English 254: American Literature II

Spring 2012

Professor Curt Yehnert website: www.wou.edu/~yehnerc/

Office: 315 Bellamy Hall         503-838-8362 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              503-838-8362      end_of_the_skype_highlighting e-mail: yehnerc@wou.edu

Office Hours: MW 11-12, TR 10-11 and by appointment

REQUIRED TEXT: Baym, et al, The Norton Anthology of American Lit, shorter seventh ed.

ABOUT THE COURSE:

English 254, the second half of the American literature survey, covers the wide range of literature from the Civil War to the present age, focusing on the fiction and poetry of naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism.

SYLLABUS

PAPER 1 ASSIGNMENT SHEET

PAPER 2 ASSIGNMENT SHEET

Study Questions Class 2: Kate Chopin

Study Questions Class 3: Stephen Crane

Study Questions Class 4: Robert Frost

Study Questions Class 5: Charles Chesnutt

Study Questions Class 6 & 7: Henry James

Study Questions Class 8: William Carlos Williams

Study Questions Class 9: e e cummings, Wallace Stevens

Study Questions Class 10: Wallace Stevens, William Faulkner

Study Questions Class 11: William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway

Study Questions Class 13: Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop

Study Quuestions Class 14: Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath

Study Questions Class 15: Flannery O'Connor

Study Questions Class 16: Raymond Carver

Study Questions Class 17: Louise Erdrich, T. C. Boyle

Study Questions Class 18: Denise Chavez

Study Questions Class 19: Raymond Carver