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A Hearty Welcome Discussion of William Carlos Williams's, "The Use of Force." A Few "Getting to Know You" Exercises |
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2 |
Discussion of Hawthorne's, "The Birth-Mark." And One of the Low Points of the Term - Some Professorial Mutterings on Romanticism and Symbol |
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3 |
Discussion of Melville's, "Bartleby, the Scrivener." |
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4 |
A Preliminary Set of Definitions - Romanticism vs. Realism Discussion of Henry James's, "The Turn of the Screw." |
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5 |
We'll Finish with James |
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6 |
Discussion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wall-Paper." |
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7 |
Discussion of Willa Cather's, "Old Mrs. Harris." |
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8 |
More on Cather |
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9 |
Discussion of Stephen Crane's, "The Blue Hotel." |
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10 |
Some Misguided Professorial Remarks on Modernism Discussion of William Faulkner's, "Barn Burning." |
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11 |
Discussion of Ernest Hemingway's, "Indian Camp," and "The Three-Day Blow." |
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12 |
Hemingway Continues in the Rain and Despair Hey, Let's Go Fishing on the "Big Two-Hearted River," ok? |
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13 |
A Walk on the Noir Side. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) Discuss Dashiell Hammett's, "The Whosis Kid." |
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14 |
Discussion of Eudora Welty's, "Why I Live at the P.O." |
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15 |
Discussion of Eudora Welty's, "Moon Lake." Anyone who ever went to summer camp can help educate the rest of us. |
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16 |
Discussion of Julia Alvarez's, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Chapter 1. |
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17 |
Discussion of Julia Alvarez's, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. What is this book - a novel? A collection of stories? In any case, what is it most fundamentally "about?" |
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18 |
Discussion of Raymond Carver's, "Boxes." |
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19 |
Discussion of Tim O'Brien's, "The Things They Carried." |
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20 |
Discussion of Junot Diaz's, Drown. Formulate some possible questions to ask him, when he visits class just after the break. |
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21 |
Guest Appearance by Junot Diaz |
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22 |
Final Presentations |
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23 |
Final Presentations (cont.) |
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24 |
Final Class Meeting Sorrowful Farewells, and THE HILDESILLY ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE JOKE CONTEST (Yes, there will be prizes to be won) |