ENGL 222 Survey of American Literature II 3 Credit Hours
SEMESTER Fall 2001
INSTRUCTOR Dr. Daniel DeBord
OFFICE 137 Avery Hall
OFFICE HOURS Mon. 11-12; 6:30-7 Wed. 11-12; 6-6:30 Fri. 9-10; 11-12
TELEPHONE (423) 869-6215
EMAIL ddebord@lmunet.edu
PREREQUISITE ENGL 112 or ENGL 122
ENGLISH 222 is a chronological survey of the most important American literature since the Civil War. These writers will be placed in social, historical, and literary contexts, with special emphasis on major literary movements and innovations.
TEXT Baym, Nina, and others. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume II, Fifth Edition.
· To introduce students to the work of thirty-five to forty American writers since the Civil War
· To place these writers and their works in a meaningful cultural and historical context
· To reinforce students’ understanding of the primary literary genres and their elements
· To improve critical reading and writing skills
1. Realism in American Fiction
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (excerpts); “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences”
Henry James Daisy Miller
2. Naturalism in American Literature
Hamlin Garland “Under the Lion’s Paw”
Stephen Crane “The Open Boat”
Jack London “The Law of Life”
3. Turn of the Century Fiction by American Women
Sarah Orne Jewett “The White Heron”
Kate Chopin “At the ‘Cadian Ball”; “The Storm”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wall-paper”
4. African American Literature before World War II
Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery Chapters 1-3
W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk The Forethought, Chapters 1 and 3
Zora Neale Hurston “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”; “The Gilded Six-Bits”
Claude McKay Selected poems
Langston Hughes Selected poems
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5. Modernist Poetry
Robert Frost Selected poems
Wallace Stevens Selected poems
T.S. Eliot Selected poems
6. Modernist Fiction
Katherine Anne Porter” “Flowering Judas”
F. Scott Fitzgerald “Babylon Revisited”
William Faulkner As I Lay Dying
Ernest Hemingway “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”
Thomas Wolfe “The Lost Boy”
7. Modern Drama
Eugene O’Neill Long Day’s Journey into Night
Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman
8. Poetry since World War II
Selected poems by Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Levine,
Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorde
9. Fiction since World War II
Flannery O’Connor “Good Country People”
Raymond Carver “Cathedral”
Alice Walker “Everyday Use”
Barry Hannah “Midnight and I’m Not Famous Yet”
Two 750-word critical essays on
literary works from different
periods and literary genres (For example, if paper 1 is on realistic
fiction, paper 2 must not be about realism or fiction.) The best of the
two papers will be used to meet the sophomore SEWS requirement.
The instructor may require several revisions if necessary. 15 % each
Three 60-minute tests 15 % each
Final Exam (Monday, Dec. 10,, 4-6 p.m.) 25 %
(Students should make travel plans
accordingly)
October 26, 2001 is
the last day to withdraw from class and avoid an “F” on the student’s
transcript. A student must complete
all steps in the withdrawal process to avoid receiving a final grade of “F”
for the course.
The instructor
reserves the right to refuse to accept late work.
The instructor
reserves the right to lower the final grade of any student who misses more than
three weeks of class.
Syllabus Revised August 2001