English 180
Schedule of Readings and Assignments
Aug. 26
Introduction to the course
Aug 28
Text Book 1-12 (handout)
Aug. 31
Oral Anecdotes (to be distributed): For each anecdote, indicate where you
find the six elements described by Labov.
Sept. 2
Working with audio: Meet in computer classroom of Bortz Library
Sept. 4
Fiction (12-20)
Sept. 7
Narration and Point of View (120-23)
William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force” (459-462)
Grace Paley, “A Conversation with My Father” (31-32)
Sept. 9
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (20-30)
Sept. 11
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Cask of Amontillado” (123-27)
Blog Posting #1
Sept. 14
Kate Chopin, “The Kiss” (handout)
Blog comment #1
Sept. 16
Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (128-32)
Sept. 18
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (364-75)
Sept. 21
Flannery O’Connor, “Everything that Rises Must Converge” (400-410)
Passages from O’Connor’s Essays and Letters (410-15)
Posting #2
Sept. 23
Student essays (63-65 and 193-95)
Comment #2
Sept. 25
Essay on short story due
Sept. 28
Ernest Goffman, “Character Contests” (handout)
Sept. 30
Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Speckled Band” (handout)
Posting #3
Oct. 2
Susan Glaspell, Trifles (1043-58)
Oct. 5
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (1470-92)
Oct. 7
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (1492-1508)
Oct. 9
Midterm
Oct. 12
No classes: Fall Break
Oct. 14
Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound (1058-72)
Oct. 16
Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound (1073-91)
Oct. 19
Satire and Irony (handouts)
Bob Dylan, “Don’t think Twice, it’s alright”
Henry Fielding, from Tom Jones
Shakespeare, from Julius Caesar
Posting #4
Oct. 21
Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Oct. 23
Essay on Drama Due before class
Oct. 26
Reading Poetry (595-601)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “How Do I Love Thee?”
Jarold Ramsey, “The Talley Stick”
Linda Pastan, “love poem”
Ezra Pound, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Liz Rosenberg, “Married Love”
Posting #5 and comment #3
Oct. 28
Responding to Poetry (601-608)
Ben Johnson, “On My First Son”
Howard Nemerov, “The Vacuum”
Seamus Heaney, “Midterm Break”
Rita Dove, “Fifth Grade Autobiography”
Anne Sexton, “The Fury of Overshoes”
Oct. 30
Some Poems on Love (609-15)
W.H. Auden, [Stop all the clocks]
Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband”
William Shakespeare, [Let me not to the marriage of true minds]
Sharon Olds, “Last Night”
Aphra Behn, “On Her Loving Too Equally”
Denise Levertov, “Wedding-Ring”
Mary, Lady Chudleigh, “To the Ladies”
W.B. Yeats, “A Last Confession”
Nov. 2
Language (682-90)
Sarah Cleghorn, [The golf links lie so near the mill]
Anne Finch, “There’s No To-morrow”
Charles Bernstein, “Of Time and the Line”
Yvor Winters, “At the San Francisco Airport”
Walter de la Mare, “Slim Cunning Hands”
Pat Mora, “Gentle Communion”
Posting #6
Nov. 4
Language (690-693)
Emily Dickinson, [After great pain, a formal feeling comes--]
Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
Sharon Olds, “Sex without Love”
Martha Collins, “Lies”
Nov. 6
Language (694-98)
Emily Dickinson, [I dwell in possibility--]
William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “This is Just to Say”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
e.e. cummings, [in Just--]
Ben Johnson, “Still to Be Neat”
Robert Herrick, “Delight in Disorder”
Nov. 9
Working with Video: Meet in Bortz Library
Comment #4
Nov. 11
The Sounds of Poetry (729-33)
Helen Chasin, “The Word Plum”
Mona Van Duyn, “What the Motorcycle Said”
Kenneth Fearing, “Dirge”
Nov. 13
The Sounds of Poetry (734-42)
Alexander Pope, “Sound and Sense”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Metrical Feet”
Wendy Cope, “Emily Dickinson”
anonymous limerick
Sir John Suckling, “Song”
John Dryden, “To the Memory of Mr. Oldham”
Posting #7 + comments #5
Nov. 16
Roger Brown, “What Words Are” (handout)
Metaphor (703-5)
Shakespeare, [That time of year thou mayst in me behold]
Nov. 18
Metaphor (706-10)
Linda Pastan, “Marks”
David Wagoner, “My Father’s Garden”
Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”
Adrienne Rich, “Two Songs”
Nov. 20
Metaphor (710-16)
Shakespeare, [Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?]
The Twenty-Third Psalm
Henry King, “Sic Vita”
John Donne, [Batter my heart, three-personed God], “The
Computation”, “The Canonization”
David Ferry, “At the Hospital”
Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
Francis William Bourdillon, “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes”
Margaret Cavendish, “Of the Theme of Love”
Emily Dickinson, [Wild Nights!--Wild Nights!]
Nov. 23
Lakoff and Johnson, from Metaphors We Live By (handout)
Posting #8
Nov. 25
Thanksgiving: No class
Nov. 27
Thanksgiving: No class
Nov. 30
Meet in Fuqua Center to work on videos
Dec. 2
Continue video work
Dec. 4
Essay #3 due
Dec. 7
Group presentations