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T8/30 |
Course Introduction, Chopin "The Story of an Hour" (1891) |
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R9/1 |
Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown" (1835), Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1840), Poe "Review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales" Alpha1 RP |
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T9/6 |
Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853) Omega1 RP |
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R9/8 |
Tolstoy "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" (1886)Alpha2 RP |
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T9/13 |
Bierce "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1891), Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), Crane "The Open Boat" (1897), Gurganus "On 'The Open Boat'" Omega2 RP |
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R9/15 |
Cather "Paul's Case" (1905), Barrett "On 'Paul's Case'", Joyce "Araby" and "A Little Cloud" (1914), Woolf "Kew Gardens" (1919) Alpha3 RP |
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T9/20 |
Lawrence "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" (1922), Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927), Busch "On 'Hills Like White Elephants", O'Connor "Guests of a Nation" (1931) Alpha4 RP |
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R9/22 |
Fitzgerald "Babylon Revisited" (1935), Steinbeck "The Chrysanthemums" (1938), Faulkner "Barn Burning" (1939) Omega3 RP |
| T9/27 | Welty "Why I Live at the PO" (1941), Ellison "King of the Bingo Game" (1944), Thurber "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1942), Jackson "The Lottery" (1948) Alpha5 RP |
| R9/29 | Research Day for Projects--I'll be available in the library if you need help finding sources. |
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T10/4 |
Malamud "Angel Levine" (1950), Cheever "The Enormous Radio" (1953), Baldwin "Sonny's Blues" (1957), Omega4 RP |
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R10/6 |
Nabakov "Signs and Symbols" (1958), Olson "Tell Me a Riddle" (1961), optional RP make-up date |
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T10/11 |
Lessing "To Room 19" (1963), Cortazar, "A Continuity of Parks" (1967) Quiz on stories & Short Paper Due |
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R10/13 |
Walker "Everyday Use" (1973), Le Guin "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (1975), Kincaid "Girl" (1978), Gordimer "A Soldier's Embrace" (1980) Omega5 RP |
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T10/18 |
Fall Break |
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R10/20 |
Garrett "Wounded Soldier" (1985), O'Brien "The Things They Carried" (1986) Alpha6 RP |
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T10/25 |
Erdrich "Matchimanito" (1988), Atwood "Death by Landscape" (1989), Tan "Rules of the Game" (1989) Omega6 RP |
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R10/27 |
Smith "Intensive Care" (1990), Dubus "The Intruder" (1996) optional RP make-up date |
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T11/1 |
Maupassant's "Mademoiselle Fifi" & Other Stories (vii-xx; 3-69; 88-101) |
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R11/3 |
Maupassant's "Mademoiselle Fifi" & Other Stories (116-157; 185-198; 226-39) |
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T 11/8 |
Presentation—Kipling's "The Man Who Would be King" & Other Stories (3-57, 70-80, 103-112, 244-279) Class meets in Wallace 314. |
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R11/10 |
Kipling's "The Man Who Would be King" & Other Stories (146-154, 170-220) |
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T11/15 |
Presentation—Chekhov's Stories The Death of a Clerk (1-3), The Huntsman (9-13), Sleepy (49-54), he Black Monk (223-252), Gooseberries (311-320), The Lady With the Little Dog (361-376), In the Ravine (382-420) Class meets in Wallace 314. |
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R11/17 |
Chekhov's Stories Ward No. 6 (171-221), Rothschild's Fiddle (253-262), A Medical Case (321-331) |
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T11/22 |
Presentation—O'Connor's Good Country People (sel. stories TBA) Class meets in Wallace 314. |
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R11/24 |
THANKSGIVING |
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T11/29 |
O'Connor's Good Country People (sel. stories TBA) |
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R12/1 |
Presentation—Munro's Open Secrets (sel. stories TBA) Class meets in Wallace 314. |
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T12/6 |
Munro's Open Secrets (sel. stories TBA) |
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R12/8 |
Prep for Final Exam |
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FINAL EXAM |