Read the assigned readings for Friday, found in Week 4 Readings. Three of the readings are very short stories (some just a few pages long) from the same collection, published last year by...
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Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher FYI: The bold text provides explanation/notes to help you as you move through the story. For this assignment, you might want to write answers in a...
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Worksheet 5: Modernist Experiments (Pound, Millay, cummings, Stein) As you know by now, Modernist literature as a whole was experimental in two distinct registers: in its content it challenged...