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American Literature I

Fall, 2010

Instructor: Wen-ling Su Time: Mon. 6:40-9:20 pm

Office: LC 306 Classroom: ES 305

E-mail: wling1@ms23.hinet.net

Course description: This is the first part of a year course on American literature, covering the Colonial, Revolutionary, Romantic, and Realist periods. A wide range of texts will be explored to introduce key issues and concepts in American literature, including the American national identity, the Puritan vision, Transcendentalism, American Gothic, Realism, as well as racial and gender conflicts. Class activities consist of lectures and multi-media presentations.

Textbook: The Norton Anthology of American Literature. (Shorter 7th ed.)

(Photocopies of copyrighted texts are not allowed.)

Grading Policy:

Participation & Presentation: 30%

Midterm: 35%

Final: 35%

Requirements:

1. Attendance Policy: The FIRST absence for whatever reason will not be held against you, but each subsequent absence will result in a 5-point deduction of the class average. Late arrivals will cost you a 3-point deduction each time. You will get a zero if you miss a test. There will be NO make-up tests.

2. Group presentation: 3-4 people form a group. Each group needs to sign up for TWO presentations: one before the mid-term exam and the other afterwards. No need to produce PPT files or formal speeches. On the presentation day, the presentation group has to sit in the front row and respond to the teacher's and the other students' questions regarding the author and the literary works. All group members are expected to be familiar with the basic biographical information of the author, ready to give a brief summary and introduce central themes and important figures of speech (similes, metaphors, and so on). Whoever fails to get a passing grade in the presentation will be required to turn in a 3-page paper on topics assigned by the teacher.

Tentative Schedule:

Week

Date

Topic

1

9/13

Beginnings to 1700 (1-16)

--Ann Bradstreet, “Before the Birth of Her Children” (107-8) ;“Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House” (109-110)

--Edward Taylor, “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children” (140-41); “Huswifery” (142)

2

9/20

--John Winthrop, from A Model of Christian Charity (76-87)

American Literature, 1700-1820 (151-59)

--Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (194-205)

3

9/27

--Benjamin Franklin, from The Autobiography (230-53, 276-92)

--Olaudah Equiano, from Narrative of the Life (357-68)

4

10/4

American Literature, 1820-1865 (431-48)

--Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (455-66)

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Each and All” (565-66); “Merlin” (566-69)

5

10/11

--Ralph Waldo Emerson, from “Nature” (492-95, 515-19)

--Henry David Thoreau, from Walden, or Life in the Woods (886-96)

6

10/18

--Henry David Thoreau, from Walden, or Life in the Woods (896-912)

--Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (592-605)

7

10/25

--Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark” (634-43)

--Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia” (679-88)

8

11/1

--Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (675-78); “The Fall of the House of Usher” (689-701)

9

11/8

Midterm

10

11/15

--Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1057-62); “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” (1062-66); “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd” (1071-77)

11

11/22

--Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1093-118)

--Emily Dickinson, All (1201-22)

12

11/29

--Emily Dickinson, All (1201-22)

American Literature, 1865-1914 (1255-69)

--Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chs 1-6 (1277-95)

13

12/6

No class. (School anniversary)

14

12/13

--Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Chs 7-16 (1295-1343)

15

12/20

--Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Chs 19-31 (1356-1418)

16

12/27

--Henry James, “Daisy Miller: A Study” (1495-1532)

17

1/3

--Henry James, “The Real Thing” (1532-50)

18

1/10

Final exam.

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