Have each section’s reading completed by the due dates marked in parentheses. Expect quizzes, discussions and writing assignments.
Textbooks:
- W.G.: The World’s Greatest Short Stories (Ed. J. Daley)
- Perrine’s: Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense (Eds. T. Arp & G. Johnson)
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
