Hello Everyone,
I am currently putting together a one-semester course, and I need a little help. The goal fo the course is to teach students to write meaningfully about literature with a focus on the rhetorical moves and research skills essential to the critical analysis. The topic/focus of the course is "walls" and how they affect relationships. So far, I have the following texts:
“Mending Wall” Frost
The Wall Pink Floyd
“The Wall” Sartre
“Bartleby: A Tale of Wall Street” Melville
“The Yellow Wallpaper” Gilman
“The Great Wall of China” Kafka
The Secret Garden Burnett
“The Cask of Amontillado” Poe
“In the Cage” Henry James
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Haddon
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bauby
The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism
Higshida
I also have a cache of theory and criticism to accompany the literature.
Do you have any suggestions? The ideal addition would be a longer canonical text that lends itself to contemporary criticism. Also, any poetry suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Barry