Schedule

Module 1. Apéritifs: Contexts for Consumption

  • Tuesday, January 7
    • Introduction: alcohol in/and literature

  • Wednesday, January 8
    • Thomas B. Gilmore, “Introduction” to Equivocal Spirits: Alcoholism and Drinking in Twentieth-Century Literature

Friday, January 10: CLASS CANCELLED

  • Tuesday, January 14
    • Claude M. Steel and Robert A. Josephs, “Alcohol Myopia: Its Prized and Dangerous Effects”
  • Wednesday, January 15
    • Summary of Marie Corelli, Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (1890)
    • Excerpt from Wormwood: read pp. 338-52

  • Friday, January 17
    • James Joyce, “Counterparts” (1914)
    • [Note: Sunday, Jan. 19 is the last day for 100% reduction of second term fees for standard courses. 50% of tuition fees will be assessed for courses dropped after this date.]

  • Tuesday, January 21
    • SHORT ASSIGNMENT OPTION #1 DUE
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, “May Day” (1920)
  • Wednesday, January 22
    • “May Day” (continued)

  • Friday, January 24
    • Kathleen Drowne, “Introduction: Prohibition and American Literature, 1920-1933” (2005)
    • Excerpt from Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922): read pp. 104-19

Module 2. Drinking Games: Fiestas for the “Lost Generation”

  • Tuesday, January 28
    • SHORT ASSIGNMENT OPTION #2 DUE
    • [Student presentations may be scheduled this week]
    • Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)

  • Wednesday, January 29
    • The Sun Also Rises (continued)

  • Friday, January 31
    • The Sun Also Rises (continued)

  • Tuesday, February 4
    • The Sun Also Rises (continued)

  • Wednesday, February 5
    • The Sun Also Rises (continued)

  • Friday, February 7
    • The Sun Also Rises (continued)
    • [Note: Sunday, Feb. 9 is the last day for 50% reduction of tuition fees for standard courses. 100% of tuition fees will be assessed for courses dropped after this date.]

  • Tuesday, February 11
    • SHORT ASSIGNMENT OPTION #3 DUE
    • Dorothy Parker, “Big Blonde” (1929)

  • Wednesday, February 12
    • Zora Neale Hurston, “The Back Room” (1927)

  • Friday, February 14
    • Review and discussion of Final Essays

  February 17-21: READING WEEK (classes cancelled)

Module 3. Mixed Spirits in Paris

  • Tuesday, February 25
    • SHORT ASSIGNMENT OPTION #4 DUE
    • [Student presentations may be scheduled this week]
    • Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
  • Wednesday, February 26
    • Good Morning, Midnight (continued)

  • Friday, February 28
    • Good Morning, Midnight (continued)
    • [Note: Saturday, Feb. 29 is the last day for withdrawing from full year and second term courses without penalty of failure]

  • Tuesday, March 3
    • Good Morning, Midnight (continued)

  • Wednesday, March 4
    • Good Morning, Midnight (continued)

  • Friday, March 6
    • Good Morning, Midnight (continued)

Module 4. Late-Modernist Hangovers

  • Tuesday, March 10
    • FINAL ESSAY PROPOSAL & BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
    • [Student presentations may be scheduled this week]
    • Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend (1944)

  • Wednesday, March 11
    • The Lost Weekend (continued)

  • Friday, March 13
    • The Lost Weekend (continued)

  • Tuesday, March 17
    • The Lost Weekend (continued)

  • Wednesday, March 18
    • The Lost Weekend (continued)

  • Friday, March 20
    • Final Exam Review

  • Tuesday, March 24
    • SHORT ASSIGNMENT OPTION #5 DUE
    • [Student presentations may be scheduled this week]
    • Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947)

  • Wednesday, March 25
    • Under the Volcano (continued)

  • Friday, March 27
    • Under the Volcano (continued)

  • Tuesday, March 31
    • Under the Volcano (continued)

  • Wednesday, April 1
    • Under the Volcano (continued)

  • Friday, April 3
    • FINAL ESSAY DUE (please email essays to Dr. Jensen)
    • Under the Volcano (continued)
    • [Last day of classes for all faculties]

FINAL EXAM: date TBA (the exam period runs April 6 through April 24)