Introduction to Literature
ISBN: 9780673521835 | 0673521834
Edition: 10thPublisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/1993
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| Reading, Thinking, And Writing Critically About Literature | |
| Reading and Responding to Literature | |
| What is Literature? | |
| Looking at an Example | |
| Looking at a Second Example: Pat Mora's Immigrants | |
| Thinking about a Story: The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
| Samuel, Grace Paley | |
| What's Past is Prologue | |
| Incident, Countee Cullen | ... MORE |
| Writing about Literature: From Idea to Essay | |
| Why Write? | |
| Getting Ideas: Pre-Writing | |
| Annotating a Text | |
| Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing | |
| The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin | |
| Focused Free Writing | |
| Listing and Clustering | |
| Developing an Awareness of the Writer's Use of Language | |
| Asking Questions | |
| Keeping a Journal | |
| Arriving at a Thesis | |
| Writing a Draft | |
| Sample Draft of an Essay on Kate Chopin's The Story of anHour | |
| Revising a Draft | |
| Peer Review | |
| The Final Version (Sample Student Essay): Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour.” | |
| A Brief Overview of the Final Version | |
| Explication | |
| A Sample Explication | |
| The Balloon of the Mind, William Butler Yeats | |
| Comparison and Contrast | |
| Review: How to Write an Effective Essay | |
| Additional Readings | |
| Ripe Figs, Kate Chopin | |
| Infant Joy, Infant Sorrow, William Blake | |
| Fiction | |
| Approaching Fiction: Responding in Writing | |
| Cat in the Rain, Ernest Hemingway | |
| Responses: Annotations and Journal Entries | |
| Stories and Meanings: Plot, Character, Theme | |
| Misery, Anton Chekhov | |
| The Storm, Kate Chopin | |
| Desiree's Baby | |
| Narrative Point of View | |
| Participant (or First-Person) Points of View | |
| Nonparticipant (or Third-Person) Points of View | |
| The Point of a Point of View | |
| John Updike | |
| A & P | |
| The Rumor | |
| Allegory and Symbolism | |
| A Note on Setting | |
| Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| A Worn Path, Eudora Welty | |
| In Brief: Writing about Fiction | |
| Plot | |
| Character | |
| Point of View | |
| Setting | |
| Symbolism | |
| Style | |
| Theme | |
| A Story, Notes, and an Essay | |
| The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe | |
| A Student Written Response to a Story | |
| Notes | |
| A Sample Student Essay: Revenge, Noble and Ignoble | |
| Two Fiction Writers in Depth, Flannery O''connor and Raymond Carver | |
| Flannery O'Connor, Three Stories and Observations on Literature | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
| Revelation | |
| Parker's Back | |
| On Fiction: Remarks from Essays and Letters | |
| On Interpreting A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
| Raymond Carver: Three Stories, and Talking About Stories | |
| Popular Mechanics | |
| What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | |
| Cathedral | |
| Talking about Stories | |
| A Collection of Short Fiction | |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy | |
| Mademoiselle, Guy de Maupassant | |
| The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman | |
| Paul's Case, Willa Cather | |
| Araby, James Joyce | |
| The Horse Dealer's Daughter, D. H. Lawrence | |
| A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner | |
| The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck | |
| Guests of the Nation, Frank O'Connor | |
| The Son from America, Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| The Answer is No, Naguib Mahfouz | |
| Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison | |
| A Woman on a Roof, Doris Lessing | |
| The Lottery, Shirley Jackson | |
| Contemporary Voices | |
| A Conversation with My Father, Grace Paley | |
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children,Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
| Civil Peace, Chinua Achebe | |
| Boys and Girls, Alice Munro | |
| Only Approved Indians Can Play: Made in USA, Jack Forbes | |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates | |
| The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara | |
| Rape Fantasies, Margaret Atwood | |
| Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason | |
| The Artificial Family, Anne Tyler | |
| The Stolen Party, Liliana Heker | |
| Everyday Use, Alice Walker | |
| Powder, Tobias Wolff | |
| The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien | |
| The Man to Send Rain Clouds, Leslie Marmon Silko | |
| The Oriental Contingent, Diana Chang | |
| Girl, Jamaica Kincaid | |
| The Two, Gloria Naylor | |
| Two Kinds, Amy Tan | |
| Second-Hand Man, Rita Dove | |
| Fleur, Louise Erdrich | |
| One Holy Night, Sandra Cisneros | |
| The Moths, Helena Maria Viramontes | |
| No One's a Mystery, Elizabeth Tallent | |
| In the Gloaming, Alice Elliot Dark | |
| The Novel | |
| Observations on the Novel | |
| Poetry | |
| Harlem, Langston Hughes | |
| Thinking about Harlem | |
| Some Journal Entries | |
| Final Draft: Langston Hughes's Harlem | |
| Lyric Poetry | |
| Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Anonymous | |
| Careless Love, Anonymous | |
| The Colorado Trail, Anonymous | |
| Sally Goodin, Anonymous | |
| Western Wind, Anonymous | |
| Song: Love Armed, Aphra Behn | |
| Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone, W. H. Auden | |
| The Self-Unseeing, Thomas Hardy | |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe | |
| Deep River, Anonymous | |
| Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel, Anonymous | |
| Evenin' Air Blues, Langston Hughes | |
| I Ask My Mother to Sing, Li-Young Lee | |
| The Spring and the Fall, Edna St. Vincent Millay | |
| Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen | |
| A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman | |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats | |
| Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, E. E. Cummings | |
| Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar | |
| Jump Cabling, Linda Pastan | |
| General Review of the Sex Situation, Dorothy Parker | |
| The Speaking Tone of Voice | |
| I'm Nobody! Who are you?, Emily Dickinson | |
| The Hour-Glass, Ben Jonson | |
| The Mother, Gwendolyn Brooks | |
| We Real Cool | |
| The Reader as the Speaker | |
| Not Waving but Drowning, Stevie Smith | |
| The Dramatic Monologue | |
| My Last Duchess, Robert Browning | |
| Diction and Tone | |
| To the Virgins to Make Much of Time, Robert Herrick | |
| The Man He Killed, Thomas Hardy | |
| An Epitaph, Walter de la Mare | |
| Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
| For a Lady I Know, Countee Cullen | |
| My Mother and the Bed, Lyn Lifshin | |
| The Voice of the Satirist | |
| Next to of Course God America I, E. E. Cummings | |
| Barbie Doll, Marge Piercy | |
| What's That Smell in the Kitchen? Marge Piercy | |
| To the Lady, Mitsuye Yamada | |
| Dear John Wayne, Louise Erdrich | |
| Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification,Apostrophe | |
| A Red, Red Rose, Robert Burns | |
| Metaphors, Sylvia Plath | |
| Simile | |
| A Simile for Her Smile, Richard Wilbur | |
| Metaphor | |
| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, John Keats | |
| A Work of Arti | |
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