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Critical Reading & Annotation Skills
"Why Read Old Books?" by Mitchell Kalpakgian (PDF)
"Why Study Literature? The Top 25 Reasons" (PDF)
"How to Read Imaginative Literature" by Mortimer Adler (PDF)
"How and Why to Annotate" by Nick Olten and "How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer Adler (PDF)
"Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov (PDF)
"Why Study Literature? The Top 25 Reasons" (PDF)
"How to Read Imaginative Literature" by Mortimer Adler (PDF)
"How and Why to Annotate" by Nick Olten and "How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer Adler (PDF)
"Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov (PDF)
Great Expectations & Victorian Literature
Readings
Great Expectations [ unit page ] by Charles Dickens
"Victorian Literature -- An Overview" (Rose)
"How to Read Dickens" by Norrie Epstein
"Rise of the Killer Serial" by Howard Cutler
"Who Was Charles Dickens?" (PBS)
"Down and Out in Victorian England" (PBS)
"Mumbai, Striving and Sinking" (New York Times)
Great Expectations [ unit page ] by Charles Dickens
"Victorian Literature -- An Overview" (Rose)
"How to Read Dickens" by Norrie Epstein
"Rise of the Killer Serial" by Howard Cutler
"Who Was Charles Dickens?" (PBS)
"Down and Out in Victorian England" (PBS)
"Mumbai, Striving and Sinking" (New York Times)
Dracula & Victorian Gothic Literature
Dracula [ unit page ] by Bram Stoker
"Keeping the Faith: Catholicism in Dracula and its Adaptations" by D. Bruno Starrs (PDF)
"The Catholic Aesthetic in Bram Stoker's Dracula" by Eleanor Bourg Donlon (PDF)
"Keeping the Faith: Catholicism in Dracula and its Adaptations" by D. Bruno Starrs (PDF)
"The Catholic Aesthetic in Bram Stoker's Dracula" by Eleanor Bourg Donlon (PDF)
Frankenstein & English Gothic Literature
Readings
Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus [ unit page ] by Mary Shelley (any unabridged edition)
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (PDF)
“Prometheus” from Greek Mythology (Theoi)
“The Body Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson (PDF)
“Prometheus Unbound” – Percy Shelley (PDF)
Preface to American Prometheus (on Robert Oppenheimer)
Excerpt from Paradise Lost by John Milton (PDF)
Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus [ unit page ] by Mary Shelley (any unabridged edition)
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (PDF)
“Prometheus” from Greek Mythology (Theoi)
“The Body Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson (PDF)
“Prometheus Unbound” – Percy Shelley (PDF)
Preface to American Prometheus (on Robert Oppenheimer)
Excerpt from Paradise Lost by John Milton (PDF)
Our Posthuman Future & Bio-tech Fiction
Our Posthuman Future [ unit page ] by Francis Fukuyama
Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World by Wesley J. Smith
"No Woman Born" by C. L. Moore (PDF)
"Self-Made Man" (PDF)
“The Coming Age of the Flesh Machine” by Tim Druckrey (PDF)
"The Whisperer in Darkness" by H.P. Lovecraft (PDF)
Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World by Wesley J. Smith
"No Woman Born" by C. L. Moore (PDF)
"Self-Made Man" (PDF)
“The Coming Age of the Flesh Machine” by Tim Druckrey (PDF)
"The Whisperer in Darkness" by H.P. Lovecraft (PDF)
Brave New World & Utopian/Dystopian Fiction
Readings
Brave New World [ unit page ] by Aldous Huxley (any unabridged edition)
"Forced Smiles: A Review of Artificial Happiness" by Theodore Dalrymple (DOCX)
"Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died" by Francis Fukuyama (PDF)
"The Dystopian Imagination" by Theodore Dalrymple (PDF)
"The Huxelyan Future" by Neil Postman (PDF)
"The Myth of Overpopulation" by Neil Craven (PDF)
"Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died" (Fukuyama)
“The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick (PDF)
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut (PDF)
“The Machine Stops” BY E.M. Forester (PDF)
Brave New World [ unit page ] by Aldous Huxley (any unabridged edition)
"Forced Smiles: A Review of Artificial Happiness" by Theodore Dalrymple (DOCX)
"Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died" by Francis Fukuyama (PDF)
"The Dystopian Imagination" by Theodore Dalrymple (PDF)
"The Huxelyan Future" by Neil Postman (PDF)
"The Myth of Overpopulation" by Neil Craven (PDF)
"Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died" (Fukuyama)
“The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick (PDF)
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut (PDF)
“The Machine Stops” BY E.M. Forester (PDF)
Nineteen-Eighty-Four
1984 [ unit page ] by George Orwell
"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
"Control the Language, Control the Masses" by Pieter Vree
"George Orwell's Critique of Internet English" (The Guardian)
"Guide to Critical Thinking: A User's Manual" (Cuesta College PDF)
“The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick (PDF)
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut (PDF)
“The Machine Stops” BY E.M. Forester (PDF)
"Politics and the English Language" by George Orwell
"Control the Language, Control the Masses" by Pieter Vree
"George Orwell's Critique of Internet English" (The Guardian)
"Guide to Critical Thinking: A User's Manual" (Cuesta College PDF)
“The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick (PDF)
“Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut (PDF)
“The Machine Stops” BY E.M. Forester (PDF)
An Introduction to Poetry
Readings
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry [ unit page ] by Laurence Perrine & Thomas Arp
Poets Studied
Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, William Blake, Robert Herrick, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, et al.
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry [ unit page ] by Laurence Perrine & Thomas Arp
Poets Studied
Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, William Blake, Robert Herrick, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, et al.
Short Stories for A.P. Literary Analysis
"The Blue Lenses" by Daphne du Maurier (PDF)
"The Destructors" by Graham Greene (PDF)
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor (PDF)
"The Enormous Radio" by John Cheever (PDF)
"A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka (PDF)
"Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville(PDF)
"The Destructors" by Graham Greene (PDF)
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor (PDF)
"The Enormous Radio" by John Cheever (PDF)
"A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka (PDF)
"Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville(PDF)
The Canterbury Tales & Medieval Narrative Poetry
Readings
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight [ unit page ] by the Pearl Poet (translation by Burton Raffel)
The Canterbury Tales [ unit page ] by Geoffrey Chaucer (translation by Neville Coghill)
"The Wife of Bath's Tale"
"The Pardoner's Tale"
"The Man of Law's Tale"
"The Canon Yeoman's Tale"
"The Nun's Priest's Tale"
Note: In 2015-16 we'll be reading Sir Gawain instead of The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight [ unit page ] by the Pearl Poet (translation by Burton Raffel)
The Canterbury Tales [ unit page ] by Geoffrey Chaucer (translation by Neville Coghill)
"The Wife of Bath's Tale"
"The Pardoner's Tale"
"The Man of Law's Tale"
"The Canon Yeoman's Tale"
"The Nun's Priest's Tale"
Note: In 2015-16 we'll be reading Sir Gawain instead of The Canterbury Tales
Dr. Faustus & Elizabethan Drama
Readings
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [ unit page ] by Christopher Marlowe (Signet Classic)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus [ unit page ] by Christopher Marlowe (Signet Classic)
Macbeth & Shakespearean Drama
The Tragedy of Macbeth [ unit page ] by William Shakespeare (any unabridged edition)
"An Introduction to Macbeth" by Joseph Pearce
"Macbeth on Film" by James Bemis
Film
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971), directed by Roman Polanski
"An Introduction to Macbeth" by Joseph Pearce
"Macbeth on Film" by James Bemis
Film
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971), directed by Roman Polanski
The Influences of Shakespeare: Richard III, Othello, and Macbeth
The Influences of Shakespeare [ unit page ]
"The House of Cards" BBC series (1990-95)
Richard III
Othello
"The House of Cards" BBC series (1990-95)
Richard III
Othello