MW 11:15am-12:30pm
HU 108

In this course, we’ll read a number of major literary works, most of
which are thought to be essential to an understanding of the
following literary movements:  romanticism, realism, naturalism,
modernism, and postmodernism. We’ll assess the relationship between
the movements, books, and poems we’re studying, while also building
working models against which we can compare work we’ve already read
and work we will read in the future. By attempting to define the
literary movements we’re studying, we will learn something about the
strengths and weaknesses of genre criticism. We’ll talk, too, about
what features of the books we’re reading have made them seem central
to critical accounts of literary change and development.

Reading
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Norton edition).
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Bedford/St. Martins).
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. Annotated by Bonnie Kime Scott
(Harvest Books).
Michael Cunningham, The Hours (Picador).
A selection of poetry by the following authors: Byron, Coleridge,
Wordsworth, Eliot, and Langston Hughes.
A handful of essays about the works and movements we’re studying.

Books for the course will be available at Boxcar Books, 408 E. 6th
Street.

Requirements

•Two 4-6 page essays and two 6-8 page essays.  One of the 6-8 page
essays will be a revision of the one of the two 4-6 page essays. 80%
of the final grade.
•Attendance and participation in discussion and in-class activities.
Every student will bring five typed discussion questions to class
every day. Your questions will provide the base for class
discussion.10% of the final grade.
•A graded exercise designed to display your ability to find and use
information in IUCAT, WorldCat, the online Modern Language
Association International Bibliography, and a number of other online
databases. 10% of the final grade.