AML 3111 Syllabus



Week 1 (August 23-27)


M: Introduction to the course. Discussion of course policy sheet and syllabus. Class webpage at www.oocities.org/wcnesbitt W: Reading 1 American Literature to 1700-1820 Introduction 171-179 and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur "What is an American?" 300-309
F: Reading 2 Thomas Paine 321-334 and Phyllis Wheatley "To the Right . . " 375-376

Information about writing a literary research paper

Week 2 (August 30-September 3)


M: Reading 3 Mary Rowlandson 136-152 and Benjamin Franklin "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America" 227-230
W: Reading 4 American Literature 1820-1865 Introduction 425-443 and James Fenimore Cooper 462-469
F: Reading 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson "The American Scholar" 514-526, and "Self-Reliance" 539-556

Week 3 (September 6-10)


M: Labor Day. No class.
W: Reading 6 Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown" 610-61 and "Rappacini's Daughter" 647-667
F: Reading 7 Edgar Allen Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" 714-727 and "The Cask of Amontillado" 743-748

Week 4 (September 13-17)


M: Reading 8 Henry David Thoreau "Resistance to Civil Government" 837- 853 and "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" 895-905
W: Reading 9 Walt Whitman "Preface to Leaves of Grass" 989-1003 and Song of Myself 1003-47
F: Reading 10 "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" 1070-71 and finish Song of Myself

Week 5 (September 20-24)


M: Reading 11 American Literature 1865-1914 Introduction 1223-234, W.D. Howells "Editha" 1443-453, and Kate Chopin "The Storm" 1603-607
W: Reading 12 Kate Chopin "Desiree's Baby" 1607-611 and Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper" 1659-671
F: Reading 13 Booker T. Washington 1622-630 and W.E. Du Bois 1703-719

Week 6 (September 27-October 1)


M: Reading 14 Stephen Crane "The Open Boat" 1721-738 and Jack London "To Build a Fire" 1762-773
W: Reading 15 American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945 Introduction 1807-820, Robert Frost "Mending Wall" 1880-881, "The Road Not Taken" 1887, and "The Gift Outright" 1892
F: Reading 16 Wallace Stevens "The Snow Man" 1920-921 and "The Emperor of Ice Cream" 1922 William Carlos Williams "The Red Wheelbarrow" 1940 and "This Is Just to Say" 1940

Week 7 (October 4-8)


M: Reading 17 William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" 1944-945 Ezra Pound "A Pact" 1949 "In a Station of the Metro" 1949 "The River Merchant's Wife" 1949-950
W: Reading 18 18 T.S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1975-979
F: Reading 19 E.E. Cummings 2113-120

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Week 8 (October 11-15)


M: Catch up day. No class.
W: Research Paper One due.
F: Midterm.

Week 9 (October 18-22)


M: Reading 20 William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily" 2160-166 and "That Evening Sun" 2166-177
W: Reading 21 John Steinbeck 2233-244
F: Reading 22 22 American Prose since 1945 Introduction 2275-285 and Ralph Ellison 2374-384

Week 10 (October 25-29)


M: Reading 23 James Baldwin "Going to Meet the Man" 2415-426 and Flannery O'Connor "Good Country People" 2428-441
W: Reading 24 N. Scott Momaday 2504-2514
F: Reading 25 Leslie Marmon Silko "Lullaby" 2588-594 and Louise Erdrich "Fleur" 2598-607

Week 11 (November 1-5)


M: Reading 26 Richard Wright "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" 2257-265 and Alice Walker "Everyday Use" 2581-587
W: Reading 27 Martin Luther King Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" print this out, read it, and bring it in.
F: Reading 28 American Poetry Since 1945 Introduction 2609-2621 and Theodore Roethke 2639-643

Week 12 (November 8-12)


M: Reading 29 Allen Ginsberg 2732-740
W: Reading 30 Allen Ginsberg "Footnote to Howl" and "Sunflower Sutra" print this out, read it, and bring it in.
F: Reading 31 Adrienne Rich "Storm Warnings" 2761-762 and "Diving into the Wreck" 2766-768

Week 13 (November 15-19)


M: Reading 32 Gary Snyder 2774-776
W: Reading 33 Sylvia Plath "Lady Lazarus" 2778-781, "Daddy" 2781-783, and "Child" 2784
F: Reading 34 34 Amiri Baraka "An Agony. As Now." 2789-790 and "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" print this out, read it, and bring it in.

Week 14 (November 22-26)


M: We will spend our time today tying up loose ends, making connections between and among various texts we have read, and putting some closure on things.
W: Catch up day. No class.
F: No class. Thanksgiving Holiday.

Week 15 (November 29-December 3)


M: Research Paper Two due.
W: Evaluations bring a #2 pencil.
F: Last day of class. Final.


Week 16 (December 6-10)


Finals week. No class.

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