(Updated Nov 17, 2020) 

 

(SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

Dates: Objectives: Assignments:
Week 1: Wed, Aug 26

 

 Introductory discussion, terminology, and course plan.  

 

 

 

•  Introduction to class, definitions, OpenLab

•  Read “The Captive” by Borges

 

 
 

Week 2: Aug 31, Sept 2

 

 

  

Discussion of Narrative; Gothic Fiction

 

 

 •  Due: Questionnaire 

•  Discuss definition of gothic; discuss readings and methods

•   Homework:  Read “The Black Cat” by Poe

•   Homework:  Read “Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne

•   Homework: Read “The Lottery” by Jackson

•  Homework: Virtual Coffeehouse 1: 300 words on which of the three stories you liked the best and why–See my first Virtual Coffeehouse post for more details.
Week 3: Sept 7–NO CLASS

 

Sept 9

 

 

  

 

Discussion of Narrative; Gothic Fiction

 

  

 

 

• Homework: Read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman

• Homework: Read “Incident at Owl Creek Bridge” by Bierce

• Homework: Prepare for Quiz 1, covering definitions and readings
Week 4: Sept 14, 16 Beginning Essay 1; Gothic Fiction  

 

•  Due: Quiz 1

•  Discuss readings and methods (narration)

• Homework: Reading Borges and Marquez

•  Homework: Virtual Coffeehouse 2
 

Week 5: Sept 21, 23

 

 Essay 1; Modern Fiction  

 

 

• Due: VC 2

•  Discussion TBA

• Homework: Reading  Faulkner and Melville

• Homework: Virtual Coffeehouse 3
 

Week 6: Sept 28: NO CLASS

TUESDAY, SEPT 29: CLASSES FOLLOW A MONDAY SCHEDULE! SO WE WILL HAVE CLASS THIS DAY

  

 

Essay 1; Modern Fiction

 

 

  

•  Due: VC 3 

•  Discussion: Bartleby

•  Homework:  Read Kafka and define Modernity and Modernism

 
 

Week 7: Oct 5, 7

  

Midterm Essay

  

•  Discussion: Modernism/ Modernity and Bartleby and Kafka

•  For Wed: Homework:  Read Ellison,  Todorov, and Lloyd-Smith

 

•  Homework for Monday:  Read Cheever; Work on draft of Midterm Essay

 

 
 

Week 8: Oct 12: NO CLASSES

 

OCT 14: CLASSES FOLLOW A MONDAY SCHEDULE (SO NO CHANGE FOR US,  WE MEET AT REGULAR TIME ON THIS WEDNESDAY)

 

 Midterm Essay/ Modern Fiction •  Discuss Midterm Essay, read Hemingway

• Homework for the 19th: Coffeehouse #4: Draft of Midterm Essay
 

Week 9: Oct 19, 21

 

 Modernism/realism  

•  Due: Draft of Midterm Essay

•  Discussion TBA

•  Homework:  read Ha Jin and E.L. Doctorow

•  Homework:  Finish Midterm Essay and post to OpenLab
Week 10: Oct 26, 28

 

 Modernism/realism

 

  

•  Due: Midterm Essay

•  Discussion TBA

•  Homework:  TBA

•  Homework: Prepare for Quiz 2
Week 11: Nov 2, 4 Begin Global Fiction  

•  Due: Quiz 2

•  Discussion Parsons

•  Homework:  read 

•  Homework:  Bring in two questions from the readings (no need to turn in)
Week 12: Nov 9, 11 Global Fiction  

•   Discussion Global Fiction

•  Homework: Read TBA 

 
Week 13: Nov 16, 18  

Global Fiction

 

  

•   Discussion Global Fiction and Ethics

•  HOMEWORK TBA
Week 14: Nov 23

 

NOV 25: NO CLASSES

 Global Fiction

 

 

 •  Homework: Quiz 3 (At Home)
 

Week 15 Nov 30, Dec 2

 

  

Global Fiction

 

  

 

•  Due: COFFEEHOUSE

•  Discuss readings and Final Essay

•  Homework:  TBA
 

Week 16: Dec 7, 9

 

 Global Fiction  

•  Discuss readings and Q & A over Final Essay

•  Review for Final Exam
 

Week 17: Dec 14, 16

  

Final Exam Week

  

 

•  DUE on the 14th: Final Essay

• DUE on the 16th Final Exam Submit via email to Prof. Scanlan

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