READING SCHEDULE FOR E222 AMERICAN LITERATURE
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2006 (Tu/Th)
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COURSE INFORMATION. English 222, Course Code 12958. Tu/Th 11:30 – 12:50, McCarthy Hall (MH) 463. Office hours: Thurs. 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. Email: ajdrake_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major writers such as Twain, James, Crane, Hemingway, Faulkner, O’Neill, Frost, and Eliot.” Units (3). Satisfies General Ed. requirements with grade of C or better.”
REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE
Baym, Nina et al. (eds.) The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. C, D, E. 6th ed. New York: Norton, 2002. ISBN 0393977943.
London, Jack. Tales of the Pacific. New York: Penguin, 1989. ISBN 0140183582.
QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS
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Whitman | Dickinson | H. James | Chopin | Washington | DuBois | London | Lowell | Frost | W. C. Williams | W. Stevens | O’Neill | T. S. Eliot | Larsen | Fitzgerald | Hemingway | L. Hughes | Steinbeck | Tenn. Williams | Ginsberg | Plath
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED
WEEK 1
08/22. Introduction to course and to wiki features.
08/24. Walt Whitman. Preface and text of Leaves of Grass (17-79) — read as much as you can.
WEEK 2
08/29. Walt Whitman. Preface and text of Leaves of Grass (17-79); “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (116-22).
08/31. Emily Dickinson. Selections (167-206). Just read as many of the poems as you can.
WEEK 3
09/05. Henry James. “The Beast in the Jungle” (524-53).
09/07. Henry James. “The Art of Fiction” (553-67).
WEEK 4
9/12. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (633-723).
9/14. Kate Chopin. The Awakening (633-723). Journal Set 1 Due.
WEEK 5
09/19. B. T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois. Washington’s Up from Slavery Ch. XIV (760-68). DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk (876-901).
09/21. Jack London. Tales of the Pacific. (Separate text.)
WEEK 6
09/26. Jack London. Tales of the Pacific. (Separate text.)
09/28. Amy Lowell. Selections (1143-50).
WEEK 7
10/03. Robert Frost. Selections (1174-1201).
10/05. Robert Frost. Selections (1174-1201).
WEEK 8
10/10. William Carlos Williams. Selections (1263-81).
10/12. Wallace Stevens. Selections (1234-51). Journal Set 2 Due.
WEEK 9
10/17. Eugene O’Neill. Long Day’s Journey into Night (1340-1417).
10/19. Eugene O’Neill. Long Day’s Journey into Night (1340-1417).
WEEK 10
10/24. T. S. Eliot. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1420-22), “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1425-28).
10/26. T. S. Eliot. “The Waste Land” (1430-43).
WEEK 11
10/31. Nella Larsen. Quicksand (1527-1609).
11/02. Nella Larsen. Quicksand (1527-1609).
WEEK 12
11/07. F. Scott Fitzgerald. “Winter Snows” and “Babylon Revisited” (1641-72).
11/09. Ernest Hemingway. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (1846-64). Journal Set 3 Due.
WEEK 13
11/14. Langston Hughes. Selections (1891-1901).
11/16. John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath (1901-13).
WEEK 14
11/23. Thanksgiving Holiday. No classes all week.
WEEK 15
11/28. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (1976-2041).
11/30. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (1976-2041).
WEEK 16
12/05. Allen Ginsberg. Selections (2863-77).
12/07. Sylvia Plath. Selections (2967-79).
FINAL EXAM
Final exam date is Thursday, Dec. 14th 12:00 – 1:50 p.m.