Engl 565 American Genre: Short Story Cycles
Fall Semester 2005
MWF 10:00-10:50, Grubbs 312
Instructor: Dr. Kathleen L. Nichols
Reading Schedule
- Week One
Nineteenth Century
- 08-22 Introduction
- 08-24 Herman Melville, "The Piazza" and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" in The Piazza Tales
- 08-26 Melville, "Benito Cereno" (read 1/2)
- Week Two
- 08-29 Melville, "Benito Cereno" (read last 1/2)
- 08-31 Melville,"Lightning-Rod Man" and "The Encantadas" (read 1/2)
- 09-02 Melville, ""The Encantadas" (read last 1/2) and "The Bell Tower"
- Week Three
- 09-05 NO CLASS (Labor Day holiday)
- 09-07 Sarah Orne Jewett, Chapters I-VII ("The Return," "Mrs. Todd," "Schoolhouse," "At the Schoolhouse Window," "Captain Littlepage," "Waiting Place," "Outer Island") in Country of the Pointed Firs
- 09-09 Jewett, Chapters VIII-XII ("Green Island," "William," "Where Pennyroyal Grew," "The Old Singers," "A Strange Sail")
- Week Four
- 09-12 Jewett, Chapters VIII-XVII ("Poor Joanna," "Hermitage," "On Shell-Heap Island," "Great Expedition," "Country Road")
- 09-14 Jewett, Chapters XVIII-XXI ("Bowden Reunion," "Feast's End," "Along Shore," "Backward View")
- 09-16 Charles W. Chesnutt,"Goopered Grapevine," "Po' Sandy," "Mars Jeems's Nightmare" in Conjure Tales
- Week Five
- 09-19 Chesnutt,"Conjurer's Revenge," "Sis' Becky's Pickaninny," "Gray Wolf's Ha'nt"
- 09-21 Chesnutt, "Hot-Foot Hannibal" and "Dave's Neckliss"
- 09-21 TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE. You may email it to me.
- Week Six
Modernist Period
- 09-26 Sherwood Anderson,"Book of Grotesque," "Hands," "Paper Pills," "Mother," "Philosopher" in Winesburg, Ohio
- 09-28 Anderson, "Nobody Knows," "Godliness I, II, III, IV." PAPER #1 ASSIGNED: Due 10-10.
- 09-30 Anderson, "Man of Ideas," "Adventure," "Respectability," "Thinker."
- Week Seven
- 10-03 Anderson, "Tandy," "Strength of God," "Teacher," "Loneliness," "Awakening"
- 10-05 Anderson, "Queer," "Untold Lie," "Drink," "Death"
- 10-07 Anderson, "Sophistication" and "Departure."
- Week Eight
- 10-10 Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time 11-35. PAPER #1 DUE.
- 10-12 Hemingway, In Our Time 37-77. OUTSIDE PROJECT ASSIGNED (805-students only): Due 11-07.
- 10-14 NO CLASS (Mid-term Break)
- Week Nine
- 10-17 Hemingway, In Our Time 79-112.
- 10-19 Hemingway, In Our Time 113-157
- 10-21 Flannery O'Connor,"Everything that Rises Must Converge" and "Greenleaf" in Three by Flannery O'Connor.
- Week Ten
- 10-24 O'Connor,"View of the Woods"
- 10-26 O'Connor,"Enduring Chill" and "Comforts of Home"
- 10-28 O'Connor, "Lame Shall Enter First"
- Week Eleven
- 10-31 O'Connor, "Revelation"
- 11-02 TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE. You may email it to me.
Contemporary Period
- 11-04 John Barth, "Frame-Tale," "Night-sea Journey," "Ambrose his Mark" in Lost in the Funhouse.
- Week Twelve
- 11-07 Barth, "Autobiography," "Water-Message," "Petition." OUTSIDE PROJECT DUE.
- 11-02 Barth, "Lost in the Funhouse," "Echo."
- 11-04 Barth, "Title," "Glossolalia," "Life-Story."
- Week Thirteen
- 11-14 Barth, "Anonymiad."
- 11-16 Sandra Cisneros, "My Lucy Friend," "Eleven," "Salvador," "Mexican Movies," "Barbie-Q," "Mericans," "Tepeyac," "One Holy Night" in Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
- 11-18 Cisneros, "My Tocaya," "Woman Hollering Creek," "Marlboro Man," "La Faulosa," "Remember the Alamo"
- Week Fourteen
- 11-21 Cisneros, "Never Marry a Mexican," "Bread," "Eyes of Zapapta (read 1/2). PAPER #2 ASSIGNED: Due 12-02.
- 11-23 and 11-25 NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Break)
- Week Fifteen
- 11-28 Cisneros, "Eyes of Zapapta" (read last half), "Anguiano Religious," "Little Miracles," "Las Boxers," "There Was a Man," "Tin Tan Tan"
- 11-30 Cisneros, "Bien Pretty"
- 12-02 Gerald Vizenor, "Almost Browne," "Feral Lasers" in Landfill Meditation: Crossblood Stories. PAPER #2 DUE.
- Week Sixteen
- 12-05 Vizenor, to be assigned
- 12-07 Vizenor, to be assigned
- 12-09 Vizenor, to be assigned
FINAL TAKE-HOME EXAM DUE: Mon., 12-12
