Unit One Fiction 1.1 Understanding Fiction 1.2 Plot David Herbert Lawrence and Tickets, Please. 1.3 Character Sherwood Anderson and The Egg. 1.4 Point of View and Tone Margaret Atwood and Rape Fantasies . 1.5 Theme James Joyce and The Dead. 1.6 Style Ernest Hemingway and In Another Country. 1.7 Selected Commentaries Mark Savin: Coming Full Circle: Sherwood Anderson's 'The Egg'. L.J.Morrissery: Inner and Outer Perceptions in Joyce's 'The Dead'. 1.8 Further Reading Luigi Pirandello and War. Student Paper: Defining 'War . Unit Two Poetry 2.1 Understanding Poetry 2.2 Voice: Speaker and Tone Robert Browning and Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister. 2.3 Diction William Blake and London. 2.4 Imagery Williams Shakespeare and Sonnet 130 2.5 Figures of Speech Emily Dickinson and I like to see it lap the Miles. 2.6 Sound and Rhythm E.E.Cummings and anyone lived in a pretty how town. 2.7 Selected Commentaries Heather Glen: The Stance of Observation in wilham Blake's 'London'. William Freedman: Dickinson's 'I lille to see it lap the Miles'. 2.8 Fmlher Reading i Robert Frost and Design . Student Paper: An Unfolding of Robert Frost's 'Design'. Unit Three Drachma 3.1 Understanding Drama 3.2 ShakespeareanComedy William Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream 3.3 The Problem Play George Bernard Shaw and Widowers' Houses 3.4 The Feminist Theater Susan Olaspell and Trifles 3.5 The Theater of the Absurd Samuel Beckett and Krapp's Last Tape. 3.6 Selected Commentaries Kate Kellaway: Shaw-ly Some Mistake. Robert Brustein: Krapp's Last Tape. 3.7 Furthcr Readlng Sophocles and Antigone Student Paper: Antigone A Struggle between Human and Divine Powers Unit Four Literary Criticism 4.1 Understanding Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 4.2 Marxist Criticism Raymond williams and Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory. 4.3 Psychoanalytical Criticism Sigmund Freud and Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming . 4.4 Feminist Criticism Sandra M.Gilbert, Susan Gubar and The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. 4.5 Postcolonial Criticism Edward Said and 'Introduction' to Orientalism. 4.6 Selected Commentaries Maggie Humm: Feminist Futures: Leela Gandhi: The Limits of Postcolonial Theory. 4.7 Further Reading Margaret Atwood and Spelling. Student Paper: A Feminist Critique of Margaret Atwood's 'Spelling Appendixes 1.Glossary of Literary Terms 2.Literary Background Information 3.Sample Papers 4.Websites for Further Studies References