20th Century American Literature
ENGL 3320--001
Room: PH 321
Time: T, TH 100-225
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Office: PH 372 | Office Hours: Office Hours: TBA | E-mail: david.lavery@gmail.com | Office Phone/Voice-Mail: 615-898-5648 | Home Page: http://davidlavery.net |
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Dr. David Lavery is Professor of English at MTSU (1993- ), where he won the University's 2006 Distinguished Research Award. The author of over one hundred and fifty published essays, chapters, and reviews, he is author / co-author / editor / co-editor of over twenty books, including Joss Whedon, A Creative Portrait: From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Avengers, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural, The Essential Cult Television Reader, and The Essential Sopranos Reader. The co-convener of international conferences on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the work of Joss Whedon and on The Sopranos, co-founder of the Whedon Studies Association, and founding co-editor of the journals Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies, Critical Studies in Television, and Series/Season/Show, he has lectured around the world on the subject of television (Australia, Turkey, the UK, Portugal, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany) and has been a guest/source for the BBC, NPR, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The New York Times, A Folha de Sao Paulo (Brazil), Publica (Portugal), Information (Netherlands), AP, The Toronto Star, USA Today. From 2006-2008, he taught at Brunel University in London. |
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Class Members
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Power Points
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Week1
8/28/2012: Subject:
Introduction to the Course
8/30/2012—Subject: Realism and
Naturalism
| Reading Assignment(s):
Henry James, "The Beast in the Jungle (C477) London, “To Build a Fire”
(C1047); Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever" (C828); Upton Sinclair,
The Jungle (C1110), Edgar Lee Masters (D36); Edwin Arlington
Robinson (D40)
Week 2
9/4/2012—Subject:
Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein
| Reading
Assignment(s):
Cather, "The Sculptor's Funeral" (D45); Stein (D197,
D227)
9/6/2012—Subject:
World War I
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Reading Assignment(s):
World War I & Its Aftermath (D214)
Week 3
9/11/2012—Subject: Robert Frost | Reading Assignment(s): Frost (D230)
9/13/2012—Subject:
Susan Glaspell, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg
| Reading Assignment(s):
Glaspell, Trifles
(D252), Anderson
(D263), Sandburg (D278)
Week 4
9/18/2012—Subject:
Wallace Stevens
| Reading Assignment(s):
Stevens (D281)
9/20/2012—Subject:
William
Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound
| Reading Assignment(s):
Williams (D302), Pound (D314)
Week 5
9/25/2012:
Subject:
Modernism
| Reading
Assignment(s): Modernist Manifestos (D335); Dos Passos (D690)
9/30/2012:
Subject:
H.D., Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay
| Reading Assignment(s): H.D. (D350), Moore (D357)
Week 6
10/2/2012:
Subject:
African American Writing
| Reading
Assignment(s):
W. E. B. DuBois (C883), James
Weldon Johnson (C1009), Paul Dunbar (C1028), Claude McKay (D480), Zora Neale Hurston (D528),
Jean Toomer (D646), Sterling Brown (D864), Countee Cullen
(D892)
10/4/2012—Subject: African American Writing (continued), Langston Hughes; Reading Assignment(s): Hughes (D869)
Week 7
10/9/2012—Subject: T. S. Eliot | Reading Assignment(s): Eliot (D365)
10/11/2012—Subject:
e. e. Cummings
| Reading Assignment(s):
cummings (D636)
Week 8
10/16/2012: Fall Break (no
class)
10/18/2012—Subject: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway | Reading Assignment(s): Fitzgerald (D658), Hemingway (D824)
Week 9
10/23/2012:
Subject:
William Faulkner
| Reading
Assignment(s): Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (D698)
10/25/2012: Subject: Faulkner (continued)
Week 10
10/30/2012—
11/1/2012:
Subject:
Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke,
Elizabeth Bishop
| Reading
Assignment(s):
Warren (E28), Roethke (E37)
Week 11
11/6/2012: Subject: Tennessee Williams | Reading Assignment(s): Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (E90)
11/8/2012:
Subject:
John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Eudora Welty
| Reading
Assignment(s):
Cheever, “The Swimmer” (E156), Malamud,
“The Magic Barrel”
Week 12
11/13/2012:
Subject:
Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor
| Reading
Assignment(s):
Ellison,
The Invisble Man
(E206), Bellow, The
Adventures of Augie March (
11/15/2012:
Subject:
Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wilbur, James Dickey
| Reading Assignment(s):
Brooks (E322), Wilbur (E344), Dickey (E391)
Week 13
11/20/2012:
Subject:
Postmodernism
| Reading
Assignment(s):
Postmodern Manifestoes (E400)
11/22/2012: Thanksgiving (No Class)
Week 14
11/25/2012—Subject: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton | Reading Assignment(s): Plath (E623), Sexton (E558)
11/27/2012: Subject: Maxine Hong Kingston, Annie Dillard, Art Spiegelman | Reading Assignment(s): Kingston (E791), Dillard (E975), Spiegelman (E1057)
Week 15
12/4/2012—Subject:
Billy Collins, Mary
Oliver, Gary Snyder, Sherman
Alexie
| Reading Assignment(s): Collins
(E829),
Oliver (E698), Snyder (E596), Alexie (E1207)
Final Exam Week
12/7-13/2012