CORRECTED SYLLABUS
English 216
Fall 1998
Mr. David A. Salomon
Reading List for Second Half of the Course
Dinesen stories are all in Winter's Tales; other stories are in a packet called "Stories Packet #2"
on reserve in the library (packets will be available in the library on Monday, October 26).
M, October 26: Midterm Review
W, October 28: Midterm Exam
F, October 30: Dinesen, "The Young Man with the Carnation"
M, November 2: Dinesen, "The Heroine"
W, November 4: Dinesen, "The Sailor-Boy's Tale"
F, November 6: Dinesen, "The Pearls"
Only Change: M, November 9: Dinesen, "Sorrow-Acre"
W, November 11: Dinesen, "Peter and Rosa"
F, November 13: This class will not meet
M, November 16: Dinesen: "A Consolatory Tale"
W, November 18: Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home," on reserve in library
F, November 20: Amy Tan, "Two Kinds," 281
M, November 23: Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" 230 and
Raymond Carver, "Where Is Everyone?" on reserve in library
W, November 25: This class will not meet
F, November 27: Thanksgiving Break
M, November 30: John Updike, "A&P," 211
W, December 2: Eudora Welty, "Petrified Man," on reserve in library
F, December 4: Ann Beattie, "The Burning House," on reserve in library
M, December 7: Bobbie Ann Mason, "Shiloh," 252
W, December 9: Postmodern Fiction/Hypertext: Look at and read Michael Joyce's "Twelve Blue"
at http://www.eastgate.com/TwelveBlue/ on the World Wide Web
F, December 11: Nicholson Baker, "Shoelaces," on reserve in library
M, December 14: Review for Final Exam
**All Essays Due No Exceptions
Final exam date and time to be announced