| 04.10 | M | Kate Chopin (American) "The Story of an Hour." Virginia Woolf (British). "The Mark on the Wall," "Modern Fiction" and "Profession for Women." |
| 04.12 | W Harlem Renaissance | Claude McKay "The Harlem Dancer," "The Lynching" and "America." Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels To Be Colored Me" Langston Hughes. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "I, too," "Democracy," and "Theme for English B." Countee Cullen "Incident." |
| 04.17 | M British Modernism | W.B. Yeats. "The Stolen Child," "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Easter, 1916," "The Second Coming," from "Introduction." T.S. Eliot. "The Waste Land" Part One. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." |
| 04.19 | W Modern American Poets | Modern American Poets: Wallace Stevens. "Anecdote of the Jar," "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," "Of Modern Poetry." William Carlos Williams. "The Red Wheelbarrow," "This is Just to Say," "A Sort of Song." "The Great Figure" [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51549] Ezra Pound "In a Station of the Metro." |
| 04.24 | M American Modernism | Gertrude Stein. "Objects" from Tender Buttons. William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily." Marinetti, Loy and Pound: "Modernist Manifestos." |
| 04.26 | W Post-45 American | August Wilson, "Fences." Toni Morrison, "Recitatif." Gloria Anzaldúa "How To Tame A Wild Tongue." Audre Lorde (all) Sherman Alexie (all) |
| 05.01 | M | Joan Didion "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." (PDF) Barry Lopez "Arctic Dreams" (PDF) David Foster Wallace "A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again." (PDF) Jennifer Egan "PowerPoint Chapter." (http://jenniferegan.com/books/) |
| FINAL: 05.04 | THURSDAY | 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM HV 100 |
Assignments
All course assignments are subject to change.
