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Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series)

ISBN: 9780321366290 | 0321366298
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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SummaryTable of Contents
A refreshing alternative to voluminous literature anthologies, this compact, inexpensive, and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of literature. Organized chronologically within each genre, the wide range of selections features both classic and contemporary authors, presenting a diversity of forms and voices. Individual Fiction, Poetry, and Drama introductions provide an overview for reading and analyzing each genre, defining key terms in context. Biographical headnotes high... MORE
Prefacexxvii
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE1(6)
Experience, Experiment, Expand: Three Reasons to Study Literature
1(6)
... MORE
Experience
2(1)
Experiment
3(1)
Expand
3(4)
Fiction
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION
7(19)
The Telling of the Tale
7(2)
The Short Story Genre
9(3)
Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction
12(14)
Plot
12(5)
Characterization
17(2)
Point of View
19(2)
Theme
21(1)
Setting
22(1)
Style, Tone, and Symbolism
23(3)
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown
26(12)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
The Tell-Tale Heart
38(5)
SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)
A White Heron
43(9)
GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-1893)
Mother Savage
52(7)
KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904)
The Story of an Hour
59(3)
ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904)
The Lady with the Pet Dog
62(15)
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILIVIAN (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wallpaper
77(15)
EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)
Roman Fever
92(12)
WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)
Paul's Case
104(19)
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)
Araby
123(6)
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
129(9)
ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)
Sweat
138(11)
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emily
149(9)
JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986)
The Secret Miracle
158(7)
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
Hills Like White Elephants
165(5)
JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)
The Chrysanthemums
170(10)
RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)
The Man Who Was Almost a Man
180(11)
JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982)
Reunion
191(4)
ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960)
The Guest
195(12)
RALPH ELLISON (1914-1995)
A Party Down at the Square
207(6)
SHIRLEY JACKSON (1919-1965)
The Lottery
213(9)
FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)
Good Country People
222(18)
GABRIEL GARCIA MÁRQUEZ (b. 1928)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
240(7)
CHINUA ACHEBE (b. 1930)
Dead Men's Path
247(3)
ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931)
How I Met My Husband
250(16)
JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932)
A&P
266(6)
RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988)
Cathedral
272(14)
JOYCE CAROL OATES (b. 1938)
Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?
286(16)
MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939)
Happy Endings
302(4)
BOBBIE ANN MASON (b. 1940)
Shiloh
306(13)
ALICE WALKER (b. 1944)
Everyday Use
319(8)
TIM GAUTREAUX (b. 1947)
Died and Gone to Vegas
327(16)
SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954)
Woman Hollering Creek
343(11)
LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954)
The Red Convertible
354(9)
GISH JEN (b. 1955)
In the American Society
363(14)
DANIEL OROZCO (b. 1957)
Orientation
377(8)
Poetry
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
385(41)
An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts
385(1)
Speaker, Listener, and Context
386(2)
The Star-Spangled Banner
388(4)
Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic
392(3)
The Language of Poetry
395(6)
Figurative Language
401(4)
Allegory and Symbol
405(3)
Tone of Voice
408(2)
Repetition: Sounds and Schemes
410(2)
Meter and Rhythm
412(5)
Free Verse, Open Form, and Closed Form
417(2)
Stanza Forms
419(1)
Fixed Forms
420(2)
Literary History and Poetic Conventions
422(4)
ANONYMOUS
Western Wind
426(1)
Bonny Barbara Allan
426(1)
Sir Patrick Spens
427(2)
SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503?-1542)
They Flee from Me
429(1)
Whoso List to Hunt
430(1)
EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)
Amoretti: Sonnet 75
430(1)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1
431(1)
ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561?-1595)
The Burning Babe
432(1)
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)
Idea: Sonnet 61
433(1)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
Sonnet 18
434(1)
Sonnet 20
435(1)
Sonnet 29
435(1)
Sonnet 73
436(1)
Sonnet 116
436(1)
Sonnet 130
437(1)
When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)
437(2)
THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)
There Is a Garden in Her Face
439(1)
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
The Flea
440(1)
Holy Sonnet 10
441(1)
Holy Sonnet 14
441(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
442(1)
BEN JONSON (1573-1637)
On My First Son
443(1)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
444(1)
MARY WROTH (1587?-1651?)
