READING SCHEDULE FOR E222 AMERICAN LITERATURE
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2012

*2023 Note. Most links and procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the assigned edition and the reading schedule.

COURSE INFORMATION. English 222, Course Code 20799, Section 4. Tu/Th 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m., Clayes Performing Arts Center. (CPAC) 116. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Tuesday 10:30-11:25 a.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.

London, Jack. Tales of the Pacific. New York: Penguin, 1989. ISBN-13: 978-0-140-18358-0.

QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS

*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE.

Whitman | Dickinson | Twain | James | Chopin | London | Frost | Sandburg | W. C. Williams | Eliot | F. T. Marinetti | Ezra Pound | H. D. | Mar. Moore | Stevens | Cummings | Hemingway | Faulkner | Hughes | Hurston | Tenn. Williams | Cheever | Ginsberg | O’Connor | Pynchon | Turner | Shepard

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

Tu. 01/24. Course Introduction.

Th. 01/26. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (Vol. C 79-85). Dickinson’s “320” (97); “340” (99); “448” (102); “479” (102-03); “591” (103-04); “598” (104); “620” (104); “764” (107); “1263” (108); “1668” (108).

WEEK 2

Tu. 01/31. Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn (Vol. C Chapters 1-16, 131-88).

Th. 02/02. Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn (Vol. C Chapters 17-21, 188-219).

WEEK 3

Tu. 02/07. Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn (Vol. C Chapters 22-35, 220-81).

Th. 02/09. Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn (Vol. C Chapters 36-42, 281-309).

WEEK 4

Tu. 02/14. Henry James. Daisy Miller (Vol. C 421-59). We will also watch part of a film production.

Th. 02/16. Henry James. Daisy Miller (Vol. C 421-59).

JOURNAL SET 1 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 02/19. (Whitman through James.)

WEEK 5

Tu. 02/21. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (Vol. C Chapters 1-24, 561-619).

Th. 02/23. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (Vol. C Chapters 25-39, 619-52).

WEEK 6

Tu. 02/28. Jack London. From “What Life Means to Me” (Vol. D Norton 917-20). From Tales of the Pacific (Separate text): “The House of Mapuhi” (31-53); “Mauki (64-79).

Th. 03/01. Jack London. From Tales of the Pacific (Separate text): “The Sheriff of Kona” (121-34); “Koolau the Leper” (135-50); “The Bones of Kehekili” (151-73).

WEEK 7

Tu. 03/06. Robert Frost. “The Figure a Poem Makes” (Vol. D 250-52); “Mowing” (231-32); “Mending Wall” (232-33); “The Death of the Hired Man” (233-37); “The Wood-Pile” (241); “The Road Not Taken” (241-42); “Birches” (242-44); “Out, Out—” (244); “Fire and Ice” (245); “Nothing Gold Can Stay” (245); “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (245); “Desert Places” (246); “Design” (246); “The Gift Outright” (248).

Th. 03/08. Carl Sandburg and William Carlos Williams. Sandburg’s “Chicago” (Vol. D 279-80); “Fog” (280); “Cool Tombs” (280-81); “Grass” (281). From Williams’ Spring and All (346-47); Poems: “Queen-Anne’s Lace” (305); “Spring and All” (306-07); “To Elsie” (307-09); “The Red Wheelbarrow” (309); “The Dead Baby” (309-10); “This Is Just to Say” (310); “A Sort of a Song” (310); “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (313).

WEEK 8

Tu. 03/13. T. S. Eliot. From “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (Vol. D 372-75); “The Waste Land” (378-91).

Th. 03/15. F. T. Marinetti, Ezra Pound, H. D., Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings. From Marinetti’s “Manifesto of Futurism” (Vol. D 337). From Pound’s “A Retrospect”(341-43). H.D.’s “Leda” (353); “Fragment 113” (354); “Helen” (355). Moore’s “Poetry” (359-60); “To a Snail” (360). Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar” (288); “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (291-92); “The Idea of Order at Key West” (293-94); “Of Modern Poetry” (294). E.E. Cummings’ “in Just-” (638); “the Cambridge ladies …” (640); “next to of course god america i” (641); “i sing of Olaf glad and big” (641-42); “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (643-44).

JOURNAL SET 2 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 03/18. (Chopin through Cummings.)

WEEK 9

Tu. 03/20. Ernest Hemingway. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Vol. D 826-42). We will watch part of a film production.

Th. 03/22. Ernest Hemingway. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Vol. D 826-42).

WEEK 10

Tu. 03/27. Spring Recess: no classes all week.

Th. 03/29. Spring Recess: no classes all week.

WEEK 11

Tu. 04/03. William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying (Vol. D 698-762, i.e. first 2/3).

Th. 04/05. William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying (Vol. D 762-793, last 1/3).

WEEK 12

Tu. 04/10. Langston Hughes. From “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (Vol. D 348-50); All Poems (871-80): “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (871); “Mother to Son” (871-72); “I, Too” (872); “The Weary Blues” (872-73); “Mulatto” (873-74); “Song for a Dark Girl” (874-75); “Genius Child” (875); “Visitors to the Black Belt” (875-76); “Note on Commercial Theatre” (876); “Vagabonds” (876-77); “Words Like Freedom” (877); “Madam and Her Madam” (877-78); “Freedom {1}” (878); “Madam’s Calling Cards” (878-79); “Silhouette” (879); “Theme for English B” (880).

Th. 04/12. Zora Neale Hurston. “The Eatonville Anthology” (Vol. D 530-38); “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (538-41); “The Gilded Six-Bits” (541-49).

JOURNAL SET 3 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 04/15. (Fitzgerald through Hurston.)

WEEK 13

Tu. 04/17. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (Vol. E 93-133, Scenes 1-6).

Th. 04/19. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (Vol. E 133-55, Scenes 7-11).

PARAGRAPH ON PAPER TOPIC AND ARGUMENT DUE SUNDAY 04/22.

WEEK 14

Tu. 04/24. John Cheever. “The Swimmer” (Vol. E 157-65).

Th. 04/26. Allen Ginsberg. “Howl” (Vol. E 492-500); “Footnote to Howl” (500); “A Supermarket in California” (500); “Sunflower Sutra” (501); “To Aunt Rose” (503); “On Burroughs’ Work (504); “Ego Confession” (505).

WEEK 15

Tu. 05/01. Flannery O’Connor. “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” (Vol. E 437-44); “Good Country People” (Vol. E 445-58).

Th. 05/03. Thomas Pynchon. “Entropy” (Vol. E 725-36).

WEEK 16

Tu. 05/08. Frederick Jackson Turner. From “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (Vol. D 1133-37). Sam Shepard. True West (Vol. E Act 1, 870-887).

Th. 05/10. Sam Shepard. True West (Vol. E Act 2, 887-909).

JOURNAL SET 4 DUE BY EMAIL EXAM DAY. (Tennessee Williams through Shepard.)

FINALS WEEK

Final exam date: Thurs. May 17, 12:00 – 1:50 p.m. Paper due by email by Saturday, May 19. I must turn in grades by May 25, 2011. For your other courses, check CSUF’s Final Exam Schedule.