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Literature Across Cultures

ISBN: 9780205272051 | 0205272053
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 11/1/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
Combines traditional and multicultural literature into five thematic groupings. Now each chapter includes 2 essays. Focuses on the political, social, and cultural aspects of literature. Introductory unit on reading and writing about literature. Second edition includes more multiple texts by authors; info on computer-based research; expanded glossary of literary and cultural terms; collaborative research projects; and an expanded section on literature and film.
Preface for Instructorsxvii(4)
Preface for Studentsxxi
Introduction: Reading and Writing as a Social Act
1(32)
The Meaning of Literat... MORE
2(1)
The Function of Literature
3(1)
Strategies for Reading Literature: A Step-by-Step Guideline
4(7)
Previewing
4(1)
Highlighting
4(1)
Annotating
4(1)
Guided Reading: "The Story of an Hour"
5(6)
Kate Chopin
Writing as a Social Act
11(2)
Writing the Literary Essay: A Step-by-Step Guideline
13(20)
Guideline One: Techniques for Generating Ideas
14(1)
Brainstorming
14(1)
Journal Entry
14(1)
Clustering
15(1)
A Rough Outline
16(1)
Guideline Two: Finding a Thesis
16(1)
Guideline Three: Organizing the Paper
17(1)
A Formal Outline
17(1)
Guideline Four: Rough Draft with Peers' Comments
18(3)
Peer Editing Evaluation Form
21(1)
Guideline Five: Revising
21(4)
Strategies for Revising the Literary Essay
25(2)
Guideline Six: Editing and Preparing Your Manuscript
27(1)
Writing the Final Draft
27(1)
The Conflict of Individualism and Community in "Hands"
28(5)
Yasuko Osahi
Part One: Origins and Insights33(294)
Fiction
36(100)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
36(40)
Leo Tolstoy
Roman Fever
76(10)
Edith Wharton
First Confession
86(6)
Frank O'Connor
A Power Struggle
92(4)
Bessie Head
The Watch
96(4)
Elie Wiesel
The Sky Is Gray
100(21)
Ernest J. Gaines
Young Goodman Brown
121(10)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Araby
131(5)
James Joyce
Essays
136(7)
My People
136(3)
Chief Seattle
Knoxville: Summer 1915
139(4)
James Agee
Poetry
143(37)
The Father Poem Two
143(5)
Sue Doro
The Hatmaker
148(4)
Keith Gilyard
Going Home
152(1)
Maurice Kenny
During a Son's Dangerous Illness
153(1)
Denise Levertov
Lost Sister
154(3)
Cathy Song
Song for My Name
157(1)
Linda Hogan
Moving Away (1)
158(1)
Gary Soto
Moving Away (2)
159(1)
Gary Soto
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
160(2)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fern Hill
162(3)
Dylan Thomas
It's Something Our Family Has Always Done
165(1)
Wing Tek Lum
Warm heart contains life
166(2)
Evangelina Vigil-Pinon
My Grandmother's Hands
168(2)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Gentle Communion
170(1)
Pat Mora
A Breeze Swept Through
171(1)
Luci Tapahonso
Fishermen
172(1)
James A. Emanuel
What My Child Learns of the Sea
173(1)
Audre Lorde
Frederick Douglass
174(1)
Robert Hayden
Tour 5
175(1)
Robert Hayden
Those Winter Sundays
175(1)
Robert Hayden
Runagate Runagate
176(4)
Robert Hayden
Drama
180(144)
Oedipus Rex
180(41)
Sophocles
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
221(103)
William Shakespeare
PART WRITING AND RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS
324(3)
Part Two: Gender and Identity327(142)
Fiction
330(45)
The Revolt of "Mother"
330(12)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A Respectable Woman
342(3)
Kate Chopin
The Storm
345(4)
Kate Chopin
Roselily
349(4)
Alice Walker
Name Games
353(4)
Michael Dorris
The Yellow Wallpaper
357(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Another Evening at the Club
369(6)
Alifa Rifaat
Essays
375(7)
Professions for Women
375(4)
Virginia Woolf
One Man's Kids
379(3)
Daniel Meier
Poetry
382(31)
The Faithful Wife
382(1)
Barbara L. Greenberg
Genesis
383(1)
Mahwash Shoaib
Afterbirth
384(1)
Mahwash Shoaib
The Silk Carpet
385(2)
Mahwash Shoaib
Ragazza
387(1)
Maryfrances Wagner
Petals of Silence
388(2)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Borders
390(1)
Pat Mora
Elena
391(1)
Pat Mora
Home Burial
392(4)
Robert Frost
The Harlem Dancer
396(1)
Claude Mckay
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
396(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
My Last Duchess
397(2)
Robert Browning
Porphyria's Lover
399(2)
Robert Browning
To His Coy Mistress
401(1)
Andrew Marvell
The Willing Mistress
402(2)
Aphra Behn
The Young Warrior
404(1)
Gayle Two Eagles
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
405(2)
Anne Sexton
Bright Star
407(1)
John Keats
She Proves the Inconsistency of the Desires and Criticism of Men Who Accuse Women of What They Themselves Cause
408(2)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")
410(1)
William Shakespeare
116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")
411(1)
William Shakespeare
129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame")
411(1)
William Shakespeare
130 ("My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun")
412(1)
William Shakespeare
Drama
413(54)
Medea
413(23)
Euripides
From Preface to Miss Julie
436(2)
August Strindberg
Miss Julie
438(29)
August Strindberg
PART WRITING AND RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS
467(2)
Part Three: War and Violence469(118)
Fiction
472(39)
A Mystery of Heroism
472(7)
Stephen Crane
The Sniper
479(3)
Liam O'Flaherty
Silence
482(2)
Tadeusz Borowski
The Hour of Truth
484(6)
Isabel Allende
Spoils of War
490(5)
Janice Mirikitani
The Curse
495(4)
Andre Dubus
Battle Royal
499(12)
Ralph Ellison
Essays
511(6)
A Brother's Murder
511(2)
Brent Staples
Vietnam: What I Remember
513(3)
David W. Powell
Poetry
516(23)
The Man He Killed
516(1)
Thomas Hardy
What Were They Like?
517(1)
Denise Levertov
Babiy Yar
518(2)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Prisons of Silence
520(3)
Janice Mirikitani
Disabled
523(2)
Wilfred Owen
The Dying Veteran
525(1)
Walt Whitman
First Practice
526(1)
Gary Gildner
Hope
527(2)
Ariel Dorfman
Quote from the Bureau of Information, from the Argus, August 27, 1986: "The Situation in Soweto Is Not Abnormal"
529(2)
Mavis Smallberg
Waking This Morning
531(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
The Artilleryman's Vision
532(1)
Walt Whitman
The Colonel
533(1)
Carolyn Forche
The Visitor
534(1)
Carolyn Forche
The Memory of Elena
534(1)
Carolyn Forche
As Children Together
535(4)
Carolyn Forche
Drama
539(45)
Lysistrata
539(33)
Aristophanes
Picnic on the Battlefield
572(12)
Fernando Arrabal
PART WRITING AND RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
584(3)
Part Four: Race and Difference587(194)
Fiction
590(33)
The Lesson
590(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
The Loudest Voice
596(5)
Grace Paley
I Stand Here Ironing
601(7)
Tillie Olsen
The Stolen Party
608(4)
Liliana Heker
Puertoricanness
612(2)
Aurora Levins Morales
Jasmine
614(9)
Bharati Mukherjee
Essays
623(9)
Growing Up Asian in America
623(6)
Kesaya E. Noda
Gay
629(3)
Anna Quindlen
Poetry
632(21)
I Hear America Singing
632(1)
Walt Whitman
Poet Power
632(1)
Denise Levertov
The Melting Pot
633(1)
Dudley Randall
Public School No. 18: Paterson, New Jersey
634(2)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land
636(2)
Lance Jeffers
Telephone Conversation
638(1)
Wole Soyinka
On the Subway
639(1)
Sharon Olds
Richard Cory
640(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Latero Story
641(2)
Tato Laviera
AIDS
643(1)
May Sarton
How to Watch Your Brother Die
644(4)
Michael Lassell
Cross Plains
648(1)
Wisconsin, Martin Espada
Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits
648(1)
Martin Espada
Federico's Ghost
649(2)
Martin Espada
Tony Went to the Bodega But He Didn't Buy Anything
651(2)
Martin Espada
Drama
653(24)
Othello, the Moor of Venice
653(88)
William Shakespeare
The Kiss of the Spider Woman
741(36)
Manuel Puig
PART WRITING AND RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS
777(4)
Part Five: Individualism and Community781(142)
Fiction
784(70)
The Metamorphosis
784(33)
Franz Kafka
Hands
817(5)
Sherwood Anderson
Eveline
822(3)
James Joyce
A Red Sweater
825(8)
Fae Myenne Ng
A Rose for Emily
833(7)
William Faulkner
The Guest
840(10)
Albert Camus
Dead Men's Path
850(4)
Chinua Achebe
Essays
854(6)
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life
854(1)
May Sarton
I Have a Dream
855(5)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Poetry
860(20)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
860(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Unknown Citizen
860(1)
W.H. Auden
Port Authority Terminal: 9 A.M. Monday
861(2)
Chad Walsh
People
863(1)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Street Kid
864(1)
Duane Niatum
Black Jackets
865(1)
Thom Gunn
Mending Wall
866(2)
Robert Frost
Summer Solstice, New York City
868(1)
Sharon Olds
What the Gossips Saw
869(2)
Leo Romero
History
871(2)
Gary Soto
To My Father
873(1)
Diane di Prima
Constantly Risking Absurdity
874(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Writer
875(2)
Richard Wilbur
Volcanoes Be in Sicily
877(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Soul Selects Her Own Society
877(1)
Emily Dickinson
Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
878(1)
Emily Dickinson
Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant
878(2)
Emily Dickinson
Drama
880(41)
Antigone
880(29)
Sophocles
Trifles
909(12)
Susan Glaspell
PART WRITING AND RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
921(2)
Appendixes An Introduction to the Elements of Fiction, Poetry, and Drama923(69)
Fiction
924(4)
Character
924(1)
Plot
924(1)
Setting
925(1)
Theme
925(1)
Narrator
926(1)
Style and Tone
927(1)
Poetry
928(5)
Voice and Tone
928(1)
The Poetic Elements: Images, Simile, Metaphor, Symbol, Personification, Paradox
928(1)
Types of Poetry--Lyric, Dramatic, and Narrative
929(1)
The Forms of Poetry
930(2)
Poetry as Performance: The Sounds of Poetry
932(1)
Drama
933(9)
The Basic Elements of Drama
933(1)
Characterization
933(1)
Plot
933(1)
Theme
934(1)
Types of Plays: Tragedy and Comedy
934(1)
Kinds of Theater
935(3)
Fiction, Poetry, and Drama as Cultural Productions
938(4)
Researching Literary Sources
942(26)
What Is a Research Paper?
942(1)
What Are Primary and Secondary Sources?
943(2)
Secondary Sources: Using the Library
943(1)
Where to Start
943(1)
How to Locate a Book
943(2)
How to Find Your Sources
945(3)
Electronic Research Sources
946(1)
Internet
947(1)
How to Document a Research Paper
948(6)
Plagiarism
948(1)
Taking Notes
948(1)
Quoting
949(1)
Short Quotations
949(1)
Long Quotations
949(1)
Quoting from a Poem
950(1)
Quoting from a Play
950(1)
Paraphrasing
951(1)
Works Cited
952(2)
Two Sample Research Papers: MLA Style
954(14)
Critical Approaches: A Case Study of Hamlet
968(17)
Psychoanalytic Criticism
969(5)
What Is the Focus of Psychoanalytic Criticism?
969(1)
Freud's Theory of Repression
969(1)
The Oedipus Complex
969(1)
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Hamlet
969(1)
"The Interpretation of Dreams"
970(1)
Sigmund Freud
A Psychosocial Reading of Hamlet
971(1)
"The Women in Hamlet: An Interpersonal View"
971(3)
David Leverenz
Formalism/New Criticism
974(2)
What Is the Major Focus of Formalism?
974(1)
A New Critical Reading of Hamlet
974(1)
"Hamlet and His Problems"
974(2)
T.S. Eliot
Reader-Response Criticism
976(2)
What Is the Focus of Reader-Response Criticism?
976(1)
A Reader-Response Analysis of Hamlet
976(1)
"On the Value of Hamlet"
976(2)
Stephen Booth
Feminist Criticism
978(3)
What Is the Focus of Feminist Criticism?
979(1)
A Feminist Reading of Hamlet
979(1)
"Dominated Daughters"
979(2)
Diane Elizabeth Dreher
The New Historicism
981(2)
What Is the Focus of the New Historicism?
981(1)
A New Historical Reading of Hamlet
981(1)
"Power in Hamlet"
982(1)
Leonard Tennenhouse
Film Versions of Hamlet
983(2)
Some Celebrated Film Versions of Hamlet
983(1)
The Olivier Version of Hamlet
984(1)
The Zeffirelli Version of Hamlet
984(1)
The Branagh Version of Hamlet
984(1)
A Note about Film and Videos
985(7)
Film and Literature
986(1)
Genre
987(1)
Psychology and Character
987(1)
Point of View
988(1)
Language
989(1)
Gender
989(1)
Imagery and Technique
990(1)
On Using Video
991(1)
Biographical Endnotes992(29)
Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms1021(12)
Index of Authors and Titles1033(8)
Index of First Lines1041(2)
Index of Terms1043

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