All dates are subject to revision.

W 1/7 Introduction: Senior Seminar? Postmodern? Encyclopedic? Say what? Readings (in class): Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar" (which we'll treat as a paradigmatic modernist text); Laurence Raab, "Attack of the Crab Monsters" (which we'll treat as a paradigmatic postmodernist text).
F 1/9 On postmodernism continued. Read: Brian McHale, excerpts from the introductions to Postmodernist Fiction and Constructing Postmodernism; John Barth, "Lost in the Funhouse." Also recommended: Mary Klages' overview of postmodernism at <http://www.colorado.edu/English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.html>.

M 1/12 On postmodernism continued. Read: Edward Mendolson, "Encyclopedic Narrative: from Dante to Pynchon."
W 1/14 Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook. Read: 1-242 or as far as possible; don't read the Introductions until after you've finished the book, as they contain spoilers.
F 1/16 Notebook continued. Reading journal due.

M 1/19 Notebook continued.
W 1/21Notebook continued.
F 1/23 Notebook continued. Reading journal due.

M 1/26 Notebook continued. Read: 245-482 or farther.
W 1.28 Notebook continued.
F 1/30 Notebook continued. Reading journal due.

M 2/2 Notebook continued. Read: 485 - end; "About Doris Lessing," "Introduction 1993," "Introduction 1971." Group-led class.
W 2/4 Notebook continued.
F 2/6 Notebook continued. Reading journal due.

M 2/9 Notebook continued. Group-led class.
W 2/11 Notebook continued.
F 2/13 Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow. Read: 1-180 (farther if possible). Reading journal due.

M 2/16 Rainbow continued.
W 2/18 Rainbow continued.
F 2/20 Rainbow continued. Reading journal due. First conference on long paper no later than this date.

M 2/23 Rainbow continued. Read: 181-403.Paragraph describing your term paper topic due by email.
W 2/25 Rainbow continued.
F 2/27 Rainbow continued. Reading journal due.

M 3/2 Rainbow continued. Read: 403-627.Annotated Bibliography due.
W 3/4 Rainbow continued. Possible date for group-led class.
F 3/6 Rainbow continued. Reading journal due.

M 3/9 Rainbow continued. Read: 629-end. Prospectus due.
W 3/11 Rainbow continued. Possible date for group-led class.
F 3/13 Rainbow continued. Reading journal due.

3/16 - 3/29 SPRING BREAK

M 3/23 Rainbow continued.
W 3/25 Individual work on papers.
F 3/27 Reading journal due.

M 3/30 Individual work.
W 4/1 Individual work.
F 4/3 Individual work. Draft of Term Paper Due.

M 4/6 Individual work. Meet with me in conference sometime this week.
W 4/8 Individual work.
F 4/10 Individual work.

M 4/13 Individual work.
W 4/15 Individual work.
F 4/17 Individual work.

M 4/20 last day of class. Final Draft of Term Paper Due.

F 4/24, 3:30 - 5:30 PM. Final Exam Period; be prepared to give a brief summary of your term paper.