Medieval Era
Fiction: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Non-Fiction:Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine by Blessed Jacobus de Varagine
Poetic Text: Beowulf
Other Genre: play Quem quaeritis
Non-text Text: Ravenna, S Apollinare Nuovo, mosaic showing the Betrayal of Christ
Early Modern - Renaissance
Fiction: Midsummer Night’s Dream
Poetic Text: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
Non-Fiction: Human Understanding (John Locke)
Non-text Text: Mona Lisa
Other Genre: Lord Strange’s Men
Romantic-Victorian Era
Fiction: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Non-Fiction: The Educational Theory by Immanuel Kant
Poetic Text: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
Other Genre: Frankenstein play adaption
Non-text Text: The Morning by Philipp Otto Runge
Modernist Era
Fiction: Native Son by Richard Wright
Non-fiction: Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Poetic Text: The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
Other Genre: His Long Day’s Journey into Night written by Eugene O’Neill
Non-text Text: The Man with a Pipe by Pablo Picasso
Post Colonial Era
Fiction: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Non-fiction: Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
Poetic Text: I bombed Libya tonight
Other Genre: Fences by August Wilson, Branford Marsalis
Non-text Text: Six Crime by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Area of Focus: Feminism
Fiction: The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
Non-fiction: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Poetic Text: Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Other Genre: The Vagina Monologues play by Eve Ensler
Non-text Text: Oven-Pan by Yayoi Kusama
Critical Theory:
Formalism
Fiction: A Void by Gilbert Adair
Non-fiction: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friederish Engels
Poetic Text: The Beautiful Changes by Richard Wilbur
Other Genre: Poetics of Music by Igor Stravinsky
Non-text Text: The Gardener Vallier by Paul Cézanne