WEEK ONE: |
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| T Jan 7 |
Introduction to Course
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| Th Jan 9 |
Discussion of Modern Period. Read Preface (xv-xix)
and "The Twentieth Century" (1991-2011) in The Longman
Anthology of British Literature (LABL) |
WEEK TWO: |
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| T Jan 14 |
Discussion of Modern Period (Continued); Poetry by
Thomas Hardy ("Hap," "Channel Firing," and "I
Looked Up from my Writing") (2154- 2266) |
| Th Jan 16 |
WORLD WAR I: Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier"
(2185), Siegfried Sassoon's "Glory of Women" (2186), Wilfred
Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" (2191) |
WEEK THREE: |
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| T Jan 21 |
Katherine Mansfield's "The Daughters of the Late
Colonel" (2611-2623) |
| Th Jan 23 |
William Butler Yeats's "Lapis Lazuli" (2265-2267);
Examination #1 Distributed. |
WEEK FOUR: |
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| T Jan 28 |
James Joyce's "Eveline" (2277-2280) |
| Th Jan 30 |
James Joyce's "Clay" (2280-2284); Examination
#1 Due |
| WEEK FIVE: |
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| T Feb 4 |
Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (2485-2520)
--excerpts |
| Th Feb 6 |
Viewing of film version of Mrs Dalloway |
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WEEK SIX:
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| T Feb 11 |
Finish Viewing of Mrs Dalloway; Discussion
of film |
| Th Feb 13 |
Evelyn Waugh's "The Cruise" (2730-2734);
Abstracts Assigned |
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WEEK SEVEN:
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| T Feb 18 |
Graham Greene's "A Chance for Mr. Lever"
(2687-2697) |
| Th Feb 20 |
P.G. Wodehouse's "Strychnine in the Soup"
(2674-2687)
W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "In Memory
of W.B. Yeats" (2788-2791); Abstracts Due. |
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WEEK EIGHT:
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| T Feb 25 |
Film Showing of James Joyce's The Dead (text
version, 2284-2310) |
| Th Feb 27 |
Finish Viewing of The Dead; Discussion of The
Dead |
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WEEK NINE:
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| T Mar 4 |
Eaven Boland's "Anorexic" (2933-2935) and
"The Pomegranite" (2938-2939); Nadine Gordimer's "What
Were You Dreaming?" (2917-2923) |
| Th Mar 6 |
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's "Feeding a Child"
(2899-2900) and "Why I Choose to Write in Irish, The Corpse
that Sits Up and Talks Back" (2904-2912). Examination #2
Distributed |
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WEEK TEN:
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| T Mar 11 |
James Kelman's "Home for a Couple of Days"
(2924-2933)
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| Th Mar 13 |
Examination #2 Due (Hand in with stamped self-addressed
envelope, if you want it returned). Summary; Evaluation |
| ABSENCES: To do well in English 354, you must attend class
regularly: at least sixteen of the twenty scheduled class sessions.
Anyone missing more than four classes (two weeks) will fail the
course. If you must be absent from class, you MUST make arrangements
with someone to take notes for you. |
| LATE ARRIVAL: Please be on time for class. Being on time
means being in class when your name is called for roll. Two tardies
equal an absence.If you are late for class, please let me know,
after class, that you were present for the class session; otherwise,
I will consider you absent. If you must leave class before it is
over, be sure to let me know before class begins. |
| PERFECT ATTENDANCE: If you have perfect attendance, if
you are on time for every class session, and if your grade for the
course falls between two letter grades, you will receive the higher
grade. |
| DUE DATES: Exams must be handed in during class on the
date they are due, so that I can return them at the next class session. |
REWRITES: Individual grades received (A through F) cannot
be changed, but you may rewrite the first exam ONE TIME to improve
its quality and your overall grade. You may do a rewrite ONLY if
you discuss your rewrite plans with me and I sign off on them. In
rewriting, you must rewrite the entire exam and show that you carefully
rethought the issues. A rewritten exam that is an improvement over
the previous draft but would not have earned an A grade as a first
draft will receive a credit (CR) grade. A rewritten exam that would
have earned an A grade as a first draft will receive a credit plus
(CR+).
If you earn a credit+ grade on your rewrite and A's on your final
exam and abstracts, you will receive an A for the course, regardless
of the grade you originally received. You must submit your rewrite
BEFORE you hand in the next assignment. |
