Meet in our classroom today.

English 3332 students:

To prepare for our test on Monday, we will meet in our classroom today, Friday, February 26, instead of having a blog assignment.

See you there,
Prof. K

The Souls of Black Folk in Poetry and Prose

Dunbar's portrait, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC

                                         


English 3332 students:

For our blog of Friday, February 19, please post a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about any connections in ideas that you observe in Chapter 1 of W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk and in the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that your group was assigned in class on Wednesday. (If you were not in class, please use "Sympathy.") In your comment please use at least two direct quotations from DuBois and two from Dunbar.

After you post your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

Reminder of Monday's reading: Stephen Crane. “The Open Boat,” 442-62.

Have a great weekend,
Prof. K

Regionalism to Realism

                       


English 3332 students:

For our Friday, February 12, blog, please post a comment, during the fifty minutes of our class time, of at least two well-developed paragraphs explaining how Kate Chopin's "Désirée’s Baby" (418-24) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (424-38) illustrate a transition from regionalism to social reform-oriented realism in short fiction written by American women in the late 19th century. Before you write your comment, please click on this link and read this concise and insightful article by Lucinda MacKethan about Southern "Local Color."  

For our Monday, February 15, class, here is the Stephen Crane poetry link. Please read it online if you like to stick with that format or print it out if you would prefer.

Have a great weekend,
Prof. K

Nature in "A White Heron" and "A New England Nun"

                         
                       
                                          A white heron's nest in the pine canopy

                       
            New England's standard of beauty: quaint, plain, white church accents nature

                         
                                    A classic New England cottage like Louisa's


English 3332 students:

For our Friday, February 5, blog, please post a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs comparing and contrasting the depiction of nature in Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" and Mary Wilkins Freeman's "A New England Nun." Please use as least two quotations from each story (in other words, at least four total) in your comment.

After you post your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

For Monday, February 8, please read Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine,” 354-64.

Have a great weekend,
Prof. K

Realism Defined via Women Characters: Howells and James

            

                     William Dean Howells and Henry James as young writers

English 3332 students:

For our Friday, January 29, blog, please post a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs comparing and contrasting Julia Tinker and Daisy Miller, the female protagonists of "A Romance of Real Life" and "Daisy Miller," respectively. Please use as least two quotations from each story (in other words, at least four total) in your comment.

After you post your comment, please reply in one well-developed paragraph to at least one of the other students' comments.

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Alternative topic for those who attended the film screening of Daisy Miller on Wednesday afternoon:

Rather than posting your comment in the blog, please email me (linda.kornasky@angelo.edu) a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs about specific differences between the film version of Daisy Miller and the original short story. Please be specific and use quotes from the story to develop your answer.

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Reminders about upcoming reading: please remember to read the Mark Twain selections, pp. 53-55 and 60-69, in the textbook before Monday's class, and please read the poems by Twain on this web site link and here: link for additional poems by Twain.

Have a great weekend,
Dr. K

Welcome to American Literature after 1870!

                         

Dear English 3332 students,

Please read pp. 1-37 in our textbook before posting a comment of at least two well-developed paragraphs on this introductory question:

In what ways did the U. S. Civil War affect trends in American literature in the 1865-1910 period, as discussed on pp. 1-37?

After you post your comment, please reply to at least one of the other students' comments in one well-developed paragraph.

Please post comments and replies during the fifty minutes of our class time (11:00-11:50 a.m.).

Handout for Monday's reading: "A Romance of Real Life" by William Dean Howells: story link

Over the weekend, please read "A Romance of Real Life," and please bring a printed copy of this story and your textbook to class with you on Monday.

Have a great weekend,
Prof. K