Tentative Moorpark English 1B: Reading List
Last Revised 11/14/2001
Required Texts
Literature: Reading and Writing the Human Experience. eds. Richard Abcariab and Marvin Klotz. 7th ed. New York: St. Martins, 1998.
Silverman, Hughes and Wienbroer. Rules of Thumb. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999.
Crump, Eric and Carbone, Nick. Writing Online: A Student's Guide to the Internet and
the World Wide Web. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Online Site http://www.hmco.com/hmco/college/english/englishonline/EnglishOnline.html
Innocence and Experience
Fiction
- Hemingway. "Clean, Well lighted Place."
- O'Connor. "Good Country People."
- Bambara. "The Lesson."
- Cisneros. "The House on Mango Street."
Poetry
- Jordan. "Memo."
- Blake. "London." and "Garden of Love."
- Frnacis. "Pitcher."
- Cisneros. "My Wicked Ways."
- Reed. "Curiosity."
- Hardy. "Hap."
- Browning. "My Last Duchess."
Essay
- Saroyan. "Five Ripe Pears."
Conformity and Rebellion
Fiction
- Melville. "Bartleby the Scrivener."
- Le Guin. "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas."
- O'Brien. "On the Rainy River."
- Erdrich. "The Red Convertible."
Poetry
- P'o. "On the Birth of His Son."
- Brecht. "War Has Been Given a Bad Name."
- Reed. "Naming of Parts."
- Owen. "Dulce Et Decorum Est."
- Auden. "The Unknown Citizen."
Essay
- Swift. "A Modest Proposal."
- Donne.
Poetry
- Wordsworth. "The World is too Much with Us."
- Yeats. "Easter 1916."
- Stevens. "Sunday Morning."
- Hughes. "Harlem." and "Same in Blues."
- Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Frufrock."
- cummings. "the cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls."
- Sexton. "Cinderella."
- Sappho. "With His Venom."
- Shakespeare. Sonnets
- Donne. "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
- Blake. "A Poison Tree."
- Roethke. "My Papa's Waltz."
- Sarton. "AIDS."
- Kexiang. "Descendents of Myths."
- Shakepeare. All
- Donne. "Death Be Not Proud."
- Dickenson. All.
- Houseman. "To An Athlete Dying Young."
- Neruda. "The Dead Woman."
- Thomas. "Do Not Go Gently intoThat Good Night."
- Lee. "Between Seasons."
Essays
- Thomas. "The Iks."
- Baldwin. "rage."
- King. "Letter From Birmingham Jail."
- Paul. "1 Corinthians 13
- Twain. "Lost in the Snow."
Fiction
- Carver. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
- Poe.
- Lawrence.
- Malamud.
- Spiegelman.
Whole text Booklist.
Craig Branham. "A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW." http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/
Other readings will be announced in class.
