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Unit One Fiction
1.1 Understanding Fiction
2
1.2
Plot
7
David Herbert Lawrence and "Tickets, Please”
10
1.3
Character
23
Sherwood Anderson and “The Egg"
26
1.4 Point of Viewand Tone
38
Margaret Atwood and “Rape Fantasies'
40
1.5 Theme
51
James Joyce and “The Dead"
54
1.6
Style
92
Ermest Hemingway and “In Another Country"
94
1.7 Selected Commentaries
102
Mark Savin: "Coming Full Circle: Sherwood Anderson's The
Egg'
102
L.J. Morrissery: “Inner and Outer Perceptions in Joyce's ‘The
Dead’"
106
1.8 Further Reading
114
Luigh Pirandello and “War”
114
Student Paper: “Defining 'War’"
117
Unit Two
Poetry
119
2.1 Understanding Poetry
120
2.2 Voice: Speaker and Tone
125
Robert Browning and “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister".....127
Diction
136
2.3
William Blake and “London."
138
Imagery
144
2.4
William Shakespeare and Sonnet 130
146
Figures of Speech
153
2.5
Emily Dickinson and “I like to see it lap the Miles"
156
Sound and Rhythm
162
2.6
E. E. Cummings and "anyone lived in a pretty how town”.... 165
Selected Commentaries
171
2.7
Heather Glen: "The Stance of Observation in William Blake's
‘London'
171
William Freedman: “Dickinson's ‘I like to see it lap the
Miles""
174
Further Reading
176
2.8
Robert Frost and "Design"
176
Student Paper: "An Unfolding of Robert Frost's Design”..... 177
Unit Three
Drama
181
Understanding Drama
182
3.1
Shakespearean Comedy
188
3.2
William Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream ....... 190
The Problem Play
210
3.3
George Bernard Shaw and Widowers' Houses ..
212
The Feminist Theater
232
3.4
Susan Glaspell and Trifles
234
The Theater of the Absurd
249
3.5
Samuel Beckett and "Krapp's Last Tape"
252
Selected Commentaries
263
3.6
Kate Kellaway: "Shaw-ly Some Mistake"
263
Robert Brustein: "Krapp's Last Tape”"...
265
Further Reading
267
3.7
Sophocles and Antigonê.
267
Student Paper: "Antigone: A Struggle between Human and Divine
Powers'
.300
Unit Four Literary Criticism
303
4.1
Understanding Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
304
4.2
Marxist Criticism
311
Raymond Williams and "Base and Superstructure in Marxist
Cultural Theory"
314
4.3
Psychoanalytical Criticism
317
Sigmund Freud and "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming"
.....
.320
4.4
Feminist Criticism
323
Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar and "The Madwoman in the
Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary
Imagination'
327
4.5
Postcolonial Criticism
330
Edward Said and "Introduction'to Orientalism"
333
4.6
Selected Commentaries
336
Maggic Humm: "Feminist Futures”
336
Leela Gandhi: The Limits of Postcolonial Theory"
338
4.7
Further Reading
341
Margaret Atwood and “Spelling”
341
Student Paper: "A Feminist Critique of Margaret Atwood's 'Spell-
ing"
343
Appendixes
345
1. Glossary of Literary Terms.
.... 345
2. Literary Background Information ....
....... 350
3. Sample Papers
.. 369
4. Websites for Further Studies
375
References
376