Readings

Updated Dec 6, 2021

 

 

First Page Example of Final Essay:

ENG-2001-firstpage-FinalEssay

 

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Five Types of Conclusions:

5typesofConclusions

 

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Global Fiction:

 

“An Arranged Marriage” by Nell Freudenberger

Freudenberger-AnArrangedMarriage

 

Five Types of Ethics:

Five-types-of-Ethics-fall-2021

 

“Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri:

Jhumpa-Lahiri-1999

 

Manfred Steger’s Definition of Globalization:

Steger-Globalization-Definition

Related to Steger: Matt Stopera’s Phone Saga

 

 

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Writing Help:

Commas:

Comma-Confidence-Comp1-2015

 

 

Five Types of Ethics (updated):

Five-types-of-Ethics-fall-2020

 

MODERNIST FICTION————————————————–

 

James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” (1957)

https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/Baldwin-Sonnys-Blues.pdf

 

https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/163728/The%20Veldt%20-%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

 

“Ferryslip” by John Dos Passos:

Dos Passos-Ferryslip from Manhattan Transfer

 

“A Very Short Story” by Ernest Hemingway:

Hemingway-A Very Short Story

 

Excerpt from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein: Read to the bottom of page 13.

https://monoskop.org/images/6/62/Stein_Gertrude_Tender_Buttons_1997.pdf

 

John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” (published 1953)

http://bit.ly/34I3BZh

 

Short Experimental Film Manhatta by Paul Strand and Charles Scheeler (1921)

 

NYC footage from 1911:

GOTHIC FICTION——————————————————-

Guides:

Todorov on the Uncanny, Fantastic, and Marvelous:

The-Fantastic_Todorov-Scanlan

PDF Version of Todorov: pdf-The-Fantastic_Todorov-Scanlan

 

“Chapter One: What is American Gothic?” by Alan Lloyd-Smith; from the book American Gothic: An Introduction (2004)

Lloyd-Smith Gothic Introduction

 

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Ellison’s “Prologue to Invisible Man” (1952)

Prologue-Invisible-Man-ENG2001

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Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” (1922)

A-Hunger-Artist-Kafka

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Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

A-Rose-for-Emily

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Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

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Borges’ “The House of Asterion”

the_house_of_asterion

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Bierce’s “An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge”

An-Occurrence-at-Owl-Creek-pdf

 

 

 

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Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Gilman_Yellow_Wallpaper.pdf

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Jackson’s “The Lottery”:

TheLottery-Shirley-Jackson

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Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”:

Young Goodman Brown

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STANDARD JOURNAL AND ESSAY FORMAT:

Standard-Journal-Essay-Format-2001

 

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GOTHIC DEFINITIONS:

Gothic Definitions

 

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Poe’s “The Black Cat”:

Black_Cat

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“A Story Told to Me by a Friend” by Lydia Davis

A Story Told to Me by a Friend

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Prof. Scanlan’s 5-Part Reading Tool:

5-Part-Reading-Tool-Scanlan