Intro to Literature I Reading List Associate Adjunct Professor Becky Villarreal All readings are required and can be found in the text or online. from Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing (11th Edition) Kennedy and Gioia Click here for the ISBN number and Table of Contents link for the 11th edition (click Description) Fiction / Drama / Poetry / Critical Perspectives 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. Part One: Fiction Literary Writing and Terminology Table of Contents for Textbook LIT (textbook): Chapters 1-7; 41-42 Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart" (YouTube); "The Black Cat" Kate Chopin: "The Storm" Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" Anton Chekhov : "The Lady with the Pet Dog" Zora Neale Hurston: "Sweat" (audio) Flannery O'Connor: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Jhumpa Lahiri: "Hell-Heaven" Amy Tan: "A Pair of Tickets" Tillie Olsen: "I Stand Here Ironing" Sandra Cisneros: "House on Mango Street" (Click here to view an interview with the author) Tim O'Brien: "The Things They Carried" Part Two: Poetry LIT (textbook): Chapters 13-24; 43 John Donne: "The Flea" (YouTube); "Death, be not proud" William Shakespeare : "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" ; "My Mistress' Eyes" (YouTube) William Wordsworth : "I wandered lonely as a cloud" (YouTube); "The world is too much with us" Edwin Arlington Robinson: "Miniver Cheevy" (YouTube); "Richard Cory" Emily Dickinson : "Because I could not stop for Death" (You Tube); "Success is Counted Sweetest"; "Some Keep the Sabbath" (You Tube) W. H. Auden:"Musee des Beaux Arts" (audio); "Funeral Blues" (YouTube) William Carlos Williams: "The Red Wheelbarrow";"Danse Russe"; "Spring and All" (YouTube) e.e. cummings : "anyone lived in a pretty how town" (YouTube) Robert Frost : "Mending Wall" (YouTube); "Design"; "After Apple Picking" Langston Hughes : "Dream Deferred" or "Harlem"; "I, Too" (audio); "The Ballad of Booker T." Gwendolyn Brooks : "The Mother"; "We Real Cool" (audio) Sylvia Plath: "Daddy" (YouTube); "Lady Lazarus" (Interview and Reading); "Mirror" (You Tube) Audre Lorde: "Hanging Fire" Countee Cullen: "Incident" John Lennon and Paul McCartney: "Eleanor Rigby" (YouTube) Cathy Song: "Girl Powdering Her Neck" ; "Lost Sister" Part Three: Drama LIT (textbook): Chapters 34-35; 37-39; 44 Henrik Ibsen: A Doll House William Shakespeare : Hamlet Click here to see Jude Law as Hamlet! Part Four: Critical Perspectives LIT (textbook): Chapters 45 and 48          George Eliot   Sandra Cisneros   Sylvia Plath    Derek Walcott     Robert Frost Elizabeth Bishop   Created by Becky Villarreal Austin Community College 2007