Living Art, Making Fiction
updated 12/3/04
ENGL 090-03: Fall Semester 2004:
Syllabus
MWF
11:00-11:52 in O'Leary 309
R 7:00-8:52 in various places
Robert Love Taylor
Hours MWF 2:00-3:30 or by appointment
Office: Carnegie 201
email:rtaylor@bucknell.edu
Common Hours:Schedule
Note: Journal entries are
turned in each
Friday. For journal guidelines, click
here.
Remember to turn in your
corrected
exercises (due on the class period following their return to you). For
a good
review of punctuation, click
here. And here is the key
to
abbreviations for mechanical errors.
For information about the
writers we're
reading, click on their names (underlined) in the syllabus below.
August
25 Nemerov,
"Storm Windows" (click here for the poem).
27 Baldwin,
"Sonny's Blues"; Writing: Places 1- 3
30 Cather, "Paul's
Case"; Workshop
September
1 Writing: Places 4, 5, People 1, 2; Workshop
3 Workshop
6 Reading: Kafka,
"The Metamorphosis"; Writing: People 3, 4
8 Workshop
10 Workshop
13 Oates, "Where
Are You
Going, Where Have You Been?" Writing: Action 1, 2
15 Workshop
17 Workshop
20 O'Brien,"The
Things They Carried"; Writing: Action 4, 6
22 Workshop
24 Hemingway,
"Hills Like White Elephants"; Workshop
27 O'Connor,
"Everything That Rises Must Converge"; Carver, "Cathedral";
Writing: Dialogue 1
29 Workshop
October
1 Workshop
4 The Garden of Eden, pp. 3-145. Hand in Dialogue
exercise 4.
6 Workshop
8 Workshop; Hand in portfolios for mid-term evaluation
11 The Garden of Eden,concluded
13 Workshop;
Monologue
1 due
15 Workshop
18 Workshop
20 No class
22 Workshop; Monologue
2 due. Reading: Melville,
"Bartleby the Scrivener"
25 Fall Break
27 Paley,
"A Conversation with My Father"; Joyce,
"Araby"
29 Workshop
November
1 Story
1 due
3 Workshop: Story One: Brittany,
Carly, Annie
5 Workshop: Story One: Sarah, Alex, Jake
8 Updike,
"A & P"; Workshop: Story One: Emily, Caroline
10 Workshop: Story One: Anthony, Robin, Diana
12 Porter,
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"; Chopin,
"The Story of an Hour"
15 Steinbeck, "The
Chrysanthemums"; Gilman,
"The
Yellow Wallpaper"
17 Story
2 due ; Moore,
"How to Be a Writer"; Bambara, "The Lesson"
19 Workshop: Story Two;
see Discussion Leaders
22 Workshop
24 Thanksgiving Break
26 Thanksgiving Break
29 Workshop
December
1 Workshop
3 Workshop
6 Chekhov,
"Lady with the Dog"; Walker,
"Everyday Use"; Summing up.
Dec. 10:
Portfolio Due. The portfolio should include:
--
all
exercises, okayed for corrections, arranged chronologically (first to
last)
--your
journal (chronological, first to last)
--
the two
stories, okayed for corrections
--a new
version of one of the stories; see Guidelines
for Revision
--a
self-addressed 10" X 13" envelope (with postage, if home address) so
that I can return your portfolio to you