Barry, Peter. An Introduction to Beginning Theory. 3rd ed. New York: Manchester UP, 2009.

Cohen, Samuel. 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. 2nd ed. Ed. Samuel Cohen. Boston: Bedford, 2007.

Foster, Thomas. How to Read Literature Like a Professor. New York: Harper, 2003.

Gioia, Dana and X.J. Kennedy. Literature: Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, & Writing. 5th ed. New York: Pearson, 2009.

Jago, Carol. et al. Literature & Composition: Reading, Writing, Thinking. Boston: Bedford, 2011. Print. Vocabulary for the College Bound. Clayton, DE: Prestwick House, Inc.

Sherman Alexie from “Superman and Me” (Jago 11)

Maya Angelou “Graduation” (Cohen 16-28)

Robert Frost “Out, Out-” and analysis (Jago 13-15)

Ralph Waldo Emerson “The Apology” (Jago 499)

Susan Glaspell “Creating Trifles” (Gioia 853)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. “The Themes of Science Fiction” (Gioia 203)

William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” (Jago 28)

William Wordsworth “The World is Too Much with Us” (Jago 498)

Richard Wilbur “The Death of a Toad”

Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” (Gioia 432)

Emily Dickinson poems, such as: “Route of Evanescence” and “Abraham’s Sacrifice of Isaac”

John Donne “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God, For You” (Gioia 470)

Richard Eberhart “The Groundhog” (handout)

T.S. Eliot “Preludes”

Robert Frost “Out, Out—“ (Gioia 431)

Ben Jonson “To Celia” (Gioia 541)

Yusef Komunyakaa “Slam, Dunk, and Hook” (Jago 41-49)

D.H. Lawrence “Piano” (Gioia 428)

Sylvia Plath “Lady Lazarus” (Gioia 655)

William Shakespeare “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” (Gioia 524)

Tom Wayman “Did I Miss Anything?” (handout)

William Carlos Williams “The Red Wheelbarrow” (Gioia 451)

Kate Chopin “Desiree’s Baby” (handout)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Gioia 290)

Nathaniel Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown” (handout)

Ernest Hemingway “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” (handout)

Shirley Jackson “The Lottery” (Gioia)

Oscar Wilde “The Model Millionaire”

George Eliot Silas Marner

Charles Dickens The Christmas Carol

Nathaniel Hawthorne Scarlet Letter

Thomas Hardy, from Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Jago 72) *excerpts

Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried *excerpts

George Orwell 1984

Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

Susan Glaspell Trifles (Gioia 837)

Ben Jonson Volpone

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Sophocles Oedipus the King

Psychoanalysis

New Historicism

Archetypal

Ecocriticism

Marxism

Deconstruction/Post-Structuralism

Marxism