In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn
445(1)
ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
446(1)
GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)
Easter Wings
447(1)
Love (III)
448(1)
The Pulley
448(1)
Redemption
449(1)
EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687)
Song
450(1)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
How Soon Hath Time
451(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
451(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
452(1)
ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672)
The Author to Her Book
453(1)
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
454(1)
ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress
455(2)
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
457(1)
EDWARD TAYLOR (1642-1729)
Huswifery
458(1)
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)
A Description of a City Shower
459(2)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
from An Essay on Criticism
461(2)
Ode on Solitude
463(1)
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
464(4)
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper
468(1)
The Little Black Boy
469(1)
A Poison Tree
470(1)
The Tyger
470(1)
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)
A Red, Red Rose
471(1)
John Barleycorn
472(2)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
474(1)
It Is a Beauteous Erening
475(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
475(7)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
Frost at Midnight
482(2)
Kubla Khan
484(2)
Work Wlthout Hope
486(1)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
486(1)
Stanzas
487(1)
When We Two Parted
487(2)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
Ode to the West Wind
489(2)
Ozymandias
491(1)
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
To the Fringed Gentian
492(1)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
La Belle Dame sans Merci
493(2)
Ode to a Nightingale
495(2)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
497(1)
When I Have Fears
498(1)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18
499(1)
Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43
499(1)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
The Arsenal at Springfield
500(2)
The Cross of Snow
502(1)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
The Haunted Palace
502(2)
The Raven
504(3)
To Helen
507(1)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)
The Eagle
508(1)
The Lady of Shalott
509(4)
Tears, Idle Tears
513(1)
Ulysses
514(2)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
516(2)
Porphyria's Lover
518(2)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
520(6)
A Noiseless Patient Spider
526(1)
O Captain! My Captain!
526(1)
Song of Myself 6
527(1)
Song of Myself 11
528(1)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
529(1)
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)
Dover Beach
530(1)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes
531(1)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
532(1)
The Brain Is Wider than the Sky
533(1)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
533(1)
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church
534(1)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
535(1)
Tell All the Truth, but Tell It Slant
535(1)
Wild Nights-Wild Nights!
536(1)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
Up-Hill
536(1)
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
537(1)
Neutral Tones
538(1)
The Ruined Maid
539(1)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
God's Grandeur
540(1)
Pied Beauty
540(1)
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child
541(1)
EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)
The New Colossus
542(1)
A.E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)
Eight O'Clock
543(1)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
543(1)
Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall
544(1)
"Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff..."
544(3)
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
547(1)
Leda and the Swan
547(1)
Sailing to Byzantium
548(1)
The Second Coming
549(1)
The Song of Wandering Aengus
550(1)
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
Firelight
551(1)
The Mill
551(1)
Richard Cory
552(1)
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers
553(1)
The Wayfarer
554(1)
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask
555(1)
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
Acquainted with the Night
556(1)
After Apple-Picking
557(1)
Design
558(1)
Home Burial
558(4)
The Road Not Taken
562(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
562(1)
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (1878-1914) Amaze
563(1)
Languor after Pain 563 Trapped
564(1)
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
Anecdote of the Jar
564(1)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
565(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
565(1)
The Snow Man
566(1)
Sunday Morning
566(4)
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
The Last Words of My English Grandmother
570(2)
The Red Wheelbarrow
572(1)
Spring and All
572(1)
This Is Just to Say
573(1)
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro
574(1)
Portrait d'une Femme
574(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
575(1)
ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)
Let No Charitable Hope
576(1)
Ophelia
577(1)
H.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)
Pear Tree
578(1)
Sea Rose
578(1)
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
Dreamers
579(1)
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
The Purse-Seine
580(2)
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
The Fish
582(1)
Silence
583(1)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
Journey of the Magi
584(1)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
585(5)
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
Piazza Piece
590(1)
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way
591(1)
Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word
591(1)
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
592(1)
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est
593(1)
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
nobody loses all the time
594(1)
pity this busy monstermanunkind
595(1)
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
596(1)
JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)
