English 200
Dr. Fike
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Aug. 24 |
Introduction to the course. |
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Aug. 26 |
POINT OF VIEW: Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily," Riverside 253-60, and introductory material 4-21. "Point of View" and "Reader-Response Criticism," Handbook 392, 420-21.
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Aug. 31 |
SETTING: Joyce, "Araby," Riverside 27-31. "Setting," Handbook 469-70.
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Sept. 2 |
THE FOUR "SENSES": O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," Riverside 352-64. In Handbook: "Allegory" 12-13, "Literal" 285-86, "Criticism, Types of" 130-31.
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Sept. 7 |
ALLUSION: O'Connor, continued. "Allusion," Handbook 14. Optional reading assignment: Fike, "The Timothy Allusion in 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find," available on InfoTrac.
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Sept. 9 |
TONE: Walker, "Everyday Use," Riverside 473-80. "Tone," Handbook 510. Optional reading assignment: Fike, "Jean Toomer and Okot p'Bitek in Alice Walker's 'In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," available on InfoTrac.
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| F | Sept 10 | Last day to elect or change the S/U option. |
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Sept. 14 |
SYMBOL: Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums," Riverside 267-75. "Symbol," Handbook 497-98.
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Sept. 16 |
SYMBOL: Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," Riverside 158-70.
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Sept. 21 |
IRONY: Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," Riverside 244-51. "Irony," Handbook 271-72.
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Sept. 23 |
Optional Review Day--attendance will not be taken today.
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course with an automatic N.
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Sept. 28 |
Fiction Test. Bring a large blue book and two blue or black ballpoint pens. (Monday, Sept. 27th, is the last day to drop a course with an automatic N.)
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Sept. 30 |
Lecture on the elements of poetry. Introductory material in Riverside 544-56.
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Oct. 5 |
SONNET: In Riverside: Shakespeare 578-80, Donne 588-89, Milton 592-93, Wordsworth 628-29, Tennyson 648. Frost, "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same" (available at http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/robertfrost/719). "Sonnet," Handbook 480.
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Oct. 7 |
IMAGERY: Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey," Riverside 622-26; Hopkins, all selections, 702-4. "Imagery," Handbook 257-58.
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Oct. 12 |
SYMBOL: Yeats, all selections, Riverside 713-20.
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Oct. 14 |
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE: Browning, "My Last Duchess," Riverside 656-58. "Dramatic Monologue," Handbook 164-65.
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| F/M | Oct. 15/18 | Fall Break |
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Oct. 19 |
ALLUSION: Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Riverside 762-65. Fall break: October 15th-18th.
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Oct. 21 |
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" and "Diving into the Wreck," Riverside 897, 903-6. |
| T | Oct. 26 | Optional Review
Day--attendance will not be taken today.
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Oct. 28 |
Poetry Test. Bring a large blue book and two blue or black ballpoint pens.
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| T | Nov. 2 | Election Day--no
class.
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Nov. 4 |
CLASSICAL TRAGEDY: Sophocles, Oedipus, Riverside 1045-1101. "Tragedy," Handbook, 511-13.
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Nov. 9 |
Sophocles, continued.
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Nov. 11 |
SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY: Othello, Acts I & II, Riverside 1102-41.
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Nov. 16 |
Shakespeare, continued: Acts III & IV, 1141-80.
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Nov. 18 |
Shakespeare, continued: Act V, 1180-96.
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Nov. 23 |
TRAGEDY OF THE COMMON MAN: Miller, Death of a Salesman, Riverside 1243-80.
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| R | Nov. 25 | Thanksgiving--no class. |
| M | Nov. 29 | Last day to withdraw from a class. |
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Nov. 30 |
Miller 1280-1325.
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Dec. 2 |
Review Day. Course evaluation.
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Drama Test during
exam week.
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