270 Schedule

Date Reading Terms Writing

January 9 Introduction to the Stanza, meter, Journal 1.1
course enjambment, end-stopped
Unit 1 line, caesura, imagery,
Poetry Introduction to Poetry symbol, abstract, concrete

January 11 “How to Read a blank verse, structure,

Poem” syntax, scansion, foot,
accent, [iamb, trochee,
The Making of a Poem spondee, dactyl, anapest]
“The Stanza,” pp. 136-
140, Spencer, Wyatt, jouissance
Blake, Dickinson,
Smith, Hayden, and p. Renaissance
154-155
Colonial Period (American
pp. 159-160 literature)

“Blank Verse” pp.

101-104, Shakespeare,
Milton, Wordsworth,
Tennyson, Frost,
Wilbur, Howard, and
p. 119

“The Heroic Couplet”

pp. 121-122,
Bradstreet, Johnson,
Dryden, Wheatley,
Browning, and p. 135

January 16 The Making of a Poem lyric , Shakespearean Journal 1.2

“The Sonnet” pp. 55- sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
59, Wordsworth, meter, rhythm,
Shelley, Keats, connotation, denotation
Browning, Cullen,
Heaney, Salter, Romanticism, Romantic
Palmer, and p. 71 Period (English literature)
January 18 “The Ballad” pp. 73- Ballad, villanelle, sestina,
78, Whittier, Nash, refrain, rhyme, repetition
Brooks, Brown,
Merwin, and p. 99 Victorian Period

“The Villanelle” pp. 5-

8, Roethke, Bishop,
Thomas, Merrill,
Caruth, Hine, and p.
19

“The Sestina” pp. 21-

24, Sidney, Kipling,
Pound, Kees, and p.
41

January 23 The Making of a Poem Elegy, elegiac couplet, Journal 1.3

“The Elegy” pp. 165- epitaph, tragedy, utopia,
167, Herbert, nostalgia, pastoral, ode,
Bradstreet, Whitman, mood
Arnold, Auden,
Lowell, Berryman, Romantic Period
Hirsch, Crase, St. John (American literature) and
transcendentalism
The Making of a Poem
“The Pastoral” pp.
207-208, Marlowe,
Wordsworth, Keats,
Hughes, Larkin,
Wright, Levine,
Brock-Broido

“The Ode” pp. 240,

Keats, Longfellow,
Nemerov, Creeley,
Pinsky, Harjo

January 25 Wrap up forms Motif, tone, synechdoche,

expressionism
January 30 The Making of a Poem Modern Period Submit Poetry Journals (5
“Open Forms”: Yeats, entries)
Eliot, Hughes, Beat Writers (Beat
Ginsberg, O’Hara, Generation) Journal 1.4
Plath, Rich, Clifton,
Olds, Ai, and p. 287

Wrap up Poetry Unit

February 1 Workshop—Poetic Narrator, implied author, Draft of Poetic Form

Form Analysis conceit Analysis

February 6 Introduction to the Short story, unintrusive Submit Poetic Form

Short Fiction and the narrator, theme, Analysis
Novel ambiguity, allusion
Journal 2.1
“The Things They Historicism
Carried,” “Love,”
“Spin,” “On the Rainy unreliable narrator,
River,” “Enemies,” memory, setting,
“Friends,” “How to apostrophe
Tell a True War
Story,” The Things Poststructuralism
They Carried (approx.
80 pp.)

February 8 “The Dentist,” Allegory, personification,

“Sweetheart of the sentimentalism, Other
Song Tra Bong,”
“Stockings,” Psychoanalytic criticism
“Church,” “The Man I
Killed,” “Ambush,”
The Things They
Carried

(approx. 40 pp.)

February “Style,” “Speaking of Race (and literary studies), Journal 2.2

13 Courage,” “Notes,” canon, character
“In the Field,” “Good
Form,” “Field Trip,”
“The Ghost Soldiers,”
 “Night Life,” “”The
Lives of the Dead,”
The Things They
Carried
(approx. 80 pp.)

February “Cell One,” diaspora, conflict,

15 “Imitation,” “A ideology
Private Experience,”
The Thing Around Your Postcolonial theory
Neck
(approx. 50 pp.)

February “Ghosts,” “On metonymy, signifier/ Journal 2.3

20 Monday of Last signified, patriarchal,
Week,” “Jumping gender
Monkey Hill,” “The
Thing Around Your Feminist theory
Neck,” “The
American Embassy,”
The Thing Around Your
Neck
(approx. 80 pp.)

February “The Shivering,” “The Sarcasm, verbal irony,

22 Arrangers of primitivism, privilege
Marriage,”
“Tomorrow is Too
Far,” The Thing
Around Your Neck
(approx. 50 pp.)

February “The Headstrong Journal 2.4

27 Historian,” The Thing
Around Your Neck

Review for Midterm

March 1 Midterm Exam

March 6 Spring Break!

March 8 Spring Break!
March 13 pp. 1-165, The Brief Novel, intertextuality, Journal 2.5
Wondrous Life of Oscar stream of consciousness,
Wao science fiction, subjectivity

Postmodernism

March 15 pp. 166-201, The Brief Foreshadowing, frame Journal 2.6

Wondrous Life of Oscar story
Wao
Gender criticism

March 20 pp. 202-279, The Brief Irony, gap, genre, myth,

Wondrous Life of Oscar antihero
Wao
Semiotics

Leitmotif

Marxist criticism
March 22 pp. 279-335, The Brief metafiction, parody, reify Journal 2.7
Wondrous Life of Oscar
Wao Cultural criticism/cultural
studies

March 27 pp. 132-141 and 211- Litotes, meiosis, in medias Draft Fiction Analysis
218, Me Talk Pretty res
One Day
Submit Fiction Journals
Workshop (7 entries)

March 29 Introduction to Graphic novel, icon, Submit Fiction Analysis

Graphic Narratives closure, panel, frame,
point-of-view
Maus I
Narratology
McCloud Ch. 2 & 3
April 3 Maus I & II Speech/dialogue bubble, Journal 3.1
text box

Existentialism

New Historicism

April 5 Maus II Empathy, image, interior

monologue

Phenomenological
criticism

April 10 My Friend Dahmer Journal 3.2

Contexts: Articles
TBA

April 12 My Friend Dahmer Deconstruction

Naturalism, presence and

absence,

April 17 Pride of Baghdad Fable, Episteme, beast fable, Journal 3.3

orientalism, poetic justice

April 19 Pride of Baghdad

April 24 Workshop Journal 3.4

Submit Graphic
Narrative Journals (4
entries)

Draft of Graphic
Narrative Analysis

April 26 Review for Exam Submit Graphic

Narrative Analysis
May 1 Final Exam