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Though not exhaustive, the following list provides teachers and students with the forms of texts that became important in each time period. It is an aid in the exploration of how changes in sensibilities lead to changes in the form of literary texts.
 * UNITS OF STUDY: ** Units of study by genres referenced to literary movements

** Novel/short fiction ** Renaissance and Neoclassical Religious Tracts Romance Narratives Travelogues Sea voyages Essays Allegory Buildungsroman Apologue Satire Biography Romanticism and Realism Lectures Personal essay Autobiography Science fiction Mystery Gothic novel Fantasy Epistolary novel Social manners novel grotesque tall tale Naturalism

Modernism Regionalism Social protest Short story collection Experimental fiction Stream-of-consciousness Post-modernism Metafiction Experimental fiction Magical realism Existentialism Nonfiction novel Renaissance Neoclassical


 * Poetic forms:**

Sonnet Sequence Emblem (shaped verse) Calendar Eclogue Metaphysical Carpe diem Epic Heroic couplet Letter and essay Satire Mock epic Sensibility (nature poetry) Romanticism and Realism Lyric Ode Fire-side Poets PreRaphealites Dramatic monologue Narrative Modernism Aesthetes War poets Harlem Renaissance Imagism Symbolism Allusion Free verse Post-modernism and today Confessional Spoken word Concrete Beat Generation Black Mountain school Poetry Slam

**Drama** Renaissance and Neoclassical Shakespearean (comedy, tragedy, history) Masque Jacobean Restoration Drama Comedy of manners Farce Romanticism and Realism Verse drama Melodrama Naturalism and Modernism Tragedy of Common Man Post-modernism and today Theater of the Absurd

Additional Senior Thesis Texts from previous years and Literary Movements

Novels

 * 19th Century **

Frankenstein, Shelley Pride and Prejudice, Austen Bartleby & Benito Cereno, Melville Billy Budd, Melville Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky Notes from Underground, Dostoevsky Anna Karinina, Tolstoy Kreutzer Sonata, Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilytch, Tolstoy Turn of the Screw, James


 * 20th Century pre-WWII **

Heart of Darkness, Conrad Portrait of an Artist, Joyce Dubliners, Joyce A Room of One’s Own, Woolf The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway The Bear (Go Down Moses), Faulkner The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner As I Lay Dying, Faulkner Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston Nightwood, Barnes Siddhartha, Hesse Metamorphosis, Kafka Death in Venice, Mann


 * Post-WWII **

Native Son, Wright Invisible Man, Ellison The Stranger, Camus Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut Catch-22, Heller The Bell Jar, Plath A Canticle for Leibowitz, Miller Beloved, Morrison The Bluest Eye, Morrison Mao II, DeLillo

Poetry Collections
Shakespeare Sonnets Donne, Selected Poems Rape of the Lock, Pope Keats Lyrics Romantics Anthology: Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855) Selections, Tennyson Final Harvest, Dickinson Yeats, Easter 1916 Eliot, The Waste Land Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred

Plays

 * Greek and Roman **

Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus (8 great) Oedipus Rex, Sophocles Euripides The Birds, Aristophanes


 * Shakespeare **

King Lear Richard III Twelth Night As You Like It Troilus and Cressida Merchant of Venice Measure for Measure

Dr. Faustus, Marlow Jew of Malta, Marlow Volpone, Jonson Faust, Goethe


 * Modern Drama **

A Doll House, Ibsen Hedda Gabler, Ibsen The Wild Duck, Ibsen An Enemy of the People, Ibsen Ghosts, Ibsen Miss Julie, Strindberg (8 great) The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov Three Sisters, Chekhov Uncle Vanya, Chekhov Arms and the Man, Shaw Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Shaw Heartbreak House, Shaw Man and Superman, Shaw Mourning Becomes Electra, O’Neill Long Day's Journey into Night, O'Neill


 * Post-WWII Drama **

A Death of a Salesman, Miller The Glass Menagerie, Williams Waiting for Godot, Beckett Rhinocerouses, Ionesco The Zoo Story, Albee (1950s) The Homecoming, Pinter Rosencrantz and Guildestern, Stoppard Fences, Wilson