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All readings should be done before class on the day they are assigned. Bring the assigned texts to class. “K” indicates the anthology of poetry edited by Kendall; “T” indicates the anthology of stories edited by Tate. Readings marked “pdf” and linked online readings are in the weekly modules on Canvas.

Week 1 ONLINE

T Jan 11                       Boring and Overwhelming Introductions

Th Jan 13                     Grayzel, “Introduction: The First World War and the Making of a Modern, Global Conflict” (pdf); view the animated map “Europe Plunges into War” (Written commentary is available at the end of the short video)

                                    mns lecture: A Grossly Reductive Introduction to the Great War

Everyone should choose a Reading Questions date/work by midnight on 1/13
(links in Canvas)

Week 2

T Jan 18                       Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, chapters 1-5 (1-98); view Trench Warfare and Gas Warfare

Everyone should choose a Special Mission by midnight on 1/18
(links in Canvas)

Th Jan 20                     Remarque chapters 6-8 (99-198)

Week 3

T Jan 25                       Remarque chapters 9-12 (199-296); view Shell Shock

Th Jan 27                     Smith, Not So Quiet, chapters I-III (1-74); view Women in World War One

Friday, Jan 28 by midnight: Special Mission for Smith due

Week 4

T Feb 1                        Smith chapters IV-VII (75-161)

Th Feb 3                      Smith chapters VIII-XII (162-239)
Remarque essay due by midnight

Week 5

T Feb 8                        Hall, “Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself” (T 125-140); Aldington, “The Case of Lieutenant Hall” (T 77-91); Barrie, “The New Word” (T 225-240); Machen, “The Bowmen” (T 252-54)

Th Feb 10                    Sassoon, all selections (K 85-101)

Sunday, Feb 13 by midnight: Special Mission for Hemingway due

Week 6

T Feb 15                      Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Part I (1-78); Smith essay due by midnight

Th Feb 17                    Hemingway Part II (79-159)

Week 7

T Feb 22                      Hemingway Part III (160-233)

Th Feb 24                    Hemingway Parts IV and V (234-332)

Week 8                        Spring Break

Website, Podcast, Instagram and Film Special Missions due no later than midnight Sunday, February 27

Week 9

T Mar 8                       Borden, The Forbidden Zone, 1-32; Hemingway essay due by midnight

Wednesday, March 9 by midnight: Special Mission for Borden due

Th Mar 10                    Borden 33-61 and Rickword, “Moonrise Over Battlefield” (K 220)

Week 10

T Mar 15                      Borden 63-90                                       

Th Mar 17                    Borden 91-112

Week 11

T Mar 22                      Poetry by non-combatants: Hardy, “On the Belgian Expatriation” (K 6-7), “I Looked Up from My Writing” (K 10-11); Kipling, “For All We Have and Are” (K 25-26), “My Boy Jack” (K 29), “Justice” (K 39-40); Binyon, “For the Fallen” (K 43-44); Mew, “May, 1915” (K 46), “The Cenotaph” (K 46-47); Service, “Tipperary Days” (K 48-50), “Tri-Colour” (K 52-53); Gibson, “The Messages” (K 64-65), “Breakfast” (K 65), “Between the Lines” (K 66-70), “Air-Raid” (K 73-74); Cannan, “August 1914” (K 179), “For a Girl” (K 184-85)        

Th Mar 24                    Poetry by combatants: Brooke, “1914” (K 104-106); Rosenberg, “Break of Day in the Trenches” (K 137-38), “Louse Hunting” (K 138-39), “Returning, we hear the larks” (K 139-140), “Dead Man’s Dump” (K 140-42); Gurney, “To the Prussians of England” (K 121), “First Time In” (K 123-124), “The Stokes Gunners” (K 127); Graves, “A Dead Boche” (K 194), “A Child’s Nightmare” (K 195-97); Jones, “from In Parenthesis” (K 201-206); Blunden, “1916 Seen from 1921” (K 209-10)

Sunday, March 27 by midnight: Special Mission for Daly due

Week 12

T Mar 29                      Daly, Not Only War, chapters I-IX (1-38); Borden essay due by midnight

                                    Recommended: explore photos of African American soldiers at the LOC and here.

Th Mar 31                    Daly chapters X-XV (38-70)

Week 13

T Apr 5                        Bennett, “Wedding Day” (T 141-47); Miller, “Stragglers in the Dust” (pdf); Special Mission for Porter due by midnight

Th Apr 7                      Porter, “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (pdf—follow printed page #s: 281-304 mid-page break) and Pandemic Then and Now; view map

Week 14

T Apr 12                      Porter (mid-page 304-330); Daly essay due by midnight       

Th Apr 14                    Owen, all selections (K 150-74)

Week 15

T Apr 19                      Owen and wrap-up

Th Apr 21                    EL Kemp Symposium; class will not meet; Porter essay due by midnight

Poetry essay due by midnight Saturday, April 23

FINALS WEEK         

Both sections of LGW may use the later date for the course as a hard deadline to submit take-home finals: Thursday, April 28, 6:00 p.m.