ENGL 570
Kansas Literature

Contents

Preface

Course Requirements

Summary of Course Components

Lessons

Unit I: The Nineteenth Century

Introduction: Images of Nineteenth-Century Kansas

1. The Wizard of Oz: Politics and a Kansan in Oz
   Writing Assignment 1
   
   
2. Dust: The Work Ethic and How a Marriage Doesn't Work
   
   
3. Sod and Stubble: Nineteenth-Century Struggle, Twentieth-Century Reward
   
   
4. The Kansas Experience in Poetry
   Writing Assignment 2
   
   Unit II: The Twentieth Century
   
   Introduction: Images of Twentieth-Century Kansas
   
   
5. Not Without Laughter: When Success Means Leaving
   
   
6. Edythe Squier Draper: Suffering and Redemption
   
   
7. Picnic and Dark at the Top of the Stairs: A Look at Small-Town Kansas
   Writing Assignment 3
   
   
8. Kansas Poems of William Stafford: The Spirit of Place
   
   
9. Rattlebone: Kansas During the Days of Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka
   
   
10. The Last Cattle Drive: Eastern versus Western Kansas
    Writing Assignment 4

Optional Sample Final

Appendix

Bibliographies: Kansas Writers and Books About Kansas

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