SYLLABUS
SYLLABUS
Required Texts:
Pickering, James H. Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. 9th 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:
September 1st: Introduction
September 6-8: Narrative Forms, Words and Images: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" and Smooth Talk.
September 11-15:
Narrative Forms: Continued.
Basics, The Plot: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (p. 252), "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (p. 701), "The Purloined Letter" (p. 1203), "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (p. 80), and "A&P" (p. 1351).
September 18-22:
Basics, The Plot: Continued.
Journals for Weeks #1 and #2. due on September 18th.
September 25-29:
Basics, Character: "The Darling" (p. 155), "The Yellow Wallpaper" (P. 551), "Astronomer's Wife" (p. 92), "The Blue Hotel" (p. 395), "A Rose for Emily" (p. 409), "Big Blonde" (p.1162), "The Death of Ivan Ilich" (p. 1300), and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (p. 1135) "Araby" (p. 802).
October 2-6:
Basics, The Setting: "The Fall of the House of Usher" (p. 1188) "Winter Dreams" (p. 477), "The Girls in their Summer Dresses" (p.1235), "The Storm" (p. 207).
Group Report #1 "Winter Dreams" due October 2nd.
Journals for Weeks #3 and #4. due October 2nd.
October 9-13:
Basics, Narrative Voice/Authorial Voice: "Bartleby the Scrivener" (p. 1037), "Four Meetings" (p. 744), "Araby" (p. 802).
Group Report #2 "Araby" due October 9th.
Paper #1 due October 9th.
October 16th to 20th.
Contexts, Cultural: "Shiloh" (p. 1014), "The Guest" (p. 103), "Nineteen Fifty-Five" [handout], "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (p.1115), "Guests of the Nation" (p. 1147), and "The King of the Bingo Game" (p. 441),
Journals for Weeks #5 and #6 due October 16th.
October 23-27:
Contexts, Cultural Continued:"A White Heron" (783), "The Columbus School for Girls (1402).
Group Report #3 "A White Heron" due October 23th.
Paper #2 due October 27nd.
October 30-November 3:
Contexts, Genre: "A Cask of Amontillado" (p. 1182), "A Scandal in Bohemia" (p. 423), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance [Short Story (p. 791) and Film].
Group Report #4 "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" due October 30th.
Journals for Weeks #7 and #8 due October 30th.
November 6-10:
Fables, Old and New: "The Lottery" (p. 737), "My Kinsman Major Molineux" (p. 653), "Aura" (p. 518), "The Man in the Black Suit" (p. 857), and "Rip Van Winkle" (p. 725).
November 13-17:
Longer Narratives: Affliction [novel and film] and Die Hard.
Group Report # 5 due November 13th.
Journals for Weeks #9 and #10 due November 8th.
November 20-22:
Longer Narratives: Affliction [novel and film] and Die Hard. Continued.
Paper #3 due November 20th.
November 24: Thanksgiving Holiday.
November 27-December 1:
Longer Narratives, Variations on a Theme: "The Heart of Darkness" (p. 235) and Apocalypse Now.
Group Report #6 due November 27th.
Longer Narratives, Variations on a Theme: "The Heart of Darkness" and Apocalypse Now. Continued.
Journals for Weeks #11 and #12 due November 27nd.
December 4-8:
To Be Announced.
December 11-13:
To Be Announced.
December 15:
Paper #4 due.