Updated 13 April 2003

English 206-02: American Literature II
Course Outline and Daily Schedule
Spring 2003: Mondays and Wednesdays (2-3:15; Hibbs 328)
Dr. Mangum

WEEK 1 (13, 15 January)
Course Introduction
  Robert Frost "Home Burial," 854

WEEK 2 (20, 22 January)
 Holiday Monday, 21 January
Adrienne Rich "Living in Sin," 1649
Bobbie Ann Mason "Shiloh," 1827

WEEK 3 (27, 29 January)
Raymond Carver "A Small Good Thing," 1798
Amy Tan   "Half and Half," 1872

WEEK 4 (3, 5 February)
Alice Walker "Everyday Use," 1844
Jamaica Kincaid, "Mariah," 1992
Bernard Malamud "The Magic Barrel" (SS), 295

WEEK 5 (10, 12 February)
Andre Dubus "The Fat Girl" (SS), 158
Tobias Wolff "The Liar" (SS), 495

WEEK 6 (17, 19 February)
E.L. Doctorow "Willi" (SS), 150
HOUR TEST #1: Wednesday

WEEK 7 (24, 26 February)
Jayne Anne Phillips "The Heavenly Animal" (SS), 399
Richard Wright from Black Boy, 1241
Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You
                Been?" (SS), 361

WEEK 8 (3, 5 March)
Joyce Carol Oates "Where Are You Going, Where Have You
                Been?" (SS), 361
James Baldwin "Sonny's Blues," 1462
John Cheever "The Swimmer," 1438

WEEK 9 (10, 12 March)
 Spring Vacation

WEEK 10   (17, 19 March)
Flannery O'Connor "Good Country People," 1484
Dave Smith "The roundhouse Voices," 1692
Theodore Roethke "My Papa's Waltz," 1372
James Wright "Autumn Begins in Martin's Ferry, Ohio," 1638
Sylvia Plath "Daddy," 1665
James Dickey "The Lifeguard," 1574
Sherwood Anderson "Book of the Grotesque," 881; "Adventure," 882
Jean Toomer "Karintha," 1117
Take-home Essay Test Due: Wednesday

WEEK 11 (24, 26 March)
  F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

WEEK 12 (31 March, 2 April )
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
HOUR TEST #2: Wednesday

WEEK 13 (7, 9 April)
Ernest Hemingway "Hills Like White Elephants" handout
Zora Neal Hurston from Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1301
Thomas Wolfe "An Angel on the Porch," 1210

WEEK 14 (14, 16 April)
Robert Frost  "Stopping by Woods," 870
William Carlos Williams   "Dans Russe," on Blackboard; The Red Wheelbarrow," 993
E.E. Cummings "anyone lived in a pretty how town," 1112
Langston Hughes "Harlem," 1179
Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper," 635

WEEK 15 (21, 23 April)
Emily Dickinson poem numbers 49, 67, 280, 324, 341, 435, 441, 465, 712,
Stephen Crane "The Open Boat," 723
Jack London "To Build a Fire," 755
Stephen Crane focus on "A Man Said to
the Universe," 682

WEEK 16 (28 April)
 Review

WEEKS 16 and 17: Exam Weeks (1-9 May)
Exam Day: Monday, 5 May, 1-3:50: Hour Test #3 and Essay Exam
Optional Paper Due