English 4500 schedule, fall 2013

Updated 11/13/13

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.

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Tuesday, August 20  

Course description
2000-4000 grades and grading

 Introduction to course
Simple Stuff
Thursday, August 22 Student info (online)
Drop/add ends		 Golden rules 1-5 
Thomas Hardy 1914-15
  "On the Western Circuit" 1916-31
  "Hap" 1932
  "Neutral Tones" 1932
  "The Darkling Thrush" 1933-34
  "Channel Firing" 1939-40
  "The Convergence of the Twain" 1940-42
  "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" 1942-43
  "He Never Expected Much" 1946-47		  
Tuesday, August 27  

Golden rules 6-10
Joseph Conrad 1947-48
  Heart of Darkness 1951-2011

  
Thursday, August 29  

Nuggets 1-5
"Voices from World War I" 2016-18
  "The Soldier" 2019
  "They" 2023-24
  "Glory of Women" 2025
  "On Passing the New Menin Gate" 2026
  "Break of Day in the Trenches" 2030
  "Louse Hunting" 2031  
  "Anthem for Doomed Youth" 2034-35
  "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo" 2035-36
  "Dulce Et Decorum Est" 2037
  "Disabled" 2039-40   
  "Rouen" 2043-44
  "Recalling War" 2048-49  

  
Tuesday, Sept. 3   Nuggets 6-10
Modernist Manifestos 2056-82		  
Thursday, Sept. 5   Quotes and documentation 1-3
William Butler Yeats 2082-85
   Yeats poems 2085-95		  
Tuesday, Sept. 10  

Quotes and documentation 4-5  
  William Butler Yeats:
  "In Memory of Maj. Robert Gregory" 2096-99
   "The Second Coming" 2099
   "Leda and the Swan" 2102
   "Sailing to Byzantium" 2102-3
   "Among School Children 2103-5
   "Byzantium" 2107-8
   "Lapis Lazuli" 2109-10

 
Thursday, Sept. 12   Word problems
James Joyce 2276-78
   "Araby" 2278-82
   Portrait of the Artist 2311-48 		 
Tuesday, Sept. 17   James Joyce:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2348-2419		  
Thursday, Sept. 19   James Joyce:
Portrait of the Artist 2419-72 		 
Tuesday, Sept. 24   Virginia Woolf 2143-45
  "Professions for Women" 2272-76
  The Waves 7-97		  
Thursday, Sept. 26   The Waves 97-183  
Tuesday, October 1   The Waves 184-297 Paper 1 assigned
Thursday, October 3 Class cancelled Class cancelled  Class cancelled
Tuesday, October 8 Paper proposal

On plagiarism
T. S. Eliot 2521-24
T. S. Eliot overview
  "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 2524-27
  "The Hollow Men" 2543-46

 Discuss midterm
Thursday, October 10     Midterm exam
Tuesday, October 15 Paper 1 due D. H. Lawrence 2481-82
D. H. Lawrence overview
  "Odour of Chrysanthemums" 2483-96
  "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" 2496-2507		  
Wednesday, Oct. 16 Midterm last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade		    
Thursday, October 17

 

 Katherine Mansfield 2567-68
  "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" 2568-81
  "The Garden Party" 2581-91		  
Tuesday, October 22  

Samuel Beckett 2619-21
Samuel Beckett overview
Handout: Happy Days

  
Thursday, October 24   W. H. Auden 2677-78
  "Lullaby" 2679-80
  "Musee des Beaux Arts" 2685
  "The Unknown Citizen" 2688-91
  "September 1, 1939" 2688
Dylan Thomas 2697-98
  "Poem in October" 2700-1
  "Fern Hill" 2702-3
  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" 2703		  
Tuesday, October 29  

Doris Lessing 2758
  "To Room Nineteen" 2759-80
Nadine Gordimer 2789-90
  "The Moment before the Gun Went Off" 2790-93

 
Thursday, October 31   Philip Larkin 2781-89
Thom Gunn 2796-2800		  
Tuesday, November 5   Harold Pinter 2815
  The Dumb Waiter 2816-36		  
Thursday, November 7   Tom Stoppard 2879-80
  Arcadia 2880-2917		 Paper 2 assigned
Tuesday, November 12 Paper 1 corrections
Paper proposal		 Arcadia 2917-48  
Thursday, November 14   Seamus Heaney 2951-67  
Tuesday, November 19 Paper 2 due Saturday, chapter 1  
Thursday, November 21   Saturday, chapter 2  
Monday-Friday,
November 25-29		 Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving holiday
Tuesday, December 3   Saturday, chapters 3-4  
Thursday, December 5   Saturday, chapter 5 Discuss final exam
       
Final exam
Tuesday, Dec. 10
10:30-12:30 p.m. 		Paper 2 corrections