ENG 204-06 & 204-08: Survey of American Literature

 Fall 2007

 

Syllabus

Commonplace Books and Discussion Leadership

Discussion Leadership Schedule for 204-06 (9:35-10:50)

Discussion Leadership Schedule for 204-08 (12:25-1:40)

Reading Guides/Emails

Reading Guide/Emails: Part 2

Revised Commonplace Book Entries (for #3 and #4)

Final Exam Structure

 

Biographical/Historical Notes:

(Keep in mind that this biographical/historical information is not meant to substitute for the notes you should take during class discussions)

 

Second Half of the Semester:

American Literature, 1865-1914

Sarah Orne Jewett

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jack London

W.E.B. Dubois

Robert Frost

American Modernism

Ezra Pound

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

T.S. Eliot

William Carlos Williams

Langston Hughes

Tennessee Williams
Countee Cullen

William Faulkner

Flannery O’Connor

Elizabeth Bishop

Sylvia Plath

Adrienne Rich

Allen Ginsberg

Alice Walker

Gwendolyn Brooks

 

First Half of the Semester:

Early American Peoples and European Exploration

Native American Creation Stories

John Smith

Puritanism and American Literature

Anne Bradstreet

Edward Taylor

Benjamin Franklin

Phillis Wheatley

The American Renaissance

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allan Poe

Herman Melville

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

 

Other Interesting Links:

Henry Louis Gates, 2007 Appalachian Writer-in-Residence (Schedule of events for Gates’ visit to campus)

Click here for a fun audio clip of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.”

Click here for a site with William Carlos Williams reading many of his poems.

 

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