English 2122.01 schedule, spring 2024
Updated 4/23/24
This schedule is tentative.
Focus |
Dates |
Readings |
Assignments |
Introduction(s) |
Jan 10-14 |
– Course syllabus |
– Student
info form (online) |
Drop/Add ends |
Jan 17 | ||
First-Generation Romantics I |
Jan 13-20 |
– Simple Stuff William Blake overview Mary
Wollstonecraft overview |
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First-Generation Romantics II |
Jan 20-27 |
– Golden
rules Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Second-Generation Romantics |
Jan 28-Feb. 3 |
Nuggets John Keats overview |
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Victorian Poetry
|
Feb. 4-10 |
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning overview Alfred,
Lord Tennyson overview Robert
Browning overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Victorian fiction |
Feb. 11-17 | – Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections |
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Victorian fiction |
Feb. 18-24 |
Great Expectations chapters 16-29 |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections |
Victorian fiction |
Feb. 25-March 2 |
Great Expectations chapters 30-44 |
– Threaded discussion (D2L)
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Victorian fiction |
March 3-9 |
Great Expectations chapters 45-59 |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
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– Midterm exam (D2L quiz) |
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Oscar Wilde overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Spring Break | March 18-22 | ||
Early modernism | March 23-30 | Joseph Conrad overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Modernism I | March 31-April 6 | Virginia Woolf overview Woolf headnote 1165-66 "The Mark on the Wall" 1167-71 A Room of One's Own" 1177-1237 |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Modernism II | April 8-14 | James Joyce overview |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Modernism III | April 14-20 | T.S. Eliot overview T.S. Eliot headnote 1319-22 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1322-25 "The Hollow Men" 1339-42 "Journey of the Magi" 1342-43 |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Postmodernism | April 21-28 | Samuel Beckett overview Beckett headnote 1372-73 Handout: Happy Days |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) |
Contemporary poetry | April 28-May 1 | W. H. Auden headnote 1429-30 "Musée des Beaux Arts" 1433-34 "The Unknown Citizen" 1436-37 Philip Larkin headnote 1451 "Church Going" 1452 "Ambulances" 1454-55 "This Be the Verse" 1456 Seamus Heaney headnote 1486-87 "Digging" 1487-88 "The Forge" 1488 "Punishment" 1490-91 |
– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Paper due |
Reading Days |
May 2-4 | Exam prep |
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Final exam |
May 5-6 |
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