ICTION 1 Reading a Story Fable and Tale: W. Sommerset Maugham, Brothers Grimm Short Story: John Updike 2 Point of View: Faulkner, Poe, Carver, Mansfield...
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3 Character: Alice Walker, Isaac Bashevis Singer 4 Setting: Kate Chopin, Jack London, Amy Tan 5 Tone and Style: Hemingway, Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges 6 Theme: Vonnegut, Hawthorne, Stephen Crane 7 Symbol: Steinbeck, Ursula Le Guin 8 (instructional stuff on evaluating a story) 9 Reading Long Stories and Novels: James Baldwin, Kafka 10 A Writer in Depth: Flannery O'Connor 11 Stories for Further Reading: Chinua Achebe "Civil Peace", Willa Cather "Paul's Case", Langston Hughes "On the Road", Jamacia Kincaid "Girl", Tim O'Brien "The Things They Carried", Eudora Welty "A Visit of Charity" POETRY 12 Reading a Poem: Yeats, Adrienne Rich, Frost, Robert Browning 13 Listening to a Voice: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Louise Gluck, Thomas Hardy, W.H. Auden, Richard Lovelace, Wilfred Owen 14 Words: Robert Graves, William Carlos Williams, Longfellow, Emma Lee Warrior, Josephine Mills, e.e. cummings, Lewis Carroll 15 Saying and Suggesting: William Blake, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alfred Lord Tennyson 16 Imagery: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop 17 Figures of Speech: Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood 18 Song: Run D.M.C., Paul Simon, Dudley Randall, Bessie Smith, John Lennon 19 Sound: Alexander Pope, Updike, A.E. Housman, William Blake, Michael Stillman 20 Rhythm: Gwendolyn Brooks, Ben Jonson, Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman 21 Closed Form: John Keats, Shakespeare, Wendy Cope, Dylan Thomas 22 Open Form: Wallace Stevens, Dorthi Charles, Lucille Clifton 23 Symbol: Matthew 13:24-30, Sara Teasdale, Ted Kooser 24 Myth and Narrative: Louise Bogan, Yeats, Anne Sexton
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