8:154 Revised Syllabus, Literature of the American Midwest

January 21st, 2009 Wednesday
introduction, course content, Midwestern history

January 26th, 2009 Monday Main Travelled Roads, 3 stories

January 28th, 2009 Wednesday Edvart Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth

February 2nd  Monday Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth

February 4th   Wednesday American Midwest: Essays on Regional History, introduction; first section, Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

February 9th Monday Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

February 11th, Wednesday Mark Twain, The War Prayer, “A Fable,” “On the Decay of The Art of Lying,” “Man’s Place in the Animal World”

February 16th  Monday Paul Laurence Dunbar; Fenton Johnson; Carl Sandburg

February 18th Wednesday Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” and “A Jury of Her Peers”; “The Outside”

February 23rd  Monday Glaspell, “The Verge,” “The Inheritors”

February 25th  Wednesday Upton Sinclair, The Jungle; topic of first paper due

March 2nd  Monday Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

March 4th  Wednesday Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
outline or précis of first paper due

March 9th  Monday Ruth Suckow Omnibus, 3 stories

March 11th  Wednesday Ruth Suckow, A Part of the Institution
spring break

March 23rd Monday essays from American Midwest by Andrew Cayton and Douglas Hunt; start Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House

March 25th Wednesday more Addams? Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter

March 30th Monday Langston Hughes, Not Without Laughter

April 1st Wednesday Guendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems

April 6th, 2009 Monday Guendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems

April 8th, 2009 Wednesday --------

April 13th, 2009 Monday Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

April 14th, 2009 Wednesday Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

April 20th, 2009 Monday  Winona LaDuke, Last Standing Woman

April 22nd, 2009 Wednesday Winona LaDuke, Last Standing Woman

April 27th, 2009 Monday Toni Morrison, Beloved

April 29th, 2009 Wednesday Toni Morrison, Beloved

May 4th, 2009 Monday  -----------

May 6th, 2009 Wednesday Rita Dove, Robert Hayden, Louise Erdrich

Exam: (take home essay) May 11th, 2009 at 7 p. m.