T

1/8

Course Introduction

TH

1/10

Poe, “The Oval Portrait,” “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum” (CR)

T

1/15

Hoffmann, “The Sand-man” (CR)

TH

1/17

Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” (CR)

“Bartleby” response due

T

1/22

Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

TH

1/24

Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Coleridge response due

T

1/29

Shelley, “To a Sky-lark”; Wordsworth, “There Was a Boy”; Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”; Bishop, “The Moose”; Snyder, “Riprap” (CR)

TH

1/31

Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us”; Stevens, “The American Sublime”; Lowell, “The Mouth of the Hudson”; Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (CR)

Response on one of the assigned poems (from either 1/29 or 1/31) due

T

2/5

NEW READING ASSIGNMENT: Price, "Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A." (CR--see Handouts page)

First Paper Due

TH

2/7

[Optional: you need only read for your own interest and/or to write a response on either Thoreau or Muir]

Emerson, Introduction and Chapter 1 of “Nature”; Thoreau, “Ktaadn, an excerpt from The Maine Woods”; Muir, “A Windstorm in the Forest” (CR)  

Response on Thoreau of Muir essay due

T

2/12

MIDTERM

TH

2/14

Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume 1, Beginning-Chapter 2 (pages 1-32)

Frankenstein response due

T

2/19

Frankenstein, Volume 1, Chapters 3-7, Volume 2, Chapters 1-4 (pages 33-92)

TH

2/21

Frankenstein, Volume 2, Chapters 5-9 (pages 92-123)

Frankenstein response due

T

2/26

Frankenstein, Volume 3 (pages 124-191)

TH

2/28

Euripides, Medea

Second Paper Due

Medea response due

T

3/5

Medea

TH

3/7

Miller, The Dark Knight Returns, Book 1 (pages 8-55)

Miller response due  

Second Paper Due  

T

3/12

Miller, The Dark Knight Returns, Books 2-3 (pages 56-147)

TH

3/14

Miller, The Dark Knight Returns, Book 4 (pages 148-199)

T

3/19

FINAL
8:00 AM-10:30 AM