Course Schedule

8/21 Introduction

Webcast Review of Introductory Lecture:
Economic Developments of Modernity (Youtube Version )
The Social Subject of Modernity (Youtube Version )
Philosophical Paradigms of Modernity (Youtube Version )
Political Systems of Modernity (Youtube Version )
The Social Subject of Modernity (Youtube Version )
Social Functions of Art in Modernity (Youtube Version )

8/23 Webb, Chapter 1
8/28 Webb, Chapters 2-3
8/30 Webb, Chapters 4-5

   

9/4 Norton Introduction, (1071-86)

First Reading Response Due: Questions

9/6 Eliot, The Waste Land (1587-99)
9/11 Eliot, The Waste Land (1587-99)
9/13 Eliot, The Waste Land (1587-99)

Suggested further reading:

Ian Johnston, "Lecture on T. S. Eliot"

9/18 Pound, from The Cantos (1492-98)
9/20 Robert Frost, poems, (1174-99)
9/25 Robert Frost, poems, (1174-99)
9/27 Marianne Moore, poems (1325-37)

   

10/2 Wallace Stevens, poems (1439-56)
10/4 William Carlos Williams (1462-76)
   

10/9 Langston Hughes, poems (2026-37)

10/11 Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

   

10/16 Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
First Formal Essay Due: Suggested Topics
10/23 Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilamanjaro" (1980-99)

    10/25 Faulkner, "Barn Burning," (1955-67)
10/30 Wright, "Almos' a Man," (1925-36)
11/1 Wolfe, "The Lost Boy" (1999-2019)
    Second Reading Response Due: Questions

11/6 Porter, "Flowering Judas" (1690-1700)
11/8 Hurston, "The Eatonville Anthology"; "How it Feels..." (1700-13)
11/13 Larsen, Quicksand (1527-1609)
11/15 Larsen, Quicksand (1527-1609)
11/20-11/22 No Class--Thanksgiving Break
11/27 Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1868-1955)

Sparknotes Guide to As I Lay Dying

   

11/29 Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1868-1955)
12/4 Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1868-1955)

12/6 Conclusion
   

12/12 Final Paper Due Suggested Topics