INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: NEW SELECTIONS FOR 2008! *
FICTION
Sherman Alexie.................................... My Heroes Have Never Been Cowboys
Isabel Allende ...................................... Ester Lucero
Margaret Atwood ................................ Happy Endings
Louis Becke.......................................... A Bar of Common Soap
Louis Becke.......................................... A Dead Loss
Louis Becke.......................................... Deschard of Oneaka
Giovanni Boccaccio............................ The Ninth Tale of the Fifth Day from The Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges ................................ The Gospel According to Mark
Jorge Luis Borges ................................ The Lottery in Babylon
Elizabeth Bowen ................................. Her Table Spread
Elizabeth Bowen ................................. The Demon Lover
Clare Boylan......................................... My Son the Hero
T. C. Boyle ........................................... Carnal Knowledge
T. C. Boyle ........................................... Drowning
T. C. Boyle ........................................... Greasy Lake
Ray Bradbury ....................................... There Will Come Soft Rains
Edwidge Danticat................................ “New York Day Women” from Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat................................ “Nineteen Thirty-Seven” from Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat................................ Women Like Us
Brothers Grimm.................................. Cinderella
Brothers Grimm.................................. Little Snow White
Octavia Butler...................................... Bloodchild
Geoffrey Chaucer................................ The Pardoner’s Tale
John Cheever ....................................... The Swimmer
Sandra Cisneros................................... Woman Hollering Creek
Arthur Clarke....................................... The Star
Guy de Maupassant ............................ The Necklace
Chrétian de Troyes.............................. Arthurian Legends
Dave Eggers......................................... Where Were We
Ralph Ellison ....................................... Battle Royal
William Faulkner ................................. That Evening Sun
F. Scott Fitzgerald............................... Babylon Revisited
F. Scott Fitzgerald............................... Dice, Brassknuckles, & Guitar
Jonathan Safran Foer.......................... A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease
Susan Glaspell...................................... A Jury of Her Peers
Nadine Gordimer................................ The Moment Before the Gun Went Off
Robert Heinlein................................... Selection from Stranger in a Strange Land
Ernest Hemingway ............................. Soldier’s Home
Homer................................................... The Odyssey: Chapters 9, 10, and 12
Sarah Orne Jewett ............................... A White Heron
James Joyce .......................................... Araby
James Joyce .......................................... The Dead
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Selections now available. Contents subject to change.
Julian of Norwich................................ from Revelations of Divine Love
Milan Kundera..................................... The Hitchhiking Game
D. H. Lawrence ................................... The Odour of Chrysanthemums
C. S. Lewis............................................ from Perelandra
John D. MacDonald ........................... In a Small Hotel
Bernard McLaverty ............................. The Exercise
Gabriel Garcia Marquez..................... A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Ed McBain ........................................... Accident Report
Colum McCann ................................... Cathal’s Lake
Colum McCann ................................... Fishing the Sloe-Black River
Herman Melville.................................. Benito Cereno
Rohinton Mistry .................................. Squatter
Alice Munro ......................................... Fathers
Tim O’Brien......................................... Ambush
Tim O’Brien......................................... How to Tell a True War Story
Cynthia Ozick ...................................... The Shawl
Dorothy Parker.................................... Big Blonde
The Pearl Poet ..................................... Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Louis Peltzer ........................................ A Strange Ship
Philip Roth ........................................... Defender of the Faith
Zadie Smith.......................................... Hanwell in Hell
John Steinbeck..................................... The Chrysanthemums
Rabindranath Tagore.......................... The Postmaster
Rabindranath Tagore.......................... The Skeleton
J. R. R. Tolkien .................................... Balrog Scene from Lord of the Rings
David Foster Wallace ......................... Good Old Neon
David Foster Wallace ......................... The Depressed Person
Edith Wharton..................................... Souls Belated
John Edgar Wideman ......................... Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies
Robert McLiam Wilson...................... Belfast by Night / Fountain Street
Cornell Woolrich................................. Rear Window
Hisaye Yamamoto............................... Las Vegas Charley
Zitkala-Sa.............................................. Four Autobiographical Narratives
POETRY
Eavan Boland ...................................... That the Science of Cartography is Limited
Eavan Boland ...................................... The Pomegranate
Paul Laurence Dunbar ....................... We Wear the Mask
Lucy Grealy.......................................... Fear Itself
Arlo Guthrie ........................................ Alice’s Restaurant
Zbigniew Herbert................................ Pebble
Ted Kooser .......................................... Year’s End
Pat Mora............................................... Legal Alien
Pat Mora............................................... Sonrisas
Paul Muldoon ...................................... Anseo
Paul Muldoon ...................................... Cuba
Paul Muldoon ...................................... Meeting the British
Paul Muldoon ...................................... Symposium
Mary Oliver.......................................... The Black Snake
Michael Ondaatje ................................ Dates
Michael Ondaatje ................................ King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens
Dorothy Parker.................................... A Certain Lady
Dorothy Parker.................................... Résumé
Octavio Paz.......................................... Before the Beginning
Edgar Allan Poe .................................. The Raven
Rainer Rilke.......................................... The Panther
Sappho .................................................. Some There Are Who Say
Sappho .................................................. Throned in Splendor
Anne Sexton ........................................ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Wole Soyinka ....................................... Dragonfly at My Windowpane
Huanani-Kay Trask............................. From Ka’a’awa to Rarotonga
Unknown.............................................. Beowulf
William Wordsworth .......................... Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth .......................... My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
William Wordsworth .......................... She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
W. B. Yeats........................................... The Circus Animals’ Desertion
W. B. Yeats........................................... To Ireland in the Coming Times
DRAMA
Bertolt Brecht ...................................... The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Marina Carr .......................................... The Mai
Henrik Ibsen ........................................ Hedda Gabler
Clare Booth Luce ................................ The Women
August Wilson ..................................... Fences
MEMOIR
Maya Angelou...................................... Mama vs. the Dentist
James Carroll........................................ In the Valley of the Bones
Joan Didion.......................................... On Keeping a Notebook
Andre Dubus ....................................... Giving Up the Gun
Dave Eggers......................................... Mistakes We Knew We Were Making, from A
............................................................... Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Maxine Hong Kingston...................... Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe
George Orwell..................................... Why I Write
Robert Stone........................................ Excerpt from Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
Alice Walker......................................... After 20 Years, Meditation Still Conquers Inner Peace
Eudora Welty....................................... Finding a Voice
NONFICTION
Chinua Achebe .................................... An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of
............................................................... Darkness
Margaret Atwood ................................ Nine Beginnings
Peter Brooks ........................................ Reading for the Plot
Barbara Christian................................. The Highs and Lows of Black Feminist Criticism
Wai-Chee Dimock .............................. Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader
Carolyn Heilbrun................................. Dorothy L. Sayers and the Female
Frank Kermode ................................... “Fictions” from The Sense of an Ending
Milan Kundera..................................... Die Weltliteratur
Steven Marcus...................................... Reading the Illegible: Some Modern Representations of
............................................................... Urban Experience
Nellie McKay ....................................... Reflections on Black Women Writers: Revising the
............................................................... Literary Canon
J. Hillis Miller....................................... The Critic as Host
Joyce Carol Oates................................ To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet
Plato ...................................................... The Allegory of the Cave
Francine Prose..................................... “Close Reading” from Reading Like a Writer
Carolyn See .......................................... Pretend to Be a Writer
Jane Smiley ........................................... Who Is a Novelist?
Susan Sontag........................................ Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3
............................................................... As Needed
Amy Tan............................................... The Ghosts of My Imagination
Anne Tyler ........................................... Still Just Writing
Alice Walker......................................... In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
David Foster Wallace ......................... Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would
............................................................... Sort of Have to Think