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| Critical Reading | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Literature? | |
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| The Importance of Critical Reading | |
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| A Close Reading of Robert Frost's Fire and Ice | |
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| The Process of Interpretation | |
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| Interpretation and the Author's Intention | |
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| Interpretation and the Search for Meaning | |
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| Interpreting Short Fiction | |
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| Reading Three Stories | |
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| A Story from The Decameron | |
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| The Pot of Basil | |
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| Close Reading: Beginning with Questions | |
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| Suzanne Jacob's Two Cents | |
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| Meaning: Implied and Explicit | |
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| Aesop, The Rooster and the Precious Gem | |
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| Beginning with Close Reading | |
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| A Rose for Emily | |
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| Responses for an Interpretation | |
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| Freewriting on A Rose for Emily | |
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| A Sample Interpretation of A Rose for Emily | |
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| Further Strategies for Interpreting A Rose for Emily | |
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| Critical Approaches to Short Fiction | |
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| Elements of Short Fiction | |
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| Setting and Mood | |
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| The Masque of the Red Death | |
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| Doris Lessing, To Room 19 | |
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| The Ballroom of Romance | |
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| Character and Psychology | |
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| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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| Communist | |
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| The Garden-Party | |
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| Style and Theme | |
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| The Swimmer | |
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| The Lesson | |
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| Battle Royal | |
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| Plot and Narrative Structure | |
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| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
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| Rappaccini's Daughter | |
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| Night School | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Gryphon | |
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| Weekend | |
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| Johnnieruth | |
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| Irony and Tone | |
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| Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong | |
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| The Story of an Hour | |
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| Sur | |
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| How the Elements Work Together | |
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| Jasmine | |
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| Hills Like White Elephants | |
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| The Cinderella Waltz | |
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| Reading Anton Chekhov in Depth | |
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| A Commentary on Chekhov's Career | |
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| The Darling | |
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| Concerning Love | |
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| The Lady with the Little Dog | |
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| Resources for Reading Chekhov | |
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| Chekhov's Letters on Writing | |
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| Chekhov's Intent in 'The Darling.' | |
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| Reality in Chekhov's Stories | |
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| A Reading of Chekhov's 'The Lady with the Little Dog.'Vladimir Nabokov | |
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| Character and Mood in Chekhov | |
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| Reading Eudora Welty in Depth | |
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| A Commentary on Welty's Career | |
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| A Worn Path | |
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| Livvie | |
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| Lily Daw and the Three Ladies | |
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| Resources for Reading Welty | |
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| One Writer's Beginnings | |
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| Is Phoenix Jackson's Grandson Really Dead?Eudora Welty | |
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| Technique in Livvie | |
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| Lily Daw and the Three Ladies | |
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| An Album of Stories | |
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| A White Heron | |
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| Araby | |
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| A Hunger Artist | |
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| Happiness | |
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| Pangs of Love | |
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| The Horse Dealer's Daughter | |
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| Eyes of a Blue Dog | |
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| The Moons of Jupiter | |
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| Interpreting Poetry | |
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| Reading Six Poems | |
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| Interpreting A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | |
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| Close Reading: Beginning with Questions | |
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| My Last Duchess | |
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| Meaning: Implied and Explicit | |
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| The Jabberwocky | |
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| Beginning with Close Reading | |
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| Cargoes | |
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| Fly | |
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| A Student Interpretation of Robert Frost's Birches | |
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| Freewriting on Birches | |
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| A Sample Interpretation | |
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| Further Strategies | |
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| Critical Approaches to Poetry | |
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| Elements of Poetry | |
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| Language | |
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| To Mistress Margaret Hussey | |
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| Sir Beelzebub | |
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| e.e. cummings, Poem, or Beauty Hurts | |
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| Empty Bed Blues | |
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| Imagery | |
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| In a Station of the Metro | |
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| An Easter Garland | |
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| Andrew Hudg | |