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Key Words:

8/25: 1. omniscient or limited omniscient narration
8/29: 2. style, and 3.point of view
9/3 (from reading): 4. plot, 4a. exposition, 4b. climax, 4c. denoument
5. characterization, 5a.
static, 5b. dynamic, 5c. round, 5d. flat, 5e stereotype
6. setting, and 7. theme
9/8: 8. genre, 9. Gothic
9/12: 10. allegory
(No new key words through 9/24)
10/24: (literary) modernism, buldings roman

Handouts:
Grading Rubric
Gothic Handout

Presentations:

Friday, 9/5: ??????: Puchner, "Essay #3: Leda and the Swan"
Monday, 9/8: Joyce: Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Wednesday, 9/10: Andrew: Poe, "The House of Usher"
Friday, 9/12: Bettina: Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"
Monday, 9/15: Sarah and Erin: Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. I
Wednesday, 9/17: Ashley L.: Frankenstein, Vol. II
Friday, 9/19: Jenny: Frankenstein, Vol. III
Monday, 9/22: Jade: Hawthorne, "The Birth-Mark"
Friday, 9/26: Emily and Sofia: Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, (up to p. 51)
Wednesday, 10/1: Kerri: Cat's Cradle (p. 92-198)
Monday, 10/6: Scott: Cat's Cradle (244-end)
Wednesday, 10/15: Ashley C.: Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"
Friday, 10/17: Matt: Crane, "The Monster"
Monday, 10/20: Vanessa: Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Wednesday, 10/22: Natalya: Gilman, "Dr. Clair's Place"
Friday, 10/24: Estroberta and Sharifa: Ellison, Invisible Man (p. 3-34)
Monday, 10/27: Leslie: Ellison, Invisible Man (p. 34-97)
Monday, 11/10: Michael: Ellison, Invisible Man (p. 356-408)
Friday, 11/14: Kurt: Ellison, Invisible Man (p. 445-478)
Wednesday, 11/19: ??????: Ellison, Invisible Man (p. 535-end)