How best can we understand the internal experience of alienation? In both her essays and her fiction, Virginia Woolf shapes the slippery nature of subjective experience into words, while her characters frequently lead inner lives that...

This lesson focuses on Johnathan Edwards and The Great Awakening, a movement to revival the Puritan religion. It features information about the Great Awakening and why in wasn't successful and a link to the sermon "Sinners in the Hands...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to study a speech and anti-suffrage literature to explore...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" brought Latin American literature to the forefront of the global imagination and earned Garcia Marquez the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. What makes the novel so remarkable?

In the fall of 1939 the Nazis invaded Irene Gut's beloved Poland, ending her training as a nurse and thrusting the sixteen-year-old Catholic girl into a world of degradation that somehow gave her the strength to accomplish what amounted...

This introduction to reading and analyzing text features a list of learning objectives for analyzing prose and poetry, and an understanding of critical approaches to literary interpretation.

A biography of Canadian novelist Timothy Findley, author of "The Last of the Crazy People," "The Butterfly Plague," and "Journeyman." Read about his early life, his successes, and why he is considered a postmodern writer.

Read the full text of the short story "Why the Clock Stopped" by Arnold Bennett on this site.

This lesson focuses on Maya Angelou and her poem "On the Pulse of Morning." It features links to Angelou's biography, her official website, National Women's Hall of Fame, and her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" in text and in audio.

Iseult Gillespie explores how Flannery O'Connor's endlessly surprising fictional worlds continue to draw readers decades later.

This "Featured Author," selection speaks more about how and why Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) wrote his children's books than about his life. Hurst also suggests the Dr. Seuss books can be used to teach older students some literary...

Use this resource to learn why Shel Silverstein's poetry is so compelling for young readers. Read excerpts from his poetry and check out related links.

Plato's views on rhetoric and poetry have been very influential on western thought and literature. Read this detailed article to find out why.