The Emergence of U.S. Modernisms
There are also required readings on electronic reserve in the library: Stephen Crane's "The Monster" (1898) and Clifford Odets's Waiting for Lefty (1935)
Week 2
Monday: discussion of syllabus and course introduction
Wednesday: "The Monster" (electronic reserve)
Week 3
Monday: The Souls of Black Folk (pp. 5-129 ["Forethought" to "Of the Faith of the Fathers"])
Wednesday: Souls (pp. 130-164 ["Of the Passing of the Firstborn" to "The Afterthought"])
Week 4
Monday: Three Lives (pp. 3-167 ["The Good Anna" and "Melanctha" ])
Wednesday: Lives (pp. 171-200 ["The Gentle Lena"]); paper topics distributed and posted on Blackboard
Week 5
Monday: Winesburg, Ohio (pp. 5-91 ["The Book of the Grotesque" to "The Teacher"])
Wednesday: Winesburg, Ohio (pp. 91-138 ["Loneliness" to "Departure"])
Week 6
Monday: Ezra Pound: "A Pact" & "In a Station of the Metro"; T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (Norton Anthology)
Tuesday: papers due
Wednesday: Robert Frost: "Mowing," "Home Burial," "After Apple Picking" (Norton Anthology)
Week 7
Monday: H.D.: "Fragment 113," "Helen," (Norton Anthology)
Wednesday: Hart Crane, "Chaplinesque," Voyages: I & III (Norton Anthology)
Week 8
Monday: William Carlos Williams: "Queen Anne's Lace," "Spring and All," "The Dead Baby" (Norton Anthology)
Wednesday: midterm exam
Week 9
Monday: Cane
Wednesday: In Our Time
Week 10
Monday: Wallace Stevens: "Anecdote of the Jar," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "The Snow Man" (Norton Anthology)
Wednesday: Waiting for Lefty (electronic reserve)
Week 11
Monday: Marianne Moore: "Poetry," "What are Years?" (Norton Anthology)
Wednesday: Zora Neale Hurston short stories: "The Eatonville Anthology," "How It Feels to Be Colored Me," "The Gilded Six-Bits" (Norton Anthology)
Week 12
Monday: Light in August (pp. 3-169 [chapters 1-7])
Wednesday: Light in August (pp. 170-286 [chapters 8-12])
Week 13
Monday: Light in August (pp. 287-414 [chapters 13-17]); final paper topics distributed and posted on Blackboard
Wednesday: Light in August (pp. 415-507 [chapters 18-21])
Week 14
Thanksgiving break
Week 15
Monday: Invisible Man (pp. vii-161 [Introduction-Chapter seven])
Wednesday: Invisible Man (pp. 162-295 [Chapter eight-Chapter thirteen])
Week 16
Monday: Invisible Man (pp. 296-444 [Chapter fourteen-Chapter twenty])
Tuesday: final paper due
Wednesday: Invisible Man (pp. 445-581 [Chapter twenty-one-Epilogue])
How you will be graded:
