English 30 Reading List

1. Writing about Literature Chapter 1 and 2 from Heath Canadian Writer's Reference on Literary Essay Sample final exam. 30-1: Emphasis on literary analysis. Evaluating author's delivery of theme. "How is/isn't the author successful in achieving a desired effect?" 30-2: Emphasis on developing personal response to theme. "What effect does the writing have on you as reader?" 2a. Hamlet, William Shakespeare 30-1: Emphasis on literary response, image, symbol, subplots, character development , close textual analysis. Ideas developed from independent investigations prompted by class discussion. Close examination of film adaptation. 30-2: Emphasis on personal response to character conflict. Personal response to themes developed in class discussion. Integration of modern film techniques. 2b. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles. An additional reading recommended for those in 30-1. 3. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller Emphasis on literary response, image, symbol, subplots, character development , close textual analysis 4. Short Stories The Lottery, Shirley Jackson The Rocking Horse Winner, D. H. Lawrence Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Ambitious Guest, Nathaniel Hawthorne The Yellow Wall-Paper, Charlotte Perkins A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe The Killers, Ernest Hemingway Everything that Rises must Converge, Flannery O'Connor The Return of a Private, Hamlin Garland To Build a Fire, Jack London A Mother's Tale, James Agee The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The Enemy, Pearl S. Puck The Bottle Imp, Robert Louis Stevenson The Open Boat, Stephen Crane A Christmas Memory Miriam, Truman Capote Other stories as distributed in class. 5. Poetry Margaret Avison, July Man Ezra Pound, They Fought in Any Case Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed W.B. Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, The Folly of Being Comforted P.B. Shelley, Ozymandias</em> W.H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Alden Nowlan, Fly on the Blue Table Margaret Atwood, The Landlady A.M. Klein, The Rocking Chair Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Journey of the Magi Al Purdy, The Country North of Belleville 6. Paperback Novels The Stone Angel, The Bean Trees, Wild Geese, 1984, Saint Maybe, Quest for a Theory of Everything, 2001 A Space Odyessey, Brave New World, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 7. Etexts Brothers Karamazov, Russian Short Stories, Frankenstein 8. Film Dr. Zhivago, Frankenstein, Blade Runner, The Terminal