English
352 CD & WI
Survey of
Dr.
Susanne George Bloomfield
SPRING 2005
Tuesday, January 11
Class
Discussion: Assignments and Requirements; Historical Backgrounds; and "Introduction:
American Literature 1865-1914" (1-8)
Thursday, January 13
Class
Discussion: Mark Twain (pp. 14-46, 230 -238)
** Search the
Web for scholarly sites on Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and discuss what you
find. Make a copy of your favorite site and the URL so it can be posted on the English
352B Home Page.
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Tuesday, January 18
Class
Discussion: Chestnutt and Harris (pp.277-296) and Kate Cleary ("An
Ornament to Society" Handout)
** Find examples
of 19th century humor to share with the class from the 1880s-1900. Puck
magazine (microfilm) is an excellent source. Make a photocopy of one humorous
piece that you find especially humorous or representative. What do you notice
about humor over one hundred years ago? How often is dialect employed?
Thursday, January 20
Class Discussion:
William Dean Howells ("Editha" and “Criticism and Fiction”pp. 297-323)
** Browse
through Atlantic Monthly (which Howells edited from 1871-1881). Note its
contents, authors, and intended audience. Do you recognize any of the authors?
Read (and copy if possible) one short story or article and comment on it. Are
the subjects and style like James or Howells?
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Tuesday, January 25
Class
Discussion: Henry James (“Daisy Miller” pp. 323-364)
** Browse
through periodicals between 1880 and 1900 for examples of the European Influence
in Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Macmillan's, Nation, McClure's,
the New York Times and the Kearney Daily Hub would be good
sources.
Thursday, January 27
Class
Discussion: Henry James (“The Turn of the Screw” pp. 411-447)
** Explore
critical articles about Henry James and/or Turn of the Screw from the online
MLA Bibliography through the UNK Library. What are some of the more interesting
topics? What sorts of information do you find in each entry? Pick one entry
that interests you and look at the information given you in that entry.
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Tuesday, February 1
Class
Discussion: Henry James (The Turn of the Screw pp. 447-482)
**What literary
criticism books do we have on James in the library? Check the dates they were
published. Do you see any pattern in the titles? In the dates of publication?
Thursday, February 3
Class Discussion:
Kate Chopin (pp. 518-550)
** Search Poole's
Index for Periodical Literature (*A13 P722), Nineteenth Century Reader's
Guide (*A13 R47), or Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism (*PN761
N56) to see what you can find on Kate Chopin, The Awakening, the
"Woman Problem," or other topics related to women in the Victorian
era.
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Tuesday, February 8
Class
Discussion: Kate Chopin (pp. 550-584)
** Search the
Web for scholarly sites on Kate Chopin or Victorian Women and discuss what you
find. Make a copy of your favorite site and the URL so it can be posted on the English
352B Home Page.
Thursday, February 10
Class
Discussion: Kate Chopin (pp. 584-611)
** Browse
through periodicals between 1880 and 1900 for examples of women's lives at the
end of the nineteenth century. Can you find anything about the conflicts in
women's lives between the Victorian "Angel of the House" and the
emerging "New Woman"? Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Macmillan's,
Nation, McClure's, Lippincott's, or Munsey's would
be good sources.
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Tuesday, February 15
Class Discussion:
Stephen Crane (pp. 611-639)
** Research
background on the Civil War (information on the casualties, injuries, and desertion
statistics if possible) from a source of your choice and discuss something new
you discovered about that war. Cite sources.
Thursday, February 17
Class
Discussion: Stephen Crane (pp. 640-669)
** Search the
Web for scholarly sites on Stephen Crane and discuss what you find. Make a copy
of your favorite Crane Home Page and the URL so it can be posted on the English
352B Home Page.
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Tuesday, February 22
Class
Discussion: Stephen Crane (pp. 669-698)
** Browse Nineteenth
Century Literature Criticism (*PN761 N56) or Contemporary Literary
Criticism (*PN771 C59) for critical responses to The Red Badge of
Courage. What new ideas about the work did you discover?
Thursday, February 24
Writing Workshop
** Thesis
sentence and main points due for first paper.
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Tuesday, March 1
Class Discussion:
“The Literature of the Twentieth Century:1900-1945” (pp. 821-832) and Robert
Frost (pp. 959-972)
**What literary
criticism books do we have on Frost in the library? Check the dates they were
published. Do you see any pattern in the titles? In the dates of publication?
Now check the titles of latest articles on Frost in the online MLA. What do you
notice?
Thursday, March 3
Class
Discussion: Robert Frost (pp. 972-980)
***** First
papers due in folder with all rough drafts
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Tuesday, March 8
Class
Discussion: Willa Cather (“A Wagner Matinee” and “Neighbor Rosicky” (pp. 981-1006)
** Read several
issues between 1880-1900 of the Kearney Daily Hub, the Omaha Bee,
the Omaha Weekly Republican, the Rocky Mountain News, or the Franklin
County Guard to find any articles or references to homesteaders or the
lives of homesteaders during the settlement period of the American West.
Thursday, March 10
Class
Discussion: Susan Glaspell (“Trifles” pp.1108-1119)
_**Search Google Scholar for information
on leading feminists and socialists like Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Charlotte
Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Stein, and Hilda Doolittle or the “New Woman.”
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Tuesday, March 15 & Thursday, March
17
No Class: Spring Break
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Tuesday, March 22
Class Discussion:
E.E. Cummings (pp. 1181-1191) and William Carlos Williams (pp.1129-1243)
** Browse
through several issues of creative writing journals between 1915 and 1930, such
as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Sewanee Review, or Yale
Review, and note the types of poems being published. Are they like Cummings
or WIlliams? Find one you especially like, discuss it, and share it with the
class.
Thursday, March 24
Class
Discussion: “Literature of the Twentieth Century: 1945-present (pp. 1387-1399)
and Flannery O'Connor (pp. 1783-1808)
** Access the
Academic Search Elite through the library and read one full-text article on
either Flannery O'Connor or the "Grotesque" and apply it to the reading
assignment. Be sure to annotate your article.
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Tuesday, March 29
Class
Discussion: Tillie Olson (pp. 1846-1852)
** Browse issues
of Parents Magazine or Good Housekeeping from the 1930s or look
up an article from the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature from the
1930s on "single mothers." Write a 250-word discussion of what you
discover. Annotate.
Thursday, March 31
Class Discussion:
Tomas Rivera (pp. 1852-1856), Sandra Cisneros (pp. 2135-2137), and Julia
Alvarez (pp. 2201-2206)
** Look up book
reviews in Book Review Digest for And the Earth Did Not Part
(1971) by Tomas Rivera, Woman
Hollering Creek (1991) by Sandra Cisneros, or How the Garcia Girls Lost
Their Accents (1991). Write a 250-word analysis of his/her critical
reception at the time of publication.
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Tuesday, April 5
Class
Discussion: Zora Neale Hurston (pp. 1272-1281) and Eudora Welty (pp. 1400-1409)
** Look up
either Hurston or Welty in Contemporary Authors and report in 250-words
what you found important or interesting about the author or her works.
Thursday, April 7
Class
Discussion: Richard Wright (pp. 1410-1419) and Ralph Ellison (pp. 1420-1431)
** Search the New
York Times Index for articles on either Richard Wright or Ralph Ellison,
find and read an article, and report on your findings.
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Tuesday, April 12
Writing
Workshop.
** Thesis and
Points due for Final Paper
Thursday, April 14
Class Discussion:
James Baldwin (pp. 1760-1783) and Alice Walker (pp. 2011-2018)
** Look up
either James Baldwin or Alice Walker in Contemporary Literary Criticism
for interpretations of their works. Discuss how one critical analysis helped in
your own interpretation of the work.
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Tuesday, April 19
Class Discussion:
Leslie Marmon Silko (pp. 2064-2073) and Louise Erdrich (pp. 2138-2145)
** Read the
issue of Indian Country Today to be distributed in class. Is there anything in
the newspaper that relates to the short stories?
Thursday, April 21
And the Earth
did not Devour Him video
***** Final
Paper due
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Tuesday, April 26
And the Earth
did not Devour Him video
and discussion
Thursday, April 28
Final Papers
returned for Optional Revision
Individual Conferences
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Finals: Tuesday, May 3 at 1:00
Optional Revisions due in
Dr. Bloomfield's office