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 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
• "And of Clay Are We Created" - Isabel Allende
• "The Veldt" - Ray Bradbury
• "Hills Like White Elephants" - Ernest Hemingway
• "The Birthmark" - Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Fences - August Wilson
• "A Pair of Tickets" - Amy Tan
• "Daddy" - Sylvia Plath
• Princess Mononoke - dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1997)
• "Brokeback Mountain" - Annie Proulx

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