I: Fiction. What is fiction? -- The elements of fiction. Plot Character Setting Point of view Theme Symbol and allegory Style and tone. -- Stories. My kinsman, Major Molineux Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne Fall of the House of Usher Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) The necklace / Guy de Maupassant The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy The adventure of the speckled band / Athur Conan Doyle The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The blue hotel / Stephen Crane The darling / Anton Chekhov Heart of darkness / Joseph Contrad The tree of knowledge / Henry james Araby / James Joyce I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The fly / Katherine Mansfield Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway A rose for Emily Barn burning / William Faulkner Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor The rock-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty The grave / Katherine Anne Porter August 2002: night meeting / Ray Bradbury A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor Sonny's blues / James Baldwin The guest / Albert Camus Wine / Doris Lessing The office / Alice Munro A & P / John Updike Patriotism / Yuko Mishima Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates Lost in the funhouse / John Barth A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez Nine lives / Ursuala Le Guin Yellow woman / Leslie Silko Cortés and Montezuma / Donald Barthelme Cathedral / Raymond Carver Watch time fly / Laura Furman

II: Poetry.

III: Drama. What is drama? Drama and poetry Drama and fiction The actors The audience The theater. -- The elements of drama. Dialogue Story Character Action. -- The classifications of drama. Tragedy Comedy. -- Analyzing and evaluating drama -- Plays. King Oedipus / Sophocles Lysistrata / Aristophanes Othello / William Shakespeare Tartuffe / Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen Mrs. Warren's profession / George Bernard Shaw The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov Trifles / Susan Glaspell Desire under the elms / Eugene O'Neill The real inspector hound / Tom Stoppard Amadeus / Peter Shaffer