Some of the
Great Novels
You should read before graduating

Overview
    This course will introduce you to some of the great novels I believe you ought to read before beginning your undergraduate career. The works are loosely organized into thematic units through which we will study the historical and cultural contexts of the literature by reading critical essays as well as associated prose and poetry.
    Your responsibilities will include not only reading the primary works and writing the traditional analytical essays both in and out of class, but also making oral presentations and reading secondary sources  in an effort to enrich your experience. Finally, you will be asked to produce a more substantial paper than normal (5-7 pages) in preparation for your Senior Essay due in May.

Please read the "Expectations" statement.

Syllabus
Zora Neal Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God (summer reading)
Willa Cather - My Antonia
Edith Wharton - House of Mirth
William Faulkner - Go Down, Moses
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
John Steinbeck -  The Winter of Our Discontent
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Tim O'Brien - In the Lake of the Woods
The Norton Anthology of Poetry

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