Introduction to the Literature and Film

● William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 16th Century.

● Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, 19th Century.
● William Faulkner, Rose for Emily, 20th Century (1930).
● W.H. Auden, “Miss Gee”, 20th Century (1938).
● Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 20th Century (1953).

British Literature
● Beowulf (an Excerpt), 8-10th Century.
● Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, “General Prologue”, “The Miller’s Tale including its
prologue”, 14th Century.
● William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 16th Century.
● Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”, 18th Century.
● Horace Walpole, “Castle of Otranto”, 18th Century.
● Selection of Romantic Poetry:
○ William Blake, “The Tyger”, 18th Century,
○ William Wordsworth, “The Daffodils”, 19th Century,
○ S.T. Coleridge, “The Ancient Mariner”, 19th Century,
○ John Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”, 19th Century,
○ P.B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”, 19th Century,
○ G. Byron, “She Walks in Beauty”, 19th Century.
● Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 19th Century.
● Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 19th Century.
● Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, 20th Century.
● W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”, 20th Century.
● Tom Stoppard, Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 20th Century.
● Harold Pinter, Party Time, 20th Century.
● William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 20th Century.
● Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus, 20th Century.

American Literature
● Mary Rowlandson, The excerpt of The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs
Mary Rowlandson, 17th Century.
● Benjamin Franklin, The Excerpt of the Autobiography, 18-19th Century (the whole book).
● Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems: “A Bird Came down the Walk” and “Because I could not
Stop for Death”, 19th Century.
● Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 19th Century.
● Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, 19th Century.
● Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, 19th Century.
● Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 20th Century.
● Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 20th Century.
● Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita - 20th Century.
● Arthur Miller, The Death of a Salesman, 20th Century.
● Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 20th Century.
● John Barth, “Lost in the Funhouse”, 20th Century (Considered as 1st postmodernist).
● Robert Coover, “The Magic Poker”, 20th Century.
● Robert Frost, Selected Poems - “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “The
Road Not Taken”, 20th Century.
● Sylvia Plath, Selected Poems - “Applicant” and“Ariel,” 20th Century.

American Studies
● Mary Rowlandson, The excerpt of The Narrative of the Captivity, 17th Century.
 ● Herriet Beacher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 19th Century (1852, slaves in the South, written
by white author from the North).
● Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 20th Century (1906, deals with bad living and working conditions
of immigrants, communism raises).
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American Drama
● Royall Tyler, The Contrast, 18th Century, (Neoclassicism, colonial era, Revolutionary War
period).
● John Augustus Stone, Metamora, 19th Century (1829, King Philip’s War, Romanticism, walk
of tears).
● Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion, 19th Century, (1845, Sentimentalism, Domestic Fiction).
● James A. Herne, Margaret Fleming, 19th century, (1890, Realism, Railroad, Monopolies
(Rockefeller,..), population grew, immigrants from Europe, people moving from cities to
west).
● Sophie Treadwell, Machinal, 20th Century, (1928, expressionism, modernism, women in
society…).
● Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour, 20th Century (1934, deals with homosexuality,
● Amiri Baraka, The Dutchman, 20th Century (1964, African Americans in America in 20th
Century).
● David Mamet, Oleanna, 20th Century, 20th Century (Modern University System).