| Week 1 |
Jan. 14. - What Is "Contemporary American Literature"?
Forbears of Contemporary American Literature: Dickinson, Whitman, Poe |
| Unit I. Late Nineteenth Century: 1865 - 1910 |
| Week 2 |
Jan. 19 - Overview of the Late Nineteenth Century; pp. 3-14 |
| Jan. 21 - "The Situation of Women"; pp. 14-18; Sarah Orne Jewett; pp. 130 - 138 |
| Week 3 |
Jan. 26 - Rebecca Harding Davis; pp. 42-70 |
| Jan. 28 - Sarah M. B. Piatt; pp. 218-19, 221-22; Alice Dunbar-Nelson; pp. 239-41; 405-11 |
| Week 4 |
Feb. 2 - Kate Chopin; pp. 527-29, 536-38, 546-49 |
| Feb. 4 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman; 723-37 |
| Week 5 |
Feb. 9 "Native-American Literature"; pp. 22-25; Ghost Dance Songs; pp. 653-56; Charles Alexander Eastman; pp. 656-58, 662-69; Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony); pp. 669-81 |
Feb. 11 - "African-American Literature"; pp. 18-22; Francis Ellen Watkins Harper; 687-96; Paul Laurence Dunbar; 377-79; 385-87, 389-91
DUE: READING JOURNAL SUBMISSION # 1 |
| Week 6 |
Feb. 16 - African-American Folktales; pp. 249-58; Joel Chandler Harris; 335-39 |
| Feb. 18 - "Mexican-American Literature," "Asian-American Literature," "Protest and Reform"; pp. 25-34; Corridos; pp. 753-70 (in English y Espanol); Edith Maud Eaton (Sui-Sin Far); 834-43 |
| Week 7 |
Feb. 23 - Henry James; 449-92 |
| Feb. 25 - Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens); pp. 270-74 (other selections to be provided) |
| II. "Modern" Period: 1910 - 1945 |
| Week 8 |
Mar. 2 - Overview of "Modernity" and the Modern Period; pp. 883-904 |
Mar. 4 - Stephen Crane; pp. 599-601, 608-24
DUE: PAPER/ORIGINAL PIECE # 1 |
| Week 9 |
Mar. 9 - Edwin Arlington Robinson; pp. 990-91, 998-99 plus "Richard Corey" (poem to be provided); Edna St. Vincent Millay, pp. 1204-06, 1207 ("Euclid . . ."), 1208-09; 1211-12 |
| Mar. 11 - Robert Frost; pp. 1146-47, 1148 ("The Pasture"), 1149-53, 1159 ("Stopping by Woods . . ."): Carl Sandburg (poems to be provided) |
| Week 10 |
Mar. 16 - Susan Glaspell; pp. 1122-34 plus "A Jury of Her Peers" (story available here.) |
| Mar. 18 - Eugene O'Neill ("Before Breakfast" available here.) |
| Week 11 |
Mar. 23 - "Alienation and Literary Experimentation"; pp. 1214-15; Ezra Pound; pp. 1217-21; e.e. cummings; 1385-86, 1388-90 ("[since feeling is first]"), 1392-93 ("[anyone lived in a pretty how town]"), 1395-96; William Carlos Williams; pp. 1267-69, 1270-71 ("Danse Russe" and "The Young Housewife"); 1274-75 ("The Rose"), 1277 ("The Red Wheelbarrow") |
| Mar. 25 - Ernest Hemingway; pp. 1519-25 |
| Week 12 |
Mar. 30 & Apr. 1 - NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK |
| Week 13 |
Apr 6. - Ernest Hemingway (continued); "A Very Short Story"
DUE: READING JOURNAL SUBMISSION # 2 (if not already submitted) |
| Apr. 8 - William Faulkner; pp. 1544 - 54; "The New Negro Renaissance"; pp. 1578-81; Langston Hughes; 1611-21; Zora Neale Hurston; pp. 1670-80 |
| III. "Postmodern" Period: 1945 to the Present |
| Week 14 |
Apr. 13 - Overview of the "Contemporary" Period; pp. 2012-17 |
Apr. 15 - Tennessee Williams; pp. 2099-2110
DUE: PAPER/ORIGINAL PIECE # 2 |
| Week 15 |
Apr. 20 - |
| Apr. 22 - |
| Week 16 |
Apr. 27 - Flannery O'Connor; pp. 2163-75; Joyce Carol Oates; pp. 2176-89; John Updike; pp. 2189-98 |
| Apr. 29 - Gary Snyder; pp. 2367-73; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; pp. 2433-40; Allen Ginsberg; pp. 2441-54 |
| Week 17 |
May 4 - Denise Levertov; pp. 2398-2405; Sylvia Plath; pp. 2405-15; Anne Sexton; pp. 2415-19 |
May 6 - N. Scott Momaday; pp. 2749-59; Wendy Rose; pp. 3143-53
DUE: READING JOURNAL SUBMISSION # 3 |
| Week 18 |
May 11 - Ishmael Reed; pp. 2906-19; Alice Walker; pp. 2690-2701; Maxine Hong Kingston; pp. 2944-66 |
May 13 - Sandra Cisneros; pp. 3209-19; Gary Soto; pp. 3093-99; Helena Maria Viramontes; pp. 3082-93
DUE: PAPER/ORIGINAL PIECE #3 |
| Week 19 |
May 18 - Final Exam Date/Last Class (10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.) Gloria Anzaldua; pp. 3021-65; Toni Morrison; pp. 3226-37 |
