Modern Literature (ENGL 272)

Elizabeth C. Madison, Ph.D.
Office: Sta. 431 or 223
Phone: 293-3107, x436
Office Hours: MWF 1-3 or by appointment
email:emadison@wvu.edu

Required Texts:

-Modern Poetry, 2nd ed., Ellman
and O'Clair,eds.
-JamesJoyce, Dubliners
-F. Scott Fitzgerald,The Great Gatsby
-Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
-Ralph Ellison. Invisible Man
-Jacobus, Bedford Introduction to Drama, 4th ed.

Class Information: Much of the learning in this class results from informed class discussion. Thus, I expect you to be in class an prepared with the day's assignment. More than four absences will jeopardize your grade.

You will have the opportunity to write three papers, one for each genre. You need to write two of those papers (1000 words each), although you may write all three and drop the lowest grade. The tests will constitute two-thirds of the grade and the papers the one-third.

SocialJustice Statement: WVU is committed to social justice. I share that commitment and expect to maintain a positive learning environment based on communication and mutual respect. Suggestions for furthering such an environment will be appreciated and given serious consideration. Please feel free to speak tome about any concern you have in this class.

Class Schedule:
Introduction
Frost (120-141)
Stevens (149-168)
Yeats
Eliot (270-301)
Auden
Roethke
Brooks
Wilbur
Larkin
Poetry examination
Joyce
Fitzgerald
McCullers
Ellison
Fiction examination
Jacobus--"Death of a Salesman," The Glass Menagerie," "Desire Under the Elms," "Endgame"
Finals week-Drama examination