Path 2

British Modernism
Readings for Research and Writing ("Path 2")

"It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix.
The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the
reckless rage of a suicide bomber" (44).
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997)

week one / essay #1: poetry analysis (form & content) (10%): this 3-4 page essay should be creative, focused, highly structured, and supported by appropriately detailed evidence. Essays are due by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 3. Late essays will lose 2 (of 10) pts/day.

week two / read your assigned short story for essay #2 and begin generating ideas

week three / paper conference for essay #2: short story analysis prep (5%): students will bring a detailed 1-2 page outline and a single page of their term paper to a joint paper conference with me and the other members of their Path 2 group (allowing 15-20 minutes/student). Students who do not complete these three requirements cannot turn in their second essay.

week four / essay #2: short story analysis (character & theme) (15%): this 4-5 page essay should be creative, focused, highly structured, and supported by appropriately detailed evidence. Essay due by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 24th. Late essays will lose 2 (of 15) pts/day.

week five / group project (5%): details tba . . .

Group 1: Yeats & Lawrence

Group 2: Yeats & Lawrence

Group 3: Yeats & Lawrence

Group 4: Auden & Joyce

Group 5: Eliot & Joyce

Group 6: Boland & Joyce

essay #1: Yeats's "Among School Children

essay #2: Lawrence's "Odour of Chrysanthemums"

essay #1: Yeats's "Prayer for My Daughter"

essay #2: Lawrence's "The Christening"

essay #1: Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"

essay #2: Lawrence's "The White Stocking"

essay #1: Auden's "Museée des Beaux Arts"

essay #2: Joyce's "Clay"

essay #1: Eliot's "Gerontion"

essay #2: Joyce's "The Boarding House"

essay #1: "Anorexic"

essay #2: Joyce's "Eveline"

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Carly Wilson

Krista Azevedo

Lyndse Allan

Arjun Pendharkar

Mark Wazny

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Sara Jane Weidner

Meghan Sampson

Victoria Okamura

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Kendall Eyster

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Emily House

Jessy Skeels

Bethany Filter

Brittany Onstott

Jennifer Chan

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Katelyn Smith

Lauren DeLorenzo

Tara Kump

Morgan Jones

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Nick Finn

Tracy Meeks

Lindsay Turner

Julian Mirijanian

Nicole Cochran

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Dirk Camilli

Megan Philipps

Amy Kilpatrick

Bonnie Nelson

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Eric O'Brien

David Dudek

Megan Bishop

Stephen Cohen

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Michael Sabido

John Corgel

Hamei Hamedi

Aaron Skoien

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Hugo Godoy

Molly Dow

Ross Talmage

Christine Nevins

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Alex Remar

Max Reid

Megan Dunckel

Amanda Orr

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Scott Cairney

Anthony Lynch

Robby Stine

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Nathan Pereau

Brian Mark

Melissa Jurgens

"Love and Pain," or "The Vampire" (1893)
Edvard Munch

Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu