Booklist and syllabus

Week 1: January 30	Introduction Morrison, The Bluest Eye, pp. 3-16
Week 2: February 6	The Bluest Eye, pp. 16-183 Morrison, Online Overview Pp. 61-109 Pp. 110-131 Pp. 132-183
Week 3: February 13	The Bluest Eye, pp. 184-206 Pp. 184-206 "Afterward," pp. 209-216 The Other in The Bluest Eye Keats, Lyric Poems Online overview Reading Lyric Poetry The Lyric Stanza: A Convention "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" "When I have fears that I may cease to be" "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art" "The Eve of St. Agnes" "La Belle Dame sans Merci" Supplemental Reading Reading Lyric Poetry The Lyric Stanza: A Convention
Week 4: February 20	Keats, Lyric Poems Lyric Epiphanies and Speakers The Romantic Meditative Ode "Ode to a Nightingale" "Ode on a Grecian Urn" "Ode to Psyche" "Ode on Melancholy"
Week 5: February 27	Dickinson, Selected Poems Overview --Love-- "Wild nights! Wild nights!" "If you were coming in the fall" "I cannot live with you" "I started Early--took my Dog--" --Pain, separation, & ecstasy "For each ecstatic instant" "I measure every grief I meet" "I had been hungry all the years" "Pain has an element of blank" "After great pain a formal feeling comes" "My life closed twice before its close" "Success is counted sweetest" --Death-- "I died for beauty but was scarce" "I heard a fly buzz when I died," "Because I could not stop for Death, "The bustle in a house" --God, religion, & eternity-- "Safe in their alabaster chambers," "He fumbles at your spirit" "The heart asks pleasure first," Paper 1 due (minimum: 3-4 pages) Supplemental Reading Topics for Paper Introduction to Writing Your Paper Critical Essays, written by students Personal Response Essays, written by students Essays of Society or General Analysis, written by students
Week 6:	Dickinson, Selected Poems --The inner world-- "There's a certain slant of light" "I felt a funeral in my brain" "It was not death, for I stood up" "The brain within its groove" "I felt a cleaving in my mind" --Nature-- "I taste a liquor never brewed" "She sweeps with many-colored brooms" "I'll tell you how the sun rose" "A bird came down the walk" "I like to see it lap the miles" "A narrow fellow in the grass" --Other-- "Hope is the thing with feathers" "I'm nobody! Who are you?" "Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn" "It dropped so low in my regard" "The soul selects her own society" "My life had stood a loaded gun"
Week 7: March 13	Midterm Shakespeare, Hamlet
Week 8: W, Sept. 29	Selected Poems (Dickinson) , pp. 1-28 Dickinson, Online Overview
Week 9: M, Oct. 4	Selected Poems (Dickinson) , pp. 29-54 First paper due
Week 10: W, Oct. 6	Hamlet, Act I Shakespeare Page
Week 11: W, Oct. 13	Hamlet, Act II
Week 12: M, Oct. 18	Hamlet, Act III
Week 13: W, Oct. 20	Hamlet, Act IV
Week 14: M, Oct. 25	Hamlet, Act V
Week 15: W, Oct. 27	Midterm
Week 16: M, Nov. 1	Hedda Gabler, Act I Ibsen, Online Overview
Week 17: W, Nov. 3	Hedda Gabler, Act II
Week 18: M, Nov. 8	Hedda Gabler, Act III
Week 19: W, Nov. 10	Hedda Gabler, Act IV Second paper due
Week 20: M, Nov. 15	Jane Eyre, pp. 6-84 Bronte, Online Overview
Week 21: W, Nov. 17	Jane Eyre, pp. 85-142
Week 22: M, Nov. 22	Jane Eyre, pp. 143-208
Week 23: M, Nov. 29	Jane Eyre , pp. 208--279
Week 24: W, Dec. 1	Jane Eyre , pp. 279-343
Week 25: M, Dec. 6	Jane Eyre , pp. 344-417
Week 26: W, Dec 8	Jane Eyre , pp. 417-461
Week 27: M, Dec. 13	The Joy Luck Club, pp. 3-181 Tan, Online Overview
Week 28: T, Dec. 14	The Joy Luck Club, pp. 182-332
T. Dec. 21. 3:30-5:30	Final
Noon, M, Jan. 3	Last Week to hand in papers

Booklist

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