Textbooks:

• A Modern Southern Reader, ed. Forkner and Samway
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
• The Burden of Southern History by C. Vann Woodward

Course Requirements:

• Two outside papers (40%)
• Two oral reports (20%)
• Final examination (30%)
• Class activities (10%)

Class Schedule:

Jan 17                            Introduction

Jan 19, 22, 24                Woodward: The Burden of Southern History

Jan 26                            Mencken: "The Sahara of the Bozart"

Jan 29, 31, Feb 2            The Fugitives

Feb 5                             Southern Agrarians: I'll Take My Stand

Feb 7, 9                         Faulkner: "Mississippi," "Barn Burning," Interview                                      with Jean Stein

Feb 12, 14, 16, 19, 21    Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

Feb 23, 26, 28, Mar 2    Selected stories: Capote, Gaines, Gordon, Hannah
            5, 7                    Hurston, O'Connor, Porter, Price, Taylor, Welty,
                                     Wolfe, Wright

Mar 9                            Reports on review essays

Mar 12, 14, 16, 26         Selected poems: Ammons, Applewhite, Berry,
                                     Bottoms, Chappell, Dickey, Jarrell, Justice,                                      Knight, Mills, Seay, Smith, Stuart, Walker,
                                     Whitehead, Williams, Wright

Mar 28, 30, Apr 2, 4      Warren: All the King's Men

Apr 6, 9, 11                   Selected essays: O'Connor, Styron, Tate, Welty

Apr 16, 18                     Selected reminiscences: Agee, Caldwell, Crews,                                      Hurston, Morris, Percy, Rosengartern, Rubin,                                      Toomer, Welty

Apr 20, 23, 25              Williams: The Glass Menagerie

Apr 27, 30                    McCullers: The Member of the Wedding

May 2, 4                       Reports on research papers

May 9                           Final exam 

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