E222 American Lit. from Twain to the Moderns Schedule, Spring 2014

READING SCHEDULE FOR E222 AMERICAN LITERATURE
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2014

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

COURSE INFORMATION. English 222, Course Code 18894, Section 2. MW 1:00 – 2:15 p.m., Langsdorf Hall (LH) 308. Instructor: 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.

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.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

M. 01/20. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. No classes.

W. 01/22. Course Introduction.

WEEK 2

M. 01/27. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (Vol. C 79-85). Dickinson’s “320” (Vol. C 97); “340” (Vol. C 99); “448” (Vol. C 102); “479” (Vol. C 102-03); “591” (Vol. C 103-04); “598” (Vol. C 104); “620” (Vol. C 104); “764” (Vol. C 107); “1263” (Vol. C 108); “1668” (Vol. C 108).

W. 01/29. Mark Twain. From Letters from the Earth (Vol. C 336-51).

WEEK 3

M. 02/03. Henry James. Daisy Miller (Vol. C 421-59).

W. 02/05. Henry James. Daisy Miller (Vol. C 421-59). We will also watch part of a film production.

JOURNAL SET 1 DUE BY EMAIL MONDAY 02/10. (Whitman through James.)

WEEK 4

M. 02/10. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (Vol. C Chapters 1-11, 561-586).

W. 02/12. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (Vol. C Chapters 12-26, 586-626).

WEEK 5

M. 02/17. Presidents’ Day Holiday. No classes.

W. 02/19. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (Vol. C Chapters 27-39, 626-52).

WEEK 6

M. 02/24. Jack London. From “What Life Means to Me” (Norton Vol. D 917-20). From Tales of the Pacific (Penguin edition): “The House of Mapuhi” (31-53); “Mauki (64-79); “The Sheriff of Kona” (121-34).

W. 02/26. Jack London. From Tales of the Pacific (Penguin edition): “Koolau the Leper” (135-50); “The Bones of Kehekili” (151-73).

JOURNAL SET 2 DUE BY EMAIL MONDAY 03/03. (Chopin through London.)

WEEK 7

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

W. 03/05. Carl Sandburg and William Carlos Williams. Sandburg’s “Chicago” (Vol. D 279-80); “Fog” (Vol. D 280); “Cool Tombs” (Vol. D 280-81); “Grass” (Vol. D 281). From Williams’ Spring and All (Vol. D 346-47); Poems: “Queen-Anne’s Lace” (Vol. D 305); “Spring and All” (Vol. D 306-07); “To Elsie” (Vol. D 307-09); “The Red Wheelbarrow” (Vol. D 309); “The Dead Baby” (Vol. D 309-10); “This Is Just to Say” (Vol. D 310); “A Sort of a Song” (Vol. D 310); “Burning the Christmas Greens” (Vol. D 311-13); “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (Vol. D 313).

WEEK 8

M. 03/10. T. S. Eliot. “The Waste Land” (Vol. D 378-91).

W. 03/12. Wallace Stevens. “The Snow Man” (Vol. D 283-84); “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” (Vol. D 285); “Sunday Morning” (Vol. D 285-88); “Anecdote of the Jar” (Vol. D 288-89); “Peter Quince at the Clavier” (Vol. D 289-90); “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” (Vol. D 291-92); “The Idea of Order at Key West” (Vol. D 293-94); “Of Modern Poetry” (Vol. D 294); The Plain Sense of Things” (Vol. D 295).

WEEK 9

M. 03/17. E. E. Cummings. “Thy fingers make early flowers of” (Vol. D 638); “in Just-” (Vol. D 638-39); “O sweet spontaneous” (Vol. D 639-40); “Buffalo Bill’s” (Vol. D 640); “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” (Vol. D 640); “next to of course god america i” (Vol. D 641); “i sing of Olaf glad and big” (Vol. D 641-42); “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” (Vol. D 642-43); “anyone lived in a pretty how town” (Vol. D 643-44); “my father moved through dooms of love” (Vol. D 644-45); “pity this busy monster,manunkind” (Vol. D 646).

W. 03/19. Ernest Hemingway. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (Vol. D 826-42).

JOURNAL SET 3 DUE BY EMAIL MONDAY 03/24. (Frost through Hemingway.)

WEEK 10

M. 03/24. Langston Hughes. From “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (Vol. D 348-50); All Poems (Vol. D 871-80): “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (Vol. D 871); “Mother to Son” (Vol. D 871-72); “I, Too” (Vol. D 872); “The Weary Blues” (Vol. D 872-73); “Mulatto” (Vol. D 873-74); “Song for a Dark Girl” (Vol. D 874-75); “Genius Child” (Vol. D 875); “Visitors to the Black Belt” (Vol. D 875-76); “Note on Commercial Theatre” (Vol. D 876); “Vagabonds” (Vol. D 876-77); “Words Like Freedom” (Vol. D 877); “Madam and Her Madam” (Vol. D 877-78); “Freedom {1}” (Vol. D 878); “Madam’s Calling Cards” (Vol. D 878-79); “Silhouette” (Vol. D 879); “Theme for English B” (Vol. D 880).

W. 03/26. William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying (Vol. D 698-730, i.e. first 1/3).

WEEK 11

M. 03/31. Spring Break. No classes.

W. 04/02. Spring Break. No classes.

WEEK 12

M. 04/07. William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying (Vol. D 731-62, i.e. second 1/3).

W. 04/09. William Faulkner. As I Lay Dying (Vol. D 762-793, last 1/3).

PARAGRAPH ON PAPER TOPIC AND ARGUMENT DUE MONDAY 04/14.

WEEK 13

M. 04/14. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (Film production: Marlon Brando/Vivien Leigh/Kim Hunter, 1951, first 75 of 122 minutes).

W. 04/16. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (Film production: Marlon Brando/Vivien Leigh/Kim Hunter, 1951, remaining 47 of 122 minutes).

WEEK 14

M. 04/21. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (Vol. E 93-55, Scenes 1-11).

W. 04/23. John Cheever. “The Swimmer” (Vol. E 157-65).

JOURNAL SET 4 DUE BY EMAIL MONDAY 04/28. (Hughes through Cheever.)

WEEK 15

M. 04/28. Flannery O’Connor. “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” (Vol. E 437-44); “Good Country People” (Vol. E 445-58).

W. 04/30. Allen Ginsberg. “Howl” (Vol. E 492-500); “Footnote to Howl” (Vol. E 500).; “A Supermarket in California” (Vol. E 500); “Sunflower Sutra” (Vol. E 501).

WEEK 16

M. 05/07. Frederick Jackson Turner and Sam Shepard. From Turner’s “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (Vol. C 1133-37). Shepard’s True West (Vol. E Act 1, 870-887).

W. 05/09. Sam Shepard. True West (Vol. E Act 2, 887-909).

JOURNAL SET 5 DUE BY PAPER DUE DATE. (O’Connor through Shepard.)

FINALS WEEK

Final exam date Monday, May 12 from 2:30 – 4:20 p.m. Due by email by Friday, May 16: Term Paper. (I must turn in grades by May 23, 2014.) For your other courses, check CSUF’s Final Exam Schedule.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E222 AMERICAN LITERATURECSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2014