Have each section’s reading completed by the due dates marked in parentheses. Expect quizzes, discussions and writing assignments.

Textbooks:

A. Nineteenth Century American Literature: The Gothic and Romanticism (Thurs. 3/27)

• Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (Perrine’s, 299-310) – U.S.
• Edgar Allen Poe, “The Cask of the Amontillado” (Perrine’s, 611-616) – U.S.
• Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” (WG, 1-30 or Perrine’s, 579-610) – U.S.

B. The Golden Age of Russian Literature: Exploring Morality (Tuesday, 4/1)

• Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” (WG, 38-84) – Russia
• Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Toy Dog” (WG, 136-149) – Russia

C. Women In Literature: Notions of Feminism, Race and Sexuality (Thursday, 4/3)

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (WG, 113-126) – U.S.
• Virginia Woolf, “The Mark on the Wall” (WG, 192-197) – England
• Zora Neal Hurston, “The Gilded Six-Bits” (Perrine’s, 564-574) – U.S.
• Alice Walker, “Everyday Use” (Perrine’s, 166-174) – U.S.
• Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson” (Perrine’s, 195-201) – U.S.

D. Modernist Literature: Breaking with Tradition (Tuesday, 4/8)

• D. H. Lawrence, “Prussian” (WG, 162-179) – England
• James Joyce, “Araby” (WG, 180-184) – Ireland
• Franz Kafka, “A Hunger Artist” (WG, 198-205) – Czechoslovakia
• Ernest Hemingway, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” (WG, 222-225) – U.S.
• Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (Perrine’s, 268-272) – U.S.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, “A New Leaf” (Perrine’s, 420-433) – U.S.

E. Contemporary Literature: Postmodernism and Post-colonialism (Thursday, 4/10)

• Chinua Achebe, “Civil Peace” (Perrine’s, 511-515) – Nigeria
• John Updike, “A & P” (WG, 230 and Perrine’s, 619-624) – U.S.
• Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (Perrine’s, 327-332) – Columbia
• Ha Jin, “A Contract” (Perrine’s, 575-578) – U.S.
• Joyce Carol Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (Perrine’s, 311-326) – U.S.
• Jorge Luis Borges, “Borges and I” (WG, 236) – Argentina