Tentative Course Schedule

Writing & Sexual Politics: Madwomen

Spring 2015

Mondays Wednesdays
Week 1: January 21 - Dickinson
First Day of Class!
Introduction
Dickinson Exercise

Week 2: January 26 & 28 - Dickinson

Due: Complete Online Plagiarism Test:
http://plagiarism.arts.cornell.edu/tutorial/index.cfm
Required Readings (please print):
Emily Dickinson Poems - (by first line)
Available via: http://www.bartleby.com/113/
• I’m wife; I’ve finished that,
• Wild nights! Wild nights
• The soul selects her own society
• “Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him—
• She rose to his requirement, dropped
• My worthiness is all my doubt
Due Friday, January 30th: Diagnostic Essay
Required Readings (please print):
Emily Dickinson Poems – (by first line)
Available via: http://www.bartleby.com/113/
• If I should die
• I felt a funeral in my brain
• There’s a certain slant of light
• I died for beauty, but was scarce
• I heard a fly buzz when I died
• It was not death, for I stood up
• Because I could not stop for Death

Available via Poetry Foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/237186
• My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun
Week 3: February 2 & 4 – Mary Shelley
Required Readings: Required Readings:
Frankenstein: Preface, Volume 1: Letters 1-4 Frankenstein: TBA
(on Blackboard) Madwoman in the Attic: Preface to
the First Edition

Week 4: February 9 & 11– Mary Shelley

Required Readings: Frankenstein: TBA
Frankenstein: TBA

Week 5: February 18 - Virginia Woolf

February Break Required Readings:
Mrs. Dalloway, Pages 1-64
Week 6: February 23 & 25 – Virginia Woolf
Due: Essay 2 Required Readings:
Mrs. Dalloway, Pages 103-139
Required Readings:
Mrs. Dalloway, Pages 64- 103

 
 

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 Tentative Course Schedule
Writing & Sexual Politics: Madwomen
Spring 2015

 
Week 7: March 2 & 4 – Virginia Woolf
VIDEO SCREENING: THE HOURS
Required Readings: Required Readings
Mrs. Dalloway, Pages 139-165 Mrs. Dalloway: Pages 165- End

Week 8: March 9 & 11 - Sylvia Plath

Required Readings: Due: Essay 3
The Bell Jar, Chapters 1 -4 Required Readings:
The Bell Jar, Chapters 5-10
Week 9: March 16 & 18 – Sylvia Plath
Required Readings: Required Readings:
The Bell Jar: Chapters 11 - 13 The Bell Jar Chapters 14 - End

Week 10: March 23 & 25 – Plath & Pipher

Required Readings: Due: Essay 4
Selected Poems from Sylvia Plath (handout) Selections from Reviving Ophelia by Mary
Pipher (handout)

Week 11: March 30 & April 1

SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK
Week 12: April 6 & 8 – Anne Sexton
TBA Required Readings:
Transformations: up through “Godfather Death”
Week 13: April 13 & 15 – Anne Sexton
Required Readings: Required Readings:
Transformations: up through “One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Transformations: to the end
Three Eyes”

Week 14: April 20 & 22 – Ntozake Shange

Required Readings: Due: Essay 5
for colored girls: intro + up through “I’m a poet Required Readings:
who” for colored girls: up through “pyramid”

Week 15: April 27 & 29 – Ntozake Shange

Required Readings: Group Work / Presentation Prep
for colored girls: to end

Week 16: May 4 & 6

PRESENTATIONS LAST DAY OF CLASS

PRESENTATIONS & EVALS

 
 

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