Unit One Fiction
1.1 Understanding Fiction
1.2 Plot
David Herbert Lawrence and "Tickets, Please"
1.3 Character
Sherwood Anderson and "The Egg".
1.4 Point of View and Tone
Margaret Atwood and "Rape Fantasies"
1.5 Theme
James Joyce and "The Dead"
1.6 Style
Ermest Hemingway and "In Another Country"
1.7 Selected Commentaries
Mark Savin: "Coming Full Circle: Sherwood Anderson's "The Egg"
L.J.Morrissery: "Inner and Outer Perceptions in Joyce's "The Dead"
1.8 Further Reading
Luigi Pirandello and "War"
Student Paper: "Defining War"
Unit Two Poetry
2.1 Understanding Poetry
2.2 Voice:Speaker and Tone
Robert Browning and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"
2.3 Diction
William Blake and "London"
2.4 Imagery
William Shakespeare and Sonnet
2.5 Figures of Speech
Emily Dickinson and "I lilke to see it lap the Miles"
2.6 Sound and Rhythm
E.E.Cummings and "anyone lived in a pretty how town"
2.7 Selected Commentaries
Heather Glen: "The Stance of Observation in William Blake's 'London'"
William Freedman: "Dickinson's 'I like to see it lap the Miles"
2.8 Further Reading
Robert Frost and "Design"
Student Paper: "An Unfolding of Robert Frost's 'Design'"
Unit Three Drama
3.1 Understanding Drama
3.2 Shakespearean Comedy
William Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream
3.3 The Problem Play
George Bernard Shaw and Widowers'Houses
3.4 The Feminist Theater
Susan Glaspell and Trifles
3.5 The Theater of the Absurd
Samuel Beckett and "Krapp's Last Tape"
3.6 Selected Commentaries
Kate Kellaway: “Shaw-ly Some Mistake"
Robert Brustein: "Krapp's Last Tape"
3.7 Further Reading
