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    Week 1
    Introduction
    ASSIGNMENT:
    • Writing About Literature, 3-11, 26-28
    • Objectivity in Analysis
    • What I Expect on Out of Class Papers, 1769-1788
    • MLA Formatting, 1764-1768
    • Poetry, 660-669
    • Lyrics, 697-700
    • Anonymous, Michael Row...
    • Owen, Anthem for a Doomed Youth
    • cummings, anyone lived...
    • Dylan, The Times They are a Changin'

    Week 2
    ASSIGNMENT:

    Week 3
    ASSIGNMENT:
    • Formalist Criticism , 1742-1744
    • Brooks, We Real Cool
    • Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
    • cummings, next to of course america god i
    • Erdrich, Dear John Wayne
    • Secondary Sources, 1800-1801, 1805-1808
    • Argumentation, 822-824

    Week 4
    ASSIGNMENT
    • Supporting the Point: Analysis of Criticism/Evaluating Evidence
    • Simile, 742-745
    • Wilbur, A Simile for Her Smile
    • Burns, A Red, Red Rose
    • Metaphor, 746
    • Plath, Metaphors
    • Personification, 748
    • Erdrich, Indian Boarding Schools...
    • Apostrophe, 749

    Week 5
    ASSIGNMENT:
    • Gender Criticisms, 1753-1760
    • Imagery and Symbolism, 756
    • Whitman, I Saw in Louisiana...
    • Komunyakaa, Facing It
    • Raine, Martian Sends a Postcard Home
    • Irony, 777
    • Espada, Tony Went to the Bodega, But He Didn't Buy Anything
    • Hughes, Dream Boogie

    Week 6
    ASSIGNMENT:
    • Psychoanalytic Criticism 1752-1753
    • Drama, 1025-1032, 1544-1547
    • Drawing Inferences: Tragedy, 1094-1097
    • Miller, Death of a Salesman
    • Theme

    Week 7
    ASSIGNMENT:
    • Reader Response Criticism , 1745-1748
    • Editing: Comedy, 1415-1417
    • Irony
    • Valdez, Los Vendidos

    Week 8
    ASSIGNMENT:
    • Character/Point of View
    • Deconstruction Criticism, 1744-1745
    • Hamlet Casebook, 1178-1187, 1299-1309
    • Shakespeare, Hamlet

    Week 9
    ASSIGNMENT:
    • New Historicism, 1750; Marxist, 1750: and Myth, 1748-1749 Criticisms
    • Art and Poetry, 891-914
    • Updike, Before the Mirror
    • Rich, Mourning Picture
    • Phillips, Luncheon on the Grass
    • Sexton, The Starry Night

    Week 10
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    Week 11
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    Week 12
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    Week 13
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    Week 14
    ASSIGNMENT:

    Week 12
    ASSIGNMENT
    • The Term Paper: Getting Started

    Week 15
    ASSIGNMENT
    • The Term Paper: Getting Started

    Week 16
    ASSIGNMENT

    Week 17
    Term Paper due/Final Test Prep

    Week 18 & 19
    Finals Week: Final Exam
     
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