Unit one Fiction 1.1 Understanding Fiction 1.2 Plot David Herbert Lawrence and "Tickets,Please" . 1.3 Character Sherwood Anderson and "The Egg". 1.4 Point of View and Tone Margaret Atwood and "Rape Fantasies" . 1.5 Theme James Joyce and "The Dead". 1.6 Style Ernest I temingway and "In Another Country". 1.7 Selected Commentaries Mark Savin:"Coming Full Circle: Sherwood Anderson's The Egg'". L.J,Morrissery:"Inner and Outer Perceptions in Joyce's 'The Dead". 1.8 Further Reading Luigi Pirandello and "War". student Paper:"Defining 'War'". Unit Two Poetry 2.1 Understanding Poetry Voice:Speaker and Tone Robert Browning and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister". Diction william Blake and "London". 2.4 Imagery William Shakespeare and Sonnet 130 2.5 Figures of Speech Emily Dickinson and "I like to see it lap the Miles". 2.6 Sound and Rhythm E.E.Cummings and "anyone lived in a pretty how town". 2.7 Selected Commentaries Heather Glen:"The Stance of Observation in william Blake's London'" . William Freedman:"Dickinson's I like to see it lap the Miles'". 2.8 Further Reading Robert Frost and "Design" . Student Paper:"An Unfolding of Robert Frost's Design'". Unit Three Drama 3.1 Understanding Drama 3.2 Shakespearean Comedy william shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream 3.3 The Problem Play George Bernard Shaw and Widowers' Houses 3.4 The Feminist Theater Susan Glaspell and Trifles 3.5 The Theater of the Absurd Samuel Beckett and "Krapp's Last Tape" . 3.6 Selected Commentaries Kate Kenaway:"Shaw—ly Some Mistake". Robert Brustein:"Krapp's Last Tape". 3.7 Further Reading sophocles and Antigone student Paper:"Antigone A Straggle bekween Human and Divine Powers" Unit Four Literary Citicism 4.1 Understanding Twentieth—Century Literary Criticism 4.2 Marxist Criticism Raymond Williams and "Base and Superstructure in Marxist cultural Theory". 4.3 Psychoanalytical Criticism Sigmund Freud and "Creative Writers and Day—Dreaming" . 4.4 Feminist Criticism Sandra M.Gilbert,Susan Gubar and "The Madwoman in the Attic:The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth—Century Literary Imagination". 4.5 Postcolonial Criticism Edward Said and "Introduction' to Orientalism". 4.6 Selected Commentaries Maggie Hunmm:"Feminist Futures". Leela Gandhi:"The Limits of Postcolonial Theory". 4.7 Further Reading Margaret Atwood and "Spelling", Student Paper:"A Feminist Critique of Margaret Atwood's Spelling'" Appendixes 1.Glossary of Literary Terms 2.Literary Background Information 3.Sample Papers 4.Wehsites for Further Studies References