3302 Lecture

American Literature II Lecture Material The following include both lecture handouts we will be using this semester as well as materials from previous semesters that students may find helpful in their own future teaching.
Introduction to the Course	Why Study American Literature Asking Questions of Texts (Heuristic Device) Aspects of Periods in the Western, Euro-American Tradition
Emily Dickinson	The Perplexing Faith and Doubt of Emily Dickinson
Samuel Clemens	Samuel Clemens, Local Color The Nature of Humor Issues of Concern in Historical Remembrances A Christian Response to Mark Twain
Henry James	James' The Turn of the Screw: Models and Interpretative History Notes Toward a Biblical View of the Supernatural and Demonic
Edith Warton and Stephen Crane	The Adaptation of Genre and Spiritual Suppression
Willa Cather	Ten Propositions Concerning Cather's Fiction Death Comes to the Archbishop & Painterly Sight Northrop Frye's Monomyth Three Rival Versions of Pursuing Truth
T.S. Eliot	Eliot of Tradition, Poetry, Faith, and Culture "Burnt Norton" Commentary "East Coker" Commentary "The Dry Salvages" Commentary "Little Gidding" Commentary The Structure of The Four Quartets Tradition and Eternity in Little Gidding
Flannery O'Connor	Flannery O'Connor and the Theology of the Grotesque
Chaim Potok	Tradition, Suffering, and Art Paintings by Potok Artists Referred to in My Name is Asher Lev A Life Apart: Hasidiam in America A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts
Ron Hansen	An Introduction to Magical Realism Graced Occasions: Sacramental Realism
Dana Gioia	Dana Gioia Online "Can Poetry Matter?"

Archive of Earlier Semesters
Colonial America	Lecture Material (from a 3301 course)
W. D. Howells	W. D. Howells and the Purpose of Fiction
Henry James	"Daisy Miller": The Tragedy of the Autonomous Self The Wings of the Dove: Bks 1-4, Exposition The Wings of the Dove Bks 5-7, Complication Continued The Wings of the Dove, Bks 8-10: Crisis & Climax
Henry Adams	Henry Adams' Dualisms
Ezra Pound	Some Aspects of Ezra Pound's Theories of Poetry and Translation
Stevens, Williams, and Moore	The Poetics of Gnosticism, Materialism, and the Incarnation
Harlem Renaissance	The Harlem Renaissance and Cultural Representation
William Faulkner	Animistic Mysticism in Faulkner's "The Bear" Faulkner's Style The Curse on the Land
Momaday and Erdrich	Memory & Magic
Robert Penn Warren	Fall and Redemption: The Self, Time, and The Past
Richard Wilbur	Richard Wilbur's Lyrics of Christian Sensibility
Annie Dillard	Annie Dillard' Ambivalent Mysticism

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding