ENGL 3060-023 & -028: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

THE 70S: PARANOIA, TECHNOLOGY, & DECLINE

Daily Schedule

Notes
• I will add to and clarify this schedule as needed throughout the semester.
• Verbal instructions from me always supersede this document.
• Consult Text List for where to obtain readings.
• All readings are due on the day they are listed. It is up to you to obtain the texts in question, either
through the means I have provided or on your own.
• Quizzes will be administered through CULearn and will be due by class time on the day they are listed.

11 January 13 January 15 January

Joyce Carol Oates: “Where
are you going, where have
Week 1 you been?” Pamela Zoline: “The Heat
Introduction to the course
Death of the Universe”
Bob Dylan: “A Hard Rain's
A-Gonna Fall”
18 January 20 January 22 January
Week 2 Thomas Pynchon: The
MLK Day Crying of Lot 49, chapters 1 Lot 49, chapter 3
–2
25 January 27 January 29 January
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?,
Lot 49, chapters 4 – 5
Week 3 chapters 1 – 7
Do Androids Dream. . .,
Film screening: The chapters 8 – 14
Quiz 1 due by 12 pm
Conversation (TBA)
(covering 11 – 25
January)
1 February 2 February 5 February
Week 4 Do Androids Dream. . .,
The Conversation The Conversation
chapters 15 – 22
8 February 10 February 12 February
James Tiptree: “The Girl
Who Was Plugged In” JG Ballard: “Fictions of
Week 5 Pink Floyd: Dark Side of Every Kind,” “Introduction to
the Moon Quiz 2 due by 12 pm Crash,” & Crash, chapters 1
(covering 27 January – 8 –3
February)
15 February 17 February 19 February
Crash, chapters 18 – 24
Week 6 Crash, chapters 4 – 10 Crash, chapters 11 – 17

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THE 70S: PARANOIA, TECHNOLOGY, & DECLINE
Daily Schedule

22 February 24 February 26 February

Parliament: Mothership
Queen: A Night at the Connection
Week 7 Opera James Tiptree: “The
Quiz 3 due by 12 noon Women Men Don't See”
Due: Midterm paper (covering 10 February –
22 February)
1 March 3 March 5 March
Week 8 Gayl Jones: Corregidora, Corregidora, chapters III &
Corregidora, chapter II
chapter I IV
8 March 10 March 12 March
Joanna Russ: The Female
Man, parts 1 – 3

Week 9 Film Screening: The

The Female Man, parts 3 – The Female Man, parts 7 –
Deerhunter (TBA)
6 9
Quiz 4 due by 12 noon
(covering 24 February – 5
March)
15 March 17 March 19 March
Week 10 Michael Herr: from
The Deerhunter The Deehunter
Dispatches
22 March 24 March 26 March
Week 11
Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break
29 March 31 March 2 April
Robert Coover: from The
Public Burning
Week 12 The Sex Pistols: Never
Ramones: Leave Home &
Mind the Bollocks, Here's
Quiz 5 due by 12 pm Rocket to Russia
the Sex Pistols
(covering 8 March – 19
March)
5 April 7 April 9 April
Week 13 Kathy Acker: “NYC in 1979” The Decline of Western The Decline of Western
Civilization Civilization
Due: Final paper proposal
12 April 14 April 16 April
Philip K. Dick: A Scanner
Darkly, chapters 1 – 4
Week 14 A Scanner Darkly, chapters A Scanner Darkly, chapters
Quiz 6 due by 12 noon 5–8 9 – 12
(covering 29 March – 9
April)

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THE 70S: PARANOIA, TECHNOLOGY, & DECLINE
Daily Schedule

19 April 21 April 23 April

Week 15 A Scanner Darkly, chapters Thomas Pynchon: Inherent Inherent Vice, chapters 7 –
13 – 17 Vice, chapters 1 – 6 10
26 April 28 April 30 April
Inherent Vice, 17 – 21
Week 16 Inherent Vice, 11 – 13 Inherent Vice, 14 – 16
Quiz 7 due by 12 pm,
Due: Final paper playlist for Inherent Vice Monday 2 May (covering
12 April – 30 April)

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