3: The Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
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- 3.1: Modernism (1900-1945)
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- 3.1.1: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
- 3.1.1.1: The Cabuliwallah
- 3.1.2: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
- 3.1.2.1: Six Characters in Search of an Author
- 3.1.3: Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
- 3.1.3.1: Swann's Way
- 3.1.4: Violetta Thurstan (1879-1978)
- 3.1.4.1: Field Hospital and Flying Column
- 3.1.5: Lu Xun (1881-1936)
- 3.1.5.1: Diary of a Madman
- 3.1.6: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
- 3.1.6.1: A Room of One's Own
- 3.1.7: James Joyce (1882-1941)
- 3.1.7.1: The Dead
- 3.1.8: Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
- 3.1.8.1: The Metamorphosis
- 3.1.9: Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
- 3.1.9.1: The Garden Party
- 3.1.10: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- 3.1.10.1: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- 3.1.10.2: Tradition and the Individual Talent
- 3.1.10.3: The Waste Land
- 3.1.11: Anna Akhmatova (1889-1996)
- 3.1.11.1: Lot's Wife
- 3.1.11.2: Requiem
- 3.1.11.3: Why Is This Century Worse...
- 3.1.12: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
- 3.1.12.1: In a Grove
- 3.1.12.2: Rashomon
- 3.1.13: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
- 3.1.13.1: Preface
- 3.1.13.2: Strange Meeting
- 3.1.13.3: Anthem for Doomed Youth
- 3.1.13.4: Dulce et Decorum est
- 3.1.13.5: Exposure
- 3.1.13.6: Futility
- 3.1.13.7: Parable of the Old Men and the Young
- 3.1.14: William Faulkner (1897-1962)
- 3.1.14.1: Barn Burning
- 3.1.14.2: A Rose for Emily
- 3.1.15: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
- 3.1.15.1: Mother Courage and Her Children
- 3.1.16: Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
- 3.1.16.1: The Garden of Forking Paths
- 3.1.17: Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- 3.1.17.1: Harlem
- 3.1.17.2: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- 3.1.17.3: Theme for English B
- 3.1.17.4: The Weary Blues
- 3.1.18: Yi Sang (1910-1937)
- 3.1.18.1: Phantom Illusion
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- 3.2: Postcolonial Literature
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- 3.2.1: Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
- 3.2.1.1: The Golden Threshold
- 3.2.2: Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913-2008)
- 3.2.2.1: from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
- 3.2.2.2: The Woman and the Flame
- 3.2.3: Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
- 3.2.3.1: Things Fall Apart
- 3.2.4: Cho Se-hui (1942- )
- 3.2.4.1: Knifeblade
- 3.2.4.2: A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf
- 3.2.4.3: The Möbius Strip
- 3.2.5: Joy Harjo (1951- )
- 3.2.5.1: Eagle Poem
- 3.2.5.2: An American Sunrise
- 3.2.5.3: My House Is the Red Earth
- 3.2.5.4: A Poem to Get Rid of Fear
- 3.2.5.5: When the World as We Knew It Ended
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- 3.3: Contemporary Literature (1955-present)
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- 3.3.1: Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
- 3.3.1.1: from Midaq Alley
- 3.3.2: Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
- 3.3.2.1: An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat on Mt. Zion
- 3.3.2.2: Jerusalem
- 3.3.3: Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
- 3.3.3.1: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
- 3.3.4: Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
- 3.3.4.1: The Bounty
- 3.3.4.2: from Omeros
- 3.3.5: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
- 3.3.5.1: The Haw Lantern
- 3.3.5.2: The Tollund Man
- 3.3.6: Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
- 3.3.6.1: Identity Card
- 3.3.6.2: Victim Number 18
- 3.3.7: Hanan al-Shaykh (1945- )
- 3.3.7.1: The Women's Swimming Pool
- 3.3.8: Salman Rushdie (1947- )
- 3.3.8.1: The Perforated Sheet
- 3.3.9: Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )
- 3.3.9.1: Yellow Woman
- 3.3.10: Haruki Murakami (1949- )
- 3.3.10.1: The Second Bakery Attack
- 3.3.11: Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )
- 3.3.11.1: Girl
- 3.3.12: Francisco X. Alarcón (1954-2016)
- 3.3.12.1: "Mexican" Is Not a Noun
- 3.3.12.2: Prayer
- 3.3.12.3: To Those Who Have Lost Everything
- 3.3.13: Yasmina Reza (1959- )
- 3.3.13.1: God of Carnage