English 200 Syllabus

I'll be making changes in this syllabus as the semester progresses to reflect more appropriate times to have read the material. When discussion runs long on any one work (as it has for "Bartleby, the Scrivener," the remainder of the works tend to get pushed back. Check this space often for a complete run-down on class reading assignments. (Changes will also be posted on SOPHLIT.)

Last updated Aug. 31, 1995

Part I:
Individuality

Week 1: Aug. 21-25

M: Course Introduction
FICTION
W: Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" (web1 or Web2)
F: Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"

Week 2: Aug. 28-Sept. 1

M: "Bartleby" continued
W: Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
F: Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Week 3: Sept. 4-8

M: LABOR DAY HOLIDAY (no class)
POETRY
W: Plath, "Cut"
F: Haas, "Heroic Simile," "Meditation at Lagunitas"

Week 4: Sept. 11-15

M: Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
W: Robinson, "Richard Cory," "Miniver Cheevy"
F: Clifton, "The Lost Baby Poem"; Olds, "Sex Without Love"

Week 5: Sept. 18-22

DRAMA

M: Shakespeare, Hamlet
W: Hamlet continued
F: Hamlet continued

Part II:
Relationships

Week 6: Sept. 25-29

FICTION:

M: Carver, "Why Don't You Dance?"; Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants"
W: O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
F: Wharton, "Roman Fever"

Week 7: Oct. 2-6

M: MIDTERM EXAM (in class)
W: Take-home essay due in class; READ Welty, "Livvie"
F: Wright, "Big Black Good Man"

Week 8: Oct. 9-13

POETRY::

M: TBA
W: Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz"
F: Plath, "Daddy"

Week 9: Oct. 16-20

DRAMA:

M: Miller, Death of a Salesman
W: Death of a Salesman continued
F: Death of a Salesman continued

Part III:
Communities

Week 10: Oct. 23-27

FICTION:

M: Faulkner, "Barn Burning"
W: Munro, "Circle of Prayer"
F: Bambara, "The Lesson"

Week 11: Oct. 30-Nov. 3

M: Márquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
DRAMA:
W: Henley, Crimes of the Heart
F: Crimes of the Heart continued

Week 12: Nov. 6-10

M: Crimes of the Heart continued
POETRY:
W: Frost, ALL POEMS
F: Yeats, ALL POEMS

Week 13: Nov. 13-17

M: Keats, ALL POEMS
W: Stevens, ALL POEMS
F: Olds, ALL POEMS

Week 14: Nov. 20-25

M: TBA
W-F: Thanksgiving Holidays (no class)

Week 15: Nov. 27-Dec. 1

M: TBA
NOVEL:
W: Dickey, Deliverance
F: Deliverance continued

Week 16: Dec. 4-8

M: Deliverance continued
W: TBA
F: TBA

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