Georgia Dusk
597(1)
LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)
Women
598(1)
HART CRANE (1899-1933)
Chaplinesque
599(1)
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
Dream Boogie
600(1)
Theme for English B
601(1)
The Weary Blues
602(1)
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
Incident
603(1)
Yet Do I Marvel
604(1)
A.D. HOPE (1907-2000)
Imperial Adam
604(2)
W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
As I Walked Out One Evening
606(2)
Musée des Beaux Arts
608(1)
The Unknown Citizen
609(1)
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
Dolor
610(1)
My Papa's Waltz
610(1)
Root Cellar
611(1)
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
The Fish
611(3)
One Art
614(1)
Sestina
614(2)
ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)
Those Winter Sundays
616(1)
DUDLEY RANDALL (1914-2000)
Ballad of Birmingham
617(1)
WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993)
Traveling Through the Dark
618(1)
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
619(1)
Poem in October
620(2)
WELDON KEES (1914-1955)
For My Daughter
622(1)
RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)
90 North
623(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
624(1)
MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998)
For Malcolm X
625(1)
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)
the ballad of chocolate Mabbie
626(1)
the mother
627(1)
We Real Cool
628(1)
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
For the Union Dead
629(2)
LAWRENCE FERLINGHEM (b. 1919)
A Coney Island of the Mind, #15
631(2)
MAY SWENSON (1919-1989)
How Everything Happens
633(1)
HOWARD NEMEROV (1920-1991)
A Primer of the Daily Round
634(1)
RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)
Playboy
635(1)
The Writer
636(1)
Year's End
637(1)
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)
Next, Please
638(1)
Aubade
639(1)
This Be the Verse
640(1)
JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)
The Heaven of Animals
641(2)
ALAN DUGAN (1923-2003)
Love Song: I and Thou
643(1)
ANTHONY HECHT (1923-2004)
The Book of Yolek
644(1)
Third Avenue in Sunlight
645(1)
DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)
The Ache of Marriage
646(1)
LOUIS SIMPSON (b. 1923)
American Classic
647(1)
My Father in the Night Commanding No
648(2)
VASSAR MILLER (1924-1997)
Subterfuge
650(1)
DONALD JUSTICE (1925-2004)
Counting the Mad
651(1)
CAROLYN KIZER (b. 1925)
The Ungrateful Garden
652(1)
MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925)
Noted in the New York Times
653(1)
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
A Supermarket in California
654(1)
JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)
Casual Wear
655(1)
W.D. SNODGRASS (b. 1926)
Mementos, I
656(1)
FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)
The Day Lady Died
657(1)
JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
658(2)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
660(1)
W.S. MERWIN (b. 1927)
For the Anniversary of My Death
661(1)
The Last One
661(2)
JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
663(1)
Saint Judas
664(1)
PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives
665(1)
You Can Have It
666(1)
ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)
Cinderella
667(3)
The Truth the Dead Know
670(1)
THOM GUNN (1929-2004)
From the Wave
671(1)
Terminal
672(1)
X.J. KENNEDY (b. 1929)
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day
673(1)
September Twelfth, 2001
674(1)
ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
675(3)
Diving into the Wreck 675 Rape
678(1)
TED HUGHES (1930-1998)
Pike
679(2)
GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)
A Walk
681(1)
DEREK WALcorr (b. 1930)
Central America
682(1)
MILLER WILLIAMS (b. 1930)
The Book
683(1)
LINDA PASTAN (b. 1932)
Ethics
684(1)
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
Daddy
685(2)
Edge
687(1)
Metaphors
688(1)
GERALD BARRAX (b. 1933)
Strangers Like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985
689(1)
MARK STRAND (b. 1934)
The Tunnel
690(1)
RUSSELL EDSON (b. 1935)
Ape
691(2)
MARY OLIVER (b. 1935)
The Black Walnut Tree
693(1)
FRED CHAPPELL (b. 1936)
Narcissus and Echo
694(1)
LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)
homage to my hips
695(1)
wishes for sons
695(1)
MARGE PIERCY (b. 1936)
What's That Smell in the Kitchen?
696(1)
BETTY ADCOCK (b. 1938)
Voyages
697(2)
GARY GILDNER (b. 1938)
First Practice
699(1)
ROBERT PHILLIPS (b. 1938)
Compartments
700(2)
DABNEY STUART (b. 1938)
Discovering My Daughter
702(1)
MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939)
Siren Song
703(1)
STEPHEN DUNN (b. 1939)
The Sacred
704(1)
SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)
Punishment
705(2)
TED KOOSER (b. 1939)
Abandoned Farmhouse
707(1)
TOM DISCH (b. 1940)
Ballade of the New God
708(1)
FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS (b. 1940)
All-American Sestina
709(1)
PATTIANN ROGERS (b. 1940)
Foreplay
710(2)
BILLY COLLINS (b. 1941)
Litany
712(1)
ROBERT HASS (B. 1941)
Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan
713(1)
SIMON J. ORTIZ (3. 1941)
The Serenity in Stones
714(1)
GIBBONS MARK (b. 1941)
The Visitor
715(1)
GLADYS CARDIFF (b. 1942)
Combing
716(1)
B.H. FAIRCHILD (b. 1942)
Body and Soul
717(4)
CHARLES MARTIN (b. 1942)
E.S.L.
721(2)
SHARON OLDS (b. 1942)
The One Girl at the Boys Party
723(1)
DIANE LOCKWARD (b. 1943)
My Husband Discovers Poetry
724(2)
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT (b. 1943)
Daughter
726(1)
ROBERT MORGAN (b. 1944)
Mountain Bride
727(1)
CRAIG RAINE (b. 1944)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
728(2)
ENID SHOMER (b. 1944)
Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen
730(1)
WENDY COPE (b. 1945)
Rondeau Redouble
731(1)
DICK DAVIS (b. 1945)
A Monorhyme for the Shower
732(1)
KAY RYAN (b. 1945)
Bestiary
733(1)
LEON STOKESBIIRY (b. 1945)
The Day Kennedy Died
734(2)
MARILYN NELSON (b. 1946)
The Ballad of Aunt Geneva
736(1)
AI (b. 1947)
Child Beater
737(1)
JIM HALL (b. 1947)
Maybe Dats Your Pwoblein Too
738(2)
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b.1947)
Facing It
740(1)
TIMOTHY STEELE (b. 1948)
Sapphics Against Anger
741(1)
JAMES FENTON (b. 1949)
God, a Poem
742(1)
SARAH CORTEZ (b. 1950)
Tu Negrito
743(1)
CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950)
The Colonel
744(1)
DANA GIOIA (b. 1950)
Planting a Sequoia
745(2)
RODNEY JONES (b. 1950)
Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.
