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Dr. Mary Adams, Instructor
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English 203 Syllabus (Spring 1998)
203.09 (MWF 12 NOON)
 

Day

 

Date

 

Topic

 

Source

 

Misc

 

W

 

1/7/98

 

Course Introduction

 

 

 

 

 F  1/9/98  INDIVIDUALISM AND COMMUNITY: Franklin, Autobiography  I. 336-52; 386-98  1875: Swinburne refers to Nathaniel Hawthorne as the half man of genius who never could carry out an idea or work it through to its full extent. 
 

M

 

1/12/98

 

Emerson, Self Reliance, Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

Minutes: Sandra Willis

 

I. 982-999; 1474-1489

 

 

 

W

 

1/14/98

 

Whitman, Song of Myself

PRELIM. READING LIST DUE 

Minutes: Amber Wheeler

 

I. 2148 (Sections 1-6, 22, 33-5, 50)

 

 

 

F

 

1/16/98

 

Ginsberg, Howl

Minutes: Sandra Willis

 

II. 1802-10

 

 

 

M

 

1/19/98

 

Martin Luther King Birthday

 

 

 

1809: Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston.

 

W

 

1/21/98

 

Bradford Chapters 11, 14, 24; Winthrop, Journal

FINAL READING LIST DUE ON BIBLIOGRAPHY CARDS

Minutes:Josh Stephens

 

I. 35-50; 72-83

 

1789: 1st American novel, epistolary romance the Power of Sympathy, is published anonymously in Boston. 

 

F

 

1/23/98

 

Dickinson Poems The Soul Selects, They Shut Me Up in Prose, The Brain is Wider Than the Sky, My Life had Stood a Loaded Gun

Minutes: Aaron Long

 

I. 2280, 2292, 2298

 

 

 

M

 

1/26/98

 

Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter**

Minutes: Chad Sisson

 

I. 1181-1294

 

1932: Thomas Wolfe jumps from a moving car onto the Grand Central Station platform, severing a vein in his arm. 

 

W

 

1/28/98

 

Minutes: Lee Scott

 

 

 

 

 

F

 

1/30/98

 

COUNTRY, CITY, AND TECHNOLOGY:

Melvile, Bartleby the Scrivener; Frost, Mending Wall, Home Burial

THESIS AND FIRST BODY PARAGRAPH FOR PAPER 1 DUE

Minutes: Kevin Phillips

 

I. 1301+

II. 931-2

(both volumes)

 

1956: When asked in a Newsweek interview about writing free verse, Frost snaps: I=d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

 

M

 

2/2/98

 

Adams, Education of Henry Adams

Minutes: Jonathan Davis

 

II. 880-907

 

1870: Mark Twain marries Olivia Landon in Elmira, NY. 

1923: James Dickey (Deliverance) is born in Atlanta, GA.

 

W

 

2/4/98

 

O=Connor, Good Country People

Minutes: Melissa Most

 

II. 1958-71

 

 

 

F

 

2/6/98

 

Chandler, Red Wind

Minutes: Jemar Mack

 

II. 1531-64

 

 

 

M

 

2/9/98

 

PAPER 1 DUE

Clampitt, The Subway Singer; Brooks, We Real Cool, The Vacant Lot

Minutes: Jaime Hardin

 

II. 1924; 1691, 1695

 

 

 

W

 

2/11/98

 

Brown, Cora Fry=s Pillow Book (Selections)

Minutes: Blain Hyatt

 

RESERVE

 

1963: Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London at 30. 

 

F

 

2/13/98

 

Mason, Shiloh

Minutes: Jeffrey Huls

 

II. 2233-42

 

 

 

M

 

2/16/98

 

McCullers, Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Minutes: Crystal Hughes

 

 

II. 1490-1529

 

 

 

W

 

2/18/98

 

THE FAMILY: 

Bradstreet, Before the Birth, To my Dear ... Husband, Upon the Burning of Our House; Taylor, Upon Wedlock and Death of Children

Minutes: Marie Franks

 

I. 122,123, 130, 177

 

1931: Novel prize-winning novelist toni Morrison (Beloved, Song of Solomon) is born in Lorraine, OH. 

 

F

 

2/20/98

 

Williams, The Glass Menagerie**

Minutes:Jason Davies

 

II. 1587-1631

 

1852: Emily Dickinson=s mock Valentine Sic transit appears in the Springfield Republican. 

 

M

 

2/23/98

 

Poe, Fall of the House of Usher

Minutes: Jermaine Davidson

 

I. 860-873

 

 

 

W

 

2/25/98

 

Kingston, No Name Woman

Minutes: Thomas Cypress

 

II. 2082-90

 

1983: Playwright Tennessee Williams, 71, dies in NYC. 

 

F

 

2/27/98

 

Plath, Daddy, Rich, Mother-in-Law

Minutes: Jason Clark

 

II. 1864, 1830

 

 

 

M

 

3/2/98

 

MIDTERM

 

 

 

 

 

W

 

3/4/98

 

Brown=s novel, Before and After

Minutes:Rodney Davis

 

PURCHASE

 

1942: Novelist John Irving (The World According to Garp) is born in Exeter, NH. 

 

F

 

3/6/98

 

Minutes: Dawn Cantway

 

 

 

 

 

M-F

 

3/9-3/13

 

SPRING BREAK

 

 

 

 

 

M

 

3/16/98

 

PAPER 2 DUE; Movie

 

 

 

1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne=s the Scarlet Letter is published. 

 

W

 

3/18/98

   

 

 

1932: John Updike is born in Shillington, PA

 

F

 

4/24/98

 

Mather, Wonders, Franklin, Witch Trial

Minutes: Bradley and Bowman

 

I. 182-9; 323-5

 

1905: Poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren (All the King=s Men) is born in Guthrie, KY. 

1947: Novelist Willa Cather dies in NYC at 73. 

 

M

 

4/27/98

 

Hughes poems

 

 

II. 1431-40

 

 

 

W

 

4/29/87

 

Silko, Coyote Sends a Full House

 

II. 2257-62

 

 

 

TH

 

4/30/97

 

Paley, Zagrowski Tells

 

II. 2274-84

 

University Rules: Special Meeting

 

Tues

 

 

5/5/98

 

FINAL EXAM for 203.09

 

3:00 - 5:30

 

 

** Designates long readings--start early.

Special thanks to Dr. Jane Meekins for supplying the author anniversaries.