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
Ernest I temingway 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
Voice: Speaker and Tone
Robert Browning and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"．
Diction
william Blake and "London"．
2．4 Imagery
William Shakespeare and Sonnet 130
2．5 Figures of Speech
Emily Dickinson and "I like 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 Kenaway: "Shaw-ly Some Mistake"．
Robert Brustein: "Krapp's Last Tape"．
3．7 Further Reading
sophocles and Antigone
student Paper: "Antigone A Straggle bekween Human and Divine
Powers"
Unit Four Literary Citicism
4．1 Understanding Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
4．2 Marxist Criticism
Raymond Williams and "Base and Superstructure in Marxist
cultural Theory"．
4．3 Psychoanalytical Criticism
Sigmund Freud and "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" ．
4．4 Feminist Criticism
Sandra M． Gilbert, Susan Gubar and "The Madwoman in the
Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary
Imagination"．
4．5 Postcolonial Criticism
Edward Said and "'Introduction' to Orientalism"．
4．6 Selected Commentaries
Maggie Hunmm: "Feminist Futures"．
Leela Gandhi: "The Limits of Postcolonial Theory"．
4．7 Further Reading
Margaret Atwood and "SpeWing",
Student Paper: "A Feminist Critique of Margaret Atwood's 'Spell-
ing'"
Appendixes
1． Glossary of Literary Terms
2． Literary Background Information
3． Sample Papers
4． Wehsites for Further Studies
References
