COURSE OUTLINE

Course Topics

  1. Different Worlds
  2. Historical Development of English Literature
  3. Modernism: Literature of Alienation
  4. Women's Literature
  5. Cross-Cultural Literature

  1. Different Worlds
  2. F 1/19   Introduction
    M 1/22   Huxley- from Brave New World        
    F 1/26   Zoline- "Heat Death of the Universe"
    M 1/29   Anzaldua- Borderlands, ch 1 and 3
    
    >>>>>>>>>>>>TEST: FEB 2      PAPER: FEB 2 
    
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  3. Historical Development of English Literature
  4. 
    M 2/5 History of the English Language
    
    F 2/9  Metaphysical and Neoclassical:
            Donne "Flea", "Canonization","Sun Rising" 	
    	Marvell- "To His Coy Mistress"
            Milton-"Massacre at Piemont"
    	Swift-"Description of the Morning"
    
    M 2/12 Romantic:
            Blake-"Garden of Love", "The Chimney Sweeper"
            Wordsworth-"Lines Composed a  Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
              "The World Is Too Much With Us"
            Keats-"When I have Fears"
    
           Victorian:
             Kipling "Tommy"
             Tennyson "Charge of the Light Brigade"
           
           19th Century American:
             Whitman / Dickinson
             
    >>>>>>>>TEST: FEB 16        PARER: FEB 16  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 
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  5. Modernism: Literature of Alienation
  6. 
    F 2/23   Eliot-"Prufrock"
    
    M 2/26  Eliot-The Wasteland
            
    F 3/1   Eliot-"Ash Wednesday", "Little Gidding"
       
    M 3/4   Lawrence-"City Life" Auden-"Unknown Citizen"
            Brecht-"A Worker Reads History",  "German  War Primer"
            Akhmatova-"Courage", "Apparition"
    	Kafka-"Selections from Kafka"
            Owen-"Dulce et Decorum Est" 
       
       
    >>>>>>>TEST: MAR 4       PAPER: MAR 4  
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  7. Literature By Women
  8. M 3/18 Confessional Poetry
           Sexton-"For My Lover,Returning to His Wife"
           Derricotte-"Transition"
           Plath-"Edge", "Daddy"
           Ostricker-"Propaganda Poem" 
           Rich-"Diving into the Wreck"
           Broumas-"Cinderella"
           Rukeyser-"Waiting for Icarus"
           Olds-"The Language of the Brag"
           Anzaldua-Borderlands ch 2
    
    F 3/22 Women in Society
           Piercy-"Market Economy", "Right to Life"
           Walker-"Everyday Use"
           Lourde-"To My Daughter the Junkie...", "The House from Yemanja"
           Angelou- "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
           Grahn-"A women is talking to death"
    
    M 3/25 Women in Relationship to Men
           Griffin-"This Is the Story in the Life of a Women Trying"
           Shange-"With No Immediate Cause" Brady-"I Want a Wife"
           Giovanni-"Women Poem" Carson-"I Can't Remember All the Times" 
           Gomez-"Chocolate Confessions"
           Naylor-"Etta Mae Johnson"
    
    F 3/29 Women in Social Protest
           Atwood-"At First I Was Given Centuries"
           Forche-"The Colonel" 
           Levertov-"Life at War", "What Were They Like"
           Morrison-"1919"
           Bambara-"Lesson"
           Berlin-"Manual for Cleaning Women"
           Sappho-"To an Army Wife"
    
    >>>>>>TAKE HOME TEST: MAR 29     PAPER: MAR 29 
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  9. Cross Cultural Perspective
  10. F 4/1  History of African-American Literature 
           Truth-"Ain't I am Women"
           Dunbar-"We Wear the Mask","An Ante-Bellum Sermon"
           Jacobs-"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
           Dunbar-Nelson-"I Sit, I Sew Griffin-"I Remember Harriet Tubbs"
           Freeman-"A Mistaken Charity"
           Wheathy-"On Being Brought From  Africa to America"
           Hurston-"A Conjure Story"
           Lucy-"Bars Fight
    
    M 4/8   Harlem Renaissance
            McKay-"The Harlem Dancer", "If We Must Die", "Lookin Within"
            Hughes-"Harlem", "Ballad of the Land Lord","Mellow", "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
            Johnson-"Cotton Seed Blues"
            Leadbelly-"Midnight Special"
            Toomer-"Fern"
            Johnson, James Weldon-"O Black and Unknown Bards","Lift Every Voice and Sing"
            Locke, Alan-"The New Negro"
            Cullen-"For a Lady I Know"
    
    F 4/12 Post Harlem Renaussance African-American Writing 
           Ellison-"Battle Royal"
           Baldwin-"Sonny's Blues" 
           McPherson,"A Loaf of Bread"
           King-"I have a Dream"
           Wright-"The Man Who Went To Chicago"
           Clifton-"the thirty eight year of my life"
           Baraka-"Beautiful Black Women"
    
    M 4/15 African Caribbean Literature 
          Walcott-"Virgins"
          Kincard-"Girl"
          Soyinka-"Telephone Conversation"
          Senghor-"You Held the Black Face","Black Women"
    
    F 4/19 "Nuyorican" Poetry
           Pietri- "Puerto Rican Obituary"
           Laviera-"Latero Story"
           Cofer-"Claims","Old Women","Latin American Woman Pray"
           Avlerez-"Homecoming"
         
    M 4/22  Chicano/a Works
           Cervantes-"Poem For the Young While Man..."
           Zamora-"On Living in Aztlan","Infinite Divisions" 
           Soto-"Mexicans Begin Jogging"
           Baca-"So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans"
           Alarcon-"Lamenrarjo","Ilsa Mujeres","Extranjero"
           Saenz-"Jouneys"
           Tafolla"-"How Shall I Tell You"
           Cisnaros-"Women Hollering Creek"
           Anon.-"Kansas"
           Anzaldua-Borderlands, ch 4/5
           
    F 4/26 Native American Works
           Rose-"Three Thousand Dollar Death Song"
           Erdrich-"The Red Convertible","Jacklight"
           Elk-"Butchering at Wounded Knee" 
           Silko-"Love Poems","Lullaby"
           Donahoe-"Wild"
           Hill-Whiteman-"The Recognition"
           Gunn-Allen- "Kopis'taya"
           Hogan-"Oil","Black Hills Survival Gathering" 
           Horjo-"Fire","Remember", "Resurrection","I Give You Back","The Women Hanging
                   from the 13th Floor"
           Whitecloud-"Blue Winds Dancing" Anzaldua-ch 6,7
    
    M 4/29 Asian-American Poetry and Other Immigrant Literature  
           Lim-"Wonder Women"
           Ota-"Fireflies"
           Son-"Can Tho"
           Okita-"Order9066"
           Mirikitani-"Breaking Tradition"
           Mora-"Immigrants"
           Mar-"My Mother, Who Came From China, Where She Never Saw Snow"
           Yamauchi-"And the Soul Shall Dance"
           Kingston-"No Name Women"
           LeSueur-"Women on the Breadlines"
           Smedley-"Silk Workers"
    
    >>>F 5/3 TEST AND PAPERS DUE <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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    FINAL:   Monday MAY 6 8:00    Revised Papers Due: 4/26/95