English 4500 schedule, spring 2012

Updated 4/15/12

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Tuesday, January 10  

Course description
2000-4000 grades and grading

 Introduction to course
Simple Stuff
Thursday, January 12 Student info (online)
Drop/add ends		 Golden rules 1-5 
Thomas Hardy 1851-52
  "On the Western Circuit" 1852-68
  "Hap" 1868-69
  "The Darkling Thrush" 1891
  "Channel Firing" 1877-78
  "The Convergence of the Twain" 1878-79
  "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" 1879-80
  "He Never Expected Much" 1884-85		  
Tuesday, January 17   Golden rules 6-10
Joseph Conrad 1885-87
  "Heart of Darkness" 1890-1947		  
Thursday, January 19  

Nuggets 1-5
"Voices from World War I" 1954-55
  "The Soldier" 1955
  "As the Team's Head Brass" 1950
  "They" 1960-61
  "Glory of Women" 1962
  "On Passing the New Menin Gate" 1963
  "Break of Day in the Trenches" 1967
  "Louse Hunting" 
  "Anthem for Doomed Youth" 1971-72
  "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo" 1972-73
  "Dulce Et Decorum Est" 1974  
  "Rouen" 1981-82
  "Recalling War" 1988-89  

  
Tuesday, January 24   Nuggets 6-10
Modernist Manifestos 1996-2019		  
Thursday, January 26   Quotes and documentation 1-3
W. B. Yeats 2019-22
  "Introduction" 2053-58
  Yeats poems 2022-33		  
Tuesday, January 31   Quotes and documentation 4-5
Yeats poems 2034-52		  
Thursday, February 2  

Word problems
Cedric Watts introduction
Joyce's schema
Episodes 1-3 overview
Ulysses 1-51

  
Tuesday, February 7   On plagiarism
Episodes 4-6 overview
Ulysses 53-115		  
Thursday, February 9   Episodes 7-9 overview
Ulysses 116-218		  
Tuesday, February 14   Episodes 10-12 overview
Ulysses 219-345		  
Thursday, February 16   Episodes 13-14 overview
Ulysses 346-428		  
Tuesday, February 21   Episodes 15-16 overview
Ulysses 429-665		  
Thursday, February 23   Episodes 17-18 overview
Ulysses 666-783		  
Tuesday, February 28     Midterm
Thursday, March 1 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade

D. H. Lawrence 2243-45
  "Odour of Chrysanthemums" 2245-58
  "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" 2258-69

  
Tuesday, March 6   T. S. Eliot 2286-89
T. S. Eliot overview
  "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 2289-93
  "Journey of the Magi" 2312-13  		 Going over midterm
Paper 1 assigned
Thursday, March 8     "The Waste Land" 2294-2308
  "The Hollow Men" 2309-11		  
Monday, March 12-
Saturday, March 17 		Spring break Spring break Spring break
Tuesday, March 20   Virginia Woolf 2080-82
  "The Mark on the Wall" 2082-87
  "Professions for Women" 2152-55
  A Room of One's Own 2092-2152 		 
Thursday, March 22   Samuel Beckett 2393-2420
Handout: Happy Days		  
Tuesday, March 27   W. H. Auden 2421-22
  "Lullaby" 2423-24
  "Musee des Beaux Arts" 2428-29
  "The Unknown Citizen" 2431-32
  "September 1, 1939" 2432-34
Dylan Thomas 2444-50
  "Poem in October" 2447-48
  "Fern Hill" 2448-50
  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" 2450		  
Thursday, March 29   Doris Lessing 2543-65
Nadine Gordimer 2574-78		  
Tuesday, April 3   Philip Larkin 2565-74
Thom Gunn 2582-86		  
Thursday, April 5   Harold Pinter 2601-22  
Tuesday, April 10   Tom Stoppard 2752-2820  
Thursday, April 12   Seamus Heaney 2822-38 Paper 2 assigned
Tuesday, April 17   Atonement 1-51  
Thursday, April 19 Paper proposal 2 Atonement 52-145  
Tuesday, April 24 Paper 1 corrections  Atonement 146-250  
Thursday, April 26 Paper 2 Atonement 253-351  
Final exam
Tuesday, May 1
1:00-3:00		      

Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.  I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.