Melville Paper #1

Your first out-of-class paper of the semester will be over Melville’s short fiction. The topic is up to you…you can do a comparison/contrast of the two stories in terms of theme, narrative voice, prose style, etc., a Freudian analysis of I and My Chimney (Sophie’s World has a good basic discussion of Freud, but you might want to dig a bit deeper), a “historiography” of Bartleby interpretations, or an analysis of one or both stories based on a chapter(s) from HTRLAP. Use MLA format for parenthetical citation and lists of works cited.

I will only collect/grade the final draft of these papers, which are due Monday February 2.

Partners –

KB/KR
KC/EC
MWD/MT
JG/JW
SG/CM
SP/LH
TB/BL*

You are advised to follow the time-line below:

Thursday 1/22 – e-mail précis of your paper to me and your partner

Monday 1/26 – First Draft to partner

Thursday 1/28 – Second Draft to partner

Week 16

Read Ch. 6 pp 274-285 as well as Young Goodman Brown and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.

Monday 12/1 - You are going to spend the period with your partner disussing and or editing/revising your Pan papers.

Tuesday 12/2- We will discuss the two stories.

Wednesday 12/3- You have the period to work on Pan papers.

Thursday 12/4 - Annotated drafts of Pan papers due. (5o pts.; you will be graded on your paper and on your commentary/correction on your partner's paper)

Friday 12/5 - Story Quiz #5 on CPS

Final Draft of Pan papers due Monday 12/8.

Week 14 - Pan, by Knut Hamsun

Monday 11/17 - Chapter 4 Wrap-Up; begin Pan.

Tuesday 11/18 - CPS Story Quiz: Theme, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Fragment of Life.

Wednesday 11/19 - Pan reading day.

Thursday 11/20 - Pan discussion day.

Friday 11/21 - CPS Pan Quiz; annotated copy of Pan due.
HW: Read How to Read Literature Like a Professor chs. 12, 14, 16, 17, 19 & 20 and come up with a paper topic for Pan.

Short Fiction Itinerary #2

Week 12 -

Chapter 3 "Characterization"

Stories: Night Roamers, Sin, Everyday Use, Miss Brill

Story Quiz Thursday 11/6

Essay: The definition of art. Due (typed, double-spaced, no more than 500 words) Friday 11/7

Week 13 -

Vocab Unit 6
Chpater 4 "Theme"

Stories: A Fragment of Life, The Lesson, Gooseberries, A Worn Path

Story Quiz Thursday 11/13
Vocab Quiz Friday 11/14

The Destructors, How I Met My Husband, and Interpreter of Maladies

Groups 1, 2, and 3, post your responses to the questions about setting, plot, and characterization in the three stories.

Short Fiction Itnerary #1

Week 10 -

The Elements of Fiction Ch. 1
Stories: The Most Dangerous Game & Hunter's in the Snow

Reading quiz Wednesday 10/21
In-class essay Friday 10/23

Week 11 -

The Elements of Fiction Ch. 2
Stories: The Destructors, How I Met My Husband, & Interpreter of Maladies

Reading Quiz Friday 10/30

Poetry Paper #2

Poetry Paper #2 – Using the suggestions on pp 5-7 of “Writing about Literature” in Perrine’s, write a paper either explicating or analyzing a poem from one of the lists below. This paper should be a minimum of 750 words, typed and double-spaced. We are going to workshop this paper, so you need to keep to the following schedule:

Poem and topic of paper selected and e-mailed to me – Thursday 10/9
Thesis and outline of paper – Friday 10/10
First draft of paper – Tuesday 10/14
Second draft – Thursday 10/16
Final draft – Monday 10/20

Longer poems for analysis:

Wordsworth –
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Prelude
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey
Coleridge –
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Dejection: An Ode
The Aeloian Harp
Blake –
The Book of Thel
Burns –
Tam O’Shanter
Byron –
Don Juan
Childe Harold
Shelley –
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Adonais
Keats –
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Eve of St. Agnes
Whitman –
Song of Myself
Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Shorter poems for explication:

Burns –
To a Mouse
Wordsworth –
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
She was a Phantom of Delight
Byron –
Prometheus
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year
Blake –
The Little Black Boy
A Poison Tree
Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau
Poe-
Sonnet – To Science
Annabel Lee