EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies

Stokes

Schedule

January
February
March
April
May

 

January

What is Literature, and What Do We Do With It? (terms)

25: Introduction; Diagnostic Essay; Carolyn Forché, "The Colonel"; Emily Dickinson, "Split the Lark--and you'll find the Music--"
27: Culler, Chapter 2, "What is Literature and Does it Matter?"; Discuss Paper #1; "Little Red Riding Hood"

February

1: James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues"; Willa Cather, "Paul's Case"
3: Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to Find"; Doris Lessing, "To Room Nineteen"

8: Draft #1 Due; Workshop

Forms I: Poetry and Drama (terms)

10: The Lyric: Paul Fussell, "The Nature of Meter"; Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"; "Emily Dickinson, "After great pain, a formal feeling comes--"; Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"

15: Discuss Paper #2; The Sonnet: William Shakespeare, "[My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]"; Billy Collins, "Sonnet"; Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Rites for Cousin Vit";
17: Revision #1 Due; Blank Verse and Free Verse: John Milton, from Paradise Lost; Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself"; William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow," "This is Just to Say"; Marianne Moore, "Poetry"

22: Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine (Act I)
24: Cloud Nine (Act II)

March

1: Draft #2 Due; Workshop
3: Workshop

Contexts (terms)

8: Revision #2 Due; Library Session: meet in Room 128 of the Library.
10: Discuss Paper #3; F.Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited"

Spring Break

22: Culler, Chapter 3, "Literature and Cultural Studies"; Fitzgerald in Context
24: Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance

29: Harlem Renaissance, continued
31: Harlem Renaissance, continued

April

5: Draft #3 Due; Workshop
7: Workshop

Forms II: Narrative (terms)

12: Revision #3 Due; Discuss Paper #4; Culler, Chapter 6, "Narrative"; Willa Cather, My Ántonia (Book I)
14: My Ántonia continued (Books II and III)

19: My Ántonia continued (Books IV and V)

Theories (terms)

21: Cather continued; Culler, Chapter 1, "What is Theory?"; Culler, Appendix, "Theoretical Schools and Movements"

26: Cather continued; Critical and Theoretical Contexts: "Elizabeth Ammons, "My Antonia and African American Art"; Marilee Lindemann, "'It Ain't My Praire': Gender, Power, and Narrative in My Antonia"
28: Workshop

May

3: Last Day of Class

6: Paper #4 Due, 4:30, INBOX outside PMH 314

Final Exam: Tuesday, May 10, 1:30-4:30

 

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