North Seattle Amer. Lit. Fall 2014
The American Literary Tradition
11:15am–12:30pm (75 min/class), Monday–Friday, Sept. 29–Oct. 24
Room CC1254A
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Week One:
M 9/29
Harriot, “A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia”
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T 9/30
Bradford, “Of Plymouth Plantation”
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W 10/1
Rowlandson, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration”
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TH 10/2
Bradstreet, “The Prologue”
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“The Author to Her Book”
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“Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”
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Taylor, “Prologue” to the Preparatory Meditations
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“Huswifery”
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Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”
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“To S.M.,...”
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F 10/3
Franklin, The Autobiography
Chapter IX, Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
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Week Two:
M 10/6Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life
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T 10/7Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
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W 10/8
Emerson, “The American Scholar”
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Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark”
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TH 10/9
Poe, “The Raven”
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“Ulalume”
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“The Purloined Letter”
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F 10/10
Douglass, Narrative of the Life
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Week Three:
M 10/13Thoreau, from Walden, “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”
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T 10/14
Whitman
1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass
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“Song of Myself,” sections 1–3, 15, 51
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Melville
“Bartleby, the Scrivener”
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W 10/15
Dickinson
“Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”
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“There’s a certain Slant of light”
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“After great pain, a formal feeling comes”
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“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”
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TH 10/16
Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
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Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” from The Souls of Black Folk
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F 10/17
Bierce, “Chickamauga”
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Week Four:
M 10/20
Frost
“Mending Wall”
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“The Road Not Taken”
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“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
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Stevens
“A High-Toned Old Christian Woman”
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“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
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Williams
“Spring and All”
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“The Red Wheelbarrow”
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“This Is Just to Say”
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T 10/21
Jeffers
“Shine, Perishing Republic”
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Eliot
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
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W 10/22
Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited”
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TH 10/23
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
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F 10/24
Bishop
“In the Waiting Room”
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“One Art”
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Brooks
“Ballad of Emmett Till”
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Ginsberg
“A Supermarket in California”
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