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Week 8.2: Midterm

Today is the midterm exam. Please bring a black or blue pen and a large blue book to class today.

Labels: Administration, Exam, Midterm

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Course Sessions

Week 1.1: Introduction
Week 1.2: William Dean Howells, "Editha"
Week 2.1: Charles Chesnutt & Mark Twain
Week 2.2: Ambrose Bierce, "An Occurance at Owl Creed Bridge"
Week 3.1: Immigrant Fictions
Week 3.2: Feminist Fictions
Week 4.1: Henry James, Daisy Miller
Week 4.2: Henry James, Daisy Miller
Week 5.1: US Literary Naturalism
Week 5.2: T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Week 6.1: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Week 6.2: Imagist Poets
Week 7.1: Harlem Renaissance Poets
Week 7.2: Ernest Hemingway & William Faulkner
Week 8.1: F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited"
Week 8.2: Midterm
Week 9.1: John Steinbeck & Richard Wright
Week 9.2: Lionel Trilling, "Of This TIme, of That Place"
Week 10.1: James Baldwin, Selections from Notes of a Native Son
Week 10.2: Allen Ginsberg, Howl
Week 11.1: Flannery O'Connor & Alice Walker
Week 11.2: Thomas Pynchon & Raymond Carver
Week 12.1: Jhumpa Lahiri & Junot Diaz
Week 12.2 Peer Review
Week 13.1: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Week 13.2: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Week 14.1: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Week 14.2: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Week 15.1: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Week 15.2: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Week 16.1: Course Review
Week 16.2: Final

Required Course Reading

Course Packet

Course Information & Documents

Syllabus
Paper 1
Statement on Academic Integrity

Course Concepts

Literary Topoi
Realism
Realism Prezi
Naturalism
Modernism
The Program Era
Postmodernism
Course Review

General Reading, Writing & Researching Tips

How to Close Read & Why
How to Close Read Prezi
How to Read Historically
How to Write a Strong Thesis
How to Write a Successful Paper
How to Integrate Quotations
The Squid and the Staircase
They Say/I Say Templates
Transitions
Examples of Scholarly Abstracts
Proofreading and Editing Advice
COC Library
Owl@Purdue
Turnitin.com
Study on Grades

Labels

"A Sweat-Shop Romance" (1) "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1) "Babylon Revisited" (1) "Cathedral" (1) "Drown" (1) "Editha" (1) "Entropy" (1) "Everyday Use" (1) "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" (1) "On Closer Examination" (1) "Sexy" (1) "The Chrysanthemums" (1) "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1) "The Man Who Was Almost a Man" (1) "The Other Two" (1) "The Wife of His Youth" (1) "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1) A Clean Well-Lighted Place (1) A Visit from the Goon Squad (6) Abraham Cahan (1) Abstracts (1) Adaptation (1) Administration (4) African American literature (3) Alice Walker (1) Allen Ginsberg (1) Ambrose Bierce (1) Amy Lowell (1) Asian-American literature (2) Barn Burning (1) Beats (1) Charles Chesnutt (1) Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1) Cinema of Attraction (1) Civil War (1) Claude McKay (1) Cleanth Brooks (1) Close Reading (1) Course Concepts (1) criticism (1) Daisy Miller (2) e. e. cummings (1) Edith Wharton (1) Ernest Hemingway (1) Essay (3) Exam (2) Ezra Pound (1) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1) feminism (1) Film (2) Final (1) Flannery O'Connor (1) Frank Norris (1) Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein (1) H.D. (1) Harlem Renaissance (1) Henry James (2) High Cultural Pluralism (2) How to (8) Howl and Other Poems (1) I Hate the Internet (6) Imagism (1) In Another Country (1) James Baldwin (1) Jarett Kobek (6) Jazz (1) Jennifer Egan (6) Jewish-American literature (3) Jhumpa Lahiri (1) John Steinbeck (1) Junot Diaz (1) Langston Hughes (1) Latino Literature (1) Life on the Mississippi (1) Lionel Trilling (1) Lower Middle Class Modernism (1) Marianne Moore (1) Mark Twain (1) Midterm (1) Modernism (9) multicultural literature (1) Naturalism (2) New Critics (2) New Historicism (1) Notes of a Native Son (1) Novel (14) Peer Review (1) Poetry (5) point of view (1) Postmodernism (2) Proletariat Fiction (1) Raymond Carver (1) Realism (8) Richard Wright (1) Robert Penn Warren (1) Short Fiction (7) Sister Carrie (1) Southern Literature (1) Spanish American War (1) Stephen Crane (1) Sui Sin Far (1) T. S. Eliot (2) Technicity (7) Technomodernism (6) Telegraph (1) Teleplay (1) Television (1) The Program Era (14) The Waste Land (1) Theodore Dreiser (1) Thomas Pynchon (1) Understanding Poetry (1) War is Kind (1) William Carlos Williams (1) William Dean Howells (1) William Faulkner (1)

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