Syllabus #6

English 2743: American Literature II
Fall 1990

Dr. Suzanne Clepper
Tarrant County Junior College

Course Description:

a survey of American literature from Civil War to present

Textbook:

The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 2

Prentice-Hall Handbook for Writers, Leggett et al.

Assignments:

9/5 thru 9/19

Orientation. Unit I: late 19th Century lecture on Colonial, religious and literary influences. Alcott, 68-79; S. Jewett, 110-134; Folktales, 192-213; Twain, 230-242; Dunbar, 473-488; Posey, 489-496; Chopin, 626, 637-645; Crane, 714-721; London, 725-737; Standing Bear, 739-741, Gilman, 760-781

9/24

Unit Test 1

9/26 thru 10/10

Unit II: Early Modern (961) Robinson, 962-971; Masters, 1033-1036; Cather, 1039-1075; Frost, 1099-1117; Dreiser, 1127-1153; Porter, 1349-1369; Bogan, 1380-1387; Hemingway, 1387-1392; Faulkner, 1406-1432

10/10

Unit Test 2

10/15 thru 10/24

Unit Three: Harlem Renaissance, etc. (1456) Toomer, 1468-1486; Hughes, 1487-1509; Bontemps, 1518-1519; Johnson, 1553-1556; McKay, 1557-1562; Hellman, 1624-1628; Whitecloud, 1662-1663; Steinbeck, 1697-1710; Mourning Dove, 1728-1734; Carved on Walls, 1755-1762.

10/24

Unit Test 3

10/24

Essay 1 due

10/29 thru 11/7

Unit IV: Contemporary Fiction (1763): Welty, 1796-1811; Paley, 1882-1887; Baldwin, 1912-1934; O'Connor, 1935-1947; King, 1957 and 1962-1968; Morrison, 1993-2006; Momaday, 2038-2047; Rivera, 2056-2064; Mason, 2115-2116, Morales, 2175-2176

11/7

Unit Test 4

11/7

Essay 2 due

11/12 thru 12/5

Unit V: Contemporary Drama and Poetry: Williams, 2190-2200; Brooks, 2311-2322; Dickey, 2349-2357; Sexton, 2395-2405; Plath, 2430-2439; Sanchez, 2440-2448; Rose, 2525-2532

11/21

Thanksgiving Holiday: No classes

12/10

Catch up week (thru 12th)

12/13

Finals begin