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Literature Across Cultures

ISBN: 9780321172082 | 0321172086
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
With classic and contemporary selections by authors from a wide range of racial and ethnic groups, "Literature Across Cultures, 5/e" introduces the reader to important literary works and helps readers explore critical themes of our times, such as gender and identity, the effects of war and violence, and many more. The 5th edition focuses on the political, social, and multicultural aspects of literary debates related to the dialectics of roots and rebellions, self and society, gender and identity, the causes and effects of war and violence as we... MORE
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Preface for Instructorsxv
Preface for Studentsxxi
Introduction Reading and Writing as a Social Act1(1)
The Meaning of Literature
2(1)
The Function of Literature
3(1)
Strategies for Reading Literature
3(8)
Step 1: Previewing
4(1)
Step 2: Highlighting
4(1)
Step 3: Annotating
4(1)
Guided Reading: Kate Chopin, ``The Story of an Hour''
5(6)
Strategies for Writing About Literature
11(17)
Sample Reading: Sherwood Anderson, ``Hands''
13(4)
Step 1: Generating Ideas
17(1)
Brainstorming
17(1)
Freewriting
17(1)
Clustering
18(1)
Developing a Rough Outline
18(1)
Step 2: Finding a Thesis
19(1)
Step 3: Organizing the Essay: A Formal Outline
20(2)
Step 4: Writing a Rough Draft with Peer Editing
22(2)
Peer Editing Evaluation Form
24(1)
Step 5: Revising
25(3)
Strategies for Revising the Draft
28(2)
Step 1: Responding to Content and Organization
28(1)
Step 2: Developing Paragraphs
28(1)
Step 3: Checking for Purpose, Audience, and Tone
29(1)
Step 4: Using Effective Language, Style, and Verbs
29(1)
Strategies for Preparing the Final Draft
30(7)
Writing the Final Draft
30(7)
PART ONE Origins and Insights
37(272)
Fiction
And the Soul Shall Dance
41(6)
Wakako Yamauchi
Roman Fever
47(9)
Edith Wharton
First Confession
56(7)
Frank O'Connor
Father and I
63(3)
Par Lagerkvist
The Watch
66(4)
Elie Wiesel
The Sky Is Gray
70(21)
Ernest J. Gaines
Young Goodman Brown
91(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essays
My People
102(3)
Chief Seattle
The Allegory of the Cave
105(2)
Plato
Fraternity
107(6)
Garrett Hongo
From Imaginary Homelands
113(4)
Salman Rushdie
Poetry
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
117(1)
Langston Hughes
First Light
117(1)
Linda Hogan
warm heart contains life
118(3)
Evangelina Vigil-Pinon
The Lamb
121(1)
William Blake
The Tyger
121(2)
William Blake
In the Tree House at Night
123(1)
James Dickey
Mid-term Break
124(3)
Seamus Heaney
During a Son's Dangerous Illness
127(1)
Denise Levertov
Lost Sister
128(3)
Cathy Song
The Possessive
131(1)
Sharon Olds
Breaking Tradition
132(1)
Janice Mirikitani
A Breeze Swept Through
133(2)
Luci Tapahonso
Fern Hill
135(1)
Dylan Thomas
If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness
136(2)
Richard Eberhart
Poem for My Father
138(1)
Eric Chock
The Gift
139(1)
Li-Young Lee
Fishermen
140(2)
James A. Emanuel
Frederick Douglass
142(1)
Robert Hayden
Tour 5
142(1)
Robert Hayden
Those Winter Sundays
143(1)
Robert Hayden
Runagate Runagate
144(4)
Robert Hayden
Drama
Oedipus Rex
148(43)
Sophocles
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
191(118)
William Shakespeare
Topics for Discussion and Writing
300(2)
Film Angles
302(7)
PART TWO Gender and Identity
309(150)
Fiction
Girl
313(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Revolt of ``Mother''
315(12)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A Respectable Woman
327(3)
Kate Chopin
The Storm
330(4)
Kate Chopin
Roselily
334(4)
Alice Walker
The Yellow Wallpaper
338(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Another Evening at the Club
350(5)
Alifa Rifaat
Town and Country Lovers
355(14)
Nadine Gordimer
Essays
Professions for Women
369(4)
Virginia Woolf
One Man's Kids
373(3)
Daniel Meier
The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship
376(6)
Peter Lyman
Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?
