ENGLISH 4140/7140 MODERN LITERATURE
SURVEY
Timothy Materer MWF 1:00-1:50 Middlebush 309
Office Hours: Tate 228 MWF 2:00-2:50 and by apt. MatererT@missouri.edu
Robert Frost, Robert Frost's Poems, ed. Louis Untermeyer (St. Martin's )
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, ed. Seymour-Smith (Penguin)
James Joyce, Dubliners (Penguin)
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (Dover Thrift Editions)
Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories (Harcourt)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Dover)
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International)
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (Grove)
WEB RESOURCES
Thomas Cole, Hudson River School
Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World
Web Museum, Paris: Impressionism
Web Museum: James McNeil Whistler
The Bloomsbury Group & Post-Impressionism
Aug 25-29 Introduction / Robert Frost
Sept 3-5 Labor Day / Frost: Romanticism & Modernism
Sept 8-12 Frost / Joseph Conrad: Realism & Impressionism
Sept 15-19 Conrad
Sept 22-24 T S. Eliot: Tradition of the Modern / No Class on Friday
Sept 29-Oct 3 Eliot / James Joyce's Epiphanies
Oct 6-10 Joyce
Oct 13-17 Katherine Mansfield's Perspectives
Oct 20-24 Mansfield / Oct. 24 Midterm
Oct 27-31 Mansfield / Virginia Woolf: Experimental Modernism
Nov 3-7 Woolf
Nov 10-14 Woolf / Faulkner's Consciousness
Nov 17-21 Faulkner
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 1-5 Prospectus Due Faulkner / Beckett: Postmodern Drama /
Dec 8-10 Beckett / Final Paper
Course Requirements
Frequent Unannounced Quizzes: 200 points
Midterm 250 points (100 IDs, 150 essay)
Report 50 points
Draft Paper 100 points
Paper 400 points
POLICIES
Absences Students who accumulate three (3) absences will be dropped from the course with a failing grade (2 lates = 1 absence). If you know of classes you must miss (for example, because of family or university activities), inform the instructor well in advance and be careful not to risk missing additional classes.
Class Rules
Late papers will lose a grade for each class day they are late. Quizzes cannot be made up. No food, uncapped drinks, or noise-making electronic devices in class. Please try not leave the room in the middle of class. Do not wear hats that obscure your face. You as well as the teacher are responsible for the return of written exercises or tests. When assignments are returned, if you are not in class that day, or if the teacher does not return an assignment you have turned in, you need to ask him after class, or when you are next in class, if he has your assignment.
Academic Integrity Students are expected to know and follow proper documentation procedures whenever they use material from another source, whether in paraphrase, summary, or direct quotation. Students who submit as their own work a document taken in whole or part from another personŐs writing (including another studentŐs) without proper acknowledgement are guilty of plagiarism. Students who submit plagiarized work will fail the assignment and be reported to the Office of the Provost, which will determine whether the offense requires further disciplinary action. Students who allow another person to copy their work will also be reported to the Provost.
Disabilities Students with disabilities who may need classroom academic adjustments or auxiliary aids and services, including accommodations for access to library materials on reserve, are required to register with Disability Services, AO48 Brady Commons, 882-4696. This office reviews disability documentation provided by students, and then works with students and faculty in planning any disability-related academic needs you may have. For questions regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act, contact Dr. Julie Melnyk, Humanities Coordinator, 884-0620.
Student Rights Intellectual diversity, freedom of thought, and respect for student rights are essential to the university community. Students who have questions concerning the quality of instruction in this class may address concerns to the teacher, the Departmental Chair or Office of Students Rights and Responsibilities (http://osrr.missouri.edu/). All students will have the opportunity to submit an anonymous evaluation of the teacher at the end of the course.