Week
1
Thurs |
Introduction
Why I Hate Symbols
Vladimir
Nabokov—“Good
Readers and Good Writers” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Robert
Frost—“The
Road Not Taken”
Robert
Frost—“Education
By Poetry,” “After
Apple Picking” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Steven
Johnson—“Metaphor
Monopoly” (Xeroxes; Journal)
General Meeting
—Journal
/ Journal
Conference |
Week
2
Thurs |
Gary
Lindberg—"The
Journal Conference: from Dialectic to Dialogue"
(Handout)
Perrine—"The
Nature of Proof in the Interpretation of Poetry"
(Xeroxes)
John Bunyan—from
Pilgrim’s Progress (Xeroxes; Journal)
Working with Journals / Leading Discussions (talk @ response
paper)
Donald Finkel—Teaching
with Your Mouth Shut (pp.
31-50; Packet) |
Week
3
Thurs |
Ernest
Hemingway—in our time
(Journal
"Fun
with Hemingway)
Mary
McCarthy—"Settling
the Colonel's Hash"
(Xeroxes)
Working with Journals / Leading Discussions (presentations scheduled)
Robert Scholes—Textual Power: Literary Theory and
the Teaching of English (pp. 18-73)
Initial Journal Conferences (to be scheduled with me) |
Week
4
Thurs |
Sandra
Gilbert—“The
Queen’s Looking Glass” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Anne
Bradstreet—“The
Prologue” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Phyllis
Wheatley—“On
Being Brought from Africa to America” (Xeroxes;
Jrnal)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr —“Phyllis
Wheatley On Trial”
(Xeroxes)
Nikki
Giovanni—“To
Phyllis Wheatley” (Xeroxes; Journal)
1 Page
Reaction Paper
(on the Gilbert—Thursday
morning)
Leading Discussions
Christenson, C. Roland, et. al. (eds.) Education for Judgement:
The Artistry of Discussion Leadership (Ch. 1, 2, 6, 8, 9). |
Week
5
Thurs |
Annette Kolodny—“A
Map for Re-reading” (Xeroxes)
Charlotte
Perkins Gilman—“The
Yellow Wallpaper” (Xeroxes; Journal)
The Two-Page Paper
(TA’s due)
Leading Discussions
Christenson, C. Roland, et. al. Eds. Education for Judgement:
The Artistry of Discussion Leadership
(Ch. 7, 10, 14, 15, 16). |
Week
6
Thurs |
NYT Editorials — The
Jefferson / Hemings Controversy (Xeroxes; Journal)
Frederick
Douglass — Narrative
of the Life . . . (Journal)
Marking Up
Papers
(Good, Better, Best)
Leading Discussions
Christenson, C. Roland, et. al. Eds. Education for Judgement:
The Artistry of Discussion Leadership (if needed) |
Week
7
Thurs |
T.
S. Eliot—“The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Hilda
Doolittle—Selected
Poems (Xeroxes; Journal)
W.
E. B. Du Bois — from The
Souls of Black Folk
Langston
Hughes—Selected
Poems,“The
Negro Artist & the Racial Mountain” (Xrx; Jrnl)
Countee
Cullen—“Yet
Do I Marvel” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Joe
Wood—“Who
Says a White Band Can’t Play Rap?” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Américo
Parédes — from With
His Pistol in His Hand (Xeroxes)
Manuel Peña — "Música
fronteriza / Border Music" (Xeroxes)
Américo
Parédes —"The
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" (Xeroxes; Journal)
Rodolfo
Gonzales —"My
Name Is Joaqín" (Xeroxes; Journal)
The Two-Page Paper
(TA’s rewrites due)
Presentation: DeMott-
Eco, Umberto. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods |
Week
8
Thurs |
Grading
Papers (Long Meeting—pizza
will be provided) |
Week
9
Thurs |
Samuel
Clemens—The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Journal)
Presentation: Lamfers- Sundquist,
Eric J. To Wake the Nations |
Week
10
Thurs |
Samuel
Clemens—The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn (Journal)
Jane
Smiley—“Say
It Ain’t So, Huck” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Presentation: Nevarez-
Freire, Paulo. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed;
Beerits- Freire, Paulo. Education for Critical Consciousness |
Week
11
Thurs |
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)
Fredric Jameson —"Postmodernism,
or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism"
(Xeroxes; optional)
Thomas de Zengotita — "The
Numbing of the American Mind: Culture as Anesthetic" (Xeroxes;
optional)
Raymond
Chandler —"The
Simple Art of Murder" (Xeroxes; optional)
Raymond
Chandler —"Red
Wind" (Xeroxes; Journal)
Ridley Scott — scenes
from Blade Runner (1982; in lecture)
TA's Second
Paper
(2 pages) due
Presentation: Howell- Showalter,
Elaine. Teaching Literature
|
Week
12
Thurs |
William
Faulkner—“Barn
Burning” (Xeroxes; Journal)
Quentin
Tarantino — Pulp
Fiction (Journal)
Gregory Gibson —"Our
Violent Inner Landscape" (Xeroxes;
optional)
Bob Herbert —"A
Volatile Young Man, Humiliation, and a Gun" (Xeroxes;
optional)
Samuel A. Kimball, "'Bad-Ass
Dudes' in Pulp Fiction" (Xeroxes; Journal)
Second
Paper
(2 pages) due in Discussion
Section
Richter, David H. Falling Into Theory (pp. 1-30,
121-36, 235-52, + your favorite article)
Presentation: Treanor-
Trimble, John. Writing with Style |
Week
13
Thurs |
Toni
Morrison—"Unspeakable Things Unspoken"
(Xeroxes)
Toni
Morrison— Sula (Journal)
Sandra
Cisneros—The
House on Mango Street (Journal)
John
Sayles—"Interview"
from Sayles on Sayles (Xeroxes)
John
Sayles—Lone
Star (Xeroxes)
Final
Examination Questions—required
for all TAs
The Final
Journal Conference |
