The readings are also listed by session.
Texts for Purchase
Hitchcock, Bert, Virginia Kouidis, and Eugene Current-Garcia, eds. American Short Stories. 7th ed. New York, NY: Longmans, 2001. ISBN: 0321080564.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers, and Two Stories. New York, NY: Barnes and Noble, 2003. ISBN: 1593080433.
Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2002. ISBN: 0743237250. (E-book ed.)
Welty, Eudora. Thirteen Stories. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace, 1977. ISBN: 0156899698.
Hammett, Dashiell. The Continental Op. New York, NY: Random House, 1989. ISBN: 0679722580.
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York, NY: Penguin, 1992. ISBN: 0452268060.
Diaz, Junot. Drown. New York, NY: Penguin, 1997. ISBN: 1573226068.
Cather, Willa. “Old Mrs. Harris.” In The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Edited by Paul Lauter, et al. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1994, pp. 1133-1168. ISBN: 066932972X.
Readings by Session
Readings included in the anthology are marked thusly +.
| SES # | topics | readings |
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1 |
A Hearty Welcome Discussion of William Carlos Williams’s “The Use of Force.” A Few “Getting to Know You” Exercises |
+ Williams, William Carlos. “The Use of Force.” |
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2 |
Discussion of Hawthorne’s, “The Birth-Mark.” And One of the Low Points of the Term - Some Professorial Mutterings on Romanticism and Symbol |
+ Hawthorne. “The Birth-mark.” |
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3 |
Discussion of Melville’s, “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” |
Melville, Herman. “Bartleby, The Scrivener.” In Legal Fictions Short Stories About Lawyers and the Law. Edited by Jay Wishingrad. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1992, pp. 224-258. ISBN: 0879514558. |
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4 |
A Preliminary Set of Definitions - Romanticism vs. Realism Discussion of Henry James’s, “The Turn of the Screw.” |
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers, and Two Stories. New York, NY: Barnes and Noble, 2003. ISBN: 1593080433. |
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5 |
We’ll Finish with James |
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6 |
Discussion of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” |
+ Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wall-Paper.” |
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7 |
Discussion of Willa Cather’s, “Old Mrs. Harris.” |
Cather, Willa. “Old Mrs. Harris.” In The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Edited by Paul Lauter, et al. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1994, pp. 1133-1168. ISBN: 066932972X. |
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8 |
More on Cather |
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9 |
Discussion of Stephen Crane’s, “The Blue Hotel.” |
+ Crane, Stephen. “The Blue Hotel.” |
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10 |
Some Misguided Professorial Remarks on Modernism Discussion of William Faulkner’s, “Barn Burning.” |
+ Faulkner, William. “Barn Burning.” |
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11 |
Discussion of Ernest Hemingway’s, “Indian Camp,” and “The Three-Day Blow.” |
Hemingway, Ernest. “Indian Camp,” and “The Three-Day Blow.” In In Our Time. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2002. ISBN: 0684822768. |
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12 |
Hemingway Continues in the Rain and Despair Hey, Let’s Go Fishing on the “Big Two-Hearted River,” ok? |
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13 |
A Walk on the Noir Side. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) Discuss Dashiell Hammett’s, “The Whosis Kid.” |
Huston, John. The Maltese Falcon. 1941. Hammett, Dashiell. “The Whosis Kid.” In The Continental Op. New York, NY: Random House, 1989. ISBN: 0679722580. |
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14 |
Discussion of Eudora Welty’s, “Why I Live at the P.O.” |
Welty, Eudora. “Why I Live at the P.O.” In Thirteen Stories. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace, 1977. ISBN: 0156899698. |
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15 |
Discussion of Eudora Welty’s, “Moon Lake.” Anyone who ever went to summer camp can help educate the rest of us. |
Welty, Eudora. “Moon Lake.” In Thirteen Stories. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace, 1977. ISBN: 0156899698. |
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16 |
Discussion of Julia Alvarez’s, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Chapter 1. |
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York, NY: Penguin, 1992, chapter 1. ISBN: 0452268060. |
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17 |
Discussion of Julia Alvarez’s, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. What is this book - a novel? A collection of stories? In any case, what is it most fundamentally “about?” |
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. New York, NY: Penguin, 1992. ISBN: 0452268060. |
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18 |
Discussion of Raymond Carver’s, “Boxes.” |
+ Carver, Raymond. “Boxes.” |
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19 |
Discussion of Tim O’Brien’s, “The Things They Carried.” |
+ O’Brien, Tim. “The Things They Carried.” |
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20 |
Discussion of Junot Diaz’s, Drown. Formulate some possible questions to ask him, when he visits class just after the break. |
Diaz, Junot. Drown. New York, NY: Penguin, 1997. ISBN: 1573226068. |
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21 |
Guest Appearance by Junot Diaz |
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22 |
Final Presentations |
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23 |
Final Presentations (cont.) |
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24 |
Final Class Meeting Sorrowful Farewells, and THE HILDESILLY ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE JOKE CONTEST (Yes, there will be prizes to be won) |
