目錄
Part I Fiction
Chapter 1 Introduction to Fiction
Chapter 2 Plot
Amy Tan, "Half and Half"
Chapter 3 Character and Characterization
Bharati Mukherjee, "A Father"
Chapter 4 Narrator
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (excerpt)
Chapter 5 Setting
Eudora Welty,"A Worn Path"
Chapter 6 Theme
Abdulrazak Gurnah, "Cages"
Chapter 7 Ctule
John Updike, "Separating"
Chapter 8 Further Reading
Sample Essay 1: "The Role of Women in The Yellow Wallpaper"
Sample Essay 2: "Psychological Frame of Dickensian Realism in The Signalman"
Part II Poetry
Chapter 9 Introduction to Poetry
Chapter 10 Rhyme and Meter
Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Chapter 11 Figurative Language
Sylvia Plath, "Morning Song"
Chapter 12 Speaker and Tone
Thomas Hardy, "The Ivy-Wife"
Chapter 13 Diction and Allusion
Margaret Atwood, "Siren Song"
Chapter 14 Imagery
John Keats,"To Autumn"
Chapter 15 Symbol and Allegory
Seamus Heaney, "Personal Helicon"
Chapter 16 Further Reading
Sample Essay: Austin Allen, "Sunday Morning: The First Great Flight of a Modernist Legend"
Part III Drama
Chapter 17 Introduction to Drama
Chapter 18 Plot and Structure
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Chapter 19 Character
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Chapter 20 Spectacle
Samuel Beckett, Act Without Words I
Chapter 21 Theme
David Ives, Sure Thing
Chapter 22 Further Reading
Sample Essay: "Games of Desire in Salome"
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