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ENGL 2326.01 Spring 2012 - Mullinax

Readings can be found in your Norton Anthology textbook unless otherwise indicated.
 * Course Calendar **

// Tuesday, January 24: // First class day Introductions Syllabus Introduction to American Literature Blackboard

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Tuesday, January 31: Pilgrims & Puritans William Bradford p. 57-8 [|Bradford] // from Of Plymouth Plantation: Chapter 9—The Voyage // p. 58-61 Anne Bradstreet p. 97 “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” p. 109-10 media type="youtube" key="ZfKzfYjrtB0" height="315" width="420" Cotton Mather p. 143-4 [|Cotton Mather & the Salem Witch Trials] [|Salem Witch Musuem] from //The Wonders of the Invisible World// p. 144-9 Jonathan Edwards p. 168-70 Dom-He went from being top dog, to a little poodle. // Personal Narrative // p. 170-5 // Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God // p. 194-205

Tuesday, February 7: The Enlightenment Thomas Jefferson // Notes on the State of Virginia // “From Query XVII. Religion?” (handout) // An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in the State of Virginia // (handout) Ralph Waldo Emerson p. 488-92 // Self-Reliance // p. 532-50 []

Walt Whitman p. 991-5 []

// Song of Myself // starting on page 1011, read 1, 5, 6, 22, 24, 31, & 52. I know that Emerson and WHitman are wordy. But get through them and Dickinson is better. Promise. Emily Dickinson p. 1197-1200 “There’s a certain Slant of light” p. 1205 []

“I felt a Funeral in my Brain” p. 1207 “Because I could not stop for Death” p. 1214-5 “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – “ p. 1215 “Much Madness is divinest Sense” p. 1216 “Tell all the truth but tell it slant” p. 1221

Tuesday, February 14: Romanticism Washington Irving p. 453-5 //Rip Van Winkle// p. 455-66 Nathaniel Hawthorne p. 589-92 “Young Goodman Brown” p. 605-14 [] Please remember that to Quakers, witches were devil worshipers. This is important to understanding this story. Edgar Allan Poe p. 671-4 “The Fall of the House of Usher” p. 689-701 []


 * // First Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm. //**

Tuesday, February 21: Realism Mark Twain p. 1270-3 // Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter XXXIV to end // p. 1426-63 Theodore Dreiser p. 1756-7 “True Art Speaks Plainly” p. 1757-8 Earnest Hemingway p. 2241-3 “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” p. 2243-59

Tuesday, February 28: Naturalism Theodore Dreiser p. 1761-3 from //Sister Carrie// p. 1763-1777 Stephen Crane p. 1777-9 “The Open Boat” p. 1779-95 Jack London p. 1825-6 “To Build a Fire” p. 1826-36
 * // Second Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm. //**

Tuesday, March 6: Regionalism Willa Cather p. 1901-3 “A Wagner Matinee” (handout) Kate Chopin p. 1602-4 “At the ‘Cadian Ball” p. 1604-11 “The Storm” p. 1611-5 Robert Frost p. 1951-2 “The Pasture” p. 1952 “Mending Wall” p. 1953-4 “The Death of the Hired Man” p. 1954-8 “Birches” p. 1961-2 “Two Tramps in Mud Time” (handout) William Faulkner p. 2216-8 “Pantaloon in Black” (handout) Katherine Anne Porter p. 2147-8 “Flowering Judas” p. 2149-57 Zora Neale Hurston p. 2157-8 “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” p. 2158-61
 * // First Annotated Review due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm. //**

