FSU LIT 2020 Syllabus
Week 1 (January 5-9)
T: Introduction to the class. Information about contemporary literature.
Week 2 (January 12-16)
T: Review of course policy sheet and syllabus.
Information about contemporary literature
T: Reading #1 Sherman Alexie "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona (21-30).
Reading #2 Margaret Atwood "Death by Landscape" (31-45).
Week 3 (January 19-23)
T: Reading #3 Russell Banks "Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story" (53-72).
Reading #4 Rick Bass "Wild Horses" (96-111).
T: Reading #5 Richard Bausch "The Man Who Knew Belle Starr" (112-130).
Reading #6 Amy Bloom "Silver Water" (159-166).
Week 4 (January 26-30)
T: Reading #7 Kate Braverman "Tall Tales from the Mekong Delta" (167-181).
Reading #8 Sandra Cisneros "Woman Hollering Creek" (219-228).
T: Reading #9 Michael Cunningham "White Angel" (229-243).
Reading #10 Stuart Dybek "Pet Milk" (256-259).
Week 5 (February 2-6)
T: Reading #11 Louise Erdrich "Saint Marie" (276-287).
Reading #12 Richard Ford "Rock Springs" (288-305).
T: Reading #13 Tim Gautreaux "Same Place, Same Things" (325-337).
Reading #14 Jamaica Kincaid "Girl" (409-410).
Week 6 (February 9-13)
T: Reading #15 David Leavitt "Territory" (411-427).
Reading #16 Tim O'Brien 'The Things They Carried" (501-515).
T: Reading #17 Annie Proulx "Brokeback Mountain" (521-541).
Reading #18 Mark Richard "Strays" (542-546).
Week 7 (February 16-20)
T: Reading #19 19 Melanie Rae Thon "First, Body" (595-611).
Reading #20 Donald Barthelme "The School" (93-95) (Presentation 1 Ryan Egozi and Valeria Maile).
T: Reading #21 Charles Baxter "Gryphon" (131-144) (Presentation 2 Maximillian Gonzales and Anna Nordstrom).
Week 8 (February 23-27)
T: Catch up Day
T: Exam #1
Week 9 (March 1-5)
T: Reading #22 Madison Smartt Bell "Customs of the Country" (145-158) (Presentation 3 Megan Banks and Michael Ridgway).
Reading #23 Robert Olen Butler "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" (182-192) (Presentation 4 Scott Greenberg and Matt Griffin).
T: Reading #24 Ethan Canin "The Year of Getting to Know Us" (193-208) (Presentation 5 Derek Mikluscak and Brian Coffey).
Reading #25 Tony Earley "The Prophet from Jupiter" (260-275) (Presentation 6 Jason Emmer and Ann Schreiber).
March 8-12 Spring Break
Week 10 (March 15-19)
T: Reading #26 Ron Hansen "Nebraska" (338-342) (Presentation 7 Brooke Miller and Elyse Schwarzberg).
Reading #27 Denis Johnson "Emergency" (351-360) (Presentation 8 Joe Gardner and Sean Chreky).
T: Reading #28 Edward Jones "Marie" (361-372) (Presentation 9 Meghan Roland and Samantha Zafros).
Reading #29 Thom Jones "Cold Snap" (373-383) (Presentation 10 Derek Taylor and Roseline Louis).
Week 11 (March 22-26)
T: Reading #30 David Michael Kaplan "Doe Season" (384-397) (Presentation 11 Carla Thomas and Joseph Mapp).
Reading #31 Reginald McKnight "The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas" (428-438) (Presentation 12 Ross Allen and Cyrus Janssen).
T: Reading #32 Bharati Mukherjee "The Management of Grief" (456-469) (Presentation 13 Ashley Daley and Nicole Webb).
Reading #33 Alice Munro "Menesteung" (470-487) (Presentation 14 Rapheal Morris and Brooke Hayes).
Week 12 (March 29-April 2)
T: Reading #34 Joyce Carol Oates "Ghost Girls" (488-500) (Presentation 15 Brittany Dezzeuw and Stephanie Stewart).
Reading #35 Cynthia Ozick "The Shawl" (516-520) (Presentation 16 Bobby Knuth and Tina Mennen).
T: Reading #36 Lee Smith "Intensive Care" (547-568) (Presentation 17 Jennifer Mancebo and Lindsey Daso).
Reading #37 Stephanie Vaughn "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog" (612-623) (Presentation 18 Craig Austin and Felix Velazquez).
Week 13 (April 5-9)
T: Reading #38 Alice Walker "Nineteen Fifty-five" (624-636) (Presentation 19 Christina Truglio and Danielle Malagian).
Reading #39 John Edgar Wideman "Fever" (637-658) (Presentation 20 Manuel Guarch and Mike Doyle).
T: Reading #40 Joy Williams "Taking Care" (659-667) (Presentation 21 Frank Borgia and Jennifer Shellman).
Week 14 (April 12-16)
T: Turn in Research Paper
T: Essay Practice.
Week 15 (April 19-23)
T: Catch up day.
T: Last day of classes. Exam #2
Week 16 (April 26-30)
Finals Week No class
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