FICTION 1. Reading a Story The Art of FictionTypes of Short FictionW. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra Aesop, The Fox and the GrapesBidpai, The Camel and His Friends Chuang Tzu, Independence Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death Plot The Short Story John Updike, A & P Writing Effectively: John Updike THINKING About Plot 2. Point of View Identifying Point of ViewTypes of NarratorsStream of ConsciousnessZZ Packer, BrowniesEudora Welty, A Worn PathJames Baldwin, Sonny''s Blues Writing Effectively: James Baldwin THINKING about Point of View 3. Character Types of CharactersKatherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill Raymond Carver, Cathedral Writing Effectively: Raymond CarverTHINKING about Character 4. Setting Elements of SettingHistorical FictionRegionalismNaturalismKate Chopin, The Storm Jack London, To Build a Fire Ray Bradbury, The Sound of ThunderAmy Tan, A Pair of Tickets Writing Effectively: Amy TanTHINKING about Setting 5. Tone and Style ToneStyle DictionErnest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place William Faulkner, Barn BurningIrony O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi Anne Tyler, Teenage WastelandWriting Effectively: Ernest HemingwayTHINKING about Tone and Style 6.

Theme Plot vs. ThemeTheme as Unifying DeviceFinding the ThemeStephen Crane, The Open Boat Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband Luke 15:11-32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron Writing Effectively: Kurt VonnegutTHINKING about Theme 7. Symbol AllegorySymbolsRecognizing SymbolsJohn Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums John Cheever, The Swimmer Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Writing effectively: Shirley Jackson THINKING about Symbols 8. Reading Long Stories and Novels Origins of the NovelNovelistic MethodsReading NovelsLeo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Writing Effectively: Franz KafkaTHINKING about Long Stories and Novels 9. Latin American Fiction "El Boom" Magic Realism After the BoomJorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Isabel Allende, The Judge''s WifeInés Arredondo, The Shunammite Writing Effectively: Marquez 10. Genre Fiction 11.

Critical Casebook: Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allen Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of AmontilladoEdgar Allen Poe,The Fall of the House of UsherEdgar Allan Poe on WritingCritics on Edgar Allan Poe 12. Critical Casebook: Flannery O''Connor Flannery O''Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O''Connor, Revelation Flannery O''Connor, Parker''s Back Flannery O''Connor on Writing Critics on Flannery O''Connor 13. Critical Casebook: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman on WritingCritics on "The Yellow Wallpaper" 14. Critical Casebook: Alice Walker Alice Walker, Everyday Use Alice Walker, On Writing Critics on "Everyday Use" 15. Stories for Further Reading Chinua Achebe, Dead Men''s Path Sherwood Anderson, HandsMargaret Atwood, Happy Endings Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake Willa Cather, Paul''s Case Anton Chekov, An UpheavalAnton Chekov, MiseryKate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin, Desiree''s BabySandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled BandRalph Ellison, Battle Royal Gustav Flaubert, A Simple HeartCharlotte Perkins Gilman, The Unnatural MotherSusan Glaspell, A Jury of Her PeersNikolai Gogol, The OvercoatNathaniel Hawthorne, The BirthmarkZora Neale Hurston, Sweat James Joyce, Araby James Joyce, EvelineJames Joyce, The DeadFranz Kafka, Before the LawJamaica Kincaid, Girl Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner D.

