Course Schedule

Southern Literature:
Schedule for Readings, Requirements, and Activities

Joel Peckham

All assignments are due on the day they are listed unless otherwise noted. For Novels, Individual Page Numbers Assignments Are Forthcoming

Tuesday, January 9

Introduction to the class, Course introduction, Handout of Syllabus.

Thursday, January 11

Hand in Response to Syllabus--1-2 pages

Toomer, Introduction through "Blood Burning Moon"

Tuesday, January 16

Toomer, "Seventh Street" through "Bona and Paul"

Thursday, January 18

Presentation #1, I'll Take My Stand

Toomer, "Kabnis"
Tate, "Ode to the Confederate Dead."

Tuesday, January 23

Deadline for Paper Topic

Faulkner, "Barn Burning" "The Tall Men,"

Thursday, January 25

Presentation #2, The Mind of the South

Faulkner, "That Evening Sun," "Dry September"

Tuesday, January 30

Faulkner, "Rose for Emily," "Wash" and "Beyond," (handout)

Thursday, February 1

Presentation #3 Profession of Letters

Warren, 1-50

Tuesday, February 6

Deadline for Literary Paper Tutorial

Warren, 50-150

Thursday, February 8

Warren 150-239.

Thursday, February 15

Finish Warren

Tuesday, February 20

Presentation #4, Kreyling, chaps. 1,2,3

Warren or Williams,
Student appts. begin.

Thursday, February 22

Presentation #5, Southern Literature, The Past . . .
Presentation #6, Erin Hoope's Presentation
Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 2nd half

Tuesday, February 27

Presentation, "Literary Modernism"
Welty, "Moon Lake," "Why I Live at the PO," "A Worn Path." (handouts)

Thursday, March 1

Presentation #6 Haunted Bodies

O'Conner, "Everything that Rises Must Converge," "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Judgement Day."

Tuesday, March 6

Dickey, "Cherry Log Road," "Sled Burial," "Falling."

Thursday, March 8

Late-Term Exam
Presentation #7 Kreyling Chapter 5

Walker 1-50

Tuesday, March 13

Walker 50-200

Thursday, March 15
Finish Walker

Tuesday, March 27
Gibbons, 1-80

Thursday, March 29
Presentation #8, Kreyling Chapters 6+9

Gibbons 80- finish

Tuesday, April 3
Gaines 1-75

Thursday, April 5
Presentation #7 "Growing up Black in the Old South and the New: or, Mr. Wheat Goes with the Wind "

Gaines 75-150

Tuesday, April 10
Presentation #9 "Black Southerners, Shared Experience and Place: A Reflection." Gaines 150-finish

Thursday, April 12
Pratt, "The Segregated Heart" (Handout)
and "Walking Back Up Depot Street" through Bust of Martha Mitchell" from WBUDS.

Tuesday, April 17
Presentation #10 My Mamma's Dead Squirrel

Pratt, TBA

Thursday, April 19 CLASS CANCELLED

Tuesday, April 24
CLASS CANCELLED

Thursday, April 26
Sellers, Selected Short Story / Class Party