• 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

• 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" and "War Poetry" (LIT)
  • Henry Reed. "Naming of Parts"(LIT)
  • Sigfried Sassoon. (HO)
  • Ambrose Bierce. "Occurance at Owl Creek." (LIT + CD)

• Parable and Myth
  • Aesop (LIT)
  • Chuang Tzu (LIT)
  • TBA (LIT)
  • TBA (LIT)

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

• Case Study: Emily Dickinson

  1b-8 class

  • "Wild Nights - Wild Nights"
  • "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain"
  • "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
  • This Is My Letter To THe World"
  • "Not In Vain"

  1b-9 class

  • "Water, Is Taught by Thirst"
  • "I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed"
  • "Some Keep the Sabbath Going To Church"
  • "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
  • "The Bustle In A House"

• Case Study: Flannery O'Connor

  readings for 1b-8 class:

  • "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
  readings for 1b-9 class:
  • "Good Country People."
  • "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
• Sophocles Oedipus The King

  readings for 1b-8 class:

  • handout
  readings for 1b-9 class:
• Case Study: Raymond Carver

  readings for 1b-8 class:

  pp 288-299 (bio, short story and questions)
  • "Cathedral."
  readings for 1b-9 class:
  • "A Small, Good Thing."
  • "Cathedral."

• Case Study: Langston Hughes

  readings for 1b-8 class:

  • "The Weary Blues." (760)
  • "I, Too." (761)
  • Ballad of the Landlord." (762)
  • "Harlem (Dream Deferred)" (764)
  • "Theme for English B (764)
  • "End" (766)
  readings for 1b-9 class:
  • "Lennox Ave: Midnight."
  • "The Weary Blues."
  • "Ballad of the Landlord."
  • "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

• Case Study: ShakespeareOthello

  readings for 1b-8 class:
  

  • Act V
  readings for 1b-9 class:
  
  • Act V, Scene ii

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