SYLLABUS

UNIT 1: THE REAL

Week 1
Sept. 3 Introduction
Sept. 5 James, “The Real Thing” (handout)
Mitchell, “Representation” (CTLS)

Week 2
Sept. 10 Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Pease,“Author” (CTLS)
Sept. 12 Discussion of Dreiser and “Author,” continued

Week 3
Sept. 17 Wharton, House of Mirth
Mailloux, “Interpretation” (CTLS)
Sept. 19 Group Presentation
CLOSE READING DUE

Week 4
Sept. 24 DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
Greenblatt, “Culture” (CTLS)
Sept. 26 Group Presentation

UNIT 2: THE NATION

Week 5
Oct. 1 Cahan, Rise of David Levinsky
Sollors, “Ethnicity” (CTLS)
Oct. 3 Group Presentation
CRITICAL ESSAY DUE

Week 6
Oct. 8 Cather, My Antonia
Jehlen, “Gender” (CTLS)
Oct. 10 VISIT TO SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Week 7
Oct. 15 Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
Miller, “Narrative”
Oct. 17 TOUR OF ANDERSON’S ELYRIA LED BY WILL SCHUCK
TOUR OF CLYDE, OHIO (to be arranged)
MATERIAL CULTURE DUE

FALL BREAK

UNIT 3: MODERNISM, A CANON

Week 9
Oct. 29 Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Guillory, “Canon” (CTLS)
Patterson, “Literary History” (CTLS)
Oct. 31 Group Presentation

Week 10
Nov. 5 Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Hernstein Smith, “Value/Evaluation” (CTLS)
Nov. 7 Group Presentations
CULTURAL STUDY DUE

Week 11
Nov. 12 Faulkner, Light in August
Graff, “Determinancy/Indeterminancy”
Nov. 14 Group Presentation

UNIT 4: MODERNISM, THE POLITICS OF STYLE

Week 12
Nov. 19 West, Day of the Locust
Fiske, “Popular Culture” (CTLS)
Nov. 21 Group Presentation
EXPERIMENTS WITH STYLE DUE

Week 13
Nov. 26 VISIT TO ART MUSEUM
THANKSGIVING

Week 14
Dec. 3 Stein, The Stein Reader
PRESENTATION BY JESSICA GRIM
Dec. 5 Group Presentation
METHODS OF LITERARY STUDY DUE

Week 15
Dec. 10 Hurston, Mules and Men
Appiah, “Race” (CTLS)
Dec. 12 Lentricchia, “In Place of An Afterword—Someone Reading” (CTLS)
Conclusion, Evaluations
Dec. 16 Final Projects due