Readings

Updated Nov 20,  2019

 

STANDARD JOURNAL AND ESSAY FORMAT:

Standard-Journal-Essay-Format (1)

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First Page Example of Final Essay:

ENG-2001-firstpage-finalessay

 

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Cyberpunk and Science Fiction:

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

 

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

http://bit.ly/34I3BZh

 

William Gibson’s “Johnny Mnemonic” (published 1986)

http://wintermute10.tripod.com/Gibson.htm

 

CJ Cherryh’s “Mech” (published 1992)

Mech by CJ Cherryh

 

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Todorov on the Uncanny, Fantastic, and Marvelous:

The-Fantastic_Todorov-Scanlan

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Commas:

Comma-Confidence-Comp1-2015

 

A short introduction to ethics:

Five-types-of-Ethics-new-2019

 

 

MODERNIST FICTION————————————————–

“Ferryslip” by John Dos Passos:

Dos Passos-Ferryslip from Manhattan Transfer

 

“A Very Short Story” by Ernest Hemingway:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cec7/4e341e56f1f2839cd56733bcd5a4e8461730.pdf

 

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

 

“A Good Fall” by Ha Jin

AGoodFall-Globalization

 

“Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” by Tony Parsons

SayHello-WaveGoodbye-ENG2000-2015

 

“Assimilation” by E.L. Doctorow; pages 1-10 are divided into three different PDF files. Please print out all pages:

1-3Doctorow

4-6Doctorow

7-10Doctorow

 

 

 

 

 

GOTHIC FICTION——————————————————-

 

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

http://culture.vir2novations.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ellison_invman_excerpt.pdf

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Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” (1922)

https://icpla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Kafka-Hunger-Artist.pdf

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Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”

http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf

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Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”

https://www.canacad.ac.jp/uploaded/_community/pdfs/9_to_10_Summer_Reading_Stories.pdf

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Lloyd-Smith’s “What is American Gothic?”

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/gothiclit-5556-f2011/files/2011/09/Lloyd-Smith-Gothic-Introduction.pdf

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

https://www.bolles.org/uploaded/2016-17_Summer_Reading/Upper_School/Sophomore_Summer_Reading/VeryOldMan_Marquez_2016.pdf

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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”

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Bierce_Owl_Creek_Bridge.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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Poe’s “The Black Cat”:

Black_Cat

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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