Course Requirements: 14 weekly journals to be handed in before class.
Textbook: Norton Anthology of American Literature.

第1週 Introduction

第2週（2/28星期四和平紀念日放假一天）Mark Twain (“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country”; “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses”)

第3週 Kate Chopin (“At the ‘Cadian Ball”, “The Storm”)

第4週 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (“The Yellow Wall-paper”)

第5週 Edith Wharton (“Souls Belated”); Stephen Crane (“The Open Boat”, “The Blue Hotel”)

第6週 Robert Frost (“Mending Walls”, “After Apple-Picking”, “The Road Not Taken”, “The Oven Bird”, “Fire and Ice”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”)

第7週 Wallace Stevens (“The Snowman”, “The Emperor of Ice-Cream”, “Sunday Morning”, “Anecdote of the Jar”, “Peter Qunice at the Clavier”)

第8週 B. Ezra Pound (Canto 1); E.E.Cummings (“O sweet spontaneous”, “in Just”, “Buffalo Bill’s”, “next to of course god America I”, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, “my father moved through dooms of love” )

第9週（期中考） Katherine Anne Porter (“Flowering Judas”); F. Scott Fitzgerald (“Winter Dreams”)

第10週 F. Scott Fitzgerald (“Winter Dreams” “Babylon Revisited”)

第11週 William Faulkner (“That Evening Sun,” “Barn Burning”)

第12週 Ernest Hemingway (“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”)

第13週 John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath Chapter 11, 12)

第14週 Eudora Welty (“Petrified Man”); Tennessee Williams (“A Streetcar Named Desire”)

第15週 Flannery O’Connor (“Good Country People”); Tony Morrison (“Recitatif”)

第16週 Maxine Hong Kingston (“No Name Woman”); Alice Walker (“Everyday Use”)

第17週（6/13星期五本學期上課最後一天）Elizabeth Bishop (all selections)

第18週（ 6/16 ~ 6/20期末考）