382(6)
Deborah Tannen
Poetry
Woman's Constancy
388(1)
John Donne
The Sun Rising
389(2)
John Donne
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife
391(1)
Anne Sexton
Adultery
392(3)
James Dickey
The Faithful Wife
395(1)
Barbara L. Greenberg
Genesis
395(3)
Mahwash Shoaib
Ragazza
398(1)
Maryfrances Wagner
Borders
399(1)
Pat Mora
Home Burial
400(5)
Robert Frost
The Harlem Dancer
405(1)
Claude McKay
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
405(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Colours
407(1)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I Knew a Woman
407(3)
Theodore Roethke
My Last Duchess
410(1)
Robert Browning
My Ex-Husband
411(3)
Gabriel Spera
To His Coy Mistress
414(1)
Andrew Marvell
The Willing Mistress
415(2)
Aphra Behn
Bright Star
417(1)
John Keats
She Proves the Inconsistency of the Desires and Criticism of Men Who Accuse Women of What they Themselves Cause
417(4)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Sonnet 30 ``When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought''
421(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 ``Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds''
421(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 129 ``Th' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame''
422(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 ``My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun''
422(2)
William Shakespeare
Drama
Medea
424(35)
Euripides
Topics for Discussion and Writing
449(2)
Film Angles
451(8)
PART THREE War and Violence
459(128)
Fiction
A Mystery of Heroism
463(7)
Stephen Crane
The Sniper
470(3)
Liam O'Flaherty
Silence
473(2)
Tadeusz Borowski
The Curse
475(5)
Andre Dubus
The Things They Carried
480(13)
Tim O'Brien
Like a Winding Sheet
493(9)
Ann Petry
Essays
A Brother's Murder
502(2)
Brent Staples
Vietnam: What I Remember
504(2)
David W. Powell
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
506(3)
Bruce Catton
Not Just the Inner City: Well-to-Do Join Gangs
509(5)
Seth Mydans
Poetry
Reflection on the Vietnam War Memorial
514(1)
Jeffrey Harrison
Facing It
515(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
517(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Man He Killed
517(2)
Thomas Hardy
What Were They Like?
519(1)
Denise Levertov
Babiy Yar
520(3)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Prisons of Silence
523(3)
Janice Mirikitani
Disabled
526(3)
Wilfred Owen
Waking This Morning
529(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
The Dying Veteran
530(1)
Walt Whitman
The Artilleryman's Vision
530(3)
Walt Whitman
Concord Hymn
533(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
533(3)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Idle Hands
536(1)
Gabriel Spera
Kindness
537(2)
Gabriel Spera
The Colonel
539(1)
Carolyn Forche
The Visitor
539(1)
Carolyn Forche
The Memory of Elena
540(1)
Carolyn Forche
As Children Together
541(3)
Carolyn Forche
Drama
Picnic on the Battlefield
544(12)
Fernando Arrabal
The Conduct of Life
556(31)
Maria Irene Fornes
Topics for Discussion and Writing
576(2)
Film Angles
578(9)
PART FOUR Race and Difference
587(226)
Fiction
The Moment Before the Gun Went Off
591(4)
Nadine Gordimer
The Smells of Home
595(5)
Sandip Roy
The Lesson
600(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
I Stand Here Ironing
606(7)
Tillie Olsen
Jasmine
613(8)
Bharati Mukherjee
Desiree's Baby
621(5)
Kate Chopin
Essays
Silent Dancing
626(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
How I Learned to Read and Write
633(4)
Frederick Douglass
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
637(6)
Paul Monette
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream
643(8)
Eric Liu
Poetry
I Hear America Singing
651(1)
Walt Whitman
Poet Power
651(2)
Denise Levertov
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways
653(1)
Louise Erdrich
Public School No. 18: Paterson, New Jersey
654(2)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
The Weary Blues
656(1)
Langston Hughes
Dream Variations
657(1)
Langston Hughes
Harlem (A Dream Deferred)
657(2)
Langston Hughes
Telephone Conversation
659(1)
Wole Soyinka
On the Subway
660(2)
Sharon Olds
Chinese Fireworks Banned in Hawaii
662(1)
Eric Chock
Latero Story
663(1)
Tato Laviera
AIDS
664(3)
May Sarton
How to Watch Your Brother Die
667(4)
Michael Lassell
Cross Plains, Wisconsin
671(1)
Martin Espada
Federico's Ghost
671(2)
Martin Espada
Tony Went to the Bodega but He Didn't Buy Anything
673(2)
Martin Espada
Drama
Othello, the Moor of Venice
675(89)
William Shakespeare
Kiss of the Spider Woman
764(49)
Manuel Puig
Topics for Discussion and Writing
800(3)
Film Angles
803(10)
PART FIVE Individualism and Community
813(212)
Fiction
The Lottery
817(7)
Shirley Jackson
The Metamorphosis
824(32)
Franz Kafka
Eveline
856(4)
James Joyce
The Boarding House
860(5)
James Joyce
A Rose for Emily
865(7)
William Faulkner
The Guest
872(10)
Albert Camus
Dead Men's Path
882(13)
Chinua Achebe
Essays
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life
895(1)
May Sarton
The Declaration of Independence
896
Thomas Jefferson
I Have a Dream
890(3)
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Nobel Lecture in Literature
893(7)
Toni Morrison
Poetry
A Blessing
900(1)
James Wright
Danse Russe
901(2)
William Carlos Williams
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
903(1)
E. E. Cummings
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
903(2)
Wallace Stevens
What Is the Grass?
905(1)
Walt Whitman
Ozymandias
906(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
London
908(1)
William Blake
London, 1802
908(1)
William Wordsworth
The World Is Too Much with Us
909(2)
William Wordsworth
People
911(1)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Street Kid
912(2)
Duane Niatum
Summer Solstice, New York City
914(1)
Sharon Olds
What the Gossips Saw
915(2)
Leo Romero
Constantly Risking Absurdity
917(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Writer
918(2)
Richard Wilbur
Volcanoes be in Sicily
920(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Soul selects her own society---
920(1)
Emily Dickinson
Much madness is divinest sense---
921(1)
Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
921(2)
Emily Dickinson
Drama
Antigone
923(30)
Sophocles
Tartuffe
953(72)
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Topics for Discussion and Writing
1017(2)
Film Angles
1019(6)
APPENDIX A An Introduction to the Elements of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Drama
1025(20)
Fiction
1025(4)
Character
1025(1)
Plot
1026(1)
Setting
1027(1)
Theme
1027(1)
Narrator
1027(1)
Style and Tone
1028(1)
Creative or Literary Nonfiction: The Essay
1029(3)
Form
130(900)
Narrative
1030(1)
Descriptive
1031(1)
Expository
1031(1)
Argumentative
1031(1)
Rhetorical Strategies
1032(1)
Poetry
1032(4)
Voice and Tone
1033(1)
The Poetic Elements: Image, Simile, Metaphor, Symbol, Personification, Paradox
1033(1)
Types of Poetry: Lyric, Dramatic, and Narrative
1034(1)
The Forms of Poetry
1034(2)
Poetry as Performance: The Sounds of Poetry
1036(1)
Drama
1036(6)
The Basic Elements of Drama
1037(1)
Characterization
1037(1)
Plot
1037(1)
Theme
1038(1)
Types of Plays: Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragicomedy
1038(1)
Kinds of Theater
1039(3)
Fiction, Poetry, and Drama as Cultural Productions
1042(3)
APPENDIX B Writing a Research Paper
1045(32)
What is a Literary Research Paper?
