READING LIST FOR 242

Keith A. Bost

Volume C

Ambroise Bierce
   
A Horseman in the Sky......................................................................read in class
     An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge..............................................................360
    Chickamauga...................................................................................................366
Bret Harte
     Tennessee's Partner.........................................................................................340
Joel Chandler Harris
  
The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story.........................................................................514
    How Mr. Rabbit was Too Smart for Mr. Fox....................................................515
Mark Twain
  
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter I..........................................108
                                                              Chapters XVI-XVIII......................160-187
    The War Prayer...............................................................................................322
Kate Chopin
 
At the 'Candian Ball.....................................................................................handout  
   The Storm.........................................................................................................531
Jack London
   
To Build a Fire..............................................................................................1057
Edith Wharton
    Ethan Frome...................................................................................................film
Henry James
   
Daisy Miller: A Study...................................................................................391


TEST ONE


Walt Whitman
   
Song of Myself...................................................................................................30
        [sections 1, 2, 7, 10, 11, 16, 21, 32, 43, 52]
Stephen Crane
   
I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon....................................................................1017
    Do Not Weep Maiden, For War is Kind...........................................................1017
    A Man Said to the Universe...............................................................................1019

Volume D

Edgar Lee Masters
    Doc Hill............................................................................................................1207
    Margaret Fuller Slack........................................................................................1208
    Able Melveny....................................................................................................1208

Edward Arlington Robinson
   Richard Cory......................................................................................................1211
   Miniver Cheevy..................................................................................................1211
    Mr. Flood's Party...................................................................................... ........1212
Robert Frost
   
Home Burial......................................................................................................1395
    The Road Not Taken..........................................................................................1399
    Desert Places......................................................................................................1405
    Out, Out..............................................................................................................1402
Edna St. Vincent Millay
   
First Fig...........................................................................extra handout
    The Spring and the Fall......................................................extra handout
    The Betrothal.....................................................................extra handout
    Love is Not All...................................................................extra handout
    I Being Born a Woman......................................................1805
    Apostrophe to Man...........................................................1805

Carl Sandburg

    Chicago......................................................................................1437
    Fog.................................................................................................1438
    Cool Tombs.........................................................................................1438
    Grass...............................................................................................1439

Sherwood Anderson
   
Hands.............................................................................................1422
Ernest Hemingway
   
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.................................handout
John Steinbeck
   
The Leader of the People..................................................................2049
 
William Faulkner
   
That Evening Sun............................................................................handout.

TEST TWO

The Harlem Renaissance

Paul Lawrence Dunbar
 
We Wear the Mask.........................................................................1043 Volume D
  Sympathy........................................................................................1043
Countee Cullen
  
Yet Do I Marvel...............................................................................2061
    Incident...........................................................................................2061
    From the Dark Tower......................................................................2065
Langston Hughes
  
The Negro Speaks of Rivers............................................................2027
    I, Too................................................................................................2028
    Mother to Son...................................................................................2028
    Theme for English B...........................................................................2036
Claude McKay
  
The Lynching.....................................................................................1688
    If We Must Die..................................................................................1688
Richard Wright
The Man Who was Almost a Man..........................................................2067
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man, Chapter I..................................................................2305 Volume E
Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
Dutchman.......................................................................................2745 Volume E

Experimentation in Drama, Poetry & Fiction

Eugene O'Neill
   
Long Day's Journey Into Night..................................................................1610

Gertrude Stein
Susie Asado.........................................................................................
Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro......................................................................1482
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
I [E.P. Ode pour l’Election de son Sepulchre].......................1484
II [The age demanded an image].............................................1485
T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land...................................................................................1587
e.e. cummings
Buffalo Bill's Defunct..........................................................................1810
Nobody Loses All the Time................................................................
next to of course god america i............................................................1811
John Dos Passos
U. S. A [excerpts]...........................................................................handout
John Updike
Ex-Basketball Player.................................................................handout
Allen Ginsburg
A Supermarket in California.............................................................2584
America...........................................................................................2039

TEST THREE