Schedule

Week 1 2/27  Class orientation (and group division).  

Week 2 3/5   Introduction (and group division)./"Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and Trauma"/ Trauma and                Narrative Knowledge  

Week 3 3/12  “Trauma in Narrative Fiction/ The Unclaimed Experience--excerpt 

Week 4 3/19  (The Unclaimed Experience--excerpt /”Mourning &Melancholy”) "Trauma, Loss and Absence"  

Week 5 3/26  Class off

Week 6 4/2  holiday

Week 7 4/9  Alice Munro's "Vandals"& Oral Report/ "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" & Oral Report  

Week 8 4/16  The Shawl & Oral Report

Week 9 4/23  The Shawl--continued

Week 10 4/30  The Final Solution & Oral Report

Week 11 5/7  The Final Solution

Week 12 5/14   The Pale View of the Hills  & Oral Report 

Week 13 5/21  The Pale View of the Hills--continued

Week 14 5/28  Home & Oral Report

Week 15 6/4   Home--continued

Week 16 6/11  Beloved

Week 17 6/18  Beloved; Term paper due!

Week 18  6/25 holiday  

Term paper 30% (5 pages with bibliography) 

Oral presentation 20% (with ppt.)

Written report 20% (about two pages with a specific focus)

Discussion 20%

Attendance. 10%

*Caruth, Cathy. The Unclaimed Experience. Chapter One.      

 *Chabon, Michael. The Final Solution. 

*Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Pale View of the Hills.  

 *LaCapra, Dominick. "Trauma, Absence, Loss. "

*Luckhurst, Roger.  The Trauma Question.    

*Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 

---. Home  

*O'Brian Wendy. "Telling Time: Literature, Temporality and Trauma."    

*Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl.  

*Porter, Katherine Anne. "Pale Horse, Pale Rider."