Week 1

Jun. 2

Introduction: Creating Culture

Reading

• Alexis de Tocqueville 1805–1859

  • Democracy in America

Week 2

Jun. 9

Transatlantic Traffic

Reading

• Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903; see also e-text at U of Adelaide)

  • Harry Levin, "Introduction" (pp. 7–29)

  • Henry James (biography)

  • Henry James, "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

  • Richard D. Hathaway, "Ghosts at the Windows: Shadow and Corona in The Ambassadors," The Henry James Review (1997; scroll down the page)

  • The Ladder: A Henry James Website

  • A Hyper-Concordance to the Works of Henry James

  • The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites

  • The Henry James Review

  • Henry James (15 April1843 - 28 February1916)

• Realism in American Literature, 1860–1890

Week 3

Jun. 16

An Awakening

Reading

• Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio (1919)

  • Irving Howe, "Introduction"

  • Monika Fludernik, "Winesburg, Ohio: The Apprenticeship of George Willard," Amerikastudien 32 (1987)

  • The American Novel: Sherwood Anderson

  • Irving Howe, "A Fair and Sweet Town" and "The Book of the Grotesque" in Sherwood Anderson: A Biographical and Critical Study (1951)

  • The Sherwood Anderson Foundation

    • Sherwood Anderson, A Brief Biography 1876–1941

    • The Sherwood Anderson Review

• Images of American Radicalism: Cover Illustrations from The Masses 1913–1917

• Regional Modernism

  • Scott Herring, "Regional Modernism: A Reintroduction" (2009)

  • Marjorie Pryse, "Afterword: Regional Modernism and Transnational Regionalism" (2009)

• American Naturalism

  • American Naturalism: A Brief Introduction

  • Naturalism in American Literature

  • 1890s–1920s Naturalism

Week 4

Jun. 23

Lost and Found

Reading

• Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)

  • Linda Wagner-Martin, "Introduction" (2002)

  • George Plimpton, "An Interview with Ernest Hemingway" (1958)

  • Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (links)

  • About Hemingway (with photos)

• Jazz Age Culture Part I, Part II, and Part III (good links)

Week 5

Jun. 30

Lost and Found

Reading

• Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)

  • David Tomkins, "The 'Lost Generation' and the Generation of Loss:
    Ernest Hemingway’s Materiality of Absence and The Sun Also Rises" (2008)

  • Scott Donaldson, "Humor in The Sun Also Rises" (1999)

  • Hemingway on War and Its Aftermath

  • Carlos Baker, Hemingway, the Writer as Artist (1972)

  • Banquet Speech (with audio clip)

  • Sample student research paper: Aline Smith, "The Iceberg of Lady Brett Ashley: Criticisms, Praise, and Misinterpretations" (2007)

Week 6

Jul. 7

No class (Asalhapuja Day)

Week 7

Jul. 14

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)

Reading

• William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)

  • As I Lay Dying

  • As I Lay Dying: Commentary (see also Bibliography)

  • The William Faulkner Society: Resources

  • David Minter, "Recognitions,"  William Faulkner: His Life and Work (1997) 113–36.

  • Student Companion to William Faulkner

  • Sample student paper: Yonjae Jung, "Words and Images in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying" (1988)

Discussion Leader: Thanis Bunsom

Week 8

Jul. 21

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)

Reading

• William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930)

  • Dorothy J. Hale, "'As I Lay Dying's' Heterogeneous Discourse" (1989)

  • A Companion to Faulkner Studies

  • Elizabeth M. Kerr, William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha (1983)

  • William Faulkner on the Web

    • People, Places, and Events: A Faulkner Glossary

    • William Faulkner Bibliographies

  • William Faulkner (biography with photographs)

  • Online Resources (annotated links)

  • Faulkner's Rowan Oak

• Howard Zinn, "Surprises" (1980)

Discussion Leader: Supika Kamalanavin

Week 9

Jul. 28

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Reading

• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

  • Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

  • Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

  • Zora Neale Hurston, "Characteristics of Negro Expressions" (1934)

  • The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive

    • Contemporary Reviews

    • Biography of Hurston's Life

  • Zora Neale Hurston (biography and links to online resources)

• William R. Nash, "Harlem Renaissance" (pdf)

Final paper progress critique

Week 10

Aug. 4

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Reading

• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

  • David Kadlec, "Zora Neale Hurston and the Federal Folk" (2000)

  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Zora Neale Hurston and the Speakerly Text," The Signifying Monkey (1989)

  • W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) [Read "The Forethought," "Of Our Spiritual Strivings," "Of the Dawn of Freedom," "Of the Sons of Master and Man," and "Of the Sorrow Songs"]

  • Zora Neale Hurston (official site)

  • Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) (biography)

  • Zora Neale Hurston (annotated links to scholarly articles and student papers/theses on Their Eyes)

Discussion Leader: Santichai Preechaboonyarit

Week 11

Aug. 11

Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1951)

Reading

• Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1951)

  • Jack Kerouac Reads from On the Road (the last page; 2:38 min.)

