English 362 T
Rep U.S. Writers: 20 th C
Fall 05
T Th 6:30 – 7:45.
R 6/328/R 4/220
Prof. Lawrence Hanley
NAC 6/216
x5875
hanley@bway.net
Off Hours: T Th 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Course Requirements:
Attendance and participation: You are permitted two (2) absences (excused or
unexcused). Anything beyond this quota will affect your grade. You must complete all
of the reading and writing assigned in class.
Grades: Once in a while, there will be short in-class quizzes. Occasional writing will be
assigned on a regular basis. There will be three longer assignments (see syllabus); two
of these will be web-based. There will be a mid-term and a final exam. All assignments
must be handed in when they are due.
Required texts: Paul Lauter, et al, ed., The Heath Anthology of American Literature ,
Vols. C, D, E 5th edition (NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2006) (Earlier or subsequent editions
will probably prove adequate.)
Week 1 (8/30- 9//1)
T
Intro
Th
Ella Wheeler Wilcox , "Her Prayer" (xerox), "Goddess of Liberty, Answer"(225),
Alice Dunbar-Nelson , "I Sit and Sew" (763), "The Proletariat Speaks" (764), Sarah M.B.
Piatt, “His Mother’s Way” (755)
Week 2 (9/6 – 9/8)
T
Th
Henry Adams, "The Dynamo and the Virgin" (634)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (578)
Week 3 (9/13 – 9/15)
T
Jose Marti ,"Our America" (831)
Th
W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” “Of the Sorrow Songs,” from The
Souls of Black Folks (894)
Week 4 (9/20 – 9/22)
T
Th
Edgar Lee Masters, from Spoon River Anthology (1029-31)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink " (1102),
Edward Arlington Robinson, "The Clerks" (942), "Momus" (946)
Week 5 (9/27 – 9/29)
T
Robert Frost , "Mending Wall" (1060), "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
(1067), "The Road Not Taken" (1061)
Th
Computer Lab: Fin de Siecle page
Week 6 (10/4 – 10/9)
T
No Class/.
Th
Modernism Intro
Week 7 (10/11 – 10/13)
T
No Class/Monday schedule
Th
No Class
Week 8 (10/18 – 10/20)
T
Ernest Hemingway , "Hills Like White Elephants" (1422)
Fin de Siecle page due
Th
William Carlos Williams, "To Elsie" (1164), "Spring and All" (1160)
Ezra Pound, "A Retrospect" (xerox)
e.e. cummings , "Buffalo Bill's" (1269), "i like my body when it is with you" (1270)
Week 9 (10/25 – 10/27)
T
Th
T.S. Eliot,"The Waste Land" (1291)
Eliot
Week 10 (11/1 – 11/3)
T
Th
John Dos Passos, from U.S.A. (1764)
Computer lab: hyper-modernism
Week 11 (11/8 – 11/10)
T
Harlem Renaissance Intro
Langston Hughes , " The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain " (1537)
Alain Locke, “The New Negro” (1490)
Th
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1521), "The Weary Blues"
(1521), "Put Another S in the U.S.A." (xerox)
Sterling Brown, "Ma Rainey" (1569), “Strong Men” (1567)
Hyper-modernism due
Week 12 (11/15 – 11/17)
T
Jean Toomer , "Karintha" (1502), “Blood-Burning Moon” (1504),
“Box Seat” (1510), “Song of the Son” (1503)
Th
Zora Neale Hurston, "The Gilded Six-Bits" (1586)
Nella Larsen, from Passing (1605)
Week 13 (11/22 – 11/27)
T
Harlem Re-Renaissances
Th
No Class/Thanksgiving
Week 14 (11/29 – 12/1)
T
Post-modernisms
Allen Ginsberg , " Howl " (2232)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “The Old Italians Dyiing” (2256)
Th
Michael Harper, "Nightmare Begins Responsibility" (2615), "Here Where Coltrane
Is" (2616)
Sonia Sanchez, "to blk/record/buyers" (2526)
Harlem Re-Renaissances
Week 15 (12/6 – 12/8)
T
Donald Barthelme , " At the End of the Mechanical Age " (3022)
Th
Jessica Hagedorn, “The Blossoming of Bongbon” (2856)
Week 16 (12/13 – 12/15)
T
Mystery texts
Th
Last day of class
Final Exam: Date, time and place to be announced