Tuesday, March 13: // SPRING BREAK //

Tuesday, March 20: Modernism T.S. Eliot p. 2037-9 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 2039-42 “The Hollow Men” p. 2057-60 Ezra Pound p. 2018-9 “To Whistler, American” p. 2020 “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” p. 2022 From //The Cantos// p. 2023-4 Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) p. 2025-6 “Mid-day” p. 2026-7 “Oread” p. 2027 “Helen” p. 2029-30 e.e. cummings p. 2172-3 “Buffalo Bill’s” p. 2175 “next to of course god America i” p. 2176 “i sing of Olaf glad and big” p. 2176-7 Theodore Roethke p. 2319-20 “My Papa’s Waltz” p. 2321 “Dolor” p. 2321 “I Knew a Woman” p. 2323 William Faulkner, //The Sound and the Fury, Chapter One: “April Seventh, 1928”// (handout)
 * // Third Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm. //**

Tuesday, March 27: Modern Drama Tennessee Williams p. 2334-6 // A Streetcar Named Desire // p. 2337-98

Tuesday, April 3: Beats & Other Contemporary Poets Jack Kerouac p. 2542-3 from //Big Sur// p. 2543-51 Allen Ginsberg p. 2590-2 “Howl” p. 2592-2600 “Footnote to Howl” p. 2600 “A Supermarket in California” p. 2601 Galway Kinnell p. 2602 from //The Book of Nightmares// (handout) “Under the Maud Moon” “The Hen Flower” “The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible” James Wright p. 2611-3 “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio” p. 2613 “Saint Judas” (handout) Philip Levine, “What Work Is” (handout) B. H. Fairchild, from //The Art of the Lathe// “Beauty” & “Body and Soul” (handout) Sylvia Plath p. 2651-3 “Daddy” p. 2656-8 “The Colossus” & “The Mood and the Yew Tree” (handout)
 * // Fourth Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm. //**

Tuesday, April 10: Women Anne Bradstreet “The Prologue” p. 98-9 “The Author to Her Book” p. 106-7 Thomas Paine //An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex// (handout) Margaret Fuller p. 736-9 // from The Great Lawsuit // p. 739-47 Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I A Woman?” (handout) Charlotte Perkins Gilman p. 1682-3 // The Yellow Wall-Paper // p. 1684-95 Maxine Hong Kingston p. 2743-4 // No Name Woman // p. 2744-53 Inez Holland “The Changing Home” (handout) Joan Morgan “The F-Word” (handout) Mitsuye Yamada “To the Lady” (handout) Anne Sexton p. 2614-5 “Little Girl, My String Bean, My Lovely Woman” p. 2617-9

Tuesday, April 17: Early African American Olaudah Equiano p. 355-6 from //The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano…, Chapter IV & V// p. 370-8 Frederick Douglass p. 920-3 // Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, Chapters I-IV // p. 931-42 Booker T. Washington p. 1628-30 from //Up from Slavery// p. 1630-8 W.E.B. Du Bois p. 1727-9 // from The Souls of Black Folk // p. 1729-44
 * // Fifth Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm. //**

Tuesday, April 24: Modern African American Langston Hughes p. 2263-5 “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” p. 2265 “Mother to Son” p. 2265 “I, Too” p. 2266 “Mulatto” p. 2267-8 Ida B. Wells-Barnett “This Awful Slaughter” (handout) Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit” (handout) Sterling Brown “He Was a Man” (handout) Ted Joans “Jazz is My Religion” (handout) Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream” (handout) Nicole Breedlove “The New Miz Praise De Lawd” (handout)
 * // Second Annotated Review due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm. //**

Tuesday, May 1: Native American The Iroquois Creation Story p. 17-21 Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World p. 21-24 Benjamin Franklin p. 218-20 “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” p. 226-30 Sitting Bull “The life my people want…” (handout) Clyde Warrior “We are poor in spirit…” (handout) Sherman Alexie p. 2851-2 “Do Not Go Gentle” p. 2854-7 from //The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven//, “Imagining the Reservation” (handout) Joy Harjo, “Finding the Groove” (handout)
 * // Final Exam Review //**


 * // Final Exam: //****//Tuesday, May 8th from 7:45pm-9:45pm. //**