ENGLISH 2231: American Literature 1

Weekly Calendar: Week Eleven (Nov 6 - 10)

Anthology Readings

Web Resources

Activities


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Edgar Allan Poe

Don't Forget: Evaluation Webpage Two

is due next week. It should be sent to me as an email attachment by Nov 16 @ 3 PM.

So Much Poe

There is so much information on the web and in our anthology about Poe that I won't repeat it here. I encourage you to read the biographical information in the anthology, to visit the webpages I have posted, and to visit some of the interesting webpages that your colleagues post this week in the Discussion.

This week we'll take a look at two examples of Poe's fiction. First, review his biographical sketch (Baym et al. 1507-1510). Then, please read one of his tales of terror,"The Fall of the House of Usher"  (Poe 1534-1547), and one of his pieces of detective fiction, "The Purloined Letter" (Poe 1575-1588).

contains a brief discussion of the types of stock characters that Poe is credited with creating in the genre of detective fiction

Activities
(Due Dates/Times for all Activities are on the right side of the page)


Click on the "Discussion" link in the course's D2L navbar and answer the following question on the "Poe Websites" discussion board:

In a grisly saying apropos of Poe, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Poe website on the Internet. There are probably hundreds of them. With that in mind, I would like each of you to find one website that offers information that is applicable to the Poe poems from last week or the short stories from this week.  In your posting, tell us

  • who is responsible for the site
  • why that person or group is a credible source for information
  • what in particular you found helpful in regards to a particular story or poem that we have read

If someone has already posted a site that you were going to discuss, please find another site to discuss or different pieces of information to discuss from that site. Please be sure your site refers specifically to the works by Poe that we have read; general biographical information is not what we are interested in here.


Click on the "Discussion" link in the course's D2L navbar and answer the following question on the "Poe/Romanticism/Gothicism" discussion board:

In "The Fall of the House of Usher" find two traits from the webpages on romanticism (see ) and gothicism (see ) and explain how they affect your reading of the story.  Please refer to at least one other posting as you write your own ideas.

As you read the anthology and the web resources, please consider the following questions and ideas.

Go to the link to get definitions of these terms which may arise in our discussion:

Click the "Chat" link in the D2L navbar and go to the "ENGL 2231" chat.

Please contact me if you have any questions about this week's readings, web resources, or activities.

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