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