The full syllabus, with policies and assignments, is here:
ENGL-348-MScanlon-201808
Provisional Course Schedule
All readings should be done before class on the day they are assigned.
“K” indicates the anthology of poetry edited by Kendall; “T” indicates the anthology of stories edited by Tate. Readings marked “pdf” are loaded into the Files section of our course in Canvas.
Week 1
T Aug 28 Introduction
R Aug 30 Grayzel, “Introduction: The First World War and the Making of a Modern, Global Conflict” (pdf); view the animated map “Europe Plunges into War”
mns lecture: A Grossly Reductive Introduction to the Great War
Everyone should choose a special mission by today HERE
Week 2
T Sept 4 Remarque chapters 1-5 (1-98); view Trench Warfare and Gas Warfare
R Sept 6 Remarque chapters 6-8 (99-198)
Week 3
T Sept 11 Remarque chapters 9-12 (199-296); view Shell Shock
R Sept 13 UMW closed
Week 4
T Sept 18 Smith chapters I-III (1-74); view Women in World War One
R Sept 20 Smith chapters IV-VII (75-161)
Week 5
T Sept 25 Smith chapters VIII-XII (162-239)
R Sept 27 Aldington, “The Case of Lieutenant Hall” (T 77-91); Machen, “The Bowmen” (T 252-54); poems by Sassoon: “The Redeemer” (K 88-89); “The Kiss” (K 90); “They” (K 94); “The General” (K 96-97); “How to Die” (K 99-100); “Glory of Women (K 100
Week 6
T Oct 2 Hemingway Part I (1-78)
Tuesday, October 2: essay #1 due at midnight
R Oct 4 Hemingway Part II (79-159)
Week 7
T Oct 9 Hemingway Part III (160-233)
R Oct 11 Hemingway Parts IV and V (234-332)
Friday, October 12: website and podcast special missions due at midnight
Week 8
T Oct 16 Fall Break
R Oct 18 Poetry by non-combatants: Hardy, “On the Belgian Expatriation” (K 6-7), “I Looked Up from My Writing” (K 10-11); Kipling, “For All We Have and Are” (K 25-26), “My Boy Jack” (K 29), “Justice” (K 39-40); Binyon, “For the Fallen” (K 43-44); Mew, “May, 1915” (K 46), “The Cenotaph” (K 46-47); Service, “Tipperary Days” (K 48-50), “Tri-Colour” (K 52-53); Gibson, “The Messages” (K 64-65), “Breakfast” (K 65), “Between the Lines” (K 66-70), “Air-Raid” (K 73-74); Cannan, “August 1914” (K 179), “For a Girl” (K 184-85)
Week 9
T Oct 23 Borden 1-32
R Oct 25 Borden 33-61 and Rickword, “Moonrise Over Battlefield” (K 220)
Friday, October 26: film special missions due at midnight
Week 10
T Oct 30 Borden 63-90
R Nov 1 Borden 91-112
Week 11
T Nov 6 Poetry by combatants: Brooke, “1914” (K 104-106); Rosenberg, “Break of Day in the Trenches” (K 137-38), “Louse Hunting” (K 138-39), “Returning, we hear the larks” (K 139-140), “Dead Man’s Dump” (K 140-42); Gurney, “To the Prussians of England” (K 121), “First Time In” (K 123-124), “The Stokes Gunners” (K 127); Graves, “A Dead Boche” (K 194), “A Child’s Nightmare” (K 195-97); Jones, “from In Parenthesis” (K 201-206); Blunden, “1916 Seen from 1921” (K 209-10)
R Nov 8 TBA
11/11/2018 at 11:00 a.m.: 100 Year Anniversary of Armistice
11/11/1918:
approximately 9 million military and 6 million civilians dead,
21 million wounded, 8 million missing or POW
Sunday, November 11: essay #2 due by midnight
Week 12
T Nov 13 Bennett, “Wedding Day” (T 141-47); Daly chapters I-IX (1-38)
Recommended: explore photos of African American soldiers at the LOC and here.
R Nov 15 Daly chapters X-XV (38-70)
Week 13
T Nov 20 Miller, “Stragglers in the Dust” (pdf); Hall, “Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself” (T 125-140)
R Nov 22 Thanksgiving Break
Week 14
T Nov 27 Lawrence Author’s Note + chapters 1-3 (1-47)
R Nov 29 Lawrence chapters 4-8 (48-92)
Week 15
T Dec 4 Owen, all selections (K 150-74)
R Dec 6 Owen and wrap-up
Friday, December 7: essay #3 due by midnight
FINALS WEEK
Section 01: Thursday, December 13, 8:30-11:00
Section 02: Tuesday, December 11, 12:00-2:30
