Elements of Narrative Structures

Stephen Crane: "War is Kind"

"An Episode of War"

"The Cruel War"

Ernest Hemingway: "In Another Country"

William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

"Lemon Tree"

Tim O'Brien: "How to Tell a True War Story"

"Letter to my Son"

James Thurber: "The Last Flower"

Pete Seger: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

Wislawa Szymborska: "The End and the Beginning"

Bob Minzesheimer: "To Mailer, A Good Soldier Puts War on Paper"

Jonathan Yardley: "War: The Reality That Defies Fiction"

Tara Bahrampour: "A Teacher Returns as a Soldier"

William Butler Yeats: "On Being Asked for a War Poem"

Black Humor Defined

Postmodernism

World War I Poets

Thomas Hardy: Channel Firing

Joseph Heller: Excerpts