  • Jack Kerouac (bio)

  • Drive, He Wrote

  • Still Vital, ‘On the Road’ Turns 50 (2007)

  • You Don't Know Jack (2007)

  • "Beating time: Configurations of Temporality in Jack Kerouac's On the Road"

  • The Beat Generation and the Sixties: A Guide to Web Resources

  • Lecture 8 and Lecture 9 – Jack Kerouac, On the Road (audio and video with transcript of Prof. Hungerford's lectures)

  • Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac On the Road @ New York Public Library

  • Jack Kerouac on writing (pdf version also available)

    • "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose"

    • Jack Kerouac, "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose"

Week 12

Aug. 18

N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (1968)

Reading

• N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (1968)

  • Kenneth M. Roemer, "N. Scott Momaday: Biographical, Literary, and Multicultural Contexts"

  • Navajo Night Chant

    • Navajo Night Chant (text and interlinear translation)

    • Navajo Night Chant (excerpt of chant text)

    • Spiritual Perspectives: Navajo Night Chant (by Johnson Dennison)

  • Kiowa Indians

    • Kiowa

    • Kiowa Indians

    • The Texas Kiowa Indians (with images)

    • Kiowa Voices

  • Native Americans and World War II

    • Thomas D. Morgan, "Native Americans in World War II"

    • Native Americans in WWII (timeline)

    • 20th Century Warriors: Native American Participation in the United States Military

      • Indians in the War 1945

  • Abel

    • Genesis 4:2–11

    • Abel (etymology)

    • Abel – Profile of Abel from the Old Testament Book of Genesis

  • Native Americans

    • Native Americans (links to online resources)

Discussion Leader: Darintip Chansit

Week 13

Aug. 25

Michael Cunningham, The Hours (1998)

Reading

• Michael Cunningham, The Hours (1998)

  • Study Guide

Discussion Leader: Preeyakit Buranasin

Week 14

Sep. 1

Final Paper Presentation and Critique

PowerPoint presentation guidelines:

• Developing Your PowerPoint Presentation

• PowerPoint Guidelines

Writing help:

• The Essentials of Graduate Writing

• Some Matters of Form (the writing and formatting of English papers; pdf file)

• Writing Prose (pdf file)

• Sources and Citation (pdf file)

Sessions

1. Dawn in The Sun Also Rises and House Made of Dawn

1:00–1:20 p.m.

Presiding: Darintip Chansit

Speaker: Thanis Bunsom

Respondents:

1. Santichai Preechaboonyarit

2. Supika Kamalanavin

3. Preeyakit Buranasin

2. Surveillance: The Cause That Drives Virginia and Richard to Suicide and Laura to Leave Her Family

1:25–1:35 p.m.

Presiding: Santichai Preechaboonyarit

Speaker: Preeyakit Buranasin

Respondents:

1. Supika Kamalanavin

2. Darintip Chansit

3. Thanis Bunsom

3. The Absence of the Mother Figure and the Child's Struggle to Survive in The Hours

1:40–2:00 p.m.

Presiding: Thanis Bunsom

Speaker: Supika Kamalanavin

Respondents:

1. Darintip Chansit 

2. Preeyakit Buranasin

3. Santichai Preechaboonyarit

4. Self-Fulfillment in Winesburg, Ohio

2:05–2:25 p.m.

Presiding: Supika Kamalanavin

Speaker: Darintip Chansit

Respondents:

1. Preeyakit Buranasin 

2. Santichai Preechaboonyarit

3. Thanis Bunsom

5. Janie's True Self and Dream

2:30–2:50 p.m.

Presiding: Preeyakit Buranasin

Speaker: Santichai Preechaboonyarit

Respondents:

1. Thanis Bunsom

2. Supika Kamalanavin

3. Darintip Chansit 

6. Potluck

2:55–3:30 p.m.

Spaghetti and soft drinks (Preeyakit); savory (Supika); wine (from The Sun Also Rises; Thanis); apple pie and ice-cream (the pie is homemade, the ice-cream isn't; in tribute to Sal Paradise's favorite food from On the Road; A. Puckpan); brownies (Darintip)

Week 15

Sep. 8

Michael Cunningham, The Hours (1998)

Reading

• Michael Cunningham, The Hours (1998)

  • Study Guide

  • Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Discussion Leader: 

Week 16

Sep. 15

Review

Final paper due (7–10 pp.)

Writing help:

• The Essentials of Graduate Writing

• Some Matters of Form (the writing and formatting of English papers; pdf file)

• Writing Prose (pdf file)

• Sources and Citation (pdf file)

Week 17

Sep. 19

Final Exam (8:30–11:30 a.m., BRK 314)

Review:

• Robert Scholes, "High and Low in Modernist Criticism," Paradoxy of Modernism (2005)

• William R. Nash, "Harlem Renaissance" (pdf file)

Exam help:

• Writing Exam Essays

• Pointers for Taking Essay Tests

• Writing Essay Exams (pdf file)

• Essay Exam Preparation (pdf file)

• Essay Test Writing Tips