Glass” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Anne
Bradstreet—“The
Prologue” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Phillis
Wheatley—“On
Being Brought from Africa to America” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Henry Louis Gates,
Jr —“Phillis
Wheatley On Trial”
(Xeroxes; optional)
Nikki
Giovanni—“Linkage:
To Phillis Wheatley” (Xeroxes; Journal)
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Check
out Paper Proposal with your TA
Discussion
Section: Reading and Writing Women
(Recommended) Movie of the Week: Fatal Attraction |
| Thurs |
Phillis
Wheatley—“On
Being Brought from Africa to America” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Henry Louis Gates,
Jr —“Phillis
Wheatley On Trial”
(Xeroxes; optional)
Nikki
Giovanni—“Linkage: To
Phillis Wheatley” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Annette Kolodny—“A
Map for Re-reading” (Xeroxes;
optional)
David Foster Wallace—2005
Commencement Address (Xeroxes; Journal)
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman—“The
Yellow Wallpaper” (Xeroxes; Journal)
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First
Paper (2
pages) due in in Tuesday Lecture (Week 6) |
Week
6
Tues |
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman—“The
Yellow Wallpaper” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman—“Why
I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'” (Xeroxes)
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Discussion
Section: Gilman
(Recommended) Movie of the Week: The
Last Seduction and Glengarry
GlenRoss |
| Thurs |
Robert
Jensen — "White
Privilege Shapes the U.S."
(optional)
NYT Editorials — The
Jefferson / Hemings Controversy (Xeroxes; Journal)
Frederick
Douglass — Narrative
of the Life . . .
(Journal)
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Week
7
Tues |
Frederick
Douglass—Narrative
of the Life . . . (Journal) |
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Discussion
Section: Reading and Writing Race |
| Thurs |
Frederick
Douglass—Narrative
of the Life . . . (Journal)
T.
S. Eliot—“The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Xeroxes; Journal) |
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Re-Write
of First
Paper (2 pages) due in Tuesday Lecture (Week 8) |
Week
8
Tues |
T.
S. Eliot—“The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Hilda
Doolittle—Selected
Poems (Xeroxes; Journal)
Langston
Hughes—“The
Negro Artist & the Racial Mountain” (Xeroxes;
Journal)
W.
E. B. Du Bois — from The
Souls of Black Folk (optional) |
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Discussion
Section: Reading and Writing the Self |
| Thurs |
Langston
Hughes—“The
Negro Artist & the Racial Mountain” (Xeroxes;
Journal)
W.
E. B. Du Bois — from The
Souls of Black Folk (optional)
Langston
Hughes—Selected
Poems (Xeroxes; Journal)
Countee
Cullen—“Yet
Do I Marvel” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Joe
Wood—“Who
Says a White Band Can’t Play Rap?” (Xeroxes; Journal)
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Week
9
Tues |
Américo
Parédes— from With
His Pistol in His Hand (Xeroxes;
optional)
Manuel Peña — "Música
fronteriza / Border Music" (Xeroxes; optional)
Américo
Parédes —"The
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" (Xeroxes; Journal)
Rodolfo
Gonzales —"My
Name Is Joaqín" (Xeroxes; Journal)
Edward James Olmos — scenes from American Me (1992;
in lecture) |
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Discussion
Section: Papers
(Recommended)
Movie of the Week:The
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez and American
Me |
| Thurs |
Samuel
Clemens—The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Journal Title
Page; Chapters
1-3, 14-16)
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Week
10
Tues |
Samuel
Clemens—The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Journal Chapters
14-16)
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Discussion
Section: Huck Finn |
| Thurs |
Samuel
Clemens—The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Journal Chapters
14-16, 31-End) |
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Week
11
Tues |
Samuel
Clemens—The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Journal Chapters
14-16, 31-End)
Jane
Smiley—“Say
It Ain’t So, Huck” (Xeroxes; Journal) |
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Check
out Paper Proposal with your TA
Discussion
Section: Huck Finn —
The Critical Controversy |
| Thurs |
Raymond
Chandler —"The
Simple Art of Murder" (Xeroxes; optional)
Raymond
Chandler —"Red
Wind" (Xeroxes; Journal)
Thomas
de Zengottia — "The
Numbing of the American Mind: Culture as Anesthetic" (Xeroxes;
optional)
Ridley Scott — scenes from Blade Runner (1982;
in lecture) |
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Second
Paper
(2 pages) due in in Discussion
Section (Week 12) |
Week
12
Tues |
Flannery
O'Connor —"Some
Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" (Xeroxes; Journal)
Flannery
O'Connor —"A
Good Man Is Hard To Find" (Xeroxes; Journal)
Wallace
Stevens — from "The
Noble Rider and the Sound of Words" (Xeroxes; optional) |
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Discussion
Section: Faulkner,
O'Connor, Tarantino
(Recommended)
Movie
of the Week: Pulp Fiction |
| Thurs |
William
Faulkner—“Barn
Burning” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Quentin
Tarantino — Pulp
Fiction (Journal)
Fredric
Jameson —"Postmodernism,
or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
(Xeroxes; optional)
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Week
13
Tues |
Quentin
Tarantino — Pulp
Fiction (Journal)
Samuel A. Kimball, "'Bad-Ass
Dudes' in Pulp Fiction" (Xeroxes; optional) |
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No
Discussion Section
Thanksgiving
Vacation |
Week
14
Tues |
Toni
Morrison—"Unspeakable
Things Unspoken" (Xeroxes; optional)
Toni
Morrison— Sula (Journal)
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Discussion
Section: Morrison |
| Thurs |
Toni
Morrison— Sula (Journal) |
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Week
15
Tues |
YOUR
CHOICE:
Sandra
Cisneros—The
House on Mango Street (Journal)
Rick Martinez— "Genius
Can Come in Many Colors" (optional)
OR
John
Sayles—"Interview"
from Sayles on Sayles (Xeroxes; Journal)
John
Sayles—Lone
Star (Xeroxes; Journal) |
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Final
Journal
Conferences (to be scheduled
with TAs)
(Recommended)
Movie
of the Week: Lone Star |
| Thurs |
YOUR
CHOICE:
Sandra
Cisneros—The
House on Mango Street (Journal)
Rick Martinez— "Genius
Can Come in Many Colors"
(optional)
OR
John
Sayles—"Interview"
from Sayles on Sayles
(Xeroxes;
Journal)
John
Sayles—Lone
Star (Xeroxes;
Journal) |
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| Thurs |
Final
Examination — Thursday,
Dec. 13th: 9 AM - 12 PM (No Make Ups) |
Course