Part I Romanticism and the American Short Story
Unit 1 Washington Irving: \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\"
Unit 2 Edgar Allen Poe: \"The Fall of the House of Usher\"
Unit 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne: \"Young Goodman Brown\"
Unit 4 Herman Melville: \"Bartleby, the Scrivener\"
Unit 5 Charlotte Perkins Gilman: \"The Yellow Wallpaper\"
Part II Realism and the American Short Story
Unit 6 Sarah Orne Jewett: \"A White Heron\"
Unit 7 Jack London: \"To Build a Fire\"
Part III Modernism and the American Short Story
Unit 8 Willliam Faulkner: \"A Rose for Emily\"
Unit 9 F. Scott Fitzgerald: \"Babylon Revisited\"
Unit 10 Saul Bellow: \"Looking for Mr. Green
Part IV Postmodernism and the American Short Story
Unit 11 Donald Barthelme: \"The Glass Mountain\"
Unit 12 Raymond Carver: \"Will You Please Be Quiet, Please
Supplementary Reading with Critical Essay
The Chrysanthemums
Critical Essay (\"The Chrysanthemums\": The Story Shaped by Its Setting)
The Egg
Critical Essay (Zooming in and Zooming out: A Study of Point of View in the Short Story \"The Egg\")
The Bigness of the World
Critical Essay (Characterization as a Foil in \"The Bigness of the World\")
ID
Critical Essay (\"ID\": A Story of Interactivity of the Author, the Character and the Reader)
Key to Exercises
