WEEK 1

8/23
INTRODUCTIONS

8/25
ETHAN FROME
PROLOGUE, CHAPTERS 1-4 (pp 1-36)

WEEK 2

8/30
ETHAN FROME
CHAPTERS 5-9, AFTERWORD (pp 37-77)

"American Literature 1865-1914" (HO)
Review of Resisting Regionalism (HO)

9/1
WINESBURG, OHIO
"GROTESQUE" through "GODLINESS" (pp 5-53)

PAPER #1 ASSIGNED

WEEK 3

9/6
WINESBURG, OHIO
"IDEAS" through "DEPARTURE" (53-138)

WEEK 3 (continued)

9/8
AS I LAY DYING
CH 1 - CH 12 (3-52)

PAPER #1 DUE

WEEK 4

9/13
AS I LAY DYING
CH 13 - CH 40 (53-176)

"'Voice' in Narrative Texts: The Example of AILD"

9/15
AS I LAY DYING
CH 41 - CH 59 (177-261)

MODERNISM HANDOUT

WEEK 5

9/20
THE 42ND PARALLEL
"Foreword" - E.L. Doctorow (vii-xi)
"U.S.A." - (xiii-xiv)
NEWSREEL I through NEWSREEL XII (1-134)

9/22
THE 42ND PARALLEL
"The Boy Orator" through CAMERA EYE 21 (134-205)

PAPER #2 ASSIGNED

WEEK 6

9/27
THE 42ND PARALLEL
NEWSREEL XV through END OF NOVEL (206-323)

9/29
THE 42ND PARALLEL WRAP UP / MIDTERM PREP

PAPER #2 DUE

WEEK 7

10/4
NO CLASS - FALL BREAK

10/6
MIDTERM EXAM

WEEK 8

10/11
THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
READ THE ENTIRE NOVEL (21-202)

10/13
WISE BLOOD
CH 1 - CH 3 (3-60)

ANNOTATION #1 ASSIGNED

WEEK 9

10/18
WISE BLOOD
CH 4 - CH 14 (63-236)

10/20
LOLITA
FOREWORD - PT I, CH 11 (3-55)

ANNOTATION #1 DUE

WEEK 10

10/25
LOLITA
PT I, CH 12 - PT I, CH 33 (55-142)

"False Documents" - E.L. Doctorow (HO)

10/27
LOLITA
PT II, CH 1 - PT II, CH 13 (145-202)

WEEK 11

11/1
LOLITA
PT II, CH 14 - PT II, CH 36 (202-309)

WEEK 11 (continued)

11/3
THE CRYING OF LOT 49
CH 1 - CH 2 (9-43)

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REMEDIOS VARO - BORDANDO EL MANTO TERRESTRE (1961) - PAGE 21

WEEK 12

11/8
THE CRYING OF LOT 49
CH 3 - CH 6 (44-183)

"The Death of the Author" - Roland Barthes (HO)

OPTIONAL READINGS:
1966 REVIEW OF LOT 49 FROM TIME MAGAZINE
"SAN JOSE SEMAPHORE" - ADOBE.COM
"DECODING THE SAN JOSE SEMAPHORE" - BAYAREANEWS
"SAN JOSE SEMAPHORE: THE SOLUTION" - BAYAREANEWS

11/10
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
ONE - THREE (1-71)

WEEK 13

11/15
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
FOUR - SIX (72-153)

"The Literature of Exhaustion" - John Barth (HO)

11/17
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
SEVEN - TEN (154-215)

OPTIONAL READING:
"COLD TURKEY" - KURT VONNEGUT (2004)

WEEK 14

11/22
WHITE NOISE
PART I: WAVES AND RADIATION (3-105)

ANNOTATION #2 ASSIGNED

11/24
NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING

WEEK 15

11/29
WHITE NOISE
PART II: THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT (109-163)

GEYH - "ASSEMBLING POSTMODERNISM"

12/1
WHITE NOISE
PART III: DYLARAMA, CH 22-31 (167-236)

ANNOTATION #2 DUE

WEEK 16

12/6
WHITE NOISE
PART III: DYLARAMA, CH 32- 40 (237-326)

12/8
WRAP UP / FINAL PREP

12/9
FINAL EXAM 1.00 to 3.00

ETHAN FROME (1912)
EDITH WHARTON
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WINESBURG, OHIO (1919)
SHERWOOD ANDERSON
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AS I LAY DYING (1930)
WILLIAM FAULKNER
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THE 42ND PARALLEL (1930)
JOHN DOS PASSOS
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THE DAY OF THE LOCUST (1939)
NATHANAEL WEST
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WISE BLOOD (1952)
FLANNERY O’CONNOR
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LOLITA (1955)
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
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THE CRYING OF LOT 49 (1966)
THOMAS PYNCHON
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE (1969)
KURT VONNEGUT
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WHITE NOISE (1985)
DON DELILLO
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