Week 1
8/30-9/1 / q Introduction to course
q “Reading Blind” (1989) by Margaret Atwood (843-846) / q “Happy Endings” (1983) by Margaret Atwood (21-23)
q Appendix 1: “Storytelling Before the Emergence of the Short Story” (983-994)
Week 2
9/6-9/8 / q “Young Goodman Brown” (1835) by Nathaniel Hawthorne (329-338)
q Commentary: Herman Melville (898-900), Edgar Allan Poe (921-923) / q “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846) by Edgar Allan Poe (687-693)
q Commentary: D. H. Lawrence (893-894)
Week 3
9/13-9/15 / q “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853) by Herman Melville (532-558)
q Appendix 2: “A Brief History of the Short Story” (995-1002) / q Appendix 3: “The Elements of Fiction”
q “The Necklace” (1884) by Guy de Maupassant (524-530)
q Commentary: Kate Chopin (861-862) and Guy de Maupassant (896-898)
Week 4
9/20-9/22 / q “The Yellow Wall-paper” (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gillman (305-318)
q Commentary: Gilbert & Gubar (873-875) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman (876-879) / q ESSAY 1 DUE
q Introduction to the novel
q The Sun Also Rises
Book I (Chapters 1-7)
Week 5
9/27-9/29 / q The Sun Also Rises
Book II (Chapters 8-14) / q The Sun Also Rises
Book II (Chapters 15-18)
Week 6
10/4-10/6 / q The Sun Also Rises Book III (Ch. 19)
q Multi-media presentation & overview of research assignment / q MIDTERM EXAM
Week 7
10/11-10/13 / q “Araby” (1914) by James Joyce (397-402)
q “The Rocking-Horse Winner” (1926) by D. H. Lawrence (481-492) / q “Sweat” (1926) by Zora Neale Hurston (357-366)
q Commentary: Zora Neale Hurston (965-973)
DATE / TUESDAY / THURSDAY
Week 8
10/18-10/20 / q “A Rose for Emily” (1931) by William Faulkner (268-275)
q Commentary: William Faulkner (867-868) / q “Hills Like White Elephants” (1927) by Ernest Hemingway (340-343)
q REVISION OF ESSAY 1 DUE
Week 9
10/25-10/27 / q “The Chrysanthemums” (1938) by John Steinbeck (707-714)
q PROPOSAL DUE / q “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” (1961) by Richard Wright (820-830)
q Commentary: Richard Wright (934-935)
Week 10
11/1-11/3 / q “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (1955) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (300-304) / q “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1955) by Flannery O’Connor (658-669)
q Commentary: Flannery O’Connor (907-915)
Week 11
11/8-11/10 / q “The Lesson” (1972) by Toni Cade Bambara (49-54)
q “A Small, Good Thing” (1983) by Raymond Carver (81-98)
q Commentary: Raymond Carver (941-949) / q “The Management of Grief” (1988) by Bharati Mukherjee (583-596)
q ESSAY 2 DUE
Week 12
11/15-11/17 / q Novel #2 / q Novel #2
Week 13
11/22-11/24 / q Novel #2 / q THANKSGIVING
Week 14
11/29-12-1 / q Oral Presentations / q Oral Presentations
Week 15
12/6-12/8 / q Oral Presentations / q Oral Presentations
q TERM PAPERS DUE
Final Exam: Friday, 12/16/05 8:00am-10:30am