Literature : An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
ISBN: 9780321245519 | 0321245512
Edition: 9thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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Literature, 9/e , the most popular introduction of its kind, is organized into three genres¤Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. As in past editions, the authors' collective poetic voice brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature, adding to students' interest in the readings. An introduction to a balance of contemporary and classic stories, poems, and plays. Casebooks offer in-depth look at an author or clusters of works, for example "Latin American Poetry. Authors Joe Kennedy and Dana Gioia provide inviting and illum... MORE
| Denote selections that are new to this edition | |
| Most chapters conclude with "Writing Assignment" and "Further Suggestions for Writing." | |
| Fiction | |
| Reading a Story | |
| Fable, Parable, and Tales | |
| The Appointment in Samarra | |
| The Fox and the Grapes | |
| The Camel and His Friends | |
| Independence | |
| Godfather Death | ... MORE |
| Plot? The Short Story? | |
| Updike A & P Writer's Perspective? | |
| Updike on Writing, Why Write? | |
| Writing Critically | |
| What's The Plot? | |
| Point of View | |
| A Rose for Emily | |
| Interpreter of Maladies | |
| Sonny's Blues | |
| Why I Live at the P.O | |
| Writer's Perspective | |
| James Baldwin on Writing, Race and the African-American Writer | |
| Writing Critically | |
| How Point of View Shapes a Story | |
| Character | |
| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
| Everyday Use | |
| Cathedral | |
| Writer's Perspective | |
| Raymond Carver on Writing, Commonplace but Precise Language | |
| Writing Critically | |
| How Character Creates Action | |
| Setting | |
| The Storm | |
| To Build a Fire | |
| Greasy Lake | |
| A Pair of Tickets | |
| Writer's Perspective | |
| Amy Tan on Writing, Setting the Voice | |
| Writing Critically | |
| How Time and Place Set a Story | |
| Tone and Style | |
| A Clean, Well-Lighted Place | |
| Barn Burning Irony? | |
| The Necklace | |
| Saboteur | |
| Writer's Perspective? | |
| Ernest Hemingway on Writing, The Direct Style | |
| Writing Critically? | |
| Be Style Conscious | |
| Theme | |
| The Open Boat | |
| Day of the Butterfly | |
| Luke 15: 11-32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
| Writer's Perspective? | |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. on Writing, The Themes of Science Fiction | |
| Writing Critically | |
| Stating the Theme | |
| Symbol | |
| The Chrysanthemums | |
| The Lottery | |
| No One's a Mystery | |
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
| Writer's Perspective | |
| Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing, On "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." | |
| Writing Critically | |
| Recognizing Symbols | |
| Writing Assignment | |
| Student Essay, An Analysis of the Symbolism In Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums." | |
| Evaluating a Story | |
| Writing Critically | |
| Know What You're Judging | |
| Reading Long Stories and Novels | |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych | |
| The Metamorphosis | |
| Writer's Perspective | |
| Franz Kafka on Writing, Discussing The Metamorphosis | |
| Writing Critically | |
| Leaving Things Out | |
| Writing Assignment: Student Essay, Kafka's Greatness | |
| Two Critical Casebooks | |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | |
| The Masque of the Red Death | |
| Edgar Allan Poe on Edgar Allan Poe | |
| The Tale and Its Effect | |
| The Philosophy of Composition | |
| On Imagination | |
| Critics on | |
| The Father-Figure in "The Tell-Tale Heart." | |
| A Psychoanalytic Reading of "The Masque of the Red. Death." | |
| On Poe's Genius | |
| Poe's Quest for Supernal Beauty | |
| Good Country People | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
| Revelation | |
| On Flannery O'Connor | |
| Excerpt from "On Her Own Work": The Element of Suspense in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." | |
| On Her Catholic Faith | |
| Excerpt from "The Grotesque in Southern Fiction": The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader | |
| Yearbook Cartoons | |
| Critics on | |
| And Her Readers | |
| A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit | |
| Deconstructing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." | |
| Comic Perversion in "Good Country People." | |
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