You must apply one or a combination of several appropriate schools of literary criticism to one of the stories, plays, or poems of the following list:
Jamaica Kincaids Girl
Robert Brownings My last duchess
Anne Sextons Cinderella
Margaret Atwoods Happy Endings
Matthew Arnolds Dover Beach
Leslie Silkos Yellow Woman
Sherman Alexies The long ranger and tonto fistfight in heaven
Susan Glaspells Trifles
Robert Frosts Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening
Robert Frosts the road no taken
Kate Chopins the story of an hour
Zora Neale Hurstons Sweat
William Shakespeares Sonnet
T.S. Eliots the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Emily Dickinsons Because I could not stop for death
Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night
Gwendolyn Brooks We real cool
August Wilsons Fences
Joyce Carol Oates Where are you going? Where have you been?
Edgar Allan Poes The cask of Amontillado
Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The yellow wallpaper
Sylvia Plaths Daddy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez A very old man with enormous wings
Flannery OConnors Good Country People
James Joyces Araby
Alice Walkers Everyday use
Eduardo Corral In Colorado my father scoured and stacked dishes
Martin Espadas Alabanza: In praise of local 100
Denise Duhamels Kinky
Taylor Mali What teachers make
Tim OBrien The things they carried
Truman Capotes A Christmas memory
Types of literary criticism:
Formalism and new criticism
Feminist and gender criticism
Queer theory
Marxist Criticism
Cultural studies
Postcolonial Criticism
Historical Criticism and new historicism
Psychological criticism
Reader response criticism
Structuralism
Poststructuralism and deconstruction
Biographical Criticism
Mythological Criticism
We have been reading “Literature: a portable anthology” (fourth edition) and most of these stories and poems are in this book.
Sources should be books or scholarly articles from the PIMA College Library database.(Not necessarily from PIMA College)