747(2)
TIMOTHY MURPHY (b. 1951)
Case Notes
749(1)
JOY HARJO (b. 1951)
She Had Some Horses
750(2)
ANDREW HUDGINS (b. 1951)
Air View of an Industrial Scene
752(1)
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (b. 1952)
The Latin Deli:An Ars Poetica
753(1)
RITA DOVE (b. 1952)
Adolescence—III
754(1)
MARK JARMAN (b. 1952)
After Disappointment
755(1)
JULIE KANE (b. 1952)
Alan Doll Rap
756(2)
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE (b. 1952)
The Traveling Onion
758(1)
ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952)
The Purpose of Altar Boys
759(2)
JULIA ALVAREZ (b. 1953)
Bilingual Sestina
761(1)
HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953)
Dim Lady
762(1)
MICHAEL DONAGHY (1954-2004)
The River in Spate
763(1)
KIM ADDONIZIO (b. 1954)
First Poem for You
764(1)
DAVID MASON (b. 1954)
Song of the Powers
765(1)
MARY JO SALTER (b. 1954)
Welcome to Hiroshima
766(2)
CATHY SONG (b. 1955)
Stamp Collecting
768(1)
GINGER ANDREWS (b. 1956)
Primping in the Rearview Mirror
769(1)
CATHERINE TUFARIELLO (b. 1963)
Useful Advice
770(1)
SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)
The Exaggeration of Despair
771(2)
NATASHA TRETHEWEY (b. 1966)
Domestic Work, 1937
773(1)
SUJI KWOCK KIM (b. 1968)
Occupation
774(1)
A.E. STALLINGS (b. 1968)
Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther
775(1)
BETH ANN FENNELLY (b. 1971)
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field
776(3)
Drama
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
779(23)
The Play's the Thing
779(2)
Origins of Drama
781(2)
Aristotle on Tragedy
783(12)
Plot
784(3)
Characterization
787(3)
Theme
790(1)
Diction
791(1)
Melody
792(2)
Spectacle
794(1)
Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions
795(7)
Greek Tragedy
795(1)
Medieval Drama
796(1)
Elizabethan Drama
797(1)
The Comic Genres
798(2)
Realistic Drama, the Modern Stage, and Beyond
800
SOPHOCLES (496?-406 BC)
Oedipus the King
802(47)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice
849(112)
HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906)
A Doll's House
961(70)
SUSAN GLASPELL (1882-1948)
Trifles
1031(14)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie
1045(60)
ATHOL FUGARD (b. 1932)
"Master Harold"...and the boys
1105(42)
AUGUST WILSON (1945-2005)
The Piano Lesson
1147(79)
DAVID IVES (b. 1950)
Time Flies
1226(12)
PAULA VOGEL (b. 1951)
How I Learned to Drive
1238(51)
CATHERINE CELESIA ALLEN (b. ?)
Anything for You
1289(6)
Appendix A: Writing About Literature1295(32)
First Considerations
1295(1)
Topic into Thesis
1296(3)
Explication, Analysis, Reviewing
1299(2)
Critical Approaches
1301(1)
Style and Content
1301(1)
Writing About Fiction
1302(2)
Writing About Poetry
1304(6)
Form
1305(1)
Content
1306(4)
Writing About Drama
1310(3)
The Process of Research: The Library and the Internet
1313(3)
Plagiarism: Proper Quotation and Citation of Sources
1316(4)
Sample Works Cited Entries
1320(4)
The Annotated Bibliography
1324(1)
Final Considerations
1325(2)
Appendix B: Literature on Film, Video, and Audio1327(4)
Drama
1327(3)
Fiction
1330(1)
Poetry
1330(1)
Appendix C: Thematic Approaches to Literature1331(16)
Appendix D: Critical Approaches to Literature1347(6)
Formalism
1347(1)
Biographical Criticism
1348(1)
Historical and Sociological Criticism
1348(1)
Feminist and Gender Criticism
1349(1)
Structuralism: Mythological and Psychological Approaches
1350(1)
Poststructuralism: Reader-Response Theory and Deconstruction
1351(2)
Acknowledgments1353(10)
Index of Critical Terms1363(4)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems1367

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