In a course of this level, we will deal with scholarly articles such as Tompkins’s.  Read the following essay by Jane Tompkins and apply its ideas to the short stories in this unit.

The essay by noted reader response critic Jane Tompkins is entitled “‘Indians’: Textuality, Morality, and the Problem of History.” Read it early in the unit. It may help to print the essay and annotate it. Use the difficult and interesting passages you found as material for discussion postings.

www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/IndiansbyTompkins.pdf

If you have trouble accessing the Tompkins essay, here’s its URL:

http://www.public.asu.edu/~jvanasu/Indians.html