5.4 Texts

Print text required

I recognize that all students won't have iPads, and I recognize that some students will want to use their iPads all the time.

My solution is to require the whole class to read

• one print book (Huckleberry Finn)
• several short stories and poems as etexts (available on the iPad, most smartphones, or any computer)

All the rest of the texts will be available either in print or electronic form. (I haven't asked the bookstore to stock these books, but you can easily find any inexpensive used edition online, you can probably get most of them from your local library, and you may just want to print them out from the web.)

If you have an iPad, see this slideshow for screenshots showing how to find and download the correct iBooks titles.

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Required, Print

• Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 039598078X (purchase)
  

Required, Electronic (iPad or almost any word processor)

• Irving, The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon (for iBooks; or in multiple formats from Project Gutenberg) (for "The Wife" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow")
  
• Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories (iBooks or Project Gutenberg) (for "Young Goodman Brown")
  
• Dickinson, Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (iBooks or Project Gutenberg) (for various selections)
  

Required, Any Format

• Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor 006000942X (purchase)
  
• Your LA101 (STW) textbook (or any college handbook that covers MLA style)
  
• Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (iBooks or Project Gutenberg)
• Melville, "Bartleby, The Scrivener" (iBooks or Project Gutenberg)
• Harris, Nights With Uncle Remus (iBooks or Project Gutenberg) (for selections)
  
• Bierce, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (iBooks or Project Gutenberg)
• Emerson, Nature (iBooks or Project Gutenberg) (for selections)
  
• Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (iBooks or Project Gutenberg)
• Poe, The Works of Edgar Allan Poe -- Volume 2 (iBooks or Project Gutenberg) (for "The Black Cat")
  
• Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin (dramatization of the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel) (no iBooks version is available as of yet, but the University of Virginia hosts the full text)
  

Additional Texts, TBA

• The syllabus will also include URLs that I post as assigned readings, and occasional in-class handouts. I will call each of these to your attention when the time comes.