{"id":29,"date":"2006-02-17T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T19:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/reading-schedule\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:39:23","slug":"reading-schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/reading-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WEEK 1 \/\/ INTRODUCTION TO FORM, POINT OF VIEW, LANGUAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, January 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;20\/20&#8221; by Linda Brewer (p. 15 in the Norton Introduction to Literature; all readings are from this anthology unless noted otherwise)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Girl&#8221; by Jamaica Kincaid (pp. 456-457)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, January 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Kristin Samuelian: &#8220;How We Read&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, January 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Cathedral&#8221; by Raymond Carver (pp. 20-30)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 2 \/\/ THINKING ABOUT POETIC FORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, January 31<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>External Form (pp. 777-780); &#8220;Nuns Fret Not&#8221; by William Wordsworth (p. 781); &#8220;My Lady&#8217;s Presence Makes the Roses Red&#8221; by Henry Constable (p. 782); &#8220;When I consider how my light is spent&#8221; by John Milton (p. 786); &#8220;London, 1802&#8221; by William Wordsworth (p. 785); &#8220;Range-Finding&#8221; by Robert Frost (p. 785); &#8220;Joy Sonnet in a Random Universe&#8221; by Helen Chasin (p. 789); &#8220;Sonnet&#8221; by Billy Collins (p. 789)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/response-1\/\">Response Paper #1<\/a> assigned; Response Paper #5 (on a T&#038;C film) assigned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Robert Matz: &#8220;Literary Form: The Example of the Sonnet&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stanza Forms (p. 790); &#8220;Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night&#8221; by Dylan Thomas (p. 791); &#8220;Ars Poetica&#8221; by Archibald MacLeish (pp. 794-795); The Way a Poem Looks  and [l(a)] by e.e. cummings (p. 795-796); [Buffalo Bill&#8217;s] by e.e. cummings (pp. 797-798); &#8220;The Red Wheelbarrow&#8221; and &#8220;This Is Just to Say&#8221; by William Carlos Williams (pp. 694-695)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/response-1\/\">Response Paper #1<\/a> Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 3 \/\/ TECHNOLOGY AND FORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, February 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Situation and Setting (p. 657); &#8220;Cherrylog Road&#8221; by James Dickey (pp. 658-661); &#8220;The Flea&#8221; by John Donne (pp. 661-662)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Mark Sample: &#8220;From Scrolls to Scrolling: The Technology of the Text&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevrowe.info\/Poems\/QueneauRandom.htm\">A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems<\/a> by Raymond Queneau (a famous example of what Aarseth calls an ergodic text)<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Moulthrop, <a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/hgs\/\">Hegirascope<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/iat.ubalt.edu\/moulthrop\/hypertexts\/pax\/\">Pax<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jason Nelson&#8217;s online work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~iareview\/mainpages\/new\/oct05\/nelson.html\">The Bomar Gene<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Poems that Go,&#8221; also by Jason Nelson: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemsthatgo.com\/gallery\/spring2003\/conversation\/conversation.html\">Conversation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heliozoa.com\/superstition.html\">Superstitious Appliances<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhchang.com\/BUST_DOWN_THE_DOORS%21.html\">Bust Down the Doors!<\/a> by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordcount.org\/\">WordCount<\/a> by Jonathan Harris<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2006\/325\/response-2\/\">Response Paper #2<\/a> Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 4 \/\/ THE FORMS OF STORYTELLING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, February 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Short Short Story (pp. 448-449); &#8220;The Story of an Hour&#8221; by Kate Chopin (pp. 449-451); &#8220;A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings&#8221; by Gabriel Garc\u00c3\u00ada M\u00c3\u00a1rquez (pp. 451-455); &#8220;The Use of Force&#8221; by William Carlos Williams (pp. 459-462)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Margaret Yocom: &#8220;&#8216;Have you heard the one about the babysitter who . . . ?&#8217;: Folklore, Contemporary Legends, and Oral Tradition&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Narration and Point of View (pp. 120-123); Theme (pp. 264-266); &#8220;Gorilla, My Love&#8221; by Toni Cade Bambara (pp. 418-422); &#8220;Interpreter of Maladies&#8221; by Jhumpa Lahiri (pp. 284-298)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 5 \/\/ THINKING ABOUT POINT OF VIEW AND SUBJECTIVITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, February 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Sonny&#8217;s Blues&#8221; by James Baldwin (pp. 88-110)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Keith Clark: &#8220;&#8216;A beat beneath the beat&#8217;: Point of View in &#8216;Sonny&#8217;s Blues'&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, February 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Yellow Wallpaper&#8221; by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (pp. 513-524); &#8220;How&#8221; by Lorrie Moore (pp. 132-138)<\/li>\n<li>Essay #1 Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK  6 \/\/ &#8220;THE DEAD&#8221;: A CASE STUDY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, February 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biographical and Historical Context to &#8220;The Dead&#8221; (pp. 3-20 in Schwarz); &#8220;The Dead&#8221; by James Joyce (pp. 21-59 in Schwarz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Jessica Scarlata: &#8220;Point of View in Film&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Critical History of &#8220;The Dead&#8221; (pp. 63-84 in Schwarz); Psychoanalysis and &#8220;The Dead&#8221; (pp. 85-124 in Schwarz); Scenes from John Huston&#8217;s <em>The Dead<\/em> (1987)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, March 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Reader-Response Perspective on &#8220;The Dead&#8221; (pp. 137-149); New Historicism and &#8220;The Dead&#8221; (pp. 150-177 in Schwarz); Feminist Criticism and &#8220;The Dead&#8221; (pp. 178-205 in Schwarz)<\/li>\n<li>Response #3 Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Rick Davis: &#8220;Producing James Joyce&#8217;s The Dead&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In-class Peer Review<\/li>\n<li>Rough Draft of Essay #2 Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SPRING BREAK \/\/ NO CLASS TUESDAY, MARCH 14 AND THURSDAY, MARCH 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WEEK 8 \/\/ LANGUAGE AND PERFORMANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, March 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Act I of <em>Death of a Salesman<\/em> by Arthur Miller (pp. 1556-1586)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Steven Weinberger: &#8220;Alien Language&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Act II and Requiem of <em>Death of a Salesman<\/em> (pp. 1586-1621)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 9 \/\/ POETIC LANGUAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, March 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Word Plum&#8221; by Helen Chasin (p. 729); &#8220;Dirge&#8221; by Kenneth Fearing (p. 732); &#8220;Dear John, Dear Coltrane&#8221; by Michael Harper (pp. 751-752); &#8220;123rd Street Rap&#8221; by Willie Perdomo (pp. 752-753)<\/li>\n<li>Final Version of Essay #2 Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Jennifer Atkinson: &#8220;Poetry and Language&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Thinking about Bill, Dead of AIDS&#8221; by Miller Williams (p. 819); &#8220;Blackberry Eating&#8221; by Galway Kinnell (pp. 995-996); &#8220;The Dance&#8221; by William Carlos Williams (pp. 767-768); &#8220;Daddy&#8221; by Sylvia Plath (pp. 948-950)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 10 \/\/ TEXT AND COMMUNITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, April 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/xroads.virginia.edu\/~HYPER\/WALDEN\/hdt02.html\">Where I Lived, and What I Lived For<\/a>&#8221; from Walden by Henry David Thoreau<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sunsite.berkeley.edu\/London\/Writings\/LostFace\/\">To Build a Fire<\/a>&#8221; by Jack London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Kyoko Mori: &#8220;The Narrator in Nonfiction&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, April 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Into the Wild<\/em> by Jon Krakauer (pp. 1-23)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, April 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Into the Wild<\/em> (pp. 23-60)<\/li>\n<li>Final Version of Paper #2 Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time off to attend a Text and Community or Earth Day event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, April 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Into the Wild<\/em> (pp. 61-97)<\/li>\n<li>Selections from <em>Matter of Fact: Reading Nonfiction over the Edge <\/em>by Daniel Lehman (e-reserve)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, April 18<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Into the Wild<\/em> (pp. 98-156)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Wild, Wild North: Nature Writing, Nationalist Ecologies, and Alaska&#8221; by Susan Kollin (<em>American Literary History<\/em> 12, Spring-Summer 2000, pp. 41-78)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 19<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professors Mike O&#8217;Malley (History), Julia Nord (New Century College), Eric Anderson (English): Interdisciplinary panel on Krakauer&#8217;s <em>Into the Wild<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, April 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Into the Wild<\/em> (pp. 157-207)<\/li>\n<li>Response Paper #4 Due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WEEK 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, April 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Chris McCandless Phenomenon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anchoragepress.com\/archives\/documentb965.html\">&#8220;I Want To Ride In The Bus Chris Died In&#8221;<\/a> by Sherry Simpson, <em>Anchorage Press<\/em>, February 7 &#8211; February 13, 2002 \/ Vol. 11, Ed. 6<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskapacific.edu\/academics\/backtothewild.htm\">&#8220;Back to the Wild&#8221;<\/a> by Tonio Verzone, a sophomore at Alaska Pacific University<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nmge.gmu.edu\/textandcommunity\/2006\/Peter_Christian_Response.pdf\">Chris McCandless from an Alaska Park Ranger&#8217;s Perspective<\/a> by Peter Christian<\/li>\n<li>In-Class screening of <em>Millennium <\/em>episode<\/li>\n<li>Last chance to hand in Response #5 (on a <a href=\"http:\/\/nmge.gmu.edu\/textandcommunity\/2006\/events.html\">Text and Community Film<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 26<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Alok Yadav: &#8220;What is English&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, April 27<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oscr.gmu.edu\/pdf\/CWL12013006.pdf\">&#8220;Critics in the Wilderness: Literary Theory and the Spiritual Roots of the American Wilderness Tradition&#8221;<\/a> by David R. 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