Wednesday, May 4

Class Wrap-Up

Date and Time of Final to be Scheduled by Purdue; Check listings

Monday, May 2

Invisible Man pgs. 258 – end
Norton Anthology pgs. 803 – 810

Friday, April 29

Invisible Man pgs. 193 – 257
Norton Anthology pgs. 789 – 802

Wednesday, April 27

Invisible Man pgs. 1 – 192
Norton Anthology pgs. 769 – 788

Monday, April 25

Exam 3: The Short Story

Friday, April 21

Norton Anthology pgs. 414-452

• "The Water People" – Rudolfo Anaya
• "Sánchez" – Richard Dokey
• "The Last of the Menu Girls" – Denise Chávez

Review for Exam

Wednesday, April 19

Norton Anthology pgs. 454-477

• "Araby" – James Joyce
• "Gorilla, My Love" – Toni Cade Bambara
• "Boys and Girls" – Alice Munro

Monday, April 17

Norton Anthology pgs. 362-410

• "The Lame Shall Enter First" – Flannery O’Connor
• "Everything That Rises Must Converge" – Flannery O’Connor
• Passages from Essays and Letters – Flannery O’Connor

Friday, April 14

Norton Anthology pgs. 768-788

• Process

Wednesday, April 12

Norton Anthology pgs. 757-768

• Critical Approaches

Monday, April 10

Norton Anthology pgs. 735-753

• Writing About Fiction

Discuss Second Paper

Friday, April 7

Norton Anthology pgs. 590-608

• "Barn Burning" – William Faulkner
• "The Management of Grief" – Bharati Mukherjee

Wednesday, April 5

Norton Anthology pgs. 569-90

• “The Most Dangerous Game” – Richard Connell

Monday, April 3

Exam 2: The Novel

Friday, March 31

Review for the Test

Wednesday, March 29

Pride and Prejudice – pgs. 234-254

Monday, March 27

Pride and Prejudice – pgs. 195-234

Friday, March 24

Pride and Prejudice – pgs. 176-195

Wednesday, March 22

Pride and Prejudice – pgs. 158-176

Monday, March 20

Pride and Prejudice – pgs. 51-158

Friday, March 9

Pride and Prejudice – pgs. 37-51
Paper #1 Due

Wednesday, March 7

Pride and Prejudice – pgs. vii-36

Monday, March 5

Norton Anthology pgs. 546-566

• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Friday, March 2

Norton Anthology pgs. 527-546

• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Wednesday, February 28

Norton Anthology pgs. 504-527

• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

Monday, February 26

Norton Anthology pgs. 212-217; 323-328
Discuss First Paper

Friday, February 23

Exam 1: Basics of Fiction

Wednesday, February 21

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 296-321

• “The Watcher” – Guy Vanderhaeghe

Review for Test

Monday, February 19

Norton Anthology pgs. 482-503

• “The Story of an Hour” – Kate Chopin
• “A Very Short Story” – Ernest Hemingway
• “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” – Gabriel Garciá Márquez
• “Girl” – Jamaica Kincaid
• “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” – Yasunari Kawabata
• “Form as Context”

Friday, February 16

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 279-296

• “Love Medicine” – Louise Erdrich

Wednesday, February 14

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 246-278

• “The Secret Sharer” – Joseph Conrad

Monday, February 12

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 218-244

• “How Much Land Does a Man Need” – Leo Tolstoy
• “Her First Ball” – Katherine Mansfield
• “A Souvenir of Japan” – Angela Carter

Monday, February 5

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 186-211

• “Young Goodman Brown” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• “The Loons” – Margaret Laurence
• “Janus” – Ann Beattie

Friday, February 2

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 172-184

• “The Lady with the Dog” – Anton Chekhov

Wednesday, January 31

Discuss Norton Anthology 148-171

• “A Rose for Emily” – William Faulkner
• “A Pair of Tickets” – Amy Tan

Monday, January 29

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 127-145

• “Our Friend Judith” – Doris Lessing
• “A Conversation with my Father” – Grace Paley

Friday, January 26

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 117-127

• “Fenstad’s Mother” – Charles Baxter

Wednesday, January 24

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 103-117

• “Why I Live at the P.O.” – Eudora Welty

Monday, January 22

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 82-100

• “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” – Ambrose Bierce
• “Blow-Up” – Julio Cortázar

Friday, January 19

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 72-82

• “The Cask of Amontillado” – Edgar Allan Poe

Wednesday, January 17

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 26-71

• “Happy Endings” – Margaret Atwood
• “The Country Husband” – John Cheever
• “Sonny’s Blues” – James Baldwin

Friday, January 12

Discuss Norton Anthology pgs. 3-13

• "The Zebra Storyteller" - Spencer Holst
• "No One's a Mystery" - Elizabeth Tallent
• "The Jewelry" - Guy de Maupassant

Class Description

Using short works and novels, this course explores both the artistic and intellectual range of modern and contemporary fiction as well as particular structural and stylistic patterns that have developed over time. It also requires students to analyze and discuss these works orally and in writing. We will spend the majority of time in class going over the works; keeping up with reading is essential. Students should be prepared to read at least 100 pages a week.