Satire is a criticism of politics, movies, literature, etc. through exaggeration, reversal, incongruity, and parody. Satires have become so popular that movies and literature have created their own separate group for satires. An example of a satire is "Too Late to Apologize a Declaration." This song takes the original "Too Late to Apologize" and parodies it. They uses the chorus and the beat, but change the lyrics to follow that course of making the Declaration of Independence. This satire was addressing the issue of the Declaration. Do you think that all satires have an underling meaning of politics, or do they occasionally have a mocking underline? Are satires informational? Are there any modern satires that deal with our political issues today? Do you think that all satire are sociable acceptable, or do you think that some satires should be banned?

The Death Penalty Then and Now

During the period when "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is set, the death penalty was largely by hanging, as it is used in the story, with some by firing squad. Now, only a few states allow hanging as a death penalty, Idaho being one, while more states prefer to use lethal injection, firing squads, or the electric chair. Why do you think that death by hanging has declined in popularity over the years? Do you think that governments prefer to keep death penalties more secretive instead of stringing someone up out in the open? The media already has coverage of it and will cover it anyway, so why keep it secretive anyway? What do you feel is an appropriate way to carry out the death sentence? Or do you agree with it?

Books vs. Movies

So, in our discussions on "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," we have brought up the fact that there are movie adaptions of this short story. Books and pieces of writing are often transformed into motion media. Does our society respect this, or is it offended when good books are mounted on motion picture? Often times, movies adapted from books are frowned upon because they did not do the book justice by some opinion. Many people become harsh critics when it comes to movie adaptions. They read amazing stories, their minds and hearts invested into the souls of the tales. When a movie comes out, they become so excited to see their favorite story come to life, but then they often leave disappointed. Sometimes this is because they had pictured it differently in their head, or the movie strayed too much from the plot of the book. Something to realize is that the mechanism of books varies immensely compared to the way a movie works. Directors must broaden the story so that all audience members, even the ones who have not read the book, can understand. A book and a movie are two completely different works, even if they are based off of the same story. Finding the differences between books and movies can even be a great literary exercise. Foster would be proud to see people connecting the dots to discover that this book over here is not exactly the same as its movie. What are some other thoughts about books versus their movies? Do you think that books should be transformed into movies? It is pointless to make a movie out of a book? Is it simply to make more money on popular stories? 

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

If you had any trouble finding the short story you are supposed to read over the weekend ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce), here is a link to it  on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/375/375-h/375-h.htm.

Don't forget to journal anything you see from How to Read Lit. in the story.  Enjoy.

Go Quest, Young Man (or Woman!)

Well, that was quite the power outage, eh?  I was about to post this when the power went out and just finally got internet back now.  Fortunately, the website saved it, though, so I didn't have to retype the whole post.

For our first blog post of the semester, I would like to keep pursuing the idea of place and its influence on identity and bring in the first chapter of How to Read Literature Like a Professor.  I want you to discuss a "quest" of your own, an instance when you gained self-knowledge during some sort of trip.  Remember the criteria that Foster establishes for a quest: a quester (ie. you), a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials, the real reason to go there.

For example, this summer, as I mentioned in class, I took my family on a trip through the Pacific Northwest in our orange Volkswagen van.  A word of disclaimer: Whenever one goes on a long trip with three kids and a 30-year-old Volkswagen bus, one is guaranteed challenges and trials.  That said, the main reason my wife and I wanted to go was to take our children to the ocean, which they had never experienced - quester(s), place to go, stated reason to go there, check.  A couple challenges and trials that we faced were living and sleeping in the van for three weeks without much space or "alone time" and finding places to camp/sleep for the night. These, of course, added to the adventure and allowed us to see and experience many places that we otherwise would not have, while contributing to the "real" reason to go there: I realized on the trip that there are few people I would want to be in that close of proximity with for that long, and even fewer who would put up with me.  And that is what we call self-knowledge.

Okay, questers, your turn.  If you can include a picture of where you went on your trip, that would be a bonus.  Here is one of us near Forks and La Push, Washington, where much of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series takes place (neither a stated nor a real reason to go there, but an interesting discovery we made along the way and which should provide a nice segue to chapter 3 on vampires). :)

AP Reading List

Okay crew, here it is, the list of suggested works for the AP Literature and Composition free response question since 1971, which will serve as our outside reading master list:

Updated from an original list by Norma J. Wilkerson.

Works referred to on the AP Literature exams since 1971 (specific years in parentheses)

A

Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00, 10, 12)

Adam Bede by George Eliot (06)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (80, 82, 85, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 99, 05, 06, 07, 08,11)

The Aeneid by Virgil (06)

Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00)

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 08, 12)

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08)

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07, 08, 09, 11)

All My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90)

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11)

America is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95)

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03)

American Pastoral by Philip Roth (09)

The American by Henry James (05, 07, 10)

Angels in America by Tony Kushner (09)

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (10)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09)

Another Country by James Baldwin (95, 10, 12)

Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05, 09, 11)

Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80, 91)

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (94)

Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (76)

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09)

As You Like It by William Shakespeare (92 05, 06, 10)

Atonement by Ian McEwan (07, 11)

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02, 05)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07, 09, 11)

B

Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 10, 11)

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (03)

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (89)

Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08)

The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97)

Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08)

Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09, 10)

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08)

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07, 11)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95, 08, 09)

Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03)

The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07, 11)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (89, 05, 09, 10)

Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh (12)

Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (79)

Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (09)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (90, 08)

C

Candida by George Bernard Shaw (80)

Candide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 06, 10)

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (06)

The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (85)

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (82, 85, 87, 89, 94, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 11)

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (01, 08, 11)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (00)

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09)

The Centaur by John Updike (81)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09, 12)

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, 06, 07, 09, 10)

The Chosen by Chaim Potok (08)

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (06, 08)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 05, 08, 09, 12)

Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (01)

Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (09)

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (10)

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07, 09)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 09, 10, 11)

The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (09)

The Crucible by Arthur Miller (71, 83, 86, 89, 04, 05, 09)

D

Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03, 12)

Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01)

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06)

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86)

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07, 12)

Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty (97)

Desire under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill (81)

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (97)

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06)

The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95)

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04, 11)

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (10)

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09)

The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnot (91)

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (01, 04, 06, 08)

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03)

Dubliners by James Joyce (97)

Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06)

E

East of Eden by John Steinbeck (06)

Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08)

An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07)

Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09)

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07)

The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96)

F

The Fall by Albert Camus (81)

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04, 09)

The Father by August Strindberg (01)

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90)

Faust by Johann Goethe (02, 03)

Fences by August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09, 10)

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03)

Fifth Business by Robertson Davis (00, 07)

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (07)

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03, 06)

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (89, 00, 03, 06, 08)

A Free Life: A Novel by Ha Jin (10)

G

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00, 11)

Germinal by Emile Zola (09)

A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05)

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04)

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (71, 90, 94, 97, 99, 02, 08, 09, 10, 12)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (10, 11)

Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien (01, 06, 10)

The Golden Bowl by Henry James (09)

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford (00, 11)

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (95, 03, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (79, 80, 88, 89, 92, 95, 96, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 12)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (82, 83, 88, 91, 92, 97, 00, 02, 04, 05, 07, 10)

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (83, 88, 90, 05, 09)

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (87, 89, 01, 04, 06, 09)

H

The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (89, 0994, 97, 99, 00)

Hamlet by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (03, 09)

Hard Times by Charles Dickens (87, 90, 09)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (71, 76, 91, 94, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 09, 10, 11, 12)

The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (71)

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen (79, 92, 00, 02, 03, 05)

Henry IV, Parts I and II by William Shakespeare (80, 90, 08)

Henry V by William Shakespeare (02)

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (08)

The Homecoming by Harold Pinter (78, 90)

Home to Harlem by Claude McKay (10)

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipul (10)

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (95, 06, 09)

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (04, 07, 10)

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (89)

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (08, 10)

I

The Iliad by Homer (80)

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06)

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (10)

In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (00)

In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (05)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12)

J

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08, 10)

Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99, 10)

J.B. by Archibald MacLeish (81, 94)

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson (00, 04)

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (97, 03)

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (99)

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (71, 76, 80, 85, 87, 95, 04, 09, 10)

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (82, 97, 05, 07, 09)

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 09)

K

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08)

King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 10, 11, 12)

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (07, 08, 09)

L

Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (09)

A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99, 11)

Letters from an American Farmer by de Crevecoeur (76), 11)

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (85, 90, 10)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (08)

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill (90, 03, 07)

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (10)

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (77, 78, 82, 86, 00, 03, 07)

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (85, 08)

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh (89)

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (95)

Lysistrata by Aristophanes (87)

M

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05, 09)

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06, 09, 10)

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane (12)

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (87, 09)

Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw (79, 96, 04, 07, 09, 11)

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw (81)

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (03, 06)

Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard (03, 08, 09)

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (94, 99, 00, 02, 07, 10, 11)

M. Butterfly by David Henry Wang (95, 11, 12)

Medea by Euripides (82, 92, 95, 01, 03)

The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers (97, 08)

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (09)

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (85, 91, 95, 02, 03, 11)

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (78, 89)

Middlemarch by George Eliot (95, 04, 05, 07)

Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul (06)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (06, 12)

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (90, 92, 04)

The Misanthrope by Moliere (08)

Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (89)

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 89, 94, 96, 01, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09)

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (76, 77, 86, 87, 95, 09)

Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao (00, 03)

The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (07)

Mother Courage and Her Children by Berthold Brecht (85, 87, 06)

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (94, 97, 04, 05, 07, 11)

Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (87, 90, 95, 02, 09)

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (97)

Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (76, 80, 85, 95, 07, 11)

My Ántonia by Willa Cather (03, 08, 10, 12)

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (03)

N

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (09, 10)

Native Son by Richard Wright (79, 82, 85, 87, 95, 01, 04, 09, 11, 12)

Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee (99, 03, 05, 07, 08)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (09, 10)

1984 by George Orwell (87, 94, 05, 09)

No Exit by John Paul Sartre (86, 12)

No-No Boy by John Okada (95)

Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevski (89)

O

Obasan by Joy Kogawa (94, 95, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)

The Octopus by Frank Norris (09)

The Odyssey by Homer (86, 06, 10)

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (77, 85, 88, 00, 03, 04, 11)

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (01)

Old School by Tobia Wolff (08)

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (09)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (05, 10)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (01, 12)

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (89, 04, 12)

O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (06)

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (94)

The Orestia by Aeschylus (90)

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (04)

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Othello by William Shakespeare (79, 85, 88, 92, 95, 03, 04, 07, 11)

The Other by Thomas Tryon (10)

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (90)

Our Town by Thornton Wilder (86, 97, 09)

Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen (06)

P

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (01)

Pamela by Samuel Richardson (86)

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster (71, 77, 78, 88, 91, 92, 07, 09, 12)

Paradise Lost by John Milton (85, 86, 10)

Passing by Nella Larsen (11)

Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (06)

Père Goriot by Honore de Balzac (02)

Persuasion by Jane Austen (90, 05, 07)

Phaedre by Jean Racine (92, 03)

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (96, 99, 07, 08, 10, 12)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (02)

The Plague by Albert Camus (02, 09, 12)

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (97)

Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal (02, 08)

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (10, 11, 12)

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James ( 88, 92, 96, 03, 05, 07, 11)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (76, 77, 80, 86, 88, 96, 99, 04, 05, 08, 09, 10, 11)

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (95)

Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall (96)

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (09)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (83, 88, 92, 97, 08, 11, 12)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (90, 08)

Push by Sapphire (07)

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (03, 05, 08)

R

Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (03, 07)

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 07, 09, 12)

The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope (81)

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (08)

Redburn by Herman Melville (87)

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (00, 03, 11)

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (08, 09)

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (07)

Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco (09)

Richard III by William Shakespeare (79)

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (08)

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (10)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (10)

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (76)

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (03)

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (90, 92, 97, 08)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (81, 94, 00, 04, 05, 06, 10, 11)

S

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (95)

The Sandbox by Edward Albee (71)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (71, 77, 78, 83, 88, 91, 99, 02, 04, 05, 06, 11)

Sent for You Yesterday by John Edgar Wideman (03)

A Separate Peace by John Knowles (82, 07)

Set This House on Fire by William Styron (11)

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (97)

Silas Marner by George Eliot (02)

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (87, 02, 04, 09, 10)

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (10)

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (91, 04)

Snow by Orhan Pamuk (09)

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (00, 10, 12)

A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller (11)

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (81, 88, 96, 00, 04, 05, 06, 07, 10)

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence (77, 90)

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (09)

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (77, 86, 97, 01, 07, 08)

The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (96, 04)

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (11)

The Stranger by Albert Camus (79, 82, 86, 04)

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (91, 92, 01, 04, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11)

The Street by Ann Petry (07)

Sula by Toni Morrison (92, 97, 02, 04, 07, 08, 10, 12)

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (05)

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (85, 91, 95, 96, 04, 05, 12)

T

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (82, 91, 04, 08)

Tarftuffe by Moliere (87)

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (71, 78, 96, 03, 05, 07, 10)

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (82, 91, 03, 06, 07, 12)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zorah Neale Hurston (88, 90, 91, 96, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 10, 11)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (91, 97, 03, 09, 10, 11)

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (04, 09)

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (06)

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (11)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (08, 09, 11)

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (77, 86, 88, 08)

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (90, 00, 06, 08)

Tracks by Louise Erdrich (05)

The Trial by Franz Kafka (88, 89, 00, 11)

Trifles by Susan Glaspell (00)

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (86)

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (92, 94, 00, 02, 04, 08)

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (85, 94, 96, 11)

Typical American by Gish Jen (02, 03, 05)

U

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (87, 09)

U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos (09)

V

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (06)

Victory by Joseph Conrad (83)

Volpone by Ben Jonson (83)

W

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (77, 85, 86, 89, 94, 01, 09, 12)

The Warden by Anthony Trollope (96)

Washington Square by Henry James (90)

The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot (81)

Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman (87)

The Way of the World by William Congreve (71)

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (06)

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates (07)

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka (12)

Who Has Seen the Wind by W. O. Mitchell (11)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (88, 94, 00, 04, 07, 11)

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (89, 92, 05, 07, 08)

The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (78)

Winter in the Blood by James Welch (95)

Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (82, 89, 95, 06)

Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (82, 89, 95, 09, 10)

Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (91, 08)

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor (09, 10, 12)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (71,77, 78, 79, 83, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 99, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10, 12)

Z

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (82, 01)

Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez (95)

 In addition, most other books by the authors listed here should be fair game as well (books, not short stories).

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