Reading

    Bressler
       Chapter 10 Cultural Poetics (or New
            Historicism) and Chapter 11, 
            Cultural Studies 

    Fictions
       "Vengeful Creditor," by Chinua 
            Achebe, p. 153

Writing
       None

Reading

    Bressler
       Chapter 9, Marxism

    Fictions
       "The Sky is Gray," by Earnest 
            Gaines, p. 533

Writing

    Response Paper

Reading

    Bressler
       None

    Fictions
       "The Destructors," by Graham 
            Greene, p. 607

Writing

    Response Paper

Reading

    Bressler
       None

    Fictions
       None

    "Sula"  

       Read to page 111       

Writing

    None

Reading

    Bressler
       Chap 8, Feminism, p. 142

    Fictions
       None

       "Sula," by Toni Morrison--read
           first one-third of novel      

Writing

    None

Reading

    Bressler
        Chap 7, Psychoanalytic
            Criticism

    Fictions

       "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne
            Jewett, p. 706
               

Writing

Write a one and one half page response paper

Reading

   Fictions
      "A Woman on a Roof," by 
         Doris Lessing, p. 804 

      "The Lottery," by Shirley 
          Jackson, p. 680

Doris Lessing (1919-)

Shirley Jackson (1919-1965)

Reading

    Bressler
        Chap 6. Deconstruction

    Fictions
        "Wild Swans," by Alice Munro, 
             p. 927       

Writing

First Essay

Reading

    Bressler
        None.

    Fictions
        "Revelation," by Flannery
             O'Connor, p. 979

        "A Cask of Amontillado," by
              Edgar Allen Poe, p. 554 

Writing

Write a one and one half page response paper applying structuralism (Bressler, chap 5) on one of today's stories.

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

Reading

    Bressler
        Chap 5, p. 75, Structuralism

    Fictions
        "Phantom Palace," by Isabel
              Allende, p. 174

        "A Very Old Man with
              Enormous Wings," by
              Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 
              p. 554 

Writing

Write a one and one half page response paper.

Isabel Allande (1942-)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-)

Reading

    Bressler
        None!

    Fictions
        "Roman Fever," by Edith Wharton,
              p. 1187

        "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,"
              by Katherine Anne Porter 
              p. 1017 

Writing

Write a one and one half page response paper.

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

Reading

    Bressler
        Chap 4, p. 55, Reader-Response
            Criticism
        Get started on Chap 5, p. 75,
            Structuralism 

    Fictions
        "A Worn Path," by Eudora Welty,
            p. 1174
        "Everyday Use," by Alice Walker,
            p. 1151 

Writing

Write a one and one half page response paper.

Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

Alice Walker (1944-)

Reading

    Bressler 
        Chap 1, pgs 1-15, Defining
            Criticism, Theory and Literature 
        Chap 2, pgs 16-21 and pgs 34-35,
            A Historical Survey of Literary
            Criticism
        Chap 3, pgs 37-49, New Criticism

    Fictions

        "The Lesson" by Toni Cade
            Bambara, p. 238

Writing

Write a response paper, about 1 and one half pages long, as either a response to the Bressler reading, or as an application of Bressler to "The Lesson."