Revised Assignment Schedule

Thu., Jan 28 “What is Narrative?”
Read Bierce “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, Poe “The Cask of Amontillado”
Key Concepts: Basic Structures of Story & Plot—Fabula & Syuzhet
Poetry Essay Due in class

Tue., Feb 2 “There are no longer problems of the spirit.”
Read Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” and Nobel Prize Banquet Speech; Gardner pp. 57-60
Key Concepts: Narrative persona, characterization, revelation-suggestion-suppression
Writing: Conclusions

Thu., Feb 4 “Narratives within Narratives”
Read Frankenstein: 1-68
Key concepts: Beginnings, Frames, and epistolary writing
Writing: Organization—at the local and global levels of your writing

Tue., Feb 9 “Dialogue in the Alps”
Read Frankenstein: 69-123
Key Concepts: Focalization, POV, Landscape settings…
Writing: Development—extending your ideas into longer writings

Thu., Feb 11 “Questions of Progeny”
Read Frankenstein: 124-170
Key Concepts: Representations of Technology in Cultural Texts
Writing: Technology and Academic Writing

Tue., Feb 16 “Lost in darkness and distance”
Read Frankenstein: 171-191
Key Concepts: Ambiguity in Fiction, the Franken-meme

Thu., Feb 18 “Encounter with Literary Criticism”
Reading TBA; Gardner pp. 110-137 on writing a research paper
Key Concepts: Reading Professional Literary Criticism; Incorporating Research into Your Academic Writing

Tue., Feb 23 “What is Drama?”
Read Capek’s RUR, pp. vii-49
Key Concepts: A Literary History of Drama
Writing: Revisions: strategies and priorities

Thu., Feb 25 “history is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants…”
Read RUR, pp. 50-End, Gardner pp. 92-93
Key Concepts: Drama & Social Issues, Mise-en-scene
Writing: College Writing as Process and Product

Tue., Mar 2 Suturing Frankenstein and RUR
In-class Screening of Blade Runner (1992 Director’s Cut)

Thu., Mar 4 “Settle thy studies”
Read Doctor Faustus (A-Text), pp. 5-54.
Key Concepts: Early Modern Dramatic Modes
Writing: In-Class Draft Workshop on Fiction Essay

Tue., Mar 9 “What can Marlowe mean?”
Reading to be assigned from the Norton Critical Edition of the play.
Discussing the Play and Criticism

Thu., Mar 11 “There he goes…He’s feelin’ his Cheerios”
Read Alan Moore’s Light of Thy Countenance
Key Concepts: Fiction and Mixed Media
Writing: Describing multi-media texts in your writing
Review for Final Exam; Course Evaluations
Fiction Essay Due in class




Saturday, Mar 20 Final Exam: 8-10am