Flanders

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Area II

(Choose one category; each category will have introductory/theoretical/contextual material to accompany the readings.)

 

A. 19th Century British and American (Brackett)

Introductory Reading/Critical Commentary (on reserve after August 15):

  • Belasco, Susan, and Linck Johnson. “Literature for a New Nation.” The Bedford Anthology of American Literature. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.

            467 – 475.

  • Belasco, Susan, and Linck Johnson. “American Literature: 1830-1865.” The Bedford Anthology of American Literature. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.

            588 – 616.

  • Henderson, Heather, and William Sharpe. “The Victorian Age.” The Longman

            Anthology of British Literature. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006.

            1099 – 1122.

  • Newman, Beth. “Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts.” Jane Eyre. Ed.

            Beth Newman. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s. 3-14.

Electronic sources:

http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/CHAP3.HTML

http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap4/CHAP4.HTML

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/19th-authors.html

 

Scholars should locate and read brief biographies of each author.

Texts:

  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  • “The Subjection of Women”; Chapter 1 – John Stuart Mill
  • Origin of the Species: Chapter 3 – Charles Darwin
  • Walden, Chapters 2,5,18 – Thoreau
  • Life in the Iron Mills – Rebecca Harding Davis
  • “The Tartarus of Maids” – Herman Melville
  • “Self Reliance” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

B. Modern Literature: 1900-1945 (Wood)

Introductory Reading/Critical Commentary:

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modernism ed. by Michael Levenson pp. 1—32.

Texts:

  • Ernest Hemingway “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”; “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
  • Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
  • Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis”
  • T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of  J. Alfred Prufrock”
  • William Butler Yeats “Lake Isle of Innisfree”; “Among School Children”; “The Second Coming”
  • Gertrude Stein “Picasso”
  • Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks On a Road

 

  1. Contemporary: 1945—present (Wood)

Introductory Reading/Critical Commentary:

  • Hoberek, Andrew. "Introduction: After Postmodernism." Twentieth Century Literature 53.3 (Fall 2007): 233-247.
  • “American Literature since 1945” in The Bedford Anthology of American Literature: Volume II: 1865 to the Present eds. Susan Belasco and Linck Johnson, 2008. pp.1038—1078.

Texts:

  • Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
  • Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
  • Tim O’Brien “The Things They Carried”
  • Flannery O’Connor “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
  • Marilynne Robinson Housekeeping
  • Sharon Olds, “Rite of Passage”, “I Go Back to May 1937”, "The One Girl at the Boys Party”
  • Billy Collins, “Litany”, “Paradelle for Susan”, “Introduction to Poetry”

 

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Area III

(Choose one category; each category will have introductory/theoretical/contextual material to accompany the readings.)

 

    1. American Ethnic (Williams)

Introductory Reading/Critical Commentary:

  • Gilroy, Paul.  Chapter One, “The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity,” The Black Atlantic.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993,

pp. 3-40.

Texts:

  • Equaino, Odaudah, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Odaudah Equiano
  • Conde, Maryse, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
  • hooks, bell, Bone Black
  • Cullen, Countee, “Heritage”
  • Hughes, Langston, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Mulatto” and “I, too, Sing America
  • Brooks, Gwedolyn:  “kitchenette building,” and “a song in the front yard”
  • Baldwin, James, “Sonny’s Blues”
  • Morrison, Toni, “Recitatif”

 

    1. Women’s Literature (Brackett)

Introductory Reading/Critical Commentary: (on reserve after August 15):

 

  • Deshazer, Mary K. “Modernist Literature.” The Longman Anthology of Women’s      Literature. New York: Longman, 2001. 1385 – 1400.
  • Deshazer, Mary K. “Contemporary Literature.” The Longman Anthology of Women’s            Literature. New York: Longman, 2001. 1401 – 1418.
  • Showalter, Elaine. “Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness.” The Longman Anthology of          Women’s Literature. Ed. Mary K. Deshazer. New York: Longman, 2001. 352-

374.

  • Yoder, Jr. Edwin M. “Otelia's Umbrella: Jane Austen and Manners in a Small World.”

Sewanee Review 116.4 (fall 2008): 605-611. ; available on EBSCOhost.

Uphaus, Robert W. “Jane Austen and Female Reading.” Studies in the Novel 19.3 (Fall 1987): 334 – 345.; available on EBSCOhost.

 

Electronic Resources:

http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

 

Scholars should locate and read brief biographies of each author

 

Texts:

  • “No Name Woman” Maxine Hong Kingston; available online at http://chake.chinatefl.com/class/No%20Name%20Woman.doc 
  • A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (excerpts) – Mary Wollstonecraft (available in the library on reserve after August 15)
  • “Writing and Motherhood” – Susan Rubin Suleiman (available on reserve in the library after August 15)
  • Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen; available online at
  • http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/161
  • “Fleur” – Louise Erdrich (available on reserve in the library after August 15)

 

 

    1. Postcolonial Literature (Williams)

Introductory Reading/Critical Commentary:

  • James Clifford, Routes:  Chapter 10, “Diasporas,” in Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century.   Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. 245-277.

