• Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 3rd Compact Edition. eds. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Longman: San Francisco: Longman, 2002. aka LIT

• Kline, Daniel T. Responding to Literature: A Writer's Journal. San Francisco: Longman, 2002. aka RL

• Choose a novel from the Whole text booklist

• various handouts aka HO

• most online sources are linked from here and the schedule

• Silverman et al. Rules of Thumb. 5th ed. San Francisco: McGraw Hill, 2002. aka ROT -- Recommended

Web Resources:

• Walker, Janice and Todd Taylor. "MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources" The Columbia Guide to Online Style. CUP. 18 Nov 2002. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html (9 Jan 2004).
• Craig Branham. "A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW." http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/ (9 Jan 2004).
• Burke's Pentad dramatistic heuristic

• Introductions
  • Kenneth Burke. "Literature as Equipment for Living." HO
  • Haiku (LIT)

• Conflict
  • Tim O'Brien. "The Things They Carried." (LIT)
  • Wilfred Owen. "Dulce Et Decorum Est," "Anthem for a Doomed Soldier," and "War Poetry" (LIT)
  • Henry Reed. "Naming of Parts"(LIT)
  • Sigfried Sassoon. (HO)
  • Randal Jarrell. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." (LIT)
  • Yusef Komunyakaa. "Facing It." (LIT)

• Case Studies
  • Sophocles Oedipus The King

  • Flannery O'Connor
    • "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
    • "Good Country People."

  • Edgar Allen Poe

  • Latin American Poets

  • Emily Dickinson

  • Shakespeare: Sonnets

• Science Fiction
  • Le Guin (HO) and "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas" (LIT)
  • Vonnegut. "Harrison Bergeron" (LIT)

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