F13 - ENGL071D.01 - Core: Short Story in the US
Weekly outline
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These are a list by me of some of the key terms, concepts, and ideas that have come up in discussions of short stories this semester. Please read these along with the Karen Russell story for Monday. I'll make time to discuss any of these further if you have questions or comments. Handed out in class Friday, but here's a copy for Moodle.
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Duplicates the material at the end of the English 71D syllabus. An option for you as an alternative to writing an analytical paper on a story for assignment #2. Note that you must discuss your project and my guidelines for it with Prof. Schmidt before you proceed. But this is your chance to provide help and guidance to real teachers and students on a favorite story from our syllabus!
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Please download and/or print this file and use it to prepare for each class.
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Posted Sept. 23. Please read carefully as you plan your paper. Questions? Prof. Schmidt will be happy to speak with you.
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COURSE INTRODUCTION; IRVING; HAWTHORNE.
For full course description, course requirements, and reading and writing assignments, see the syllabus file above. Please print and/or download this file and use it to prepare for each MWF class.
Note: unless otherwise indicated, authors and stories are available in the print anthology ordered for the course, Major American Short Stories. Other course materials (such as pdfs and sound files and links) will be posted on this site.
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MELVILLE; POE; FROST
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Optional reading, but encouraged. I'll discuss this essay some in class.
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Print and/or download this pdf; read; then bring to class in one format or another.
Think of some questions for Prof. Frost, for he'll visit our class!
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GILMAN; CHOPIN; SIN FAR
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Wikipedia on the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1882.
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JAMES; CRANE; HEMINGWAY
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FAULKNER; HURSTON; FITZGERALD
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Posted Sept. 23. Please read carefully. Questions? Prof. Schmidt would be happy to speak with you.
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EITHER uploaded here on this Moodle site OR printed and turned in to the LPAC 206 mailbox
8-10pp. double-spaced, an analysis of one story from our syllabus so far. Build on class discussion but add your own well supported ideas and arguments.
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WELTY; DANTICAT
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Eudora Welty imagines the voice and motivations of the man who killed civil rights worker Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, Welty's and Evers' home town, in 1963. Published in The New Yorker, 1963.
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Pair with a classmate and select 4 authors and stories from Major American Short Stories that are not on the assigned syllabus. Read and discuss these stories in class this week. For one of your 4, you may include the Raymond Carver story uploaded here. See syllabus for further instructions and suggestions.
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"The Believer": review of Flannery O'Connor's newly published "Prayer Journal," written in her early 20s when she was a student at the famous University of Iowa program for creative writers. By novelist Marilynne Robinson. Includes a great photo of O'Connor from her student days! New York Times Book Review, Nov. 17, 2013.
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JACKSON AND BRADBURY; ROTH; ENGLANDER
Note: the Roth story is in our anthology
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WOLFF; HASLETT; RAYMOND
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SAUNDERS; PYNCHON
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Optional, but well worth your time. It's not just wise, it's hilarious:
"Down through the ages, a traditional form has evolved for this type of speech, which is: Some old fart, his best years behind him, who, over the course of his life, has made a series of dreadful mistakes (that would be me), gives heartfelt advice to a group of shining, energetic young people, with all of their best years ahead of them (that would be you)...."
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an excerpt from Pynchon's novel Against the Day (2006)
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Annotations to references in the Chums of Chance excerpt about time travel, from Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day. These are both useful and fun!
Scroll down and find the annotations, keyed to page #s from your pdf.
The annotations are from the Pynchon Wiki, a site created by Pynchon's devoted readers.
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A list of the fictitious boys' adventure novels in the Chums of Chance series mentioned in Against the Day; the site has fun illustrations as well by Harry Grant Dart, whose actual comic strip The Explorigator (1908) undoubtedly inspired Pynchon.
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YU; MOORE; EGAN
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RUSSELL. And (optional extra class) David EGGERS, "We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better"
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It appears that some students have made a short film of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves." It's definitely worth watching and is just as bizarre and beautiful as the story. But read the story first! // It's posted on Vimeo; here's the link. Thanks, Winnie Ngo!
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from the New York Times Magazine, Sept. 29, 2013
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from Metropolis: Architecture Culture Design magazine, Nov. 2013.
Might be fun to compare and contrast Eggers' story & how this article links different office designs to different historical moments from the 20th and 21st centuries, including different models of how workers were expected to work together. Inspired by a recent design competition to imagine the ideal office workspace in 2020.
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Either a second paper, or a teaching lesson plan project. See the 71D syllabus for further details and consult ahead of time with Prof. Schmidt. No extensions re this deadline for paper/project # 2. Either upload your project here OR print it and place in the LPAC 206 mailbox.
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