READING SCHEDULE FOR E222 AMERICAN LITERATURE
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2013 (THURSDAY)
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COURSE INFORMATION. English 222, Course Code 12959. Thursday 4:00 – 6:45 p.m., University Hall (UH) 208. Office hours: Thurs. 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. Email: e222-r_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major writers such as Twain, James, Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, O’Neill, Frost, and Eliot. Units (3). Satisfies General Ed. requirements GE Category III.B.2 with grade of C or better.”
REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE
Nina Baym, et al. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Eighth Edition. Paperback. Package 2: Vols. C, D, E. ISBN-13: 978-0-393-91310-1.
London, Jack. Tales of the Pacific. New York: Penguin, 1989. ISBN 0140183582.
QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS
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Whitman | H. James | Chopin | Washington | DuBois | London | Lowell | Frost | Sandburg | W Stevens | O’Neill | T. S. Eliot | Larsen | Fitzgerald | Hemingway | L. Hughes | Steinbeck | Tenn. Williams | Ginsberg | G. Snyder | Plath
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED
WEEK 1
08/24. Introduction to course and to wiki features.
WEEK 2
08/31. Walt Whitman. Preface and text of Leaves of Grass (Vol. C 17-79); “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (116-22).
WEEK 3
09/07. Henry James. “The Beast in the Jungle” (Vol. C 524-53); “The Art of Fiction” (553-67).
WEEK 4
9/14. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (Vol. C 633-723).
JOURNAL SET 1 DUE BY SUN. 9/17. (Whitman through Chopin.)
WEEK 5
09/21. Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois. From Washington’s Up from Slavery Ch. XIV (Vol. C 760-68). From DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk (Vol. C 876-901).
WEEK 6
09/28. Jack London. Tales of the Pacific. (Separate text.)
WEEK 7
10/05. Amy Lowell and Robert Frost. Lowell’s selections (Vol. D 1143-50). Frost’s selections (Vol. D 1174-1201).
WEEK 8
10/12. Carl Sandburg and Wallace Stevens. Sandburg’s selections (Vol. D 1229-33). Stevens’ selections (Vol. D 1234-51).
JOURNAL SET 2 DUE BY SUN. 10/15. (Washington through Stevens.)
WEEK 9
10/19. Eugene O’Neill. Long Day’s Journey into Night (Vol. D 1340-1417).
WEEK 10
10/26. T. S. Eliot. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Vol. D 1420-22), “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1425-28), “The Waste Land” (1430-43).
WEEK 11
11/02. Nella Larsen. Quicksand (Vol. D 1527-1609).
WEEK 12
11/09. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Fitzgerald’s “Winter Snows” and “Babylon Revisited” (Vol. D 1641-72). Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Vol. D 1846-64).
JOURNAL SET 3 DUE BY SUN. 11/12. (O’Neill through Hemingway.)
WEEK 13
11/16. Langston Hughes and John Steinbeck. Hughes’ selections (Vol. D 1891-1901). From Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (Vol. D 1901-13).
WEEK 14
11/23. Thanksgiving Holiday. No classes all week.
WEEK 15
11/30. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (Vol. E 1976-2041).
WEEK 16
12/07. Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Sylvia Plath. Ginsberg’s selections (Vol. E 2863-77). Snyder’s selections (2956-67). Plath’s selections (2967-79).
FINALS WEEK
Final exam date: Thursday, Dec. 14th 5:00 – 6:50 p.m. Also due: Journal Set 4 and the Essay. I must turn in grades by Tuesday, Jan. 2nd, 2007. For other courses, see CSUF’s Final Exam Schedule.