Unit One Fiction

1.1 Understanding Fiction

1.2 Plot

David Herbert Lawrence and“Tickets,Please”

1.3 Character

Sherwood Anderson and“The Egg”

1.4 Point of View and Tone

Margaret Atwood and“Rape Fantasies”

1.5 Theme

James Joyce and“The Dead”

1.6 Style

Ernest Hemingway and“In Another Country”

1.7 Selected Commentaries

Mark Savin：“Coming Full Circle：Sherwood Anderson's‘The Egg’”

L.J.Morrissery：“Inner and Outer Perceptions in Joyce's‘The Dead’”

1.8 Further Reading

Luigi Pirandello and“War”

Student Paper：“Defining‘War’”

Unit Two Poetry

2.1 Understanding Poetry

2.2 Voice：Speaker and Tone

Robert Browning and“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”

2.3 Diction

William Blake and“London”

2.4 Imagery

William Shakespeare and Sonnet 130

2.5 Figures of Speech

Emily Dickinson and“I like to see it lap the Miles”

2.6 Soundand Rhythm

E.E.Cummings and“anyone lived in a pretty how town”

2.7 Selected Commentaries

Heather Glen：“The Stance of Observation in William Blake's‘London’”

William Freedman：“Dickinson'g‘I like to see it lap the Miles’”

2.8 Further Reading

Robert Frost and“Dasign”

Student Paper：“An Unfolding of Robert Frost's‘Design’”

Unit Three Drama

3.1 Understanding Drama

3.2 Shakespearean Comedy

William Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream

3.3 The Problem Play

George Bernard Shaw and Widowers’Houses

3.4 The Feminist Theater

Susan Glaspell and Trifles

3.5 The Theater of the Absurd

Samuel Beckett and“Krapp's Last Tape”

3.6 Selected Commentaries

Kate Kellaway：“Shaw-ly Some Mistake”

Robert Brustein：“Krapp's Last Tape”

3.7 Further Reading

Sophocles and Antigon？

Student Paper：“Antigon？A Struggle between Human and Divine Powers”

Unit Four Literary Criticism

4.1 Understanding Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism

4.2 Marxist Criticism

Raymond Williams and“Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory”

4.3 Psychoanalytical Criticism

Sigmund Freud and“Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming”

4.4 Feminist Criticism

Sandra M.Gilbert,Susan Gubar and“The Madwoman in the Attic：The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination”

4.5 Postcolonial Criticism

Edward Said and“‘Introduction’to Orientalism”

4.6 Selected Commentaries

Maggie Humm：“Feminist Futures”

Leela Gandhi：“The Limits of Postcolonial Theory”

4.7 Further Reading

Margaret Atwood and“Spelling”

Student Paper：“A Feminist Critique of Margaret Atwood's‘Spell-ing’”

Appendixes

1．Glossary of Literary Terms

2．Literary Background Information

3．Sample Papers

4．Websites for Further Studies

References