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JMU Bridge/ English 248 – Spring Semester Reading Syllabus 1865-1914: Volume C of The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Volume 7) Class Meeting Day HMWK

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Jan 5: Walt Whitman (17-74) + Supplement HMWK: Emily Dickinson Poems (74-91)

Jan 27: Bret Harte Discussion / Intro. To Ambrose Bierce HMWK: “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” (360-366)

Jan 7: Dickinson Poetry HMWK: Mark Twain: “Jumping Frog” (104-108)

Jan 29: “An Occurrence…”/ The Devil’s Dictionary HMWK: Henry James: Daisy Miller (391-429)

Jan 9: Twain HMWK: Huck Finn 1 (108-174)

Feb 3: Daisy Miller/ “The Art of Fiction” ( 918) HMWK: Kate Chopin: “The Storm” (531-535)

Jan 13: Huck Finn HMWK: Huck Finn 2 (175-225)

Feb 5: Chopin “The Storm” /Intro. to The Awakening The Awakening 1 (535-576)

Jan 15 : Huck Finn HMWK: Huck Finn 3 (225-294)

Feb 9: The Awakening 1 The Awakening II (576-625)

Jan 21: Huck Finn Final Thoughts HMWK: Bret Harte: “The Luck of Roaring Camp” (326-336)

Feb 11 : The Awakening II Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper” (808-820)

Feb 13: “The Yellow Wallpaper”/ “Why I Wrote…” (820821) HMWK: Edith Wharton: Roman Fever (843- 853) Feb. 17: Edith Wharton Discussion/ Intro. To Booker T. Washington HMWK: from Up from Slavery: (663-680) Feb. 19: Booker T. Washington / W.E.B Du Bois (894-901) HMWK: Frank Norris & Theodore Dreiser (931-954) Feb 23: Norris / Dreiser HMWK: Stephen Crane: (954-1016, 1017-1019)

March 9: Willa Cather - My Antonia Discussion HMWK: My Antonia II – (1287-1349) March 11: Willa Cather – My Antonia Part II HMWK: Amy Lowell & Robert Frost (1349 – 1356) / (13881409) March 13: Amy Lowell & Robert Frost HMWK: Susan Glaspell & Sherwood Anderson (1411-1436)

Feb. 25: Crane HMWK: Paul Dunbar: (1038-1046)

March 15: Susan Glaspell & Sherwood Anderson HMWK: Sandburg (1436-1439), Stevens, Williams (14621476), Pound (1477-1497), Moore (1531-1539), Eliot (15741607)

Feb 27: Dunbar /Intro. to Jack London HMWK: Jack London: (1052-1067)

March 17: Poetry HMWK: Porter / Hurston (1690-1721)

1914-1945: Volume D of The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Volume 7)

March 19: Porter / Hurston HMWK: O’Neil: A Long Day’s Journey… (1607-1686)

March 3: Jack London Discussion HMWK: Edgar Lee Masters / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1206-1214)

March 23: O’Neil HMWK: Millay (1803-1807), Cummings (1807-1816), Crane (1968-1977), Hughes (2026-2036), Cullen (2061-2065)

March 5: Masters / Robinson HMWK: Willa Cather – My Antonia (1216-1287) (to Book II / Chapter VIII)

March 25: Poetry HMWK: Fitzgerald (1822-1839) and Steinbeck (2049-2061)

March 27: Fitzgerald and Steinbeck HMWK: Hemingway & Wolfe (1880-2020) March 31: Hemingway & Wolfe HMWK: Faulkner – As I Lay Dying 1 (1860 -1892)

April 23: Welty & Cheever HMWK: Roethke (2133-2146), Bishop (2166-2184), Jarrell (2266-2273), Lowell (2329 -2409), Brooks (2409-2421) April 27: Poetry HMWK: Ellison (2297-2315) & Bellow (2315-2325)

April 1: As I Lay Dying I HMWK: As I Lay Dying II (1892-1923) April 3: As I Lay Dying II HMWK: As I Lay Dying III (1923-1955) April 7: As I Lay Dying III HMWK: “Barn Burning” (1955-1967) John Dos Passos (1854-1857 + handout) April 9: “Barn Burning” / John Dos Passos HMWK: Study for Midterm Since 1945: Volume E of The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Volume 7) April 11: Midterm HMWK: Read All the King’s Men by April 21 April 21: King’s Men Lecture HMWK: Welty (2146-2157) & Cheever (2248-2257)

April 29: Ellison & Bellow Miller: Death of a Salesman (2325-2392) May 5: Salesman Kerouac (2439-2460) / Ginsberg (2574-2590) May 7: Kerouac/Ginsberg Vonnegut (2460- 2472) / Thompson (2492-2493) May 11: Vonnegut / Thompson James Dickey (2477-2485) & James Baldwin (2508-2521) May 13: Dickey & Baldwin O’Connor (2521-2543) & Carver (2827-2838) May 15: O’Connor & Carver Merrill (2555-2567), O’Hara (2590-2597), Levine (26362641), Merwin (2620-2631), Snyder (2672-2679) May 19: Merrill, O’Hara, Levine, Merwin, Snyder HMWK: Sexton (2641-2649), Rich (2649-2644), Plath (26982710), Clifton (2799-2806), other female poets…

May 21: Female Poets HMWK: Short Stories Updike (2711-2720), Roth (2720-2743), Pynchon (2816-2827)… May 27: Short Stories HMWK: Selections from Shepard (2959-2999) / Mamet (30403075) May 29: Selections from Shepard /Mamet HMWK: Writing in a Time of Terror: September 11, 2001 (3205-3219) June 1: Writing in a Time of Terror: September 11, 2001 June 3: Final

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