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Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing, Compact Edition (with Lit21 CD-ROM Version 1.5)
ISBN: 9781413006414 | 1413006418
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 10/10/2003
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This compact edition of Laurie Kirszner and Steve Mandell's LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, retains all the features that have made the full edition so successful in classrooms over 4 editions in a smaller, affordable volume.
| Preface | |
| Understanding Literature | |
| Imaginative Literature | |
| Conventional Themes | |
| The Literary Canon | |
| Luisa Valenzuela, All about Suicide | |
| Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation | |
| Interpreting Literature | |
| Evaluating Literature | |
| The Function of Literary Criticism | |
| Checklist: Evaluating Lite... MORE | |
| Reading and Writing About Literature | |
| Reading Literature | |
| Previewing | |
| Highlighting | |
| Checklist: Using Highlighting Symbols | |
| Maya Angelou, My Arkansas | |
| Annotating | |
| Writing About Literature | |
| Planning an Essay | |
| Drafting an Essay | |
| Revising and Editing an Essay | |
| Checklist: Using Sources | |
| Checklist: Conventions for Writing About Literature | |
| Exercise: Two Student Papers | |
| Student Paper: "Initiation into Adulthood" | |
| Student Paper: "Hard Choices" | |
| FICTION | |
| Understanding Fiction | |
| Defining Fiction | |
| The Short Story | |
| *Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings | |
| Gary Gildner, Sleepytime Gal | |
| A Final Note | |
| Reading and Writing About Fiction | |
| Reading Fiction | |
| Active Reading | |
| Alberto Alvaro Rfos, The Secret Lion | |
| Writing About Fiction | |
| Planning an Essay | |
| Drafting an Essay | |
| Student Paper: Symbols in "The Secret Lion" First Draft | |
| Student Paper: Symbols in "The Secret Lion" Second Draft | |
| Student Paper: Symbols in "The Secret Lion" Final Draft | |
| Plot | |
| Conflict | |
| Stages of Plot | |
| Order and Sequence | |
| A Final Note | |
| Checklist: Writing about Plot | |
| Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour | |
| *Stephen Dobyns, Kansas | |
| William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily | |
| Lorrie Moore, How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes) | |
| Writing Suggestions: Plot | |
| Character | |
| Round and Flat Characters | |
| Dynamic and Static Characters | |
| Motivation | |
| Checklist: Writing About Character | |
| John Updike, A and P | |
| Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill | |
| Charles Baxter, Gryphon | |
| *Mary Ladd Gavell, The Swing | |
| Writing Suggestions: Character | |
| Setting | |
| Historical Setting | |
| Geographical Setting | |
| Physical Setting | |
| Checklist: Writing About Setting | |
| Sherman Alexie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper | |
| *Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal | |
| Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing | |
| Writing Suggestions: Setting | |
| Point of View | |
| Omniscient Narrators | |
| Limited Omniscient Narrators | |
| Objective Narrators | |
| Omniscient Point of View | |
| Objective Point of View | |
| Checklist: Selecting An Appropriate Point of View: Review | |
| Style, Tone, and Language | |
| Style and Tone | |
| The Uses of Language | |
| Formal and Informal Diction | |
| Imagery | |
| Figures of Speech | |
| A Final Note | |
| Checklist: Writing about Style, Tone, and Language | |
| James Joyce, Araby | |
| *Andrea Barrett, The Littoral Zone | |
| Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place | |
| Tim O''Brien, The Things They Carried | |
| Writing Suggestions: Style, Tone, and Language | |
| Symbol and Allegory | |
| Literary Symbols | |
| Recognizing Symbols | |
| Allegory | |
| Checklist: Writing About Symbol and Allegory | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown | |
| Shirley Jackson, The Lottery | |
| Alice Walker, Everyday Use | |
| *Raymond Carver, Cathedral | |
| Writing Suggestions: Symbol and Allegory | |
| Theme | |
| Interpreting Themes | |
| Identifying Themes | |
| Checklist: Writing About Theme | |
| David Michael Kaplan, Doe Season | |
| D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
| Eudora Welty, A Worn Path | |
| *Rick Bass, The Fireman | |
| Writing Suggestions: Theme | |
| Theme | |
| Joyce Carol Oates'' Where are You Going, Where have You Been?: A Casebook for Reading Research, and Writing | |
| Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates, When Characters from the Page Are Made Flesh on the Screen | |
| Gretchen Schulz and R. J. R. Rockwood, From In Fairyland, without a Map: Connie''s Exploration Inward in Joyce Carol Oates'' | |
| "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" | |
| Mike Tierce and John Michael Grafton, From Connie''s Tambourine Man: A New Reading of Arnold Friend" | |
| Bob Dylan, It''s All Over Now, Baby Blue | |
| Laura Kalpakian, Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been | |
| Stephen Slimp, Oates''s "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Don Moser, The Pied Piper of Tuscon | |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | |
| Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood | |
| Topics | |
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