1045(1)
What Are Primary and Secondary Sources?
1045(1)
Locating Materials
1046(1)
How to Choose a Topic
1046(1)
What is Literary Criticism?
1046(1)
Engaging in a Dialogue
1047(1)
Drafting the Paper
1048(2)
The ``Formula'' for a Literary Research Paper
1048(1)
Taking Notes During the Research Process
1049(1)
Organizing Your Information
1049(1)
How to Document Using the MLA Format
1050(8)
Direct Quotation
1051(1)
Signal Phrases
1051(1)
Short Quotations
1052(1)
Long Quotations
1052(1)
Quoting from a Poem
1053(1)
Quoting from a Play
1053(2)
Indirect Quotation: Paraphrasing
1055(1)
List of Works Cited
1055(1)
Print and Nonprint Sources
1056(1)
Electronic Sources
1056(2)
Revising and Rewriting
1058(19)
Presenting Your Research Paper
1059(1)
Sample Research Papers
1060(17)
APPENDIX C Researching Literary Sources
1077(10)
Research Resources
1078(5)
Reference Works
1079(1)
Electronic Databases
1080(1)
Online Sources
1080(1)
The Reliability of Web-Based Information
1080(1)
Searching Online Sources
1081(1)
Online Encyclopedias
1081(1)
Online Literary Texts
1082(1)
Literary Criticism Research Sites
1082(1)
Author-Based Sites
1082(1)
Other Online Sources
1083(1)
Resource Guidelines
1083(1)
Sample Research: James Joyce
1083(4)
Online Library Catalog
1083(1)
Author Search
1084(1)
Keyword Search
1084(1)
Electronic Databases and Subscription Services
1084(1)
Online Searches
1084(3)
APPENDIX D Critical Approaches: A Case Study of Hamlet
1087(14)
Psychoanalytic Criticism
1087(5)
What Is the Focus of Psychoanalytic Criticism?
1087(1)
Freud's Theory of Repression
1088(1)
The Oedipus Complex
1088(1)
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Hamlet
1088(1)
The Interpretation of Dreams
1088(1)
Sigmund Freud
A Psychosocial Reading of Hamlet
1089(1)
The Women in Hamlet: An Interpersonal View
1090(1)
David Leverenz
Reading Contexts
1091(1)
Psychoanalytic Criticism
1091(1)
Formalism/New Criticism
1092(2)
What Is the Focus of Formalism?
1092(1)
A New Critical Reading of Hamlet
1092(1)
Hamlet and His Problems
1093(1)
T. S. Eliot
Reading Contexts
1093(1)
Formalism/New Criticism
1093(1)
Reader-Response Criticism
1094(2)
What Is the Focus of Reader-Response Criticism?
1094(1)
A Reader-Response Analysis of Hamlet
1094(1)
On the Value of Hamlet
1094(1)
Stephen Booth
Reading Contexts
1095(1)
Reader Response Criticism
1095(1)
Feminist Criticism
1096(2)
What is the Focus of Feminist Criticism?
1096(1)
A Feminist Reading of Hamlet
1096(1)
Dominated Daughters
1097(1)
Diane Elizabeth Dreher
Reading Contexts
1097(1)
Feminist Literary Criticism
1098(1)
The New Historicism
1098(3)
What Is the Focus of the New Historicism?
1098(1)
A New Historical Reading of Hamlet
1098(1)
Power in Hamlet
1099(1)
Leonard Tennenhouse
Reading Contexts
1099(1)
The New Historicism
1100(1)
Biographical Endnotes1101(30)
Glossary1131(16)
Index of Authors and Titles1147(8)
Index of First Lines1155(2)
Index of Terms1157

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