ENGL-2328 American Literature: Civil War to the Present
Carrza Dubose
Credit Fall 2023
Section(s)
ENGL-2328-012 (68017)
LEC DIL ONL DIL
Course Requirements
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Regular and prompt attendance is important. Admittedly, this is an ambitious syllabus.
If you fall behind in your reading, please do not stop coming to class. You will greatly benefit from the discussions and activities, and you may be able to offer insight concerning an issue even when you have not read the material. Three tardies equal one absence. More than three absences will adversely affect your participation grade. If you are absent five times, you will be dropped from my roll. This, however, does not drop you from the course.
2. Instructions for each paper and exam will be given in class, usually during the first ten minutes. You are responsible for information and notes if you miss a class or arrive late. You must write about something that is on our reading list.
3. Each of you should bring two written questions per class meeting. Please provide a response for these same questions in MLA Format. The question must be designed to facilitate discussion and it should reflect your general and specific interests in the work(s). In other words, put some thought into the development of your daily question. I will collect these questions at the end of each class.
Course Subjects
Calendar
Weeks 1-2 Due Friday September 1, 2023: American Renaissance; Discussion Boards
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Read: Lecture# 1 notes on The American Renaissance
Read: Introduction to American Literature 1865- 1914 pp. 1-20
Read excerpt: “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman pp. 21-36
Read: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” by Emily Dickinson pp 82-86; 93; 94- 95
Read excerpt: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain pp. 101-104; 108-131
Read: “Desiree’s Baby” and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin pp.441-448 |
“Why is Literature Important to Us?” by Alicia Cummins YouTube
“Literary Genres and Subgenres” by English Units YouTube |
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Weeks 3-4 Due Friday February 10, 2023: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and Imagism; Discussion Boards
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Read: Lecture# 2 Notes on Realism and Naturalism
Read: Lecture# 3 notes Modernism and Imagism
Read: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman pp. 509- 523
Read: “Realism and Naturalism” pp. 578-579
Read excerpt: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser pp.595-611
Read: “We Wear the Mask” and “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar pp.633- 634; 636-637
Read: “American Literature from 1914-1945” pp.667- 685
Read: “September, 1918” by Amy Lowell pp.724- 726; 728-729 |
“Realism, Regionalism, Naturalism and Modernism?” by Sam Chiang YouTube
“Imagism Poetry” by English Still Matters to Classy People YouTube |
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Weeks 5-6 Due Friday February 24, 2023: Local Color (Regionalism) and the Harlem Renaissance; Discussion Boards
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Read: Lecture# 4 notes on Local Color (Regionalism)
Read: Lecture # 5 notes on the Harlem Renaissance
Read: “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost pp.735-736; 744
Read: “The Modernist Manifesto” pp. 803-804
Read: “Helen” by h.d. (Hilda Doolittle) pp. 818-819; 822
Read: “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay pp.934-935; 937
Read: “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner pp. 1005-1009; 1009-1015
“Mother to Son,” “I, Too,” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes pp. 1036-1037; 1037-1038 |
“Regionalism” by Amanda Benson YouTube
“The Harlem Renaissance” by Vision Chasers YouTube |
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Weeks 7-8 Due Friday March 10, 2023: Complete Paper# 1 Prose (Short Story Analysis)
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Read: Lecture notes on Paper# 1 (See Blackboard)
Reread and choose a story or stories for Paper# 1 from the list on Blackboard. You cannot choose a story that is not on the syllabus/Blackboard for Paper# 1. You cannot choose a poem.
Read: MLA Format from Paper# 1 Handout. Please follow MLA Rules for all papers. |
Complete Paper# 1 on Prose Analysis. Due Friday March 10, 2023 before 12:00 am/midnight. 1500 word minimum. |
Weeks 9-10 Due Friday March 24, 2023: The Beat Generation; Discussion Boards
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Read: Lecture# 6 Notes on The Beat Generation
Read: “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck pp. 1044-1052
Read: “Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen pp 1053- 1054
Read: “American Literature since 1945” pp. 1069-1086
Read: “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke pp. 1091-1092; 1093
Read: “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden pp. 1191-1192; 1198
Read: “We Real Cool” and “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till” and “the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks pp. 1300-1301- 1302; 1303 |
“The Beat Generation: Characteristics of Beat Poetry” by Nicki Brewer YouTube |
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Weeks 11-12 Due Friday April 7, 2023: “The Woman Question”: The Contribution of Women Writers and Contemporary Literature
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Read: Lecture #7 Notes on The Contribution of Women Writers and Contemporary Literature
Read: “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor” pp. 1366-1380
Read: “Daddy” by Sylvia |
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Plath pp. 1442-1443; 1447- 1449
Read: “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver pp. 1531- 1542
Read: “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker pp. 1567-1574 |
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Weeks 13-15: Due Friday April 28, 2023 Complete Paper# 2 Poetry Analysis
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Read: Lecture notes on Paper# 2 (See Blackboard)
Reread and choose a poem or poems for Paper# 2 from the list on Blackboard. You cannot choose a poem that is not on the syllabus/Blackboard for Paper# 2. You must have outside sources to support your analysis. Do not use Wikipedia, Cliffs Notes, Sparks Notes, Schmoop or blogs. Use online sources such as JSTOR and Project MUSE (email/call ACC Library).
Read: MLA Format from Paper# 2 Handout. Please follow MLA Rules for all papers. |
Complete Paper# 2 on Poetry Analysis. Due Friday April 28, 2023 before 12:00 am/midnight. 1500 word minimum. |
Week 16 Due May 12, 2023: Complete Final Exam
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Reread: All Lecture Notes on (See Blackboard)
Reread and skim all introductions, poems and stories from syllabus. |
Complete Final Examination on or before May 12, 2023 before 12:00 am/midnight. |
Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives
OBJECTIVES:
To analyze post-Civil War literature from a variety of critical perspectives.
This is a discussion oriented survey course. This means that the pace will be rapid, the tone introductory, and participation is a must. My lectures will concern history, biography, genre, and other literary terms. I expect you to read the assignments before coming to class and be prepared to discuss them critically. We will cover a period of more than 130 years. Our aim is to discuss the issues of that period as they relate to the sociological and historical aspects of our national identity.
Office Hours
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NOTE Face-to-face classes can visit my office on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 PM-2:00 PM. Online students should email me any questions you may have. I will also have online office hours.Published: 05/28/2023 10:28:23