January 

1/9 The Odyssey Lecture Notes

• Cyclops Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv2d0-dRrHI
• Odyssey.pdf  
• Italo Calvino on Myth.pdf  

1/14 NOVEL UNIT

Dracula: Defining Man with the Fantastic 

• Dracula (Norton Text) (chapters 1-9)
• Novel Group Project

1/16 Dracula: Woman and the Beast

• Dracula (ch. 10-18)

1/23 Dracula: Science and Folklore

• Dracula (ch. 19-22)

1/28 Dracula and the Epic Quest

• Dracula (ch. 23-28)
• The Classic Fairy Tales (CFT), Vladimir Propp "Folklore and Literature" (378-87) 
• text for final paper due

February 

2/6 SHORT STORIES UNIT

Cupid and Psyche: Magic of Romance 

• Cupid and Psyche.pdf  
• O Henry Mammon&the Archer.pdf
• Chekhov A HAPPY ENDING.pdf
• Harper The Two Offers.pdf  
• Tatterhood.pdf  
• Short Story Group Project

2/11 Fairy Tales and the Endurance and Evolution of Imagination: The Boy's Narrative

• "Little Thumbling" The Classic Fairy Tales (CFT) p. 199 
• "The Selfish Giant" (CFT) p. 250  
• "The Happy Prince" (CFT) p. 253 
• Bruno Bettelheim "The Struggle for Meaning" (CFT) pp. 269 - 73. 
• Gilbert and Gubar "Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother" (CFT) pp. 291-96.
• Maria Tatar "Sex and Violence: The Hard Core of Fairy Tales" (CFT) pp. 364-72. 
• Vladimir Propp "Folklore and Literature" (CFT) pp. 378 - 89.  
• topic for final paper due

2/13 Fairy Tales and the Endurance and Evolution of Imagination: The Girl's Narrative

• "Beauty and the Beast" (CFT) pp. 25 - 73 (group A read all)
• Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, "Beauty and the Beast" 
• "Snow White" (CFT) pp. 74 - 100 (group B read all)
• Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm "Snow White"  
• "Cinderella" (CFT) pp. 101 - 137 (group C read all) 
• Charles Perrault "Donkeyskin"
• Jacob Wilhelm Grimm "Cinderella" 

2/18 New England Ghost Stories: the Fantastic and the Guilty Conscious

• Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown"
• Freedman: The_Wind_in_the_Rose-Bush.pdf  
• Poe The Tell Tale Heart.pdf  

2/20 Southern Gothic: the Fantastic, Reconstruction and the Guilt of a Nation

• Bierce An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge.pdf  
• Crane The Monster and The Upturned Face.pdf  
• Chestnutt "Po Sandy" 

2/25 Cynicism and the Fantastic in the Realism of Joseph Conrad

• An Outpost of Progress.pdf 

2/27 In-Class Final Paper Workshop

• secondary texts for final paper due (3) 

March

3/4 Tanizaki and Guy de Maupassant: 19th C Transatlantic Gothic Haunting

• A TRESS OF HAIR.pdf
• THE FALSE GEMS.pdf
• Tanizaki Junichiro.PDF  

3/6 Gilman and Hussain: Gender and the Fantastic at the close of the 19th C

• Gilman If I Were a Manrev 2.pdf
• Gilman When I Was a Witch.pdf  
• Sultana's Dream 
• thesis for final paper due 

3/20 EXAM II

3/25 CONFERENCES (in my office - no class meeting)

• rough draft for final paper due by MIDNIGHT (so I can read drafts before conferences today) 

3/27 CONFERENCES (in my office - no class meeting) 

April

4/1  DRAMA UNIT

Creating Imaginary Spaces on Stage

• The Tempest (Folger's Text)
• Drama Group Project  

4/3 Creating Imaginary Spaces on Stage (part 2)

• The Tempest

4/8 Creating Imaginary Spaces on the Silver Screen: J.K. Rowlings and J.R.R. Tolkien 

• Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone
• The Lord of the Rings (part one)

4/10 POETRY UNIT

The Brownings: Monstrous Imaginings in the 19th C - The Hidden Darkness Within

• My Last Duchess RBB.pdf
• Porphyria's Lover RBB.pdf
• EBB Aurora Leigh Selection.pdf  
• The Raven 
• Poetry Group Project

4/15 EXAM III REVIEW 

• Student Evaluations 

4/22 LAST DAY OF CLASS

EXAM III

4/24 NO CLASS MEETING (drop off hard copies of final paper in my office) 

• FINAL PAPER DUE