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EWLP bookshelf
This is a selection of readings in literature, criticism, culture, and writing from our courses. They comprise a toolkit always at your disposal in critical and creative work. Sources from core courses are common to all students in the program while sources from electives will be familiar to students who have taken the container course.
literary criticism

ENG 204 (Core)

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Eliot, T.S.

Tradition and Individual Talent

ENG 204 (Core)

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Howells, William Dean

Criticism and Fiction (from)

ENG 204 (Core)

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Pound, Ezra

A Retrospect

society and culture

ENG 204 (Core)

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DuBois, W.E.B.

The Souls of Black Folk (from)

ENG 204 (Core)

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Self-Reliance

ENG 204 (Core)

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Reed, Ishmael

Introduction (from Multiamerica)

ENG 204 (Core)

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Washington, Booker T.

The Atlanta Exposition Address

creative writing (fiction, poetry, drama)

ENG 208 (Core Elective)

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Gardner, John

On Moral Fiction

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