READING SCHEDULE FOR E300 ANALYSIS OF LITERARY FORMS
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2011

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

COURSE INFORMATION. English 300, Course Code 19504, Section 80. Wed. 4:00 – 6:45 p.m., Irvine Campus (IRVC) 217. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Wed. 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. in IRVC 236. Email: e300_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Main literary forms—prose fiction, poetry and drama—are studied and analyzed. English majors should schedule this basic course as early as possible. Units: (3).”

REQUIRED TEXTS AT IRVINE CAMPUS BOOKSTORE

Booth, Alison and Kelly J. Mays. The Norton Introduction to Literature. Shorter Tenth Edition. New York: Norton, 2010. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-0393935141.

Giraldi, Joseph et al., eds. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th Edition. New York: Modern Language Association of America (MLA), 2009. ISBN-13: 978-1603290241.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1 FICTION

01/26. Wed. Course Introduction.

WEEK 2 FICTION

02/02. Wed. Chapter 1: Plot. Read this chapter’s introductory material (50-58). Edith Wharton. “Roman Fever” (85-95). Chapter 2. Narration and Point of View: read this chapter’s introductory material (96-100). Edgar Allan Poe. “The Cask of Amontillado” (101-05). Jamaica Kincaid. “Girl” (116-17).

WEEK 3 FICTION

02/09. Wed. Chapter 3. Character. Read this chapter’s introductory material (119-26). Toni Morrison. “Recitatif” (139-52). Chapter 4. Setting: read this chapter’s introductory material (163-69). Anton Chekhov. “The Lady with the Dog” (169-80).

WEEK 4 FICTION

02/16. Wed. Chapter 5. Symbol and Figurative Language. Read this chapter’s introductory material (208-13). Edwige Danticat. “A Wall of Fire Rising” (239-49). Chapter 6. Theme: read this chapter’s introductory material (251-54). Stephen Crane. “The Open Boat” (255-71). Gabriel García Marquez. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (271-76).

WEEK 5 FICTION

02/23. Wed. Chapter 7. Exploring Contexts — The Author’s Work: Flannery O’Connor (294-99). Flannery O’Connor. “Good Country People” (310-23). Mary Gordon. From “Flannery’s Kiss” (337-39). Eileen Pollack. From “Flannery O’Connor and the New Criticism” (343-45). Chapter 8. Cultural and Historical Contexts — Women in Turn-of-the-Century America” (347-52). Charlotte Perkins Gilman. “The Yellow Wallpaper” (354-65).

WEEK 6 FICTION

03/02. Wed. Chapter 9. Critical Contexts: William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (389-91). William Faulkner. “A Rose for Emily” (391-97). Critical Contexts on the Faulkner Story (398-425).

JOURNAL SET 1 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 03/06. (Includes entries on fiction. Please expect an email from me verifying receipt of this and subsequent sets.)

WEEK 7 POETRY

03/09. Wed. Chapter 10. Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing. Read intro (618-42). Read also “Romantic Love: an Album” (643-50). Read also Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (704-05) and Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (Internet Source: Bartleby). I may bring in and read aloud a few separate love poems by the ancient Greek poetess Sappho; these are not in the anthology.

WEEK 8 POETRY

03/16. Wed. Chapters 13-16, etc. A Mix: Poetry as Form and Foregrounded Language. Emily Dickinson: “I dwell in Possibility” (739), “Because I could not stop for Death” (886-87); W.C. Williams: “The Red Wheelbarrow” (739-40), “This is Just to Say” (740); G.M. Hopkins: “Pied Beauty” (742), “Spring and Fall” (789-90), “God’s Grandeur” (1030), “The Windhover” (1030-31); E.E. Cummings: “in Just” (742-43); “The Twenty-Third Psalm” (756); Wilfred Owen: “Dulce et Decorum Est” (759-60); Robert Frost: “Fireflies in the Garden” (768-69), “Range Finding” (838), “Design” (838), “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1019-20); Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” (785-88); Shakespeare: “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame” (814-15); Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (827-28); Elizabeth Bishop: “Sestina” (829-30); Marianne Moore “Poetry” (828-29); Archibald MacLeish: “Ars Poetica” (830-31); George Herbert: “Easter Wings” (847); Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (913-15); Alfred Tennyson: “Ulysses” (928-30); Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” (1009-10). Time permitting, I may bring in a few extra samples of poetic types, so read “Poetic Kinds” (919-20).

WEEK 9 POETRY

03/23. Wed. Romanticism: Poetry of Nature and Self-Consciousness. William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Walt Whitman. Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” (1008-09, both versions from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience); “London” (658), “The Sick Rose” (767), “The Tyger” (1007-08). Wordsworth’s “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” (681), “Tintern Abbey” (1048-51). Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” (1010-11). Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” (817-20). Keats’ “On the Sonnet” (835-36), “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (836-37), “Ode to a Nightingale” (1031-33),”Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1033-34), “To Autumn” (1034-35). Whitman’s “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” (686).

WEEK 10 POETRY

03/30. Wed. Spring Recess. No classes all week.

WEEK 11 POETRY

04/06. Wed. Modernist Poetry: W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens. William Butler Yeats: an Album (895-908). Ezra Pound. “In a Station of the Metro” (1041). T.S. Eliot. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1015-19). Wallace Stevens. “The Emperor of Ice Cream” (1042-43), “Anecdote of the Jar” (1043). I may also give and comment on short readings from other poems to be specified.

WEEK 12 DRAMA

04/13. Wed. Chapter 19. Cultural and Historical Contexts: the Harlem Renaissance (947-56). Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (956-64). Essay excerpts on Harlem Renaissance (966-81).

JOURNAL SET 2 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 04/17. (Includes entries on poetry.)

WEEK 13 DRAMA

04/20. Wed. Read “Elements of Drama” introduction (1125-34). Chapter 24. Critical Contexts. Sophocles. Antigone (1490-1523). Critical Excerpts (1524-39).

PARAGRAPH DESCRIBING PAPER TOPIC/ARGUMENT DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 04/24.

WEEK 14 DRAMA

04/27. Wed. Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard (1547-83).

WEEK 15 DRAMA

05/04. Wed. Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun (1583-1645).

WEEK 16 DRAMA

05/11. Wed. Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman (1646-1711).

JOURNAL SET 3 DUE BY EMAIL EXAM DAY. (includes entries on drama.)

FINALS WEEK

Final exam date: Wed. May 18, 5:00 – 6:50 p.m. Paper due by email by Sunday, May 22. I must turn in grades by May 27, 2011. For your other courses, check CSUF’s Final Exam Schedule.