مادة دراسية
Survey of American Literature
The course is a survey of American Literature from 1620 to the present. The course starts with readings from Native American Literature. Emphasis will be on the major American writers, the canon. In addition a novel is studied along with samples of the writings of the major writers..
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1 | Registration | |
2 | Sunday Jan. 28 : Introduction to American Literature Tuesday Jan. 30 : Iroquois Creation Story 21, The Navajo Creation Story 25 Hajffner (The Emergence) 26 Thursday Feb. 1 : Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) From Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage (February 15, 1493) 35 From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage (July 7, 1503) 36 |
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3 | Sunday Feb 4 : Bartolome De Las Casas (1474-1566) The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies 39 From Hispaniola 39 From The Coast of Pearls, Paria, and the Island of Trinidad 41 Tuesday Feb 6 :. Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca (c. 1490-1558) The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca H [Dedication) 44 [The Malhado Way of Life) 45 [Our Life among the Avavares and Arbadaos) 47 [Pushing On) 48 [Customs of That Region] 48 [The First Confrontation) 49 [The Falling-Out with Our Countrymen] 50 Thursday Feb 8 : Native American Trickster Tales: From The Winnebago Trickster Cycle (edited by Paul Radin) 105, Ikto Conquers lya, the Eater (transcribed and edited by Ella C. Deloria) 112 First Quiz |
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4 | Sunday Feb. 11 : William Bradford and others. Mayflower Compact (1620) _LMS Tuesday Feb. 13 : John Smith (1580-I63I) The Fourth Book. [Smith's Farewell to Virginia) 93 From A Description of New England 93 From New England's Trials 96 Thursday Feb. 15 : William Bradford (1590-1657) 121 Of Plymouth Plantation: Book I, From Chapter I [The English Reformation] 122, Chapter IV. Showing the Reasons and Causes or Their Removal 124, Chapter XII. Anno 1621 [The First Thanksgiving) 144, Chapter XXIII. Anno 1632 [Prosperity Weakens Community) 147 |
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5 | Sunday Feb.18 : Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672): The Flesh and the Spirit 22, The Author to Her Book 225, Tuesday Feb. 20: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758): Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 430 Thursday Feb. 22 : Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): The Way to Wealth 457 The Autobiography 480-83 & 534-542 Second Quiz |
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6 | Sunday Feb. 25: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Common Sense 641 Introduction 641 From Ill. Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs 641 Tuesday Feb. 27: Thomas Jefferson (I743-I826) 659: From The Declaration of Independence 661 Thursday Mar. 1 : Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself 688 From Chapter I 688 Chapter II 690 First Response Paper Due at 7 P.M. |
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7 | Sunday Mar. 4: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882): Nature: Chapter I and II , & Self‐ Reliance 269 Tuesday Mar. 6 : : Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862): Walden 981-987 & 1023-1028 Thursday Mar. 8 Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): Selectins of her poems 1667-1669 Third Quiz |
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8 | Sunday Mar. 11: Midterm Tuesday Mar. 13: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864): Preface to The House of the Seven Gables 594-& Washington Irving (1783–1859): Rip Van Winkle 29 Thursday Mar. 15: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849): The Tell-Tale Heart 691 & The Cask of Amontillado 714 |
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9 | Sunday Mar. 18: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: The Custom-House Tuesday Mar. 20: : The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 1-5 Thursday Mar. 22: The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 6-10 |
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10 | Sunday Mar. 25: : The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 11-15 Tuesday Mar. 27: The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 16-20 Thursday Mar. 29: The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 21-24 Fourth Quiz |
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11 | Sunday Apr. 1: Walt Whitman (1819–1892): From “Song of Myself” 1330- 1336 Tuesday Apr. 3: Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: Chapters 1. 2. 6, 7, 11 & Appendix Thursday Apr. 5 : Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835–1910): The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 121 |
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12 | Sunday Apr. 8 : Henry James (1843–1916): The Real Thing 460 Tuesday Apr. 10 : : Kate Chopin (1850–1904) : Desiree’s Baby & The Story of an Hour 551-557 & Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935): The Yellow Wall-paper & Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wall-paper”? 792 Thursday Apr. 12: Jack London (1876–1916): To Build a Fire 1047 Second Response Paper is due at 7 P.M. |
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13 | Sunday Apr. 15 : Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) : The Hairy Ape LMS Tuesday Apr. 17 : Robert Frost (1874–1963): “The Road Not Taken” 241 William Carlos Williams (1883–1963): “The Red Wheelbarrow” 309 Langston Hughes (1902–1967): I, Too 872 Thursday Apr. 19 : Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : “Marriage”. LMS T. S. Eliot (1888–1965): The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 368 FIFTH Quiz |
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14 | Sunday Apr. 22: William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” Tuesday Apr. 24: Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” Thursday Apr 26: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): The Great Gatsby (2013 Movie) |
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15 | Final Exam is on Saturday 19-08-1439at 1-3 P.M. |