Syllabus

Note: the actual, living syllabus with all policies and links will be available to students via our Dropbox (to preserve the privacy of our Zoom link, etc.).
But here’s a basic schedule for your convenience:
Course Schedule
 
date
readings
Work due
2/1
Introduction, requirements, assignments 
self-introduction on Padlet
early stirrings: transitions from realism
2/4
James, What Masie Knew (1897)
chs 1-9
Shirach, “Reading the Modernist Novel”
Last day to add a course;
Last day for 75% tuition refund
2/8
James, What Masie Knew (1897)
chs 10-17
Blog post #1 due
Note: Tuesday 9/8 is last day for 50% tuition refund.
2/11 
James, What Masie Knew (1897)
chs 18-24
Last day for 50% refund
2/18 (note: no class 2/15)
James, What Masie Knew (1897)
finish
Last day to drop for 25% tuition refund;
Last day to change or declare a major or minor to be effective for Spring
2/22
Phillips, The Partagé Child’ and the Emergence of the Modernist Novel in What Maisie Knew
peak modernism: Woolf and Faulkner
2/25
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
Woolf, “On Modern Fiction”
3/1
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
3/4
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
3/8
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
3/11
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
3/15
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
3/18
midterm
3/22
As I Lay Dying (1-67)
3/25
As I Lay Dying (68-111)
4/5
As I Lay Dying (112-183)
4/8
As I Lay Dying (184-222)
4/12
As I Lay Dying (finish)
Matthews, “AILD in the Machine Age”
late modernism: McKay and West
4/15
McKay, Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929), chs 1-5
Final project research question due via blog post
4/19
McKay, Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929), chs 6-12
Snaith, “The Black Atlantic and the Modernist Novel”
4/22
McKay, Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929), chs. 13-17
Brent Hayes Edwards, “Vagabond Internationalism”
Final project simple bibliography due via blog post
4/26
McKay, Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929) finish
4/29
McKay, Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929) review
5/3
West, Day of the Locust (1939)
5/6
West, Day of the Locust (1939)
Final project annotated bibliography due
5/10
West, Day of the Locust (1939)
5/13
West, Day of the Locust (1939)
5/17
“Lightning Talks” on final projects + wrap-up
Final project due 5/20 at 5pm via Dropbox (for papers) 
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