• Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 4th Compact Edition. eds. Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Longman: San Francisco: Longman, 2005. aka LIT
• 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. 6th ed. San Francisco: McGraw Hill, 2005. 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

• Introductions
  • Kenneth Burke. "Literature as Equipment for Living." HO
  • Haiku 519-521 (LIT) Image: 525-526 (LIT)

• Conflict
  • Komunyakaa, Yusef. "Facing It."(LIT)
  • Tim O'Brien. "The Things They Carried." (LIT)
  • Tim O'Brien. "How to Tell A War Story." (HO)
  • Wilfred Owen. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" "Anthem For a Doomed Youth" and "War Poetry" (LIT)
  • Sigfried Sassoon. (HO)
  • Henry Reed. "Naming of Parts"(LIT)

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

• Critical Casebooks: students will work in groups to determine the readings for each case study.
  • Flannery O'Connor: "A Good Man Is Hard To Find." (253-265)
  • Edgar Allen Poe: "The Tel- Tale HEart." (pp 233 - 243)
  • Langston Hughes: (759-762), "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (752),
  • Shakespeare Sonnets HO
  • Sophocles Oedipus The King

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