(readings either have links to open resources or the HC library proxy, or they have a [C] label, which means they’re in the Library section of our Commons Group in .pdf.

1/31 Introduction, requirements, assignments

• Commons onboarding
• introductions: to me, to each other, to the course material and themes

The Unvanquished, the Civil War, and the Plantocracy

2/7 The Unvanquished

readings/in class

• U, “Ambuscade,” “Retreat,” “Raid,” “Riposte in Tertio”
• Matthews, from Seeing Through the South (C)

work due

• Blog Post #1:

2/14 The Unvanquished

readings/in class:

• U, “Vendée,” “Skirmish at Sartoris,” “An Odor of Verbena”
• Atkinson, from Faulkner and the Great Depression (C)
• optional: Allred, "White Noise/Black Codes: Inscription and Representation in The Unvanquished"

work due:

• blog post #2:

The Sound and the Fury

2/28 TSAF I

work due:

• Read "Benjy" and "Quentin" sections of TSAF
• Faulkner, "Introduction to TSAF" and "Appendix" (C)
• Sartre, “On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner” (C)

3/7 TSAF II

readings/in class:

• Read "Jason" and "Dilsey" sections (finish the novel)
• Matthews, "That Evening Sun Go Down"

work due:

• Blog post #3:

Light in August

3/14 LIA I

readings/in class:

• LIA, chs 1-7
• Matthews, "From Rednecks to Riches" (the chapter is long but nutritious. If you're pressed for time, start with the LIA section on p. 159.

  work due:

  blog post #4

3/21 LIA II

readings/in class:

• LIA, chs 8-15
• Watson, from Reading From the Body (C)

3/28 LIA III

readings/in class:

• LIA, finish
• Doyle, “The Body Against Itself…” (C)
• optional: Hasratian, “The Death of Difference in LIA” (C)

  work due:

• midterm project see description

Unit 3 Absalom, Absalom

4/4 AA 1

readings/in class:

• AA, chs 1-3
• Matthews, "The Planting of Men" (read though p. 197)

4/18 AA 2

readings/in class:

• AA chs 4-6
• Godden, from Fictions of Labor (C)

work due:

• final project proposal (on blog)

4/25 AA 3

readings/in class:

• AA finish
• Murphet, Faulkner in the Histories of Film: “Where Memory Is the Slave”

work due:

• Blog post #5

Go Down, Moses (1941)

5/2 GDM 1

readings/in class:

• “Was,” “Pantaloon in Black,” “The Fire and the Hearth”
• Davis, ch. 1 from Games of Property (C)

work due:

• final project bibliography (on blog)

5/9 GDM 2

readings/in class:

• “The Old People,” “The Bear”
• Saldivar and Goldberg, "The Faulknerian Anthropocene: Scales of Time and History in The Wild Palms and Go Down, Moses" [C]

  work due:

5/16 GDM 3

readings/in class:

• “Delta Autumn,” “Go Down, Moses”
• optional: Ladd, "Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner"
• quick roundtable on final projects

work due:

• final essay (submit via email or form)

See syllabus for books on order, assignment structure, grading, policies, etc.