Course Grade Sheet
Reading Notes
Poe
- Poe's Review of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales (Theory of the short story)
- Excerpts from Poe's "Black Cat" & A Stephen King Essay (What is horror?)
Course Themes (This link expresses the course themes that structure our class. Use these with the midterm & final exam study guide and to help with your semester review card.)
- Course Themes (These slides are a starting point to help you think more about the themes our readings reflect.)
Short Story Notes
- Critical Statements: Bartleby
- Richard Connell Biography ("The Most Dangerous Game")
- Notes for "A Rose for Emily" and "Babylon Revisited"
- "Two Questions": Cards from in-class group work
- "The Rocking-Horse Winner" (movie)
- Films On Demand [go to UWSP Library Home page | click on Online Videos | click on Films On Demand (sign in if off campus) | click on "English" link under Collections menu | under heading British & Irish Literature click on 20th-21st Century British & Irish Lit | go to page 2
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Novella (see The Invisible Man below)
- Study Questions
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from Thomas Henry Huxley,
Evolution and Ethics (1894)
Note: For Educational Use Only. Do Not Reproduce.
- The Invisible Man
- Although Sherlock Holmes is credited with amazing deductive powers, the stories reveal he uses both deductive and inductive reasoning. References to Holmes's powers of deduction may be rooted in a general sense of the term--to reach a conclusion by reasoning--rather than its meaning within the context of formal logic.These definitions apply to TIM as well.
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Sirabian, Robert. "The Conception of Science in Wells's The Invisible Man." Papers on Language and Literature 37.4 (Dec. 2001): 382-403
- Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
- Literary Naturalism ("To Build a Fire")
- "Battle Royal"
- "The Open Boat"
- On Jan 1, 1897, Crane sailed as a war correspondent on the steamer Commodore, which was running arms from Florida to Cuban rebels. (In an effort to weaken the insurgents, Spain had established a blockade around the island.) Possibly a result of sabotage, the steamer foundered, and Crane was cast adrift in an open boat with four crew members, including the captain, Edward Murphy, and the oiler, Billy Higgins. After a harrowing day and night the ten-foot dinghy reached the Florida shore, but the oiler was drowned in the surf. (from Major American Short Stories, ed. A Walton Litz, p. 376)
- Sherlock Holmes
- Although Holmes is credited with amazing deductive powers, the stories reveal he uses both deductive and inductive reasoning. References to Holmes's powers of deduction may be rooted in a general sense of the term--to reach a conclusion by reasoning--rather than its meaning within the context of formal logic. See Induction and Deduction above.
- "The Signal-Man"
- Gothic--"Dracula's Guest"
- Story Notes from "Recitatif," "Entropy," "In the Penal Colony," and "Patriotism"
- Midterm Exam Study Guide
- Final Exam Study Guide
Assignment Information--Honors Students
- Literary Analysis
- Prospectus
- Teaching a Class/Leading a Discussion
- "The Most Dangerous Game"
- "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
- "The Lesson"
- The Great Migration (from the HistoryChannel.com) - context for "The Lesson"
- Article on the Eight Mile Wall in Detroit--from The Detroit News
- Political/Historical Context for "Uncle Baghdasar"