August
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Introduction—What is American
Literature? |
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An Approach to Reading Literature:
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Denise Levertov, “O Taste and See,” 2394.
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Rita Dove, “Roast Possum,”2678-80.
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Alberto Rios, “Nani,” 2696-97.
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Li-Young Lee, “Eating Together,” 2803; “Persimmons,”
2803-05.
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The Past Half Century:
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“The Literature Since Midcentury, 1945-Present,”
2261-70.
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Allen Ginsberg, “America,” 2452-54.
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Writing About the Contemporary
South:
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Bobbie Ann Mason, “Shiloh,” 2613-22.
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Race and Contemporary Literature:
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Reginald McKnight, “The Kind of Light that
Shines on Texas,” 2682-91.
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September
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5 |
The Age of Exploration and First
Encounters:
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“The Literature of the New World,” 3-13.
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“Cultural Portfolio: the European Conquest
of America,” 21-36.
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Spanish and English Encounters
with Native Americans:
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca,
from The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca,
49-53.
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John Smith, from The Generall Historie
of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, 56-61; from A Description
of New England, 61-63.
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The Age of European Settlement:
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“The Literature of Colonial America, 1620-1776,”
65-79.
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John Winthrop, from “A Model of Christian
Charity,” 93-94.
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Puritan Poetry:
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Anne Bradstreet, “The Prologue,” 97-98; “The
Author to Her Book,” 98-99; “Before the Birth of One of Her Children,”
99-100; “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” 100; “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild
Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and Half
Old,' 100-01; “Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House July
10th, 1666,” 101-02.
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The Colonial South:
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“Cultural Portfolio: The Ways of Native Americans,”
155-64.
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William Byrd, “His Secret Diary for the Years
1709-12,” 170-75.
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Eighteenth-Century Poetry:
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Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa
to America,” 251; “To S. M. a Young African Painter on Seeing His Works,”
251-52; “To His Excellency General Washington,” 252-53; “A Letter to Obour
Tanner from Phillis Wheatley,” 2342-43.
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Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State
of Virginia, 254.
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Robert Hayden, “A Letter from Phillis Wheatley,”
2341.
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The American Sense of Self:
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Benjamin Franklin, “Part Two: Continuation
of the Account of My Life,” Autobiography, 214-22.
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28 |
EXAMINATION #1 |
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October
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3 |
The Revolutionary War and Early
Republic:
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“The Literature of the New Republic, 1776-1836,”
257-72.
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Philip Freneau, “On the Emigration to America
and Peopling the Western Country,” 351-52; “The Indian Burying Ground,”
354-55.
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William Apess, A Son of the Forest,
359-61.
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What Is an American?:
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Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur,
“Letter III: What Is an American?,” Letters from an American Farmer,
301-15;
“Letter IX: Charleston Slave,” Letters from an American Farmer, 339-41.
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Questioning the New Nation's
Ideals:
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Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,”
378-98.
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America Before the Civil War:
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“The Literature of the American Renaissance,
1836-1865,” 461-75.
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Henry David Thoreau, “Where I Lived and What
I Lived For,” Walden, 643-52.
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The Idea of Nature:
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“Cultural Portfolio: Nature's Nation,” 589-96.
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Thomas Bangs Thorpe, “The Big Bear of Arkansas,”
1009-17.
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The Idea of the Human Mind:
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Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter,” 751-63;
“The Cask of Amontillado,” 763-67.
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24 |
FALL BREAK |
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Nature and the Mind:
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Rappacini's Daughter,”
834-53.
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American Romanticism and Slavery:
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Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life
of a Slave Girl, 985-1007.
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November
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2 |
Examination
#2 |
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America After the Civil War:
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“The Literature of an Expanding Nation, 1865-1912,”
1289-05.
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Walt Whitman, “A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest,
and the Road Unknown,” 1229-30; “Reconciliation,” 1232.
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Emily Dickinson, Poem 67, “Success Is Counted
Sweetest,” 1257; Poem 214, “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed,” 1258; Poem
258, “There's a Certain Slant of Light,” 1260; Poem 712, “Because I Could
Not Stop for Death,” 1270-71; Poem 1129, “Tell All The Truth But Tell It
Slant,” 1274.
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Writing Race After the Civil
War:
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Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery,
1764-78.
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W. E. B. Du Bois, “This Double-Consciousness”
and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others,”
The Souls of Black Folks,
1781-90.
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Realism and Nature:
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Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat,” 1814-30.
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Native Americans at the Turn
of the Century:
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Zitkala Ša, “Impressions of an Indian Childhood,”
1851-61.
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America Between World War I and
World War II:
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“The Literature of a New Century, 1912-1945,”
1863-80.
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Robert Frost, “Mending Wall,” 1903-04; “Birches,”
1906-08; “The Most of It,” 1910.
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23 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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Modernist Poetry:
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William Carlos William, “Spring and All,”
1963-64; “The Red Wheelbarrow,” 1964; “This Is Just to Say,” 1964; “Reply”
(handout).
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e. e. cummings, “in Just-,“ 2120; “my sweet
old etcetera,” 2122; “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” 2124.
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Southern Writing in the Modernist Period:
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Zora Neale Hurston, “The Gilded Six-Bits,”
2057-64.
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William Faulkner, “Barn Burning,” 2170-82.
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December
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5 |
From Modern to Post-Modern:
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Eudora Welty, “Why I Live at the P.O.,” 2251-59.
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Final Exam (11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.) |