LibGuides: ENG 021 Intro to Reading and Writing: Course Extras

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Shadow & light : literature and the life of faith by Darryl Tippens (Editor); Stephen Weathers (Editor); Jeanne Murray Walker (Editor)
Call Number: PN6071.F17 S43 2005
ISBN: 0891120696
Publication Date: 2004-12-01
This book contains essays from some of the most influential writers of our time talking about faith.

Salvation by Langston Hughes Matthew Sharpe on "Salvation" by Langston Hughes “Salvation” is the third chapter of Langston Hughes’s memoir The Big Sea, but this two-page tour de force of prose is also a compact and complete story.

Bloom's How to Write About Langston Hughes
"As with any literary work, Hughes’s autobiography can be read for what is omitted just as much as for what is included."

Unriddling Our Times by Os Guinness (Editor)
Call Number: BJ1275 .U57 1999
ISBN: 080105981X
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets--these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence.

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
Link contains a pdf of the story and discussion questions.

"The Lottery"
Infographics: Short Story Plot Points; 2017, p7-7, 1p
Shirley Jackson (14 December 1919-8 August 1965)
This through article from the Database of Literary Biography reviews Shirley Jackson's short stories and history.
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Ragland, Martha. "Shirley Jackson (14 December 1919-8 August 1965)." American Novelists Since World War II: Second Series, edited by James E. Kibler, vol. 6, Gale, 1980, pp. 161-167. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 6. Dictionary of Literary Biography Main Series, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=DLBC&sw=w&u=philbibu&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CMLYWRI189829118&it=r. Accessed 9 Aug. 2017.
Shirley Jackson's American Gothic
An ebook that argues that Jackson’s reputation should be restored to the lofty position it occupied during her life. The main reason for this recuperation is that her writing is more varied and complex than critics have realized.
JACKSON, Shirley
This article profiles author Shirley Jackson. Jackson achieved a rare combination of critical acclaim and popular success during her lifetime, but descended into obscurity upon her death, only to be remembered by a single short story, The Lottery, which has been widely anthologized. Yet another typical world of her work is the lightly comical world of suburban family life and the difficulty of reconciling these two may account for her critical neglect.