ENGLISH 223 MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

Dr. Rachela Permenter Spring 1996, Slippery Rock University

Schedule
Course Guidelines
Basis for Grades

You are responsible for the reading assignments for class on the day they are listed.
The following schedule may be modified as the course proceeds:

Jan. 16 Intro to Course. What is "modern"? What is "literature"?
Marianne Moore, "Poetry," Riverside 682-83; Virginia Woolf, "On the Rejection of Traditional Fiction," Riverside 173
Handbook: "Reading a Story" (W. Somerset Maugham, "The Appointment in Samarra," Grimms' "Godfather Death," Langston Hughes, "On the Road")

Jan. 23 "Reading Fiction," "The Traditional Tale," "The Marriage of the Tale and the Portrait," Riverside 4-10; Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," (also "On Memory" and Eudora Welty's "On Porter's Break with Surface Realism") Riverside 197-206; William Faulkner, "Barn Burning," Riverside 214-27; Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants," Riverside 229-32; Maupassant's "On the Conflict Between Realism and Art," Riverside 118

Mar. 12 Background: Wordsworth's "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," "The World is Too Much With Us," "My Heart Leaps Up," "On Poetry and Human Nature" and "On Poetry and the `Overthrow of Powerful Emotions,'" Riverside 521, 523, 528, 529-30; T. S. Eliot, "On Feeling Rather Than Emotion in Poetry," Riverside, 703.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty," "God's Grandeur" Riverside 620; Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est," Riverside 710; A. E. Housman, "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now," Riverside 624 (also "On the Separation of Poetry and Thought," Riverside 467); Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Spring," "Love is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink," Riverside 704-705
Handbook: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Heat"; Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring and Fall"

MODERN AMERICAN POETRY

Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," "A Noiseless
Patient Spider," Riverside 592; William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow," "This is Just to Say," "Young Woman at a Window" (also "On the Poetry Made from American Prose" and Bly's "On the Dangers of Williams's Ideas"), Riverside 675, 677-78, 680-81
CARD REPORT #3 DUE

Apr. 2 Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, Riverside 1345-1427

Apr. 16 D. H. Lawrence, "The Blind Man," Riverside 182-96; Virginia Woolf, "Solid Objects," Riverside 168-72; view Orlando
Handbook: Virginia Woolf; from Orlando

1. Papers must be computer printed on NLQ or LQ unless pre-arrangements are made, following MLA format.
2. For each day a paper or presentation is late, your grade for that assignment will fall by approximately one letter.
3. Absence: For each undocumented absence above one, 15 pts. will be deducted from your total point accumulation. (Remember: one night class is one week of regular classes.) Absences beyond one will be excused only if documentation from a dean or medical doctor is provided.
4. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. If you submit any work which is not the product of your own study and efforts, you will receive a grade of F for that work and perhaps for the course.
5. Missed quizzes may not be made up without documentation from dean or medical doctor.
6. Class Participation: The quality of your contribution to discussions and activities in class may add as much as 25 pts. to your total point accumulation.

Final grades for this course will be assessed by your percentage of points.
Scale:

	92-100% = A
	81-91%  = B
	70-80%  = C
	62-69%  = D
	0-61%   = F

*Part of Final Exam will take the place of QUIZ #4 (Arthur Miller, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce), part will be comprehensive, and part will be take-home.

Last updated on January 16

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