Class

Assignments

1
8/24/09

Introduction
"One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker, (722-3)
"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, (671-2)
"Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, (449-51)

Unit 1: Analyzing Plot, Setting, Character, and Point of View

Fiction
"A Pair of Tickets" Amy Tan (204-17)
"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (232-41)
"Janus" by Ann Beattie (248-51)
"Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (513-24)
In-Class Exercise #1

Labor Day - No Class

Poetry
"Mid-Term Break" by Seamus Heaney (604)
"On Her Loving Two Equally " by Aphra Behn (612-3)
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" by Adrienne Rich (628)
"The Ruined Maid" by Thomas Hardy (639)
"A Certain Lady" by Dorothy Parker (647)
"She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" by William Wordsworth (649)
"Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall (824)
"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning (827-8)

Drama: A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen (1508-56)

Test #1
Start Unit 2 (definitions)

Unit 2: Analyzing Theme, Tone, Symbol, and Language

Poetry
"The Tally Stick" by Jarold Ramsey (596)
"love poem" by Linda Pastan (597)
"To the Ladies" by Mary, Lady Chudleigh (613)
"London" by William Blake (625)
"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden (633)
[When our two souls stand up] by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (786)
"In the Park" by Gwen Harwood (788)
[My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun] by William Shakespeare (788)
"Harlem" by Langston Hughes (820)
"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen (823)
"What's That Smell in the Kitchen" by Marge Piercy (830)
[Because I could not stop for death] by Emily Dickinson (980)
In-Class Exercise #2

Fiction
"Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton (110-19)
"Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe (123-28)
"Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce (507-13)
"Scarlet Ibis" by Margaret Atwood (553-63)

Test #2

Unit 3: Literature in Critical Contexts

10
10/26/09

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1140-1203)

11
11/2/09

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1623-81)

12
11/9/09

Critical Readings (available on eReserve)
"The Derailment of A Streetcar Named Desire" By: Dowling, Ellen; Literature Film Quarterly, 1981; 9 (4): 233-40. Off-campus link: click here or Download from Sakai.

Lipari, Lisbeth. "Fearful of the written word: white fear, black writing, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun screenplay." Quarterly Journal of Speech, Feb2004, Vol. 90 Issue 1, p81-102. Dowload from Sakai.

To download copies of these articles from the Sakai course website "Resources" section, follow the link above and login using your Lourdes email ID and password.

Unit 4: Final Essay

13
11/16/09

Critical Context Essay due
In-Class Exercise #3: Analytical Topic Workshop

Individual meetings with instructor -- bring paper draft

Writing day -- optional meeting with instructor

Final Essay due 12/7 by 8pm
*see the assignments section for more information about turning in your final paper.