428 / 861
April 5
Critical Theory: Reader Response pp.2176-2180; Jackson “The Lottery” pp. 575-578;
Atwood “Happy Endings” pp.424-426; Dickinson “The Bustle in the House” p. 936;
Cummings “anyone lived in a pretty how town” pp. 1094-1095
April 7
Critical Theory: Structuralist Perspectives pp.2183-2186; Deconstructive Perspectives
pp. 2186-2189; Dickinson “I’m Wife—I’ve Finished That” p. 916; Marquez “A Very Old
Man with Enormous Wings” pp.399-403; Borges “The Garden of Forking Paths” pp. 378-
384
April 10
Critical Theory: Cultural Perspectives pp. 2189-2191; Critical Theory: Using Critical
Perspectives as Heuristics pp. 2192-2193; Achebe “Marriage Is a Private Affair” pp. 373-
377; Jin “Taking a Husband” pp. 385-396; Singer “Gimpel the Fool” pp. 404-414
April 12
Ellison “Battle Royal” pp.504-513; Baldwin “Sonny’s Blues” pp. 433-454; Hughes “Dream
Deferred” p.994; “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” p. 995
April 19
Walker “Everyday Use” pp.743-749; Bambara “The Lesson” pp. 427-432; Cullen
“Incident” p. 1094
April 21
Silko “Yellow Woman” pp. 718-725; Alexie “Indian Education” pp. 320-324; Erdrich
“Indian Boarding School” p.106
April 24
Tan “Rules of the Game” pp. 734-742; Song “Lost Sister” pp. 1188-1190; Basho “Three
Haiku” p.1046
April 26
Final paper
Forster “The Celestial Omnibus”
April 28
Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” pp. 563-567; Fitzgerald “Babylon Revisited” pp.
527-540
May 1
Melville “Bartleby ” pp.3-34