| January 9 |
overview and introduction to the course |
| January 11 | Hassan “The
Question of Postmodernism” Hassan chart from “Toward a Concept of Postmodernism” Barth “The Literature of Exhaustion” |
| January 14 | Lessing
“To Room Nineteen” Marquez “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” |
| January 16 | Roth “Defender
of the Faith” Updike “A & P” |
| January 18 | Vonnegut “Harrison
Bergeron” Barth “Lost in the Funhouse” Response Paper #1 Due |
| January 21 | Fowles “Trickery’s Mixed Bag: The Perils of Fowles’ French Lieutenant’s Woman” |
| January 23 | Fowles “Rewriting Marx: Emancipation and Restoration in The French Lieuteant’s Woman” |
| January 25 | Fowles “Revision Revisited: Response Paper #2 Due |
| January 28 | Stoppard |
| January 31 | Stoppard |
| February 1 |
Didion “Goodbye
to All That” McPhee “The Search for |
| February 4 | Morrison “Seeds in Hard Ground” Black Girlhood in The Bluest Eye” |
| February 6 | Morrison “The Fourth Face: The Image of God in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye” Response Paper #3 Due |
| February 8 | Morrison |
| Feburary 11 | Barthelme “The
School” Bradbury “Composition” Spring Convocation |
| February 13 |
Kincaid “Girl” Spring Convocation |
| February 15 | Weldon “Weekend”
Atwood “Dancing Girls” Spring Convocation |
| February 18 | Exam #1 |
| February 20 | discussion
of course paper outline of scholarly articles |
| February 22 |
Tennessee
Philological Association meeting library resources |
| Feburary 25 | model
papers peer editing |
| February 27 | presentations Linsey Retcofsky -- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Cristina Vera -- The Namesake Rebecca Johnson -- Water for Elephants Amber Moore -- Black Swan Green |
| February 29 | presentations Amy Thornhill -- Atonement Aubrey Stout -- The Known World Jon Tully -- Life of Pi Sarah Shealy -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time |
| March 3 |
Spring Break!! |
| March 5 | Spring Break!! |
| March 7 | Spring Break!! |
| March 10 | Erdrich “Saint
Marie” Carver “Errand” |
| March 12 | DeLillo “Baudrillard, DeLillo’s White Noise, and the End of Heroic Narrative” Response Paper #4 Due |
| March 14 |
DeLillo Paper Proposal and Annotated Bibliography Due |
| March 17 |
discuss proposals and bibliographies |
| March 19 | Rushdie “The Prophet’s Hair” Gordimer “Once Upon a Time” |
| March 21 | Easter Break!! |
| March 24 | Easter Break!! |
| March 26 | Burroway “Embalming
Mom” Touchstone 76-88 Dillard “Living Like Weasels” Touchstone 148-151 Selzer “Imelda” Touchstone 452-463 March 25th is the last day to withdraw with a “W” |
| March 28 |
Earley “Somehow
Form a Family” Touchstone 167-175 Lynch “The Undertaking” Touchstone 334-342 |
| March 31 | Tan “Mother Tongue” Touchstone 514-519 Rough Draft Due |
| April 2 | Wallace
“A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” conferences with me |
| April 4 | peer
editing conferences with me |
| April 7 | Nye “This is Not Who We Are” Touchstone 401-404 Sedaris “Repeat After Me” Touchstone 443-451 Silverman “The Pat Boone Fan Club” Touchstone 464-472 Final Paper and Research Reflection Due |
| April 9 | O’Brien “The
Things They Carried” Proulx “ |
| April 11 |
Alexie “The
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in
Heaven” Gautreaux “The Bug Man” |
| April 14 | Coupland “Generation X and the End of History” (in Response Paper #5 Due |
| April 16 | Coupland |
| April 18 | presentations Victoria Inman -- Everyman Jenni Witney -- The Road Emma Gardner -- Middlesex Meredith Meyer -- Niagra Falls All Over Again |
| April 21 | Final Exam |
| April 25 10:15-12:15 |
presentations Mathew Chalcraft -- The Plot Against America Mary Witt -- Bee Season Summer Coy -- Paradise Park Sonja Palmer -- Ella Minnow Pea Caitlin Pierson -- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Nikki Branam -- Everything is Illuminated Chris Foote -- Gilead Amber Bell -- The Gathering Missy Colter -- The Kite Runner |