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ENG 240: The American Short Story
Open Educational Resources for ENG 240
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Criticism: Literary, Historical, & Social
Journals
Module 1 - Legend of the American Short Story
Module 2 - American Romanticism
Module 3 - American Gothic Fiction
Module 4 - Realism and the Raw Shorts
Module 5 - The Era of Modernism
Module 6 - Postmodernism and Contemporary Writers
Unit 7 - Postmodernism and Contemporary Writers II
Literary Terminology
Readings
Required
Optional
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" By Joyce Carol Oates
"Uncle Ben's Choice"
Achebe, C. (1972). Uncle Ben's choice. In Girls at war and other stories (pp. 75–81). Penguin Books. (Original work published 1966)
"All Summer in a Day" Ray Bradbury
“The Veldt” Ray Bradbury 1950
"The Use of Force"
"Heat" by Joyce Carol Oates
"I stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen
"A Late Encounter with the Enemy" by Flannery O'Connor
O'Connor, F. (1955). A late encounter with the enemy. In A good man is hard to find and other stories (pp. 161–175). Mariner.
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
Walker, A. (1997). Everday use. In H. L. Gates, Jr. & N. Y. McKay (Eds.), The Norton anthology of African American literature (pp. 2387–2394). W. W. Norton. (Original work published 1973)
"The Persistence of Desire" by John Updike
"A&P" by John Updike
Supplements
Audio
Literary Criticism
John Updike, "The Persistence of Desire" by Harper Audio
Author and poet John Updike reads excerpts from his short story "The Persistence of Desire."
Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Lottery,’ and William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity
'The Lottery' as Misogynist Parable.
AN OLD TESTAMENT ANALOGUE FOR ‘THE LOTTERY’.
Arbitrary condemnation and sanctioned violence in Shirley Jackson's "the lottery".
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Holocaust Literature
Human Rights at Stake: Shirley Jackson’s Social and Political Protest in “The Lottery”
ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL PROBLEM IN A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND BY FLANNERY O’CONNOR
The function of signature in `A Good Man Is Hard to Find'.
Means, Meaning, and Mediated Space in "Good Man Is Hard to Find."
THE TIMOTHY ALLUSION IN 'A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND.'
Character Analysis Through Politeness in A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
'WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?': SEDUCTION, SPACE, AND A FICTIONAL MODE.
CRACKING THE SECRET CODE IN OATES'S 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?'
EXISTENTIAL ALLEGORY: JOYCE CAROL OATES'S 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?'
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