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ENG 2413 & HUM 2413: Introduction to Literature

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• Syllabus: Introduction to Literature
• ENG/HUM 2413 Assignments - Fall 2006)
• SPARK NOTES' Poetry Index
• SPARK NOTES' Drama Index
• SPARK NOTES' Literature Index
• CLIFFS NOTES Literature Index
• Literary Glossary
• Online Index of Authors - Biographies and Works (The Literature Network)
• How to Write a Literary Essay

THE SHORT STORY

• Short Story Basics
• Short Story Analysis Paper
• Short Story Analysis Questions
• Sample Essays
  • Courage and Understanding in "Marine Corps Issues"

  • Formalism in “At Cheniere Caminada” and “Athenaise”

• "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber
• "The Lady or the Tiger" by Frank Stockton
• Elements of Fiction
• Sample Exam
• Study guide (short fiction)
• Selected Authors
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Flannery O'Connor
  • Eudora Welty
  • Mark Twain
  • Ursula K. Le Guinn
  • Donald Barthelme
  • Frank Stockton
  • James Thurber
  • Ambrose Bierce
  • Stephen Crane
  • Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Jack London
  • James Joyce
  • Guy de Maupassant

THE PLAY

• Wikipedia: Drama and Tragedy
  • Greek Tragedy
  • Elizabethan Drama and Tragedy
  • Modern Drama and Tragedy
  • Comedy of Manners and The Importance of Being Earnest
• Greek Tragedy Links
• Sophocles
  • Oedipus Rex
  • Antigone
• Euripides
  • Medea
• Shakespeare Links
  • Hamlet
• Oscar Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
• Sample Exam (poetry)

THE POEM

• Wikipedia: Poetry
  • Sonnets
    • William Shakespeare
    • Petrarch
  • Odes
  • Villanelle
  • Scanning Meter
  • Lyric Poetry
  • Dramatic Monologue
  • Romantic Poetry
    • William Blake
    • William Wordsworth
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • George Gordon, Lord Byron
    • John Keats
    • Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Modernist Poetry (Charactericstics of Modernism in Literature)
    • William Butler Yeats
    • Wilfred Owen
    • Dylan Thomas
    • Robert Frost
  • Victorian Poetry
    • Robert Browning
    • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Studying Poetry Guide
• Spark Notes: The Sonnet
• Poetry Handout