ENGL 150: Introduction to Literature - Jurgens

This guide gathers together some of the best resources for researching authors and their work.  

For the assignments in this class, you will want to give the text(s) you choose a close, critical reading.  Contextual information and criticism about the author can help focus the lens of your reading. Use the resources on this guide to find information on the author's life, themes, and stylistic concerns as well as an analysis of their work by others.

▪ “Boys and Girls” – Alice Munro

▪ “Puppy” – George Saunders

▪ “And of Clay Are We Created” – Isabel Allende

▪ “The Black Cat” – Edgar Allan Poe

▪ “The Mark on the Wall” – Virginia Woolf

▪ “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: Phantom Pain” - Jamil Jan Kochai

▪ “A Rose for Emily” – William Faulkner

▪ “The Story of an Hour” – Kate Chopin

▪ “A Pair of Tickets” – Amy Tan

▪ “Brokeback Mountain” – Annie Proulx

▪ “Recitatif” – Toni Morrison

▪ “The Veldt” – Ray Bradbury

▪ “Hills Like White Elephants” – Ernest Hemingway

▪ “Barn Burning” – William Faulkner

▪ “The Birthmark” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

▪ “Young Goodman Browne” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

▪ “Riding the Bullet” – Stephen King

▪ “The Yellow Wallpaper” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

▪ “Black Box” – Jennifer Egan

▪ “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge