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The GENDER-CONSIOUS Self

The GENDER-CONSIOUS Self. or the GENDER-CONFLICT Self (the early FEMINIST outcry). Charlotte Perkins Gilman. “The Yellow Wall-paper”. The “MODERN” Self . Movements & Trends : Realism Naturalism Impressionism Psychological Analysis Determinism/ Fatalism Symbolism

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The GENDER-CONSIOUS Self

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  1. The GENDER-CONSIOUS Self or the GENDER-CONFLICT Self (the early FEMINIST outcry)

  2. Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wall-paper”

  3. The “MODERN” Self Movements & Trends: Realism Naturalism Impressionism Psychological Analysis Determinism/ Fatalism Symbolism Rejection of Tradition and Moral Custom Finding new ways to see people and society, and to live in a Spiritual Wasteland

  4. Stephen Crane “The Open Boat” “I will, then, be a Toad”* “War Is Kind”*

  5. The AESTHETE Self Wanting to rise above mundane, ugly, poor city life to the heights of beauty. ART is the transport. ESCAPISM?

  6. A Sad Storyabout a Boy… TEARS

  7. Willa Cather “Paul’s Case”*

  8. The LITTLE MAN Self

  9. A Funny Filmabout a Boy… LAUGHTER

  10. Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (silent film, 1921)

  11. The MODERN “RELIGIOUS” Self The Bible Belt Culture

  12. Sinclair Lewis’ novelElmer Gantry(1926) … made into a movie (1960).

  13. John Steinbeck’s novelThe Grapes of Wrath (1939) Made into a great film directed by JOHN FORD, starring Henry Fonda, in 1940.

  14. If time allows, we will watch John Ford’s movie version of The Grapes of Wrath.

  15. MODERN AMERICAN POETS

  16. Edwin Arlington Robinson “Richard Cory” “MiniverCheevy”

  17. Carl Sandburg “Chicago” “Fog”

  18. Robert Frost “The Pasture” “Mending Wall” “After Apple-Picking” “The Road Not Taken” “Birches” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” “Fire and Ice” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” “Out, Out—” “Directive”* “Home Burial”*

  19. Ezra Pound,poet “In a Station of the Metro”“The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”

  20. Edna St. Vincent Millay “Apostrophe to Man”

  21. T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “Preludes” “The Hollow Men” “Journey of the Magi”

  22. Wallace Stevens “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman” “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” “Sunday Morning” “Anecdote of a Jar” “The Idea of Order at Key West” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

  23. e.e. cummings “in Just-” “O sweet spontaneous” “next to of course god america I” “i sing of Olaf glad and big” “somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond” “anyone lived in a pretty how town” “my father moved through dooms of love” “maggie and milly and molly and may”* “[i carry your heart with me (i carry it in”* “here is little Effie’s head”*

  24. William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” “This Is Just to Say” “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (with W.H. Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts”)

  25. H.D.(Hilda Doolittle) “Oread” “Love that I Bear”*

  26. The DAMAGED Self or The DISILLUSIONED Self or The DROPOUT Self

  27. A Bleak Dramatic Play by . . .

  28. Eugene O’Neill Long Day’s Journey Into Night or The Iceman Cometh* (movie performance)

  29. Robert Penn Warren “Blackberry Winter”*

  30. The “INVISIBLE” Self The HARLEM RENAISSANCE and beyond…

  31. Langston Hughes Poetry, including [“Harlem [2]”: ‘What happens to a dream deferred?’]* “A Theme for English B”*

  32. Zora Neale Hurston “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

  33. Countee Cullen “Yet Do I Marvel” “Incident”

  34. Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool” “The Ballad of Rudolph Reed”* “The Boy Died in My Alley”* “Of Robert Frost”* “The Life of Lincoln West”*

  35. Ralph Ellison excerpts from The Invisible Man

  36. WW I

  37. The WAR-BROKEN Self

  38. The LOST GENERATION Self After WWI, Most of the greatest American writers expatriate to Europe, Especially Paris, France, to find their voices as American writers while picking up ideas for their craft from the models of great British, French and Italian writers.

  39. Ernest Hemingway “Soldier’s Home”

  40. The Jazz Age What to do when the Great War is over?

  41. The MACHIAVELLIAN Self

  42. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

  43. The MODERN SOUTHERNER Self

  44. William Faulkner,novelist & short story writer “Barn Burning” or “A Rose for Emily”

  45. Flannery O’Connor,short story writer & novelist “Good Country People”

  46. The Fantasy Daydream Self Escaping the drudgery and anonymity of being a common American citizen, and a husband with a nagging wife.

  47. James Thurber “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”*

  48. The “AFRO-AMERICAN” Self

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