• Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 8th Interactive 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:

• MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources Janice Walker

• Craig Branham. "A Student's Guide to Research with the WWW." http://www.slu.edu/departments/english/research/

• Burke's Pentad

• Logical Fallacies

• 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) 782-784
  • 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)
  • Luke. "The Parable of the Prodigal Son" (LIT) 232-233
  • Garrison Keeler. "Prodigal Son." (LIT)

• Science Fiction
  • Le Guin (HO) and "Those Who Walk Away From Omelas" (LIT) 267-274
  • Vonnegut. "Harrison Bergeron" (LIT) 233-240

• Case Study: Sophocles Antigone

  1b-9 class

  • Everyone needs to read Antigone before Monday!!!!!!

  1b-10 class

  • pg.1382-Info on the writer, Sophocles -The origins of Odipus the King
  • pg.1424-The background of Antigone
  • pg.1426-The play Antigone

• Dickinson

  readings for 1b-9 class:

  • Biography on 1117
  • Quote: What poetry means to Emily Dickenson on 1125: "recognizing Poetry."
  • "I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed." 1119
  • "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" 1120
  • "The Soul Selects Her Own Society." 1120
  • "Because I Could Not Stop For Death." 1122
  • Wilbur Criticism: "The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson." 1130
  • Wolff Criticism: "Dickinson and Death." 1132

  readings for 1b-10 class:

• O'Connor

  readings for 1b-9 class:

  readings for 1b-10 class:

  • "Revelation" pp 416-431

• Carver

  readings for 1b-9 class: Pages 447-491. Read all three stories and the criticisms.

  readings for 1b-10 class:

  • "Cathedral" page 448-458
  • His introduction - page 447-448
  • The critques - page 485-491
  • Also, you might just want to skim "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" page 475-483

• Hughes

  readings for 1b-9 class:

  • His biography on page 1136
  • Lenox Avenue: Midnight page 1138
  • I, Too page 1139-1140
  • Theme for English B page 1142-1143
  • Hughes as an Experimentalist page 1149
  • Black Identity in Langston Hughes page 1152-1153
  Thanks, and have a great week!

  readings for 1b-10 class:

• Hamlet

  readings for 1b-9 class:
  Read All Of Hamlet!!!!
  It is very long so start now!
  Pages 1569-1681
  We suggest cliffnotes....
  You will have to have some idea of what happens or you'll be lost during the discussion.

  readings for 1b-10 class:
  In preparation for the Hamlet presentation on Dec. 2nd, please read Act V Scene II (The Castle) starting on page 1668 and ending on page 1680. Thanks.

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