Reading for Week 15

Before this Thursday (April 22), please read the following two (really interesting) articles.

• Next Big Thing in English: Knowing They Know That You Know
• Can ‘Neuro Lit Crit’ Save the Humanities?

Reading for Week 14

By April 28, please read:

Introduction to drama (p664-667)

Introduction to comedy (p687-699)

David Ives: Soap Opera (p701-711)

Reading for W13

For Monday (April 11), please read Visual Poetry Today (including all the visual poems following the article), “London” by William Blake (p. 442), and “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost (p. 445).

Reading for W12

By Monday (April 4), please read “The winter evening settles down” by T.S. Eliot (p. 453) and page 458-460 on Haiku.

Reading for Week 9

By Mar. 17, please read:

Reading a poem (p. 381-382)

Introduction to each category of poetry (lyric, narrative, didactic, etc)

D. H. Lawrence: Piano

William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (p. 383)

Robert Frost: “Out, out -” (p. 389)

Reading for W5

By Feb. 22 (Tuesday) please read an introduction to Symbol (p. 208-211) and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (p. 237)

By Feb. 24 (Thursday) please read The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (p. 265).

Reading for W5

By Feb. 14, please read Cathedral by Raymond Carber (p. 80).

By Feb. 17, please read The Lawsuit by Naguib Mahfouz (p. 76).

Reading for W4

For Feb. 7, please read A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, one of my favorites in the book.

For Feb. 10, read A Web Essay on the Male Gaze, Fashion Advertising, and the Pose.

Reading for W3

By Thursday (Feb. 3), please read

• Point of View (p. 28-33)
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (p.41-46)

 

Reading for W2 (updated)

Please read the following stories in “Backpack Literature” by Monday (Jan. 24).

• The Appointment in Samarra
• The North Wind and the Sun
• Independence

The editors of the book put some questions after stories to help you digest the reading. Please do the following:

• Write down brief answers to those questions in complete sentences.
• Some of the questions will appear on the course blog. Answer the questions posted by the instructor in the comments section before the deadline, which is indicated in the post’s title.
• Bring your answers (in either paper or electronic form) to class on Thursday for discussion.

Please read the following by Thursday (Jan. 27).

• Plot and the Short story (p. 14-17)
• A &P by John Updike  (p. 18-23)