Literature--second edition
1968
I: Fiction. What is fiction? -- The elements of fiction. Plot
Character
Setting
Point of view
Theme
Symbol and allegory
Style and tone. -- Stories.
My kinsman, Major Molineux
[Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne
[Fall of the House of Usher](
[Cask of Amontillado]( / Edgar Allan Poe
The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev
[Bartleby the scrivener]( / Herman Melville
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant
The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy
[The adventure of the speckled band]( / Athur Conan Doyle
The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The blue hotel / Stephen Crane
The darling / Anton Chekhov
Heart of darkness / Joseph Contrad
The tree of knowledge / Henry james
[Araby]( / James Joyce
I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson
A hunger artist / Franz Kafka
The fly / Katherine Mansfield
Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway
[A rose for Emily](
[Barn burning]( / William Faulkner
Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor
The rock-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence
Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle
The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty
The grave / Katherine Anne Porter
August 2002: night meeting / Ray Bradbury
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor
Sonny's blues / James Baldwin
The guest / Albert Camus
Wine / Doris Lessing
The office / Alice Munro
A & P / John Updike
Patriotism / Yuko Mishima
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates
Lost in the funhouse / John Barth
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez
Nine lives / Ursuala Le Guin
Yellow woman / Leslie Silko
Cortés and Montezuma / Donald Barthelme
Cathedral / Raymond Carver
Watch time fly / Laura Furman
II: Poetry.
III: Drama. What is drama? Drama and poetry
Drama and fiction
The actors
The audience
The theater. -- The elements of drama. Dialogue
Story
Character
Action. -- The classifications of drama. Tragedy
Comedy. -- Analyzing and evaluating drama --
Plays.
King Oedipus / Sophocles
Lysistrata / Aristophanes
Othello / William Shakespeare
Tartuffe / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen
Mrs. Warren's profession / George Bernard Shaw
The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov
Trifles / Susan Glaspell
Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill
The real inspector hound / Tom Stoppard
Amadeus / Peter Shaffer