H. Lawrence, Odour of ChrysanthemumsDavid Leavitt, A Place I''ve Never Been Naguib Mahfouz, The Lawsuit Katherine Mansfield, The Garden PartyBobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh Guy de Maupassant, Mother SavageHerman Melville, Bartleby the ScrivenerJoyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Tim O''Brien, The Things They Carried Daniel Orozco, OrientationRobert Louise Stevenson, The Bottle ImpEdith Wharton, The Other TwoOscar Wilde, The Happy Prince Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House POETRY 16. Reading a Poem Poetry or Verse Reading a PoemParaphraseWilliam Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree Lyric Poetry Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer''s Tigers Narrative Poetry Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence Robert Frost, "Out, Out--" Dramatic Poetry Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Didactic PoetryWriting Effectively: Adrienne RichTHINKING about Paraphrase William Stafford, Ask Me 17. Listening to a Voice Tone Theodore Roethke, My Papa''s Waltz Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles Benjamin Alire Saenz, To the DesertGwendolyn Brooks, Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward Weldon Kees, For My Daughter The Person in the Poem Natasha Trethewey, White Lies Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting Anonymous, Dog HaikuWilliam Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry James Stephens, A Glass of Beer Anne Sexton, Her Kind William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow Irony Robert Creeley, Oh No W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage Julie Sheehan, Hate PoemSarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links Edna St.

Vincent Millay, Second Fig Thomas Hardy, The Workbox William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper William Jay Smith, American PrimitiveDavid Lehman, Rejection Slip William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Writing Effectively: Wilfred Owen THINKING About TONE THINKING About TONE 18. Words Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Diction Marianne Moore, Silence Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down! John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You The Value of a Dictionary Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath Kay Ryan, MockingbirdJ. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead Samuel Menashe, BreadCarl Sandburg, GrassWord Choice and Word Order Robert Herrick, Upon Julia''s Clothes Kay Ryan, Blandeur Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town Billy Collins, The Names Christian Wiman, When the Time''s Toxin Anonymous, Carnation Milk Gina Valdés, English con Salsa Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Writing Effectively: Lewis Carroll THINKING About Diction 19. Saying and Suggesting Denotation and ConnotationJohn Masefield, Cargoes William Blake, London Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O''Clock Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean EatersTimothy Steele, Epitaph E. E.

Cummings, next to of course god america i Robert Frost, Fire and Ice Diane Thiel, The Minefield H.D., StormAlfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Writing Effectively: Richard Wilbur THINKING About Denotation and Connotation 20. Imagery Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Taniguchi Buson, The piercing chill I feel ImageryT. S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish Charles Simic, Fork Emily Dickinson, A Route of Evanescence Jean Toomer, Reapers Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty About Haiku Arakida Moritake, The falling flower Matsuo Basho, Heat-lightning streak Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool Taniguchi Buson, On the one-ton temple bell Taniguchi Buson, Moonrise on mudflatsKobayashi Issa, only one guy Kobayashi Issa, Cricket Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps Suiko Matsushita, Rain shower from mountainSuiko Matsushita, Cosmos in bloom Hakuro Wada, Even the croaking of frogs Neiji Ozawa, The war--this yearContemporary Haiku Etheridge Knight, Making jazz swing inGary Snyder, After weeks of watching the roof leakPenny Harter, broken bowlJennifer Brutschy, Born AgainAdelle Foley, Learning to ShaveGarry Gay, Hole in the ozoneJohn Keats, Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art Walt Whitman, The Runner H.D., OreadWilliam Carlos Williams, El Hombre Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter Billy Collins, Embrace Chana Bloch, Tired SexGary Snyder, Mid-August at Sourdough MountainKevin Prufer, Pause, PauseStevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning Writing Effectively: Ezra Pound THINKING About Imagery 21.

Figures of Speech Why Speak Figuratively? Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day? Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer''s Day? Metaphor and Simile Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand Sylvia Plath, Metaphors N. Scott Momaday, Simile Emily Dickinson, It dropped so low - in my Regard Jill Alexander Essbaum, The Heart Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home Other Figures of Speech James Stephens, The Wind Robinson Jeffers, HandsMargaret Atwood, You fit into me George Herbert, The Pulley Dana Gioia, Money Carl Sandburg, Fog Charles Simic, My ShoesRobert Frost, The Silken Tent Jane Kenyon, The Suitor Robert Frost, The Secret Sits A. R. Ammons, Coward Kay Ryan, Turtle Emily B.