M 1/28 Course Introduction
Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (in-class)
W 1/30 Poem due
Poetry
M 2/4 William Shakespeare, Sonnets 18, 20, 126
W 2/6 John Milton, Paradise Lost: Book IX (1-493)
M 2/11 John Milton, Paradise Lost: Book IX (494-1189)
W 2/13 Phillis Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”, “To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works”, “To His Excellency General Washington”
M 2/18 NO CLASS
W 2/20 Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: “Objects”
M 2/25 Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: “Food” and “Rooms”
W 2/27 Paper 1 (poetry explication) due
Catharine Stimpson, “The Somagrams of Gertrude Stein”
Drama
M 3/4 Aristotle, Poetics
W 3/6 Tony Kushner, Angels in America Part 1, Act 1
M 3/11 Tony Kushner, Angels 1, Acts 2 & 3
W 3/13 Tony Kushner, Angels 2, Acts 1 & 2
M 3/18 Tony Kushner, Angels 2, Acts 3 & 4
W 3/20 Tony Kushner, Angels 2, Act 5 & Epilogue
Prose
M 3/25 Paper 2 (apply a theory of aesthetics to Kushner) due
Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
W 3/27 Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wall-paper” and “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wall-paper’?”
M 4/1 Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (Chapters: Etymology, 1. Loomings, 3. The Spouter-Inn, 4. The Counterpane)
W 4/3 Moby-Dick (Chapters: 10. A Bosom Friend, 13. Wheelbarrow, 19. The Prophet, 26-27. Knights and Squires)
M 4/8 Moby-Dick (28. Ahab, 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb, 32. Cetology)
W 4/10 Moby-Dick (35. The Mast-Head, 36. The Quarter-Deck, 41. Moby Dick, 42. The Whiteness of the Whale)
M 4/15 Moby-Dick (48. The First Lowering, 54. The Town-Ho’s Story)
W 4/17 Proposal & Annotated Bibliography due
Moby-Dick (64. Stubb’s Supper, 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin, 87. The Grand Armada)
M 4/22 NO CLASS
W 4/24 NO CLASS
M 4/29 Moby-Dick (93. The Castaway, 94. A Squeeze of the Hand, 99. The Doubloon, 119. The Candles, 132. The Symphony)
W 5/1 Moby-Dick (133. The Chase – First Day, 134. The Chase – Second Day, 135. The Chase – Third Day; Epilogue)
M 5/6 James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk (1-106)
W 5/8 James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk (106-197)
M 5/13 TK
M 5/21 Final Essay (research) due
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