SYLLABUS
SYLLABUS
Required Texts:
Pickering, James H. Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. 8th Edition.
Banks, Russell. Affliction.
The texts are available in the UMBC bookstore. If you have any questions concerning the texts or the assignments please contact me at landon@umbc.edu.
Required Films:
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
Smooth Talk (Joyce Chorpa, 1986)
Die Hard (John Mc Tiernan, 1988)
Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1998)
These films are available in the audio-visual department of Kuhn Library. For information about them, click on the titles here and in the assignment schedule below.
Reference Materials:
| Literature Sites |
List of Students enrolled.
Course Discussion list.
Class members, Post your messages to the discussion list here: engl302@listproc.umbc.edu.
Class Assignments:
Week 1: September 1st - 3rd.
Introduction: "A Little Cloud" (p. 799), and "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (p. 225).
Week 2: September 8th to 10th.
Basics, The Plot: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (p. 622), "The Purloined Letter" (p. 1198), "To Build a Fire" (p.877), "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (p. 90), and "A&P" (p. 1331)
Week 3: September 13th to 17th.
Basics, Character: "The Darling" (p. 172), "The Yellow Wallpaper" (P. 488), "Astronomer's Wife" (p. 102), "The Blue Hotel" (p. 323), "A Rose for Emily" (p. 414), "Big Blonde" (p.1158), "The Death of Ivan Ilich" (p. 1284), and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (p. 1126)
Journals for Weeks #1 and #2. due on September 13th.
Week 4: September 20th to 24th.
Basics, The Setting: "The Fall of the House of Usher" (p. 1184) "Winter Dreams" (p. 421), "The Girls in their Summer Dresses" (p.1228) "Shiloh" (p. 973), "The Storm" (p. 204), and "The Fly" (p.969).
Group Report #1 due September 20th.
Paper #1 due September 24th.
Week Five: September 27th - October 1st.
Basics, Narrative Voice/Authorial Voice: "Bartleby the Scrivener" (p.996), "The Real Thing" (p. 726) "Araby" (p. 763).
Group Report #2 due September 27th.
Journals for Weeks #3 and #4. due September 27th.
Week 6: October 4th to 8th.
Contexts, Cultural: "The White Heron" (744), "The Guest" (p. 113), "Nineteen Fifty-Five" [handout], "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (p.1115), "Guests of the Nation" (p. 1138), and "The King of the Bingo Game" (p. 387).
Group Report #3 due October 4th.
Week 7: October 11th to 15th.
Contexts, Cultural: "Daisy Miller" (p. 662).
Journals for Weeks #5 and #6 due October 11th.
Week 8: October 18th to 22nd.
Contexts, Genre: "A Cask of Amontillado" (p. 1178), "A Scandal in Bohemia" (p. 351), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [Short Story (p. 752) and Film].
Group Report #4 due October 18th.
Paper #2 due October 22nd.
Week 9: October 25th to 29th.
Fables, Old and New: "The Lottery" (p. 655), "My Kinsman Major Molineux" (p. 581), "Aura" (p. 461), "The Man in the Black Suit" (p. 821), and "The Oranging of America" (p. 16).
Group Report #5 due October 25th.
Journals for Weeks #7 and #8 due October 25th.
Week 10: November 1st to 5th.
Longer Narratives: Affliction [novel and film] and Die Hard.
Group Report # 6 due November 1st.
Week 11: November 8th to 12th.
Longer Narratives: Affliction [novel and film] and Die Hard. Continued.
Journals for Weeks #9 and #10 due November 8th.
Week 12: November 15th to 19th.
Longer Narratives, Variations on a Theme: "The Heart of Darkness" (p. 235), and Apocalypse Now.
Group Report #7due., November 16th.
Paper #3 due November 20th.
Week 13: November 22nd to 24th.
Longer Narratives, Variations on a Theme: "The Heart of Darkness" (p. 235), and Apocalypse Now. Continued.
Journals for Weeks #11 and #12 due November 22nd.
November 26th: Thanksgiving Holiday.
Week 14: November 29th to December 3rd.
Narrative Adaptations, Words and Images: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (p. 1102) and Smooth Talk.
Group Report # 8 due November 29th.
Week 15: December 6th to 10th.
Narrative Adaptations, Words and Images: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (p. 1102) and Smooth Talk. Continued.
Journals for Weeks #13 and #14 due December 6th.
Week 16: December 13th to 14th.
To Be Announced.
Paper #4 due December 13th.