Readings

American Literature Pt. 1 American Literature Pt. 2 American Literature Overview 1865-1914 Timeline 1865-1914 "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County" by Mark Twain from Roughing It by Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Read Ch. XLII to Chapter in the Last Introduction to Huck Finn by Toni Morrison Twain Venturino Crit Claim, Evidence, Analysis Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Dubois Washington & Dubois The Elements of Fiction Writing About Fiction Pre-Writing & Drafting Activities Developing a Thesis Close Reading a Text and Avoiding Pitfalls The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Writer as Doctor by Martha J. Cutter Queering The Yellow Wallpaper? Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Politics of Form by Jonathan Crewe The Writings on the Wall Symbolic Order in The Yellow Wallpaper by Barbara Seuss Adele Ratignolle: Kate Chopin's Feminist at Home in The Awakening Kathleen Streater Sample Body Paragraph Building Secondary Sources Into an Argument Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill Writing About Drama Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill Comparative Analysis Outline Introductory Paragraph of Comparative Analysis Fences by August Wilson The Grave by Katherine Anne Porter How to Read Poetry The Short Happy Life of Francis Maccomber by Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway Simple on Indian Blood by Langston Hughes Ossie Davis Reading Simple on Indian Blood The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes Tradition and the Individual Talent by T.S. Eliot Characteristics of Postmodernism How to Date a Brown Girl by Junot Diaz How to Date a Brown Girl Reading Situating Latin American Masculinity: Immigration, Empathy and Emasculation in Junot Diaz’s Drown by John Riofrio Hell Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri Role of Language in Postmodernism contains excerpt from Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism whose criticism students may find helpful Jacqueline Doyle Haunting the Borderlands: La Llorona in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek Eleven by Sandra Cisneros Choose Your Own Adventure example of reader participation Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood Extra by Yiyun Li To Hell With Dying by Alice Walker A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor Literary Analysis Body Paragraphs Dramatic Monologues Robert Frost Readings Zora Neale Hurston Exhibit