| ses # | topics | key DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Hearty Welcome Discussion of William Carlos Williams's, "The Use of Force." A Few "Getting to Know You" Exercises | |
| 2 | Discussion of Hawthorne's, "The Birth-Mark." And One of the Low Points of the Term - Some Professorial Mutterings on Romanticism and Symbol | |
| 3 | Discussion of Melville's, "Bartleby, the Scrivener." | |
| 4 | A Preliminary Set of Definitions - Romanticism vs. Realism Discussion of Henry James's, "The Turn of the Screw." | |
| 5 | We'll Finish with James | |
| 6 | Discussion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wall-Paper." | |
| 7 | Discussion of Willa Cather's, "Old Mrs. Harris." | Post journal |
| 8 | More on Cather | |
| 9 | Discussion of Stephen Crane's, "The Blue Hotel." | |
| 10 | Some Misguided Professorial Remarks on Modernism Discussion of William Faulkner's, "Barn Burning." | |
| 11 | Discussion of Ernest Hemingway's, "Indian Camp," and "The Three-Day Blow." | |
| 12 | Hemingway Continues in the Rain and Despair Hey, Let's Go Fishing on the "Big Two-Hearted River," ok? | |
| 13 | A Walk on the Noir Side. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) Discuss Dashiell Hammett's, "The Whosis Kid." | Post journal |
| 14 | Discussion of Eudora Welty's, "Why I Live at the P.O." | |
| 15 | Discussion of Eudora Welty's, "Moon Lake." Anyone who ever went to summer camp can help educate the rest of us. | Post journal |
| 16 | Discussion of Julia Alvarez's, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Chapter 1. | |
| 17 | Discussion of Julia Alvarez's, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. What is this book - a novel? A collection of stories? In any case, what is it most fundamentally "about?" | |
| 18 | Discussion of Raymond Carver's, "Boxes." | |
| 19 | Discussion of Tim O'Brien's, "The Things They Carried." | |
| 20 | Discussion of Junot Diaz's, Drown. Formulate some possible questions to ask him, when he visits class just after the break. | Post journal |
| 21 | Guest Appearance by Junot Diaz | |
| 22 | Final Presentations | |
| 23 | Final Presentations (cont.) | |
| 24 | Final Class Meeting Sorrowful Farewells, and THE HILDESILLY ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE JOKE CONTEST (Yes, there will be prizes to be won) |