21:352:224:02 Survey of American Literature

Spring 2009 -- for reference only

H. Ehrlich Office: Hill 521, Hours: W 10:00-11:30am and by appt.
Class web page: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/224/
Email: ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Required text (at both Rutgers Bradley and New Jersey Books stores):
Nina Baym et al, eds., Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th ed., Package Two (C, D & E )
224 Course: | Description | Procedures | Chronology


 READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS (Updated 1 May 2009 - * review item for final exam)
P Week 1 Jan 21 COURSE THEMES: Gender, Race, Class, Technology || Realism, Impressionism, Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism | DAY 1
P1   23 REALISM AND LOCAL COLOR: PAPER 1: | *Poker Flat online
  Week 2 28 *White Heron online; also in Norton C522-28
    30 Twain, Cooper's Offenses C294-302, Huckleberry Finn, (Ch. 1-3) C108-17
  Week 3 Feb 4-6 Henry James, *Daisy Miller C391-429; Wharton, *Roman Fever 843-52 PAPER 2: (Postponed from Feb. 6 to Feb. 11)
P2 Week 4Feb 11 NATURALISM: Crane, Open Boat C1000-16
    13 FEMINISM: Gilman, *Yellow Wallpaper C808-19, Why C820
  Week 5 18-20 Chopin, *Storm, C531-34, The Awakening, C535-625
Q Week 6 25 Quiz on Chopin Readings | Cahan, Imported Bridegroom C764-806, Marti C1165-66
    27 Sa (I, II, IV, VII) C1107-13, *DuBois 894-910
E Week 7 Mar 4MIDTERM EXAM  
  Mar 6 MODERNISM: Manifestos (Marinetti D500, Loy D1502, Pound 1505); Frost *Road D1399, *Woods D1403; Pound Metro D1482; Williams *Housewife D1464, *Red D1469, *Just D1472; Eliot Prufrock 1577-
  Week 8 11 Fitzgerald, *Winter D1823-39
    13 Hemingway, *Snows D1983-99 ;
    18-20 SPRING BREAK
P Week 9 25 Faulkner, *Barn Burning, D1955-67 ;.
    27 Stein, D1358-70; Dos Passos, D1854-57
  Week 10 Apr 1 Ellison, *Invisible Man E2298-2304
P   Apr 3 Baldwin, The Man E2508-20; Alice Walker, *Everyday Use E3010-16; PAPER 3
  Week 11 8 Bellow, Augie March E2317-25; Malamud, *Magic Barrel E2285-97
     10 Updike, *Separating E2713-20
  Week 12 15 POST-MODERNISM: Sukenick, E2486-88; Gass, E2488-92; O'Hara, E2491-07; Lorde, E2501-02
    17 *Vonnegut, E2460-72; Spiegelman, E3091-3108
  Week 13 22 *Silko, E3082-90; Momaday E2766-73
    24 "9/11": From Official Report, E3206-10; Updike, E3411-12; From poems, E3212-19
P Week 14 29 Recent writing; *Tan, E3155-63; Alexie, E3242-43, 3245-48; Powers, E3220-32; (PAPER 4 cancelled)
    May 1 Course Review
  Final May 8 11:45am-1:45pm (only 2 hours)