A Year in Review:
Texts Used in Don Langford's Courses in 2002

Fiction

Novels
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
White Noise by Don DeLillo

Short Stories
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
"Boys at the Rodeo" by Judy Grahn
"A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett
"Editha" by William Dean Howells
"Entropy" by Thomas Pynchon
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber
"Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason
"Something for the Time Being" by Nadine Gordimer
"Teddy" by J. D. Salinger
"Woman Hollering Creek" by Sandra Cisneros
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Drama
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Poetry
"In the Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop
"Mending Wall"; "The Road Not Taken"; "Birches"; "Design"; "Directive"
by Robert Frost
"Harlem"; "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
"Boats in a Fog," "Hurt Hawks," "Shine, Perishing Republic," "the Purse-Seine"
by Robinson Jeffers
"The Applicant," "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath (1733-1737)
"Diving into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich

Film
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Nonfiction

Books
Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge
by Brown, Gardner, and Halweil
Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture by Stuart Ewen
Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth by Lester Brown
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Language: Reading in Language and Culture, by Clark , Escholz, and Rosa.
Life in the Iron-Mills: A Cultural Edition by Rebecca Harding Davis
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
State of the World 2001 by Brown, Flavin, and French

Articles
"The Campus Anti-Sweatshop Movement"
"Can't Live Without It"
"How Ads Get Kids to Say, I Want It"
"The More Factor" by Laurence Shames
"The Overworked American" by Juliet Schor
"Progressive Obsolescence" by Roland Marchand
"Students for Sale"
"Tragedy and the Common Man" by Arthur Miller
"Youth on the Line: Overworked and Underage"

Video
Acquiring Human Language
Baby Talk
Consuming Images
Consuming Passions
Discovering Human Language
The Global Banquet: Politics of Food
Human Language Evolves
The Infinite Voyage: Life in the Balance
In Search of the First Language
Life and Debt
Men, Women, and Language
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring