Sept.7
Introductory Lecture
History plus
Carson McCullers, "The Jockey" (handout)
Sept.12
Hawthorne, "The Birthmark," p.500;
Hawthorne “Wakefield”
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/
sid.6/bookid.214/ Or
http://www.onlineliterature.com/hawthorne/156/
Sept.14
Sept.19
Sept.21
Sept.26
Sept.28
Oct.3
Edgar Allen Poe, William Wilson”
http://books.eserver.org/fiction/poefictio
n/william_wilson.html
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
http://books.eserver.org/fiction/poefictio
n/tell-tale_heart.html
Henry Bibb, “Conjuration”
http://www.vgskole.net/prosjekt/slavrute
/25.htm
Douglass, “Cowardice Departed,” Ch.10,
from THE LIFE AND TIMES…
http://www.transcendentalists.com/narra
tive_douglass_10.htm
Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/hist
ory/lavender/wallpaper.html or
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccernew2?id=GilYell.sgm&images=images/m
odeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/par
sed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
OR
http://shortstory.byethost6.com/gilmanw
allpaper.html
Chopin, “A Respectable Woman,”
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccernew2?id=ChoResp.sgm&images=images/
modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/p
arsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1
or
http://www.4literature.net/Kate_Chopin/
Respectable_Woman/
Herman Melville, "Bartleby the
Scrivener"p.898
Anderson, "Hands," p. 13,
Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair,"
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/bernice/index.
html-
Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”
Supp. The Minister’s Black Veil"
http://www.bnl.com/shorts/veilhawt.html
http://www.online-literature.com/hawthorne/
"The Maypole of Merrymount" http://www.onlineliterature.com/hawthorne/145/"Young Goodman Brown"p.526
Supp.
http://books.eserver.org/fiction/poefiction/
"The Purloined Letter," p.1181
Supp. "Chopin, "Desiree’s Baby," p.306 Craft Memoir, excerpt
(reserve)
Supp Jewett, "A White Heron," P.647
Reserve: Showalter, THE FEMALE MALADY (Intro, and
Chapter 6."Feminism And Hysteria)
Dickinson poem, " "I cannot Dance" #326
Supp:
Supp. Anderson, "The Egg,"p.6 "I Want to Know Why,"
http://shortstory.byethost6.com/
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.6/bookid.2621/
Fitzgerald links
-- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~tdlarson/fsf/links.htm
http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/jane.html New
Republic, 1925
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_roaring13.html
Roaring Twenties and Mass Production
Supp. "The Ice Palace,"
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/winterd/win
ter.html
“Diamond Big as the Ritz”
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/diamond/di
amond.html
Hemingway, "A Clean Well-Lighted
Place,"
http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/hemi
ngway.html#4 "OR
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99
/hemingwaycleanplace.html
Cat in the Rain"
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99
/hemingwaycat.html
Hemingway "The Killers," "Hills like
White Elephants," Links
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99
/hemingwaykillers.html
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99
/hemingwayhills.html
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/icepalace/index.html
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/head/index
Oct.12
Hughes, "The Slave on the Block"
(reserve)
Hurston. "”’Member Youse is a Nigger,"
http://i.am/zorahurston 'member yousea
nigger
Supp. Hurston, "The Gilded Six-Bits," ""Sweat," p.575
Chestnutt, "The Sheriff’s Children,"
http://www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/chesnuttsheriff.html
Jana Evans on Fanon
http://www.umass.edu/complit/ogscl/jana/janafranzfanonblac
kskinwhitemasks.htm
Oct.19
O’Connor, "Everything that Rises Must
Converge," p.1064
Good Country People," p.1076
O’Connor, "A Good Man is Hard to
Find"p.1091
"The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
p.1103
Updike, "Separating," p. 1260
"The A& P," http://www.tigertown.com/whatnot/updike/
Cheever, "The Wrysons," (reserve)
"The Enormous Radio," p.243
Oct.5
Oct.10
Oct.24
Oct.26
Oct.31
Supp:
Hemingway, “Soldier’s Home”
http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/hemingway.html#3
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/hemingwaycleanplace
.html
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_explorer99/hemingwaycat.html
"Big Two Hearted River, parts 1 & 2p.543,549
Shaw, “The Girls in their Summer Dresses,”
http://www.barksdale.latech.edu/Engl%20308/
Supp:
Other O’Connor Stories, reserve
"Parker’s Back," "Revelation"
Supp. Wife-wooing," p. 1268
"Pygmalion,"
http://www.geocities.com/su_englit/updike_pygmalion.html
Supp:"The Five Forty-Eight" p.251
other Cheever, (reserve) " "The Lowboy," "The Country
Husband,"
Supp. Wright, "The Black Good Man," p.1385
"The Man Who was Almost a man" p. 1385
Alice Walker, "1955"p.625
Bambara, "Raymond’s Run," p.46
supp. Ozick,"The Shawl,"p.516
Nov.2
Baldwin, "Sonny’s Blues,"p.71
Nov.7
Roth, "The Conversion of the Jews,"
Malamud, "The Magic barrel,"
RESERVE
Nov.9
O’Brien, "The Things They Carried,"
p.501
Robert Olen Butler, “Open Arms,”
reserve
Supp. Canin, "The Year of Getting to Know Us" p.193
Leavitt, "Territory," p.411
Carver, "Cathedral," p.182
"What We Talk About…"(reserve)
Supp. "Errand," "The Neighbors," "Popular Mechanics,"
"Vitamins" reserve
Nov.14
The Phoenix program, excpt.
Nov.16
Carver continued plus "What’s in
Alaska," (reserve)
Nov.21
Erdrich, "Saint Marie,"p.276
Bloom, "Silver Water," p.159
Supp. Baxter, "Gryphon" p.131
Sherman Alexie, "This is What it MeansÉ"
p.21
Nov.28
Banks, “Sarah Coles: a Type of Love
Story” p.53
Kincaid, “Girl,” p. 409
Make-up material or Barth
Barth, "Lost in the Funhouse,"
http://www.colby.edu/~isadoff/ss/barth.doc
http://www.barksdale.latech.edu/Engl 308/
Nov.30
Dec.5
Dec.7
Paley, "A Conversation with my Father,"
p.1147
Barthelme, "Me and Miss Mandible,"
http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/barthel
me-mandible.html Or
http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/mandible.h
tml
Other websites for stories
http://www.barksdale.latech.edu/Engl%2
0308/
www.geocities.com/short_stories_page/
http://www.geocities.com/su_englit/carver_popular.html
http://www.geocities.com/su_englit/carver_vitamins.html
Supp. Joy Williams, "Taking Care,".659
Vaughn, "Able, baker, Charlie, Dog," p.612
Supp. Baxter, "Gryphon" p.131
Sherman Alexie, "This is What it Means" p.21
Supp. Paley, "The Loudest Voice,"p.1151, Barthelme, "Basil in the
garden," p.101
Supp:
“Robert Kennedy Saved From Drowning”
http://www.jessamyn.com/barth/kennedy.html
Expectations: I direct the class as a discussion group, a community of learners, so students are
expected to prepare the stories before coming to class, including bringing questions to stimulate
interchange among students. Always bring your texts to class (print outs too): we'll refer to them all the
time. Class discussion counts as part of class grade. Students are expected to attend and contribute
to all classes; you'll be permitted two unexcused absences during a semester; if you don’t bring your
text, you’ll be absent. If a website appears without the assigned story, it will be my responsibility to email you the story in advance of class. Please notify me when you can’t get a story on line as I’ve
saved the .htmls on my hard drive.
Requirements: You'll write two 6-7 page papers comparing and contrasting two stories by the above
authors (NOT discussed in class) from the supplementary list: other choices are possible if you check
with me in advance, and one final take-home synthesizing paper. Each of these papers will count 25%
of your grade. Students will be allowed one extension if they give at least 48 hours advance notice.
Unexcused late papers will be penalized a full grade. I will not accept any papers after the last day of
class.
Paper due dates: October 16th, noon; Nov.17th noon.
Non-theoretical critical papers for this class: I’m interested in your direct experience with the text and
NOT scholarship. Should you use scholarship and it’s not attributed, that’s plagiarism, and I take
plagiarism personally as a violation of trust and will deal with it seriously.
Additionally, every Monday by 9 A.M. (except weeks when papers are due) students will write a
paragraph on our class forum, responding to a question that will create a dialogue and help structure
thinking about stories under discussion. Students should respond to one another, argue, quote freely
from texts; if you respond early you might check the forums to see if you want to supplement your
earlier responses. The responses will not be graded individually, but collectively will be worth 25% of
your grade. If you miss more than one forum response, your grade will suffer. If your early responses
don’t respond sufficiently with specificity to the text, I will probably email you with advice or ask you to
come in for conference so I can help. Late responses, because the work will have been discussed in
class, cannot be counted.
Forum:
http://www.colby.edu/info.tech/forums/clogin/?confId=1&forumId=115
make sure you log off the thread when you’re finished so someone else can enter the dialogue.
For those of you steeped in theory, you can substitute one longer 12-15 page paper for the shorter
ones: for such an ambitious project, I will want to see a thesis paragraph well in advance of the due
date.
This syllabus is a course plan, but inevitably, as issues are raised in class, and as time grows short,
assignments will change; if you miss class discussion, check with other class members about potential
changes.
isadoff@colby.edu
office hours: Miller 224, x-5283
Wed. 12-3
Thurs. 11AM-12PM & by appt.