| English 306 Dr. Gideon Burton, Brigham Young University |
Readings Packet
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| Table of Contents (PDF) | 1 |
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| Please read this first! | Introduction to Travel Writing | 3 |
| Part I: Travel Literature | The Bothers Grimm: Hansel and Gretel; The Two Travelers | 6 |
| Homer, The Odyssey | 4 |
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| Plato: The Allegory of the Cave | 2 |
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| Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue, from The Canterbury Tales | 8 |
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| Rudyard Kipling, various selections | 13 |
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| Robert Louis Stevenson: "Making Friends" and "A Tale of a Tapu" from In the South Seas | 5 |
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| James Joyce: "Araby," from Dubliners | 3 |
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| Henry David Thoreau: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For," from Walden | 5 |
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| Walt Whitman:“The Learned Astronomer” | 1 |
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| Hans Christian Andersen, “The Magic Galoshes” | 4 |
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| Herman Melville: "Loomings," from Moby Dick | 2 |
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| The Prodigal Son / The Good Samaritan from the New Testament | 1 |
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| Robert Service: "Wanderlust" | 1 |
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| Leo Tolstoy, "Two Old Men" | 8 |
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| Kenneth Grahame: "The Roman Road," from The Golden Age | 3 |
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| Donald Marshall, “The Week-End”; “All the Cats in Zanzibar” | 5 |
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| Part II: Personal Essays | Cyril Connolly, "Revisiting Greece" |
(forthcoming) |
| Edward Geary, "Disorder and Early Joy" |
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| Gideon Burton, "In An Open Field, Near a Gravel Pit" |
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| Tessa Santiago, "Brother Wiseman" |
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| Virginia Woolf, "Street Haunting" |
(forthcoming) |
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| V.S. Naipaul, “In the Middle of the Journey” |
(forthcoming) |
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| G.K. Chesterton, "A Piece of Chalk" "On Running After One's Hat" |
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| Katherine Anne Porter, "St. Augustine and the Bullfight" | (forthcoming) |
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| Part III Stylistic Models for Imitation | All of the stylistic passages below are found on one document, here. |
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| Max Beerbohm, “Something Defeasible” | ||
| Edmund Wilson, “A Preface to Perseus” |
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| Willa Cather, “A Chance Meeting” |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Sleeping and Waking” |
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| Dawn Powell, “What Are You Doing in My Dreams?” |
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| E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” |
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| A. J. Liebling, “A Good Appetite” |
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| James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village” |
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| William Zinsser, “Jury Duty” |
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| Truman Capote, “Tangier” | ||