Weekly Outline
Week 1, 1/14 -- Introductions
Week 2, 1/21 -- What is literature? What is identity?
Week 3, 1/28 -- Narration, paper #1 due
Week 4, 2/4 -- Character, Setting, Symbol, Theme
Week 5, 2/11 -- Quiz #1, film
Week 6, 2/18 -- Poetry
Week 7, 2/25 - - Poetry, paper #2 due
Week 8, 3/4 -- Poetry
Week 9, 3/11 -- Poetry, paper #3 due
Week 10, 3/18 -- (out of class work on blog)
Week 11, 3/25 -- SPRING BREAK
Week 12, 4/1 -- Quiz #2 on poetry, Theory
Week 13, 4/8 -- Poetry paper #4 due, Theory, film
Week 14, 4/15 -- Theory
Week 15, 4/22 -- Theory, quiz #3
Week 16, 4/29 -- Paper #5 due
Week 17, 5/6 - Final Exam PARTY
Araby explores the class division between the young and the old. The protagonist is a child who is predominately occupied with the fantasies and simplistic obsessions that are common among children. The workers at the bazaar and the main characters uncle are much more focused on reality and see the child’s viewpoint as fantastical and annoying.
ReplyDeleteThis story is about Leeland’s life, which seems considerably pointless. We think the whole purpose to this story was just to convey language and how beings communicate with each other. Nothing extraordinary happened, they just went about in their lives. None of it was real, they just communicated, or did not communicate, and due to communication missed out on important things in their lives such as funerals or important events.
Joshua McGlone
Madison Stacey
Megan McNeely
Allison McDowell
The members of our group were Hampton, Shane, Joe, Demetrius, Elizabeth, Sidney, and Justin.
ReplyDeleteIn James Joyce’s short story, “Araby”, we chose to analyze the story using the biographical criticism. We noticed (after some research) that Joyce based this story after experiences dealt to him in his own life. Joyce’s father was a severe drinker who wasted his resources on alcohol rather than his family, which apparently had led for them to move to a smaller, more economical house, just as the young boy in this story lives in during “Araby.” This could represent why the young boy has his Uncle in this story rather than a traditional “Dad”, and it also can explain why this one trip to the market and buying a gift was such a giant deal to this young boy.
In “Job History” by Annie Proulx, we chose to view it in a Marxist critical fashion. This is because he constantly is in battle with the world over money. All his life this man (and his family, even including his youngest daughter) struggle over money. He drives long truck drives despite having a bad back, the youngest daughter is inappropriately touched while babysitting, and even the wife has to work. The economy takes a dive and the news reflects (foreshadows) everything that is going to happen, but when you’re working all the time, nobody has time for the news.
"Job history" could easily be analyzed using reader-response criticism. The story contains a lot of important life events, and some are unfortunate. Every reader could easily interpret the story differently. The author uses so many different situations that she could have been intending to reach out to readers individually.
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