English 104 - Cora Agatucci
Introduction to Literature: Fiction

Course Pack ~ Fall 2001
Table of Contents
(Available for purchase from the COCC Bookstore)
See also Fall 2001 ENG 104 Course Plan

I. Storytelling Traditions & Genre History  
 - Course Pack, p. 2
(See also ENG 104 Course Plan Weeks #1 & #2)

bullet Storytelling Traditions & Genre History - pp. 3-6
bullet Storytelling, Myths & Folk Tales - pp. 7-15

II.  Emergence of the Short Story Genre 
& Elements of Fiction: Poe, Maupassant, Chekhov, Chopin, Gilman
 - Course Pack, p. 16
(See also ENG 104 Course Plan Wks #2 & #3)

bullet Literary Romanticism & Realism - pp. 17-19
(Literary-Historical Contexts for Poe, Maupassant, & Chekhov)
bullet Writing About Literature - pp. 20-23
bullet "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" - pp. 24-25
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1913)

III. The Novel(la) in Context & More Elements of Fiction
  - Course Pack, p. 26
(See also ENG 104 Course Plan Weeks #4 & #5)

bullet Joseph Conrad & Early Modernism - pp. 27-30
Online: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness & Early Modernism
  http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng104/Conrad.htm
bullet Study Guide: Heart of Darkness - pp. 31-39
[Page numbers referenced are from our course text:
Conrad, Joseph.  Heart of Darkness.  In The Story and Its Writer. Compact 5th ed.  
Ed. Ann Charters.  Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 1999.  184-246.]

IV. Modernist Fiction: Hemingway, Faulkner, & Kafka 
- Course Pack, p. 40
 (See also ENG 104 Course Plan Weeks #6 & #7)

bullet "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka - pp. 41-44
Contexts & Critical Views (summarized by Cora Agatucci)

V. Experimental World Fictions of the Later 20th Century
  - Course Pack, pp. 45-46 (See also ENG 104 Course Plan Weeks #8, #9, & #10)

bullet "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,"
by Gabriel (Jose) Garcia Marquez - pp. 47-55
Contexts & Critical Views (summarized by Cora Agatucci)

See also:  Online Eng 104 Lecture-Presentation Notes:  
Mid- and Later Twentieth Century      
    World War II & Its Aftermath
    Post-Modernism

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