READING SCHEDULE FOR E300 ANALYSIS OF LITERARY FORMS
CSU FULLERTON, SPRING 2012 (Tu/Th)

*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 20680, Section 2. Tu/Th 1:00 – 2:15 p.m., Humanities 409. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Tu/Th 11:45 – 12:45 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 329. 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 TITAN BOOKSTORE

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

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1 FICTION

Tu. 01/24. Course Introduction.

Th. 01/26. Chapter 1: Plot. Read this chapter’s introductory material (50-58). Edith Wharton. “Roman Fever” (85-95).

WEEK 2 FICTION

Tu. 01/31. 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).

Th. 02/02. Chapter 3. Character (119-26). Toni Morrison. “Recitatif” (139-52).

WEEK 3 FICTION

Tu. 02/07. Chapter 4. Setting: read this chapter’s introductory material (163-69). Anton Chekhov. “The Lady with the Dog” (169-80).

Th. 02/09. Chapter 5. Symbol and Figurative Language: read this chapter’s introductory material (208-13). Edwige Danticat. “A Wall of Fire Rising” (239-49).

WEEK 4 FICTION

Tu. 02/14. Chapter 6. Theme: read this chapter’s introductory material (251-54). Stephen Crane. “The Open Boat” (255-71). Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (271-76).

Th. 02/16. Chapter 8. Cultural and Historical Contexts — Women in Turn-of-the-Century America (347-52). Charlotte Perkins Gilman. “The Yellow Wallpaper” (354-65).

WEEK 5 FICTION

Tu. 02/21. 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).

Th. 02/23. Chapter 9. Critical Contexts: William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” (389-91). William Faulkner. “A Rose for Emily” (391-97). Read at least three short excerpts from Critical Contexts on the Faulkner Story (398-425).

WEEK 6 POETRY

Tu. 02/28. Chapter 10. Poetry: Reading, Responding, Writing (618-42). Read also from “Romantic Love: an Album” (643-50).

Th. 03/01. Love poetry, continued: Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (704-05) and Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” ([http://www.bartleby.com/142/192.html|Internet Source: Bartleby]).

WEEK 7 POETRY

Tu. 03/06. Chapters 13-16, etc. A Mix: Poetry as Form and Foregrounded Language. Emily Dickinson: “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), “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: “Design” (838), “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” (1019-20); Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” (785-88).

Th. 03/08. Chapters 13-16, etc. A Mix: Poetry as Form and Foregrounded Language. 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); Alfred Tennyson: “Ulysses” (928-30); Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” (1009-10). Also read “Poetic Kinds” (919-20).

WEEK 8 POETRY

Tu. 03/13. Romanticism: Poetry of Nature and Self-Consciousness. William Blake, William Wordsworth. Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” (1008-09, both versions from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience); “London” (658), “The Tyger” (1007-08). Wordsworth’s “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” (681), “Tintern Abbey” (1048-51).

Th. 03/15. Romanticism: Poetry of Nature and Self-Consciousness, continued. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats. Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” (1010-11). Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” (817-20). Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” (1031-33),”Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1033-34).

WEEK 9 POETRY

Tu. 03/20. Modernist Poetry: W.B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats: an Album (895-908).

Th. 03/22. Modernist Poetry, continued: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens. 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). See also “The Idea of Order at Key West” on library reserve.

WEEK 10 POETRY

Tu. 03/27. Spring break: no classes all week.

Th. 03/29. Spring break: no classes all week.

WEEK 11 POETRY

Tu. 04/03. Chapter 19. Cultural and Historical Contexts: the Harlem Renaissance (947-56). Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance (956-64).

Th. 04/05. Chapter 19. Cultural and Historical Contexts: the Harlem Renaissance (947-56). Essay excerpts on Harlem Renaissance (966-81). Read also [http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html|W.E.B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk, Ch. 1. Of Our Spiritual Strivings].

WEEK 12 DRAMA

Tu. 04/10. Read “Elements of Drama” introduction (1125-34) and introductory material on Shakespeare (1245-51). I will offer a general introduction to reading/viewing Shakespeare.

Th. 04/12. William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1 (1251-60) and we will watch Act 1 of Trevor Nunn’s RSC production on DVD.

WEEK 13 DRAMA

Tu. 04/17. William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Acts 2-3 (1260-87) and we will watch part of Acts 2-3 of Trevor Nunn’s RSC production on DVD.

Th. 04/19. William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Acts 4-5 (1287-1304) and we will watch part of Acts 4-5 of Trevor Nunn’s RSC production on DVD.

WEEK 14 DRAMA

Tu. 04/24. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire, Scenes 1-2 (1408-24). We will also watch part of Scenes 1-2 of the 1951 film version starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando (directed by Elia Kazan).

Th. 04/26. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire, Scenes 3-6 (1424-48). We will also watch part of Scenes 3-6 of the 1951 film version starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando (directed by Elia Kazan).

WEEK 15 DRAMA

Tu. 05/01. Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire, Scenes 7-11 (1448-71). We will also watch part of Scenes 7-11 of the 1951 film version starring Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando (directed by Elia Kazan)..

Th. 05/03. Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman, Act 1 (1646-75). We will also watch part of Act 1 from Alex Segal’s 1966 production starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.

WEEK 16 DRAMA

Tu. 05/08. Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman, Acts 1-2 (1646-1711). We will also watch part of Acts 1-2 from Alex Segal’s 1966 production starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.

Th. 05/10. Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman, Act 2 (1676-1711). We will also watch part of Act 2 from Alex Segal’s 1966 production starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman.

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date: Tuesday, May 15 12:00 – 1:50 p.m.