READING SCHEDULE FOR E222 AMERICAN LITERATURE
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2009
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COURSE INFORMATION. English 222, Course Code XXXXX, Section 2. MW 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m., McCarthy Hall (MH) 463. Instructor from Week 5 onward: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: MW 2:20 – 3:20 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. Email: e222_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major writers such as Twain, James, Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, O’Neill, Frost and Eliot. Units: (3).”
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.
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury (1929). ISBN: 0679732241.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby (1925). ISBN: 0743273567.
Twain, Mark. Puddn’head Wilson (1894). ISBN: 0140430407.
QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS
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H. James | S. O. Jewett | C. P. Gilman | Chopin | S. Crane | B. T. Washington | Du Bois | Chesnutt | Pound | Cather | W. Stevens | W. C. Williams | Pound | Doolittle (H. D.) | Cummings | Eliot | Mar. Moore | L. Hughes | Cullen | Larsen | Hurston | Hemingway | Fitzgerald | Faulkner | K. A. Porter | Bulosan
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED
WEEK 1
M. 01/26. Introduction.
W. 01/28. Whitman, “Song of Myself” (Vol. C 17-21, 30-74).
WEEK 2
M. 02/02. “Debates over ‘Americanization” (Vol. D 1147-48); F. J. Turner, from “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1149-51); Theodore Roosevelt, from American Ideals (1153-56); Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1159-61); Jose Martí, from Our America (1165-66).
W. 02/04. Bret Harte. “The Luck of Roaring Camp” (Vol. C 326-33); Mark Twain, “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences” (294-296 only); Eds., “Realism and Naturalism” (Vol. D 911-12); William Deane Howells, “Novel-Writing and Novel-Reading” (915-17).
WEEK 3
M. 02/09. Mark Twain. Puddn’head Wilson (Separate text. 51-137, Chs. 1-11).
W. 02/11. Mark Twain. Puddn’head Wilson (Separate text. 138-226, Chs. 12 – end).
WEEK 4
M. 02/16. President’s Day; no class.
W. 02/18. Henry James. Daisy Miller: A Study (Vol. C 391-429).
ALFRED J. DRAKE’S PORTION OF THE SYLLABUS
TAKING OVER FOR PROF. STEPHEN J. MEXAL
WEEK 5
M. 02/23. Henry James. From “The Art of Fiction” (Vol. C 918-919 only); “The Real Thing” (429-447).
W. 02/25. Sarah Orne Jewett. “A White Heron” (Vol. D 522-528); Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-paper” (808-819); “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper” (820). .
WEEK 6
M. 03/02. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (Vol. D 535-580).
W. 03/04. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (Vol. D 580-625).
WEEK 7
M. 03/09. Stephen Crane. Maggie: a Girl of the Streets (Vol. D 954-985).
W. 03/11. Stephen Crane. Maggie: a Girl of the Streets (Vol. D 985-1000); “The Open Boat” (1000-1016).
WEEK 8
M. 03/16. Booker T. Washington. From Up From Slavery (Vol. D 663-665, 665-687); W. E. B. du Bois. From The Souls of Black Folk (893-910).
W. 03/18. Charles Chesnutt. “The Passing of Grandison” (Vol. D 688-689, 704-716).
WEEK 9
M. 03/23. Mid-Term Exam In Class. Please bring a large Bluebook.
W. 03/25. “Modernist Manifestos” (Vol. D 1499-1500); Ezra Pound, “A Retrospect” (1506-07); Willa Cather, “The Novel Démeublé” (1508-09); Wallace Stevens (1439-41), “Anecdote of the Jar” (1446), “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (1448-50), “Of Modern Poetry” (1453-54); W. C. Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (1469); Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” (1482), “The Rest” (1481); Hilda Doolittle (H. D.), “Leda” (1516-17); e.e. cummings, “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” (1811), “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (1813-14).
WEEK 10
M. 03/30. Spring break; no classes all week.
WEEK 11
M. 04/06. T. S. Eliot. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (Vol. D 1577-80); Marianne Moore. “Poetry” (1532-33).
W. 04/08. Langston Hughes. From “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (Vol. D 1512-13), “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (2027), “I, Too” (2028), “Words Like Freedom” (2033), “Visitors to the Black Belt” (2032). “Freedom” (2034); Countee Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” (2061), “Heritage” (2062-64), “From the Dark Tower” (2065), “Uncle Jim” (2065).
WEEK 12
M. 04/13. Nella Larsen. Quicksand (Vol. D 1722-62).
W. 04/15. Nella Larsen. Quicksand (Vol. D 1762-1803).
WEEK 13
M. 04/20. Zora Neale Hurston. “The Gilded Six-Bits” (Vol. D 1713-21); “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1710-13).
W. 04/22. Ernest Hemingway. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Vol. D 1983-99). Essay due in class.
WEEK 14
M. 04/27. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby (Separate text. 1-96).
W. 04/29. F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby (Separate text. 97-180).
WEEK 15
M. 05/04. William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury (Separate text. 3-75).
W. 05/06. William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury (76-179).
WEEK 16
M. 05/11. William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury (180-321).
W. 05/13. Katherine Anne Porter. “Flowering Judas,” (Vol. D 1691-1700); Carlos Bulosan, “Be American” (2076-81).
FINALS WEEK
W. 05/20. Final Exam 2:30 – 4:20 p.m. Bring a large Bluebook.