COURSE SCHEDULE

January 9 Introduction to Course and The Enlightenment
January 11 Moliere  Tartuffe  12-66
January 14 watch Moliere
January 16 Racine  Phaedra  162-200
January 18 Swift  “A Modest Proposal”  341-346
January 21 Volatire  Candide  377-437
January 23 Swift  Part IV of Gulliver’s Travels  295-340
One-Page Paper #1
January 25
Romanticism
Rousseau  Confessions  498-518
January 28
Goethe  Part I of Faust  525-576
January 31 Goethe  Part I of Faust  576-624
February 1 Blake  “Introduction,” “The Lamb,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “Introduction,”
“The Tyger,” and “The Chimney Sweeper”  686-691
Wordsworth  “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” and “The World is Too Much With Us”  696-704
February 4 Coleridge  “Kubla Kahn”  737-739
Shelley  From “A Defense of Poetry”  753-54
Keats  “La Belle Dame sans Merci” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn”  757-760
One-Page Paper #2
February 6 Douglass  Narrative  858-881
February 8 Douglass  Narrative  881-915
Feburary 11 Melville  Billy Budd  931-985
Spring Convocation
February 13 Whitman  from Song of Myself  918-923
Dickinson  #435, 465, 712, 1129  989-994
Spring Convocation
February 15 Tennyson  “Ulysses”  822-823
Browning  “My Last Duchess” 845-846
One-Page Paper #3
Spring Convocation
February 18 Exam #1
February 20 Realism
Pushkin  “The Queen of Spades”  801-819
February 22 Tennessee Philological Association conference
library presentation on finding resources
Feburary 25 Gogol  “The Overcoat”  1012-1032
writing a literary analysis
February 27 Dostoevsky  Notes from Underground  1255-1287
February 29 Dostoevsky  Notes from Underground  1287-1326
One-Page Paper #4
March 3 Spring Break!!
March 5 Spring Break!!
March 7 Spring Break!!
March 10 Ibsen  Hedda Gabler  1410-1465
March 12 watch Ibsen
March 14
Tolstoy  The Death of Ivan Ilyich  1330-1368
March 17 Symbolism
Baudelaire  “The Flowers of Evil,” “To the Reader,” “A Carcass,” “Spleen LXXVIII,” and “Spleen LXXIX”  1543-1551
Mallarme  “The Tomb of Edgar Poe” and “Saint”  1565-66
Verlaine  “Autumn Song” and “The Art of Poetry”  1569-1571
Rimbaud  “The Drunken Boat”  1576-1579
Proposal and Annotated Bibliography Due
March 19 Exam #2
March 21 Easter Break!!
March 24 Easter Break!!
March 26 The Twentieth Century
Conrad  Heart of Darkness  1633-1655
March 25th is the last day to withdraw with a “W”
March 28 Conrad  Heart of Darkness  1655-1691
March 31 Pirandello  Six Characters in Search of an Author  1740-1780
One-Page Paper #5
April 2 watch Pirandello
April 4 Rilke  “The Panther,” “The Swan,” and “The Ninth Elegy”  1873-1877
Stevens  “Anecdote of the Jar,” “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” and “The Man on the Dump”  1885-1887
Rough Draft Due
April 7 Kafka  The Metamorphosis  1966-1998
April 9 Joyce  “The Dead”  1893-1921
April 11 Woolf  From A Room of One’s Own  1925-1955
April 14 Yeats  “Easter 1916,” “Sailing to Byzantium,” and “The Second Coming”  1726-1730
Eliot  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “The Hollow Men”  2003-2022
Final Paper Due
April 16 Beckett  Endgame  2210-2237
April 18 watch Beckett
One-Page Paper #6
April 21 Camus  “The Guest”  2253-2261
Borges  “The Garden of Forking Paths”  2182-2189
April 29 Final Exam
3:15-5:15