English 2204 Schedule

Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus
English 2204: Short Stories
Summer 2007 / Section 01

Tentative Schedule

Note: For every author and story assigned, also read that author's biography and perspective.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007 -- Introduction to the Course

Syllabus, Schedule, Writing Assignments
Participant Information Sheet, Introductions
What is Literature? Why do we read it? How do we read it?
Lectures -- The History of the Short Story and The Elements of Fiction
Reading, Discussion, Analysis, Evaluation -- Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"

Thursday, June 7, 2007 -- Romanticism ... Gothic Settings and Tormented Characters (35+ pages)

Edgar Allan Poe -- "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- "Young Goodman Brown"
The Art of the Short Story (3-6)
The Elements of Short Fiction (849-862)
Critical Approaches to Literature (878-879)
Reader-Response Criticism (897-898)

Friday, June 8, 2007 -- Last Day to Drop for 100% Refund

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 -- Realism and Naturalism ... and Men (48+ pages)

Herman Melville -- "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Stephen Crane -- "The Open Boat"
Historical Criticism (884)
Psychological Criticism (887-889)

Thursday, June 14, 2007 -- Realism and Naturalism ... and Women (31+ pages)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Kate Chopin -- "The Storm"
Willa Cather -- "Paul's Case"

Friday, June 15, 2007 -- (optional) -- ARCC professor and short-fiction writer, Scott Wrobel, has a reading at the Loft Literary Center in downtown Minneapolis at 7:00 p.m. -- the fee is $5.00 for Loft non-members -- for directions, go to: http://www.loft.org

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 -- NO CLASS -- Professor Representing the College at a Teaching Seminar

Thursday, June 21, 2007 -- NO CLASS -- Professor Representing the College at a Teaching Seminar

Read Henry James' novella, Daisy Miller (separate volume) -- and his biography and perspective in the anthology
Read Gender Criticism (895-897)
Draft Critical Essay

Tuesday, June 26, 2007 -- A Novella ... and the PEER REVIEW

Discuss Henry James' novella, Daisy Miller (separate volume)
Discuss Gender Criticism
Peer Review for the Critical Essay -- bring four (4) copies of a complete draft

Thursday, June 28, 2007 -- Modernism and Southern Fiction ... and the MIDTERM EXAM (22+ pages)

William Faulkner -- "Barn Burning"
Eudora Welty -- "Why I Live at the P.O."
Midterm In-Class Exam (one hour)

Tuesday, July 3, 2007 -- Modernism and Short Fiction Set Outside the United States ... and CRITICAL ESSAYS DUE (31+ pages)

Katherine Anne Porter -- "Flowering Judas"
Ernest Hemingway -- "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- "Babylon Revisited"
Biographical Criticism (881-882)
Mythological Criticism (890-892)

Thursday, July 5, 2007 -- NO CLASS -- The College Extended the 4th of July Break

Read Jon Hassler's novel, Staggerford (separate volume)

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 -- A Minnesota Novel

Discuss Jon Hassler's novel, Staggerford (separate volume)

Thursday, July 12, 2007 -- African-American Short Fiction (30+ pages)

James Baldwin -- "Sonny's Blues"
Alice Walker -- "Everyday Use"
Sociological Criticism (892-893)

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 -- Last Day to Withdraw -- "Minimalist" Short Fiction (38+ pages)

Bobbie Ann Mason -- "Shiloh"
Raymond Carver -- "Cathedral" and "A Small Good Thing"
Formalist Criticism (879-881)

Thursday, July 19, 2007 -- What Should We Call It ... Science Fiction and Fantasy? (19+ pages)

John Cheever -- "The Swimmer"
Ursula K. Le Guin -- "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
Leslie Marmon Silko -- "The Man to Send Rain Clouds"
Cultural Studies Criticism (901-904)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 -- "Flash" Fiction ... and PRESENTATIONS ... and CREATIVE REWRITES DUE (10+ pages)

"Flash" Stories -- to be determined
Presentations

Thursday, July 26, 2007 -- PRESENTATIONS ... and the FINAL EXAM

Presentations
Final In-Class Exam (one hour)
Course Evaluations