LA 390/05 and 06: Readings in American Literature
LA 490B/02: Writing Poetry
LA491/02: Screenwriting
In order to help you save money and time, I'm posting the titles and authors/editors of our texts below. Make every effort to secure cheaper copies through online bookstores, used bookstores, and/or libraries.
Readings in American Lit.: (Mid-Century Madness!)
1. O'Conner, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories. Mariner, 1977.
2. Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Vintage, 2004.
3. Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? NAL Trade, 2006.
4. Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Penguin, 2003.
5. O'Hara, Frank. Meditations in an Emergency. Grove, 1996.
6. Lowell, Robert. Life Studies and For the Union Dead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
7. Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Vintage, 1991.
8. Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. Harper, 2006.
Note: This may seem like a lot, but many of these books (especially the plays) you can find used online for just a buck or two (and in plentiful supply at your local library). If you act now, you'll have plenty of time to look around for the best deals. In fact, it doesn't necessarily matter to me which edition you're able to get. We'll work around that issue; I just want you to read!
Screenwriting: (Focusing on Building Believable Characters Madness!)
1. Field, Syd. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. Random House, 2005.
2. Various scripts TBA on www.script-o-rama.com/table.shtml
Writing Poetry: (Recent First Book Madness!)
1. Dawson, Erica. Big-Eyed Afraid. Waywiser, 2007.
2. Kartsonis, Ariana-Sophia M. Intaglio. Kent State. 2006.
3. Rerick, Michael. In Ways Impossible to Fold. Marsh Hawk, 2009.
4. Drury, John. Creating Poetry. Writers Digest, 2006.
Note: You should be able to get used copies of Drury's handbook cheaply and easily. Used copies of Kartsonis and Dawson are available online. Rerick, however, is so new there are no available used copies just yet, but keep checking.
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