English 1302 Reading List

Associate Adjunct Professor Becky Villarreal
CYP Learning Lab, room 2108
bvillarr@austincc.edu
Fax: 512-223-2046
Attn. Becky Villarreal

Some of these links are videos on demand and will require you to log in with your ACCeID.

In order to better understand the works, check out the literary databases, especially Bloom's and MagillonLiterature. To access online literary databases, go to the ACC Library. Next, click "Articles and Research" then go to Articles and More. Finally, click Literature and Literary Criticism to find literary biographies and analyses, as well as scholarly articles and synopses of the works. At some point, you will be prompted to type in your ACCeID and password. If you need help, Ask a Librarian.

Required Readings

Note: The required short stories listed below can be found online or in Literature Craft & Voice, Vol, 1: Fiction (LCV). Click the links to find the stories available online. 

Edgar Allan Poe (video on demand): "The Cask of Amontillado" (VOD)

Willa Cather's (video on demand): "Paul's Case" (VOD)

Joyce Carol Oates': "Where are you Going, Where Have You Been?"

Zora Neale Hurston's: "Spunk"

Edith Wharton's: "Roman Fever"

Franz Kafka's(video on demand): "The Metamorphosis"

Kate Chopin : "Story of an Hour" (video on demand)

John Updike's(video on demand): "A&P"

Amy Tan: "Two Kinds"

Tim O'Brien: "The Things They Carried"

Dagoberto Gilb: "Romero's Shirt

Eudora Welty: "Why I Live at the P.O."

Optional Readings (must be used for paper 4)

The optional short stories and articles listed below can be found either online or in Literature Craft & Voice, Vol, 1: Fiction (LCV). Click the links to find the stories available online. 

Hurston: "The Gilded Six-Bits"

Lawrence (video on demand): "The Rocking-Horse Winner"

Maupassant : "The Necklace"

Woolf : "Kew Gardens" 

Barthelme : "Me and Miss Mandible"

Alcott (video on demand) : "My Contraband" (or "The Brothers")

Carver: "Cathedral"

Mansfield: "Miss Brill"

Gish Jen: "Who's Irish?"

ZZ Packer: "Brownies"

Junot Diaz: "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie"

Jhumpa Lahiri: "Interpreter of Maladies"

 

Created by Becky Villarreal Austin Community College 2002