• The Dark Towers: The Gunslinger
• Chapter 1
  
• Chapter 2
  
• Real Chapter 37
  

We meet Wednesdays 1–4.

There will be weekly one-page reading responses and a 7–10-page final paper, also student-led discussions and presentations.

Readings include:

George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977)
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide (2004)
Class novel
Course packet (includes excerpts and criticism by Nabokov, Momaday, García Márquez, Wa Thiong'o, Rushdie, and others)

Syllabus 

Detailed schedule

• What Is Plagiarism? (friendly explanation of plagiarism with examples from Georgetown University; make sure you read the entire article; you  will be severely penalized for plagiarism in this course)

• The UVic Writer's Guide (well-organized, easy to follow guide with examples)

• The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab, includes the writing process, grammar and mechanics, literary analysis and criticism, writing about poetry)

• How to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find

• Basic Steps in Writing a Literature Paper

• Citation Styles Handbook: MLA

• MLA Style FAQ

• Paper Guidelines 1 and 2

• Literary Criticism: Principles

• Model Criticism (some essays by F. R. Leavis; a couple of obsolete links)

• English Help

Bell, Bernard W.  The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.  (IIC American St.  813.009896 BA)

Elliott, Emory, ed.  The Columbia History of the American Novel.  New York: Columbia UP, 1991.  (IIC American St.  813.009 CE)

Hale, Dorothy J.  The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1900–2000.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.  (CL 809.3 N834)

Hoffman, Michael, and Patrick Murphy, eds.  Essentials of the Theory of Fiction.  Duke.

Minter, David.  A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Perkins, George, ed.  The Theory of the American Novel.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.  (IIC American St.  808.3 PT)

• Literature Resources: 20th-21st Century (list of links)

• Literary Resources: Twentieth-Century Literature (list of links)

• American Literature: 20th Century (list of links to webpages on individual authors)

• The American Novel

• Journals

  • ARIEL

  • Comparative Literature Studies

  • Contemporary Literature

  • English in Africa

  • English Studies

  • The International Fiction Review

  • Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

  • The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

  • Journal of Modern Literature

  • Modern Fiction Studies

  • Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature

  • New Literary History

  • NOVEL

  • La Quinzaine Litteraire

  • Studies in the Novel

  • WLT: World Literature Today

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  7th ed.  New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. (library has 6th ed.)

Roget's International Thesaurus.  6th ed.  Ed. Barbara Ann Kipfer.  New York: Harper, 2001. (7th ed. coming out in August)

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.  11th ed.  Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 2003.

Oxford English Dictionary.  2nd ed.  20 vols.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 1989.