Portable Literature : Reading, Reacting, Writing, 2009 MLA Update Edition
ISBN: 9780495904564 | 0495904562
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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2009 MLA UPDATE EDITION – PORTABLE LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, Seventh Edition, includes a wide selection of essential classic and contemporary readings, along with brief introductions to the literary genres, useful study questions and prompts, and a down-to-earth, accessible guide to writing about literature. This streamlined edition is an affordable, portable alternative to the full-length and compact versions of this popular introduction to literature book. This edition has been updated to reflect guidelines from the 2009 MLA HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS OF RESEARCH PAPERS, Seventh Edition.
| Preface | |
| A Guide to Writing About Literature | |
| Reading and Writing about Literature | |
| Reading Literature | |
| Previewing | |
| Highlighting | |
| Checklist: Using Highlighting Symbols | |
| Maya Angelou, My Arkansas | |
| Annotating | |
| Writing about Literature | |
| Planning an Essay | |
| Draftin... MORE | |
| Revising and Editing an Essay | |
| Checklist: Using Sources | |
| Checklist: Conventions of Writing about Literature | |
| Three Model Student Papers | |
| Student Paper: "The Secret Lion": Everything Changes | |
| Student Paper: Digging for Memories | |
| Student Paper: Desperate Measures: Acts of Defiance in Trifles | |
| Writing Literary Arguments | |
| Planning a Literary Argument | |
| Choosing a Debatable Topic | |
| Developing an Argumentative Thesis | |
| Defining Your Terms | |
| Considering Your Audience | |
| Refuting Opposing Arguments | |
| Using Evidence Effectively | |
| Supporting Your Literary Argument | |
| Establishing Credibility | |
| Being Fair | |
| Using Visuals as Evidence | |
| Organizing a Literary Argument | |
| Writing a Literary Argument | |
| Student Paper: The Politics of "Everyday Use" | |
| Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Document All Material That Requires Documentation | |
| Enclose Borrowed Words in Quotation Marks | |
| Do Not Imitate a Source's Syntax and Phrasing | |
| Differentiate Your Words from Those of Your Source | |
| Checklist: Plagiarism and Internet Sources | |
| Documenting Sources | |
| Parenthetical References in the Text | |
| Checklist: Guidelines for Punctuating Parenthetical References | |
| The Works-Cited List | |
| Content Notes | |
| Fiction | |
| Understanding Fiction | |
| Origins of Modern Fiction | |
| The History of the Novel | |
| The History of the Short Story | |
| Defining the Short Story | |
| Hills Like White Elephants | |
| Recognizing Kinds of Fiction | |
| Fiction Sampler: The Short-Short | |
| Snow | |
| Jinx | |
| The Plot | |
| Accident | |
| Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape | |
| Girl | |
| Prue | |
| Buffalo Soldiers | |
| 55 Miles to the Gas Pump | |
| Plot | |
| Conflict | |
| Stages of Plot | |
| Order and Sequence | |
| Checklist: Writing about Plot | |
| Graphic Fiction: Ben Katchor, Goner Pillow Company | |
| The Story of an Hour | |
| Kansas | |
| A Rose for Emily | |
| Writing Suggestions: Plot | |
| Character | |
| Round and Flat Characters | |
| Dynamic and Static Characters | |
| Motivation | |
| Checklist: Writing about Character | |
| Graphic Fiction: Art Spiegelman, Eye Ball | |
| Miss Brill | |
| Gryphon | |
| Writing Suggestions: Character | |
| Setting | |
| Historical Setting | |
| Geographical Setting | |
| Physical Setting | |
| Checklist: Writing about Setting | |
| Graphic Fiction: Marjane Satrapi, from Persepolis | |
| The Storm | |
| This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona | |
| I Stand Here Ironing | |
| Writing Suggestions: Setting | |
| Point of View | |
| First-Person Narrators | |
| Unreliable Narrators | |
| Third-Person Narrators | |
| Omniscient Narrators | |
| Limited Omniscient Narrators | |
| Objective Narrators | |
| Selecting an Appropriate Point of View | |
| Checklist: Selecting an Appropriate Point of View: Review | |
| Checklist: Writing about Point of View | |
| Graphic Fiction: Shaun Tan, from The Arrival | |
| Big Black Good Man | |
| The Cask of Amontillado | |
| Barn Burning | |
| Writing Suggestions: Point of View | |
| Style, Tone, and Language | |
| Style and Tone | |
| The Uses of Language | |
| Formal and Informal Diction | |
| Imagery | |
| Figures of Speech | |
| Checklist: Writing about Style, Tone, and Language | |
| Graphic Fiction: R. Crumb, A Hunger Artist | |
| Araby | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
| The Things They Carried | |
| Writing Suggestions: Style, Tone, and Language | |
| Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
| Symbol | |
| Literary Symbols | |
| Recognizing Symbols | |
| Allegory | |
| Myth | |
| Checklist: Writing about Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
| Graphic Fiction: Alison Bechdel, from Fun Home | |
| The Lottery | |
| Everyday Use | |
| Cathedral | |
| Young Goodman Brown | |
| Writing Suggestions: Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
| Theme | |
| Interpreting Themes | |
| Identifying Themes | |
| Checklist: Writing about Theme | |
| Graphic Fiction: Lynda Barry, Two Questions | |
| A Worn Path | |
| Doe Season | |
| The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
| Writing Suggestions: Theme | |
| Fiction for Further Reading | |
| Happy Endings | |
| Greasy Lake | |
| Sister Godzilla | |
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | |
| Everything That Rises Must Converge | |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | |
| The Secret Lion | |
| Two Kinds | |
| Poetry | |
| Understanding Poetry | |
| Poetry | |
| Poetry | |
| Origins of Modern Poetry | |
| Defining Poetry | |
| That time of year thou mayst in me behold | |
| E. E. Cummings, l(a | |
| Recognizing Kinds of Poetry | |
| Narrative Poetry | |
| Lyric Poetry | |
| Poetry Sampler: Poetry and Art | |
| Sonnet in Primary Colors | |
| C?zanne's Ports | |
| Monet's "Waterlilies" | |
| Girl Powdering Her Neck | |
| The Tall Figures of Giacometti | |
| The Dance | |
| The Fun Gallery | |
| Voice | |
| I'm nobody! Who are you? | |
| The Speaker in the Poem | |
| Gretel in Darkness | |
| My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly and Hum | |
| Negro | |
| My Last Duchess | |
| Further Reading: The Speaker in the Poem | |
| Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer | |
| Suicide Note | |
| The Tone of the Poem | |
| Fire and Ice | |
| The Man He Killed | |
| Patterns | |
| Further Reading: The Tone of the Poem | |
| Try to Praise the Mutilated World | |
| The World Is Too Much with Us | |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
| Irony | |
| Porphyria's Lover | |
| Ozymandias | |
| Hope | |
| Further Reading: Irony | |
| The Unknown Citizen | |
| Ballad of Birmingham | |
| Checklist: Writing about Voice | |
| Writing Suggestions: Voice | |
| Word Choice, Word Order | |
| Words, Words, Words | |
| Word Choice | |
| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
| For the Grave of Daniel Boone | |
| Further Reading: Word Choice | |
| Bilingual/Bilingue | |
| Living in Sin | |
| E. E. Cummings, in Just- | |
| ABC | |
| Levels of Diction | |
| The City Planners | |
| Baca Grande | |
| Further Reading: Levels of Diction | |
| Sears Life | |
| The Value of Education | |
| We Real Cool | |
| What shall I give my children? | |
| Word Order | |
| One day I wrote her name upon the strand | |
| anyone lived in a pretty how town | |
| Further Reading: Word Order | |
| To an Athlete Dying Young | |
| Checklist: Writing about Word Choice and Word Order | |
| Writing Suggestions: Word Choice, Word Order | |
| Imagery | |
| Cloud Painter | |
| Red Wheelbarrow | |
| In a Station of the Metro | |
| Some Good Things to Be Said for the Iron Age | |
| The Meal | |
| The Great Figure | |
| Further Reading: Imagery | |
| Nothing Gold Can Stay | |
| My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun | |
| Checklist: Writing about Imagery | |
| Writing Suggestions: Imagery | |
| Figures of Speech | |
| Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? | |
| Simile, Metaphor, and Personification | |
| Harlem | |
| Constantly Risking Absurdity | |
| Rooming houses are old women | |
| Further Reading: Simile, Metaphor, and Personification | |
| Oh, my love is like a red, red rose | |
| Simile | |
| Metaphors | |
| Mind | |
| The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | |
| The Secretary Chant | |
| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
| Hyperbole and Understatement | |
| Daddy | |
| Holes Commence Falling | |
| Further Reading: Hyperbole and Understatement | |
| To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
| To His Coy Mistress | |
| "Out, Out--" | |
| you fit into me | |
| Metonymy and Synecdoