New Century Literature

CHAPTER 1 The Reader, The Author, The World, and The Text
The Reader
from “An Essay on Criticism” by Alexander Pope (1711)
“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens (1923)
The Author
“On Being Charged with Writing Incorrectly” by Anonymous (1734)
“Poetry” by Marianne Moore (1919)
“Terence this is Stupid Stuff” by A. E. Housman (1896)
from Citizen of the World by Oliver Goldsmith (1760)
“Kubla Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816)
The World
from All for Love; or The World Well Lost by John Dryden (1677)
The Text
“This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams (1934)
“El Olvido” by Judith Cofer (1987)
CHAPTER 2 Century Types
Anglo-Saxon Literature (c 449–1066)
“The Wanderer” by Anonymous (c. 600)
Medieval Period (1066–1485)
“Why Have Ye No Routhe On My Child” by Anonymous
Early Modern Period (1485–1603)
“Westron Wynde” by Anonymous (c. 1530)
“Sonnet 55” by William Shakespeare (c. 1609)
Seventeenth Century (1603-1660)
“The Flea” by John Donne (1633)
“Batter My Heart” by John Donne (1609–10?)
The Long Eighteenth Century (1660–1789)
“The Disappointment” by Aphra Behn (1680)
“The Imperfect Enjoyment” by John Wilmot,
2nd Earl of Rochester (1680?)
British Romantic Period (1789–1837)
“Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth (1798)
Victorian Period (1837–1901)
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold (1867)
“Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877)
Modernism (1901–1945)
“The Oxen” by Thomas Hardy (1915)
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (1915)
Contemporary/Postmodern (1945–Present)
“This Be the Verse” by Phillip Larkin (1971);
Link: http://allpoetry.com/This-Be-The-Verse
Defining American Literature
“The Gift Outright” by Robert Frost (1923)
“To Live in the Borderlands” by Gloria Anzaldua (1987);
Link: http://www.powerpoetry.org/content/live-borderlands
Early American (before 1800)
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phyllis Wheatley (1770)
Nineteenth Century American (1800–1900)
“I Like to See it Lap the Miles” by Emily Dickinson (1891)
Twentieth Century American (1900–2000)
“Harlem” by Langston Hughes (1951);
Link: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175884
The Value and Limitations of Literary History
CHAPTER 3 The Mutability Theme: Representing Our Shared Humanity
“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1880)
“A New Year Greeting” by W. H. Auden (1969);
Link: http://allpoetry.com/A-New-Year-Greeting
“For the Anniversary of My Death” by W. S. Merwin (1993)
“Psalm 116” (King James Version)
“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” by John Milton (1655?)
“The Unquiet Grave” by Anonymous (1400)
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell (c. 1650)
“Sonnet 19” by William Shakespeare (g.1590s?)
“Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley (1818)
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Butler Yeats (1893)
“Why Kid Yourself” by Ruth Stone (2008)
CHAPTER 4 Literature and Identity: Gender, Ethnicity, Liminality, Intersectionality
Women in Literature
Trifles by Susan Glaspell (1916)
“A Married State” by Katherine Philips (1650?)
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich (1951);
Link: http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/rich-jennifer-tiger.html
“The Working-Girls of New York” by Fanny Fern (1868)
“the mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks (1963)
Race and Identity
“How It Feels to be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston (1928)
“I, too” by Langston Hughes (1923);
Link: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177020
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (1861)
“The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” by E. B. Browning (1847)
“Enlightenment” by Natasha Trethewey (2012);
Link: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/249398
“Dear History” by Shara McCallum (2007)
Intersections
“Packin’ Four Corner Nabs” by Allison Hedge Coke (2005)
from The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (1928)
from Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (2013)
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5 The Transnational Turn: Postcolonialism, Immigration, Globalization
Whose Island Is It? Imagining a Production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (1611)
On an Island of Childhood: NoViolet Bulawayo’s Transnational Fiction of Exile
Hitting Budapest by NoViolet Bulawayo (2010)
Coming to New York
Yekl by Abraham Cahan (1896)
CHAPTER 6 Literature in the Digital Age
Post 9-11
“A Poem in Praise of Nastiness. To Cindercola Scrub.”
by Anonymous (1724)
Where Poems Live
“Why I Refuse to Let Technology Control Me” by Prince Ea (2014)
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egye9tBl-y8
“Five Nights of Bleeding” by Linton Kwesi (1974);
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRl8EIhrQjQ
“Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owens (1917–18?)
“Words, Wide Night” by Carol Ann Duffy (1990);
Link: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/ ?date=19921206&slug=1528534
Media and Messages
“Anointed” by Indira Allegra (2007)
“The Danger of a Single Story”
Mohsin Hamid: Literary Echoes of 9/11
The Bastard of Istanbul
A Final Glance
CHAPTER 7 Writing About Literature
Audience and Purpose
Claims
Paragraphs
Writing, Revising, Editing
Explication
“Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare (154–1616)
Literary Argument
How to Use Evidence