 

Texts:

  • Lessing, Doris, The Grass is Singing
  • McBride, James, The Color of Water
  • Walcott, Derek, “The Sea is History” and “Elegy”
  • Goodison, Lorena, “Guinea Woman”
  • Nancy Morejon, “Black Woman”
  • Bennett, Louise, “Colonization in Reverse”
  • Yehoshua, A.B., “Facing the Forests”
  • Kanafani, Ghassan, “Men in the Sun”
  • Mahfquz, Naguib, “Zaabalawi”

 

 

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Writing Concentration Majors--English Comprehensive Exam Subject Areas

You must choose one category (A or B or C) from EACH of the two Writing areas and one category from the Literature areas.

 

Area I

(Choose one category; each category will have introductory/theoretical/contextual material to accompany the readings.)

 

A.     Classical Rhetoric (Donnelli)

Introductory Reading/Critical Commentary:

·         Corbett, Edward P.J., and Robert J. Connors, eds. “A Brief Explanation of Classical Rhetoric.” Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
15-16.

·         Bizzell, Patricia, and Bruce Herzberg, eds. Introduction. The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 2nd Ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. 1-36.

Texts:

·         Readings from Bizzell and Herzberg’s anthology, The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present

1.       From Dissoi Logoi (Anon),

2.       Gorgias (Plato),

3.       Phadedrus (Plato),

4.       From Rhetoric (Aristotle),

5.       From Institutes of Oratory (Quintilian).   

 

o        Readings from Corbett and Connors’ Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

 

1.       “The Five Canons of Rhetoric,”

2.       “The Three Kinds of Persuasive Discourse,”

3.       “The Relevance and Importance of Rhetoric for Our Times.”

 

 

B.    Modern and Postmodern Rhetoric (Atkinson)

Texts:

·         Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: Technologizing the Word

·         Stanley Fish, “Rhetoric” in Doing What Comes Naturally, pp. 471-502 

·         Deborah Tannen, You Just Don’t Understand: Men and Women in Conversation

 

 

C.    Women’s Rhetorical Tradition (Donnelli)

Introductory Material/Critical Commentary:

·         Lunsford, Andrea. Introduction. “On Reclaiming Rhetorica.” Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995. 3-8.

Texts:

o        Readings from Bizzell and Herzberg’s anthology, The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present

1.       Encomium of Helen (Gorgias in Bizzell and Herzberg anthology),

2.       “Biography of Aspasia” (Bizzell and Herzberg)

3.       From “Woman and Temperance” (Frances Willard)

4.       From “Professions for Women” and “Women and Fiction” (Virginia Woolf)

 

o        Readings from Lunsford’s anthology Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition

1.       “Daring to Dialogue: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rhetoric of Feminist Dialogics”
(Jamie Barlowe)

2.       “Sojourner Truth: A Practical Public Discourse” (Drema Lipscomb)

3.       “Julia Kristeva: Rhetoric and the Woman as Stranger” (Suzanne Clark)

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Area II

(Choose one category; each category will have introductory/theoretical/contextual material to accompany the readings.)

 

A.     Theories of Composing (Donnelli)

Introductory Material/Critical Commentary:

·         Miller, Susan, ed. Norton Anthology of Composition Studies. Introduction. New York: Norton, 2008.

 

Texts:

o        Unless otherwise indicated, these readings are from Miller’s anthology, Norton Anthology of Composition Studies

1.       Parker, William Riley. “Where Do English Departments Come From?”

2.       Foster, “What Are We Talking About When We Talk about Composition?”

3.       Fulkerson, Richard. “Four Philosophies of Composition.”

4.       Lunsford, Andrea, and Lisa Ede. “Representing Audience.”

5.       Miller, Susan, and Dawn Shepherd. “Genre Analysis of the Weblog.”

6.       Bartholomae, David. “Inventing the University.” When a Writer Can’t Write: Studies in Writer’s Block. Ed. Mike Rose. New York: Guilford, 1985. 134-65.

7.       Curzan, Anne and Michael Adams. “Stylistics.” How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction. New York: Pearson, 2006. 281-319.

8.       Sommers, Nancy. “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Adult Writers.” College Composition and Communication 31.4 (1980): 378-88.

 

B.    Nonfiction Prose (Ockerstrom)

Introductory Material/Critical Commentary:

·        Lopate, Philip. “Introduction.” In The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from The Classical Era to the Present. Ed., Philip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books, 1995: xiii-liv.

     Texts:

·        Montaigne, Michel, “Of Books.” In The Art of the Personal Essay. Ed., Philip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books, 1995: 46-57.

·        Suleri, Sara. “Meatless Days,” in The Art of the Personal Essay, p. 459-475.

·        V. Woolf, “Street Haunting,” in The Art of the Personal Essay, p. 256-265.

·        Hampl, Patricia. I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory. NY: Norton, 2000.

 

C.    Autobiography and Life Writing (Ockerstrom)

 

Introductory Material/Critical Commentary:

 

  • Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Read chapters 1-4.

Texts:

  • Boswell, James and Samuel Johnson. Journal of a Year in the Hebrides. London and NY: Penguin.
  • Brittain, Vera. Testament of Youth. London, Penguin. Reissued 1994.