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1. Instructor Resources
2. Poetic Form
3. How to Annotate a Text
4. Organizing Your Analysis
5. Writing About Literature
6. Writing about Literature Handout
7. Giving Feedback for Peer Review
8. Introduction to Fiction
9. Elements of Short Fiction
10. Point of View
11. The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction
12. Introduction to Plays and Film
13. Reading and Approaching Poetry
14. Defining Literature
15. Literary Conventions
16. Literary Analysis
17. Literary Terms
18. Poetry Literary Terms: A Guide
19. Critical Approaches Chart
20. Literary Theory
21. Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning," 1993
22. Billy Collins, "The Lanyard," 2007
23. Emily Dickinson, Poems Series One, 1890
24. Emily Dickinson, "Wild nights - Wild nights!" 1861
25. Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night," 1923
26. Robert Frost, "The Lockless Door," 1920
27. Biography: Langston Hughes
28. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
29. Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again," 1935
30. Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Poetical Works, 1845
31. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," 1845
32. Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, 1920
33. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Selected Works, 1855
34. Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz," 1961
35. Reader-response to "My Papa's Waltz"
36. Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market," 1862
37. William Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1609
38. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind," 1891
39. Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773
40. Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," 1865
41. William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow," 1962
42. Additional Poems
43. Omar Khayyam, "The Rubaiyat"
44. Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, Collected Poems
45. Anton Chekhov, "The Bear," 1888
46. Anton Chekhov, "The Cherry Orchard," 1904
47. Anton Chekhov, "The Three Sisters," 1900
48. Susan Glaspell, "Inheritors," 1921
49. Susan Glaspell, "The Outside," 1916
50. Susan Glaspell, "Trifles," 1916
51. Susan Glaspell, "The Verge," 1921
52. Langston Hughes and Zora Hurston, "The Mule-Bone," 1930
53. Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House," 1879
54. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
55. Critical Reviews of Film Version of The Importance of Being Earnest
56. Video: White Zombie
57. Video: Night of the Living Dead
58. Video: Dawn of the Dead
59. Louisa May Alcott, "Scarlet Stockings," 1869
60. Ambrose Bierce, "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot," 1890
61. Henry Cuyler Bunner, "The Nice People," 1890
62. Willa Cather, "On the Gull's Road," 1908
63. Anton Chekhov, "Peasant Wives," 1891
64. Kate Chopin, "Regret," 1897
65. Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour," 1894
66. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899
67. Joseph Conrad, "The Idiots," 1896
68. Philip K. Dick, "Beyond the Door," 1954
69. Charles Dickens, "The Signal-Man," 1866
70. Arthur Conan Doyle, "Scandal in Bohemia," 1891
71. F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Ice Palace," 1920
72. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Ethan Brand," 1850
73. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown," 1835
74. Critical Responses to "Young Goodman Brown"
75. Kelly Link, "The Specialist's Hat," 1998
76. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," 1892
77. Saki, "The Open Window," 1914
78. Mary Shelley, "The Mortal Immortal," 1833
79. Jim Shepard, "The Zero Meter Diving Team," 2007
80. Mark Twain, "Eve's Diary," 1905
81. Madhuri Vijay, "Lorry Raja," 2012
82. Analysis of "Lorry Raja"
83. Seduction of the Innocent
84. I Killed Mary
85. Amazing Fantasy #15: Spider-Man
86. Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
87. Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
88. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
89. Mark Twain, "Two Ways of Seeing A River," 1883
90. Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, 1901
91. Zitkala-Sa, "The School Days of an Indian Girl," 1900
92. Other Creative Nonfiction Readings
93. Creative Writing from Local Authors
94. Leonardo: CNM's Student Literary Magazine
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