ENG 102 READING LIST
A quick Ha Ha!
I was checking links I provide for
you to use, free, for this course and don't you know, there are ads for term
paper writing services attached to some of the web links? Oh, but the
consequence of getting caught using such services--of submitting work not your
own--are dire! We execute those caught plagiarizing. We put them before an "F" squad.
Don't do it!
If you wish to purchase books, they are available through the Suffolk College Bookstore in the basement of the Babylon Student Center of the Ammerman Campus, Selden, NY. The bookstore also maintains a website at http://suffolkcc.bkstore.com/bkstore/content
Required Books (not available on-line so find them in a library or purchase them):
1. How to Apologize. Poems by Dr. David B. Axelrod. The book is available on-line at www.writersunlimited.org/LIPS.htm and in the Suffolk College Bookstore, basement of Babylon Student Center on Selden/Ammerman Campus. Also in some local bookstores...
(Note: The Suffolk Bookstore has enough copies of my book of poetry for everyone, but they sometimes run out of the very important Anouilh version of Antigone. Go buy the books immediately! The novel may also be in short supply.
2. Born on the 4th of July. The novel by Ron Kovic is one of the preeminent anti-war novels of our time!
3. I am requiring you to read a modern version of the play Antigone. Please purchase Jean Anouilh's Antigone (This is not the same as Sophocles' and is available most frequently as a Samuel French playbook, modern version, in addition to classical version you are required to read).
Optional texts:
Reading work on-line is sometimes difficult. First, the mechanics of reading from the screen are often uncomfortable. Second, printing out can be a bother! But third, and most important, often the translation or version on-line is not as easy to read as if you bought a modern version. Sometimes you get what you pay for!
However, I have placed as much of the reading on-line as I can for free to you but those (like me) who don't enjoy reading work on the screen and thus want to own a printed version, the bookstore also has copies of: The Grand Inquisitor (Chapter from Dostoyevsky's Brother's Karamazov); Sophocles' Oedipus and Antigone, both available on-line, are in easier translations you can buy.
If you wish to buy one large book that will pretty much provide all of your needs, you can purchase Introduction to Literature, edited by Dana Gioia and X. J. Kennedy. It is in the bookstore and also available on line at numerous links. I would be as happy with any edition of the Introduction. You don't have to buy the book if you want to use the links I've provided. If you buy the book you can buy any older, used edition to save money. The latest edition is in the Suffolk College Bookstore.
Required Reading (available on-line):
Here is a link to a very readable copy of the two required chapters (Chapters 4 and 5 from The Brothers Karamzov by Fyodor Dostoevsky). The chapters are entitled, "The Rebellion" and "The Grand Inquisitor." Click for your free readings: http://literature.sdsu.edu/2004/summer/tattoo/dostoevsky.pdf
To
complete your prose fiction, third essay, you may need a short story collection.
Here is a link to at least a serviceable website for stories: http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/frameset.html.
It will provide you with dozens of choices of short stories from which to select
a suitable character for comparison and thematic analysis.
As with the poetry paper, if you wish to use a short story not among the list
below of what I require, please email me to get permission before you write your
final paper. Send me a link to the story &/or attach a copy of the story for
me to review to decide if it fits for you to write on it.
Wonderful
resource for the classics: http://www.classicauthors.net/
Required
stories:
Click to read notes on fiction selections
"Paul's
Case," by Willa Cather. http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Cather/Pauls-Case.htm
"A
& P," John Updike. http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/
"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," by Ernest Hemingway. http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/hemingway.html#4
You say you're not satisfied; you want more for your money? "The Gift of the Magi" is another treasure by O. Henry http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html
Required
Plays:
LISTEN YOU GUYS! I want you to read both the classical (Sophocles') version of Antigone and read Jean Anouilh's version. PLEASE get to the bookstore or leave time for ordering and reading it. You'll need to send for it immediately! Here's the link: Samuel French
HERE'S A PLAY TO BE ADDED AS A BONUS. Students who read it may wish to add a comment about it if they see a way to weave it into their present paper options, and thus receive extra credit!. Major Barbara: http://www.online-literature.com/george_bernard_shaw/
Required
Poems:
Click to read comments on your poetry and other selections
Buy
and read the poems in my book How to Apologize.
Also read the following poems:
"Prufrock"
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html
"Ozymandius"
http://www.fael-luibh.com/poems/ozymandius.html
"The
Unknown Citizen" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15549
"
"Traveling
Through the Dark" http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/William-Stafford/1087
"Death
of the Ball Turret Gunner" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15309
"Dulce est Decorum Est" http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce.html
"The
Flea" http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/flea.htm
"Kubla
Kahn" http://www.classicauthors.net/Coleridge/kublakhan/
"Tyger"
[When is a "tiger" a "tyger?" Blake used "tyger"
in an age with no dictionaries!] http://www.classicauthors.net/Blake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake1.html
"The
Chimney Sweep" http://www.classicauthors.net/Blake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake/PoemsOfWilliamBlake16.html
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is available complete, on line at http://www.bartleby.com/142/index2.html but for a glimpse of a gorgeous passage that compares to "The Voyeur" among my poems go to "The 29th Bather"
Other poems/poets you should read to feel educated: Shakespeare's sonnets; Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (I just had to put them side by side). Steep yourself in both to understand how literature is the social history of any moment. Your paper is designed to make you read many poems on your own in order to find a suitable poem to compare to one of my own. You should expect to read deeply into your anthology looking for a similarity of themes.
IF YOU PICK A POEM FOR YOUR PAPER THAT IS NOT ON THE LIST, IT MUST BE APPROVED BY DR. AXELROD and a copy of the poem should be passed in with your paper.
Required
novel:
Born
on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic,
was written by one of
Here's a link to recent activities for Ron Kovic: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/22181/
The novel was out-of-print but I see the novel has been re-issued: Born on the Fourth of July: Ron Kovic, Paperback, Edition: 1, English-language edition, Pages:225, Pub by Akashic Books.
Here's another link to a
quick-order of his book: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067173914X/002-5474937-7106407
There
is a movie versions which not only does justice to Mr. Kovic's book but
actually adds to the clarity and importance of the story. I would say it is one
of the rare occasions when the movie, arguably, is as good or better than the
original book. Thus, I recommend you rent and watch it. If you are adept,
you can buy a copy of the movie or find one to rent. Do read the book, but I'm a
realist. The movie version of Born on the Fourth of July stars Tom
Cruise; Directed by Oliver Stone:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096969/
and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301728416/002-5474937-7106407?v=glance