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Introduction: Culture and Literature
Introduction: What is Culture?

2

Identity: Gender
Gender: A Lecture
Kate Chopin
The Storm
Sylvia Plath
Lady Lazarus

3

Identity: Race
Race
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
Phillis Weatley
On being brought from Africa to America

4

Identity: Autobiography
Autobiography
Amy Tan
A Pair of Tickets
Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey

5

Representation
Representation
Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
W.H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen

6

History
History
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Percy Bysshe Shelley
England in 1819
Young Goodman Brown
Gothic Romance

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Spaces and Places
Spaces and Places
Ernest Hemingway
A Clean, Well-lighted Place
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach