English 490-9012: Fitzgerald and Hemingway
2008 Spring
Schedule of Assignments
Professor
I. WEEK ONE (14, 16 September)
Monday: Course Introduction, Biographical,
Bibliographical Information
Wednesday:
Background on FSF’s
“The Ice Palace” and Tarleton Trilogy
II. WEEK TWO (21, 23
January—holiday: no class on 21st)
Wednesday: Background of EH’s “Indian
Camp”
III. WEEK THREE (28, 30 January)
Monday: (SR) The Fitzgerald Flapper: Shannon Sullivan
Discuss “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”
and “Head and Shoulders”
Wednesday: Read
from This Side of
(page 190 to the end)—online at http://www.bartleby.com/115/25.html
IV. WEEK FOUR (4, 6 February)
Monday: "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
(CR) This Side of Paradise:
Travis Heldreth
(CR) Flappers and Philosophers: Peter Boswell
Wednesday: “The Jelly-Bean” (read "May Day"—short discussion;
long
story)
(CR) Tales of the Jazz Age:
Lily Dunning
V. WEEK FIVE (11, 13 February)
Monday: “Up in
(CR) Three Stories and Ten Poems and In
Our Time: Josh Watson
Wednesday: "The End of Something,"
(SR) Biographical Underpinnings of the
Nick Adams Stories: Class
discussion
(SR) The Early Friendship: First Meeting and Early Dynamics of
Friendship: Jerrica Jones
VI. WEEK SIX (18, 20 February)
Monday: Background on The Great Gatsby (Read
through Chapter Five for
Monday)
(SR) The Great Gatsby: Dust Jacket Art: Peter Boswell
(SR) Daisy Buchanan: Composite
Character: Martin Krause
(SR) Daisy Buchanan: Composite
Character: Martin Krause
Wednesday: Finish The Great Gatsby
(CR) The Great Gatsby: Whitney Milliken
(SR) Zelda Fitzgerald/Ernest
Hemingway Relationship: Virgilio Nebel
Paper #1: Wednesday, 20 February
VII. WEEK SEVEN (25, 27 February)
Monday: Background The Sun
Also Rises (1926); read first half of novel
for Monday
(SR) Hadley/Hemingway/Pauline:
Natalia Pierson
(SR)
Biographical Underpinnings of The Sun Also Rises (The
Cast of The
Sun Also Rises: Brian McTeague
Wednesday: Finish The Sun Also Rises
(CR) The Sun Also Rises: Brian McTeague
(SR)
Hemingway and Maxwell Perkins:
VIII. WEEK EIGHT (3, 5 March)
Monday: Complete discussion of The
Sun Also Rises; review for hour
test
(SR) Fitzgerald and Perkins: James Petrick
Wednesday, 5
March: Hour Test
IX. WEEK NINE (10, 12 March—No Class—Spring break)
X. WEEK TEN (17, 19 March)
Monday: "The Rich Boy"; read “Winter Dreams”
Wednesday: finish discussion of "Winter Dreams"; read "Absolution"
(CR) All the Sad Young Men: Ali Breslin
Friday
21 March: Last Day to Withdraw with Grade of W
XI. WEEK ELEVEN (24, 26 March)
Monday: Read "Alpine Idyll" and read Book I of A Farewell to Arms
(CR)
Men Without
Women: LaTasha Sabbakhan
Wednesday: Read Book II of A
Farewell to Arms
(SR) Hemingway and Agnes: The Love Affair at the Center of
A Farewell to Arms: Lesa Paul
Paper
#2 Due Wednesday, 26 March
XII. WEEK TWELVE (31 March, 2 April)
Monday: Read rest of A Farewell to Arms and finish discussion of FTA
(CR) A Farewell to Arms: Lowell Fitzgerald
Wednesday:
(SR) Fitzgerald and Hemingway's Women: A
Comparative Study: Whitney
Millikin
Read "The Last of the Belles"
(look back toward Tarleton and
flapper/belles)
XIII. WEEK THIRTEEN (7, 9 April)
Monday:finish discussion of "Babylon Revisited" (look
ahead toward
Tender)
(CR) Taps at Reveille: Virgilio
Nebel
(CR) Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz: Shannon Sullivan
(SR) Alcoholism in Fitzgerald and Hemingway: LaTasha
Sabbakhan
Rough Draft of Final Paper Due Wednesday, 9
April (or no later than
XIV. WEEK FOURTEEN (14, 16 April)
Monday: Read "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
(CR) Winner Take Nothing: Lesa
Paul
(SR) Zelda's French
Aviator and Fitzgerald’s Retaliatory Affair: Ali
Breslin
Wednesday: Read Tender Is the Night; Book I; background
(CR) Tender Is the Night: Jerrica Jones
(SR) The
Composition of Tender Is the Night: Travis Heldreth
Discuss Tender Is the Night (1934)
(SR) Gerald and Sarah Murphy: Living
Well Is the Best Revenge: Lily
Dunning
XV. WEEK FIFTEEN (21, 23 April)
Monday: Discuss Book I of Tender Is the Night
(CR) For Whom the
Wednesday:
(CR) The Last Tycoon: Martin Krause
(SR) A Moveable Feast: How
Accurate?: Josh Watson
(CR) A Moveable Feast: James Petrick
XVI. WEEK SIXTEEN (Last Class Monday, 29 April; 30 April Reading Day)
(SR) Hemingway after For Whom the Bell Tolls: Brett Fairbrother
(CR) + background Scott and Ernest: A
Dangerous Friendship: Natalia
Pierson
Final Matters—including
brief filmclips and retrospective overview
XVI. WEEK SEVENTEEN (5, 7 May: Exam Week)
End-of-Term Papers Due at