Courses
2007 . Second Semester
     
  Twentieth-Century American Literature


Schedule

Aug 6 Introductory Class - The Nineteenth Century
8 Adams: "The Dynamo and the Virgin"
13 Cather: "Paul’s Case"
20 Frost: "Mending Wall"
22 Glaspell: Trifles
27 Cummings: "in Just-" & Millay: "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"
29 Faulkner: "A Rose for Emily"
Sept 3 Porter: "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
5 Wharton: "Roman Fever"
10 Evaluation
12 Fitzgerald: "Babylon Revisited"
17 Hemingway: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
19 Thurber: "The Unicorn in the Garden" & "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
24 Ellison: "The Battle Royal"
26 Rich: "Two Songs"
Oct 1 Semana da UFMG - Conhecimento e Cultura
3 Semana da UFMG - Conhecimento e Cultura
8 Bellow: Seize the Day
10 Coover: "The Brother" – take-home exam
15 Le Guin: "Nine Lives"
17 Oates: "The Lady with the Pet Dog" – take-home exam due
22 Hwang: M. Butterfly – reading day
24 Hwang: M. Butterfly
29 Erdrich: "Love Medicine"
31 Laviera: "AmeRícan"
Nov 5 Leavitt: "Gravity"
7 Ai: "Riot Act, April 29, 1992"
12 Proulx: "Brokeback Mountain"
14 Study day
19 Final exam


Updated September 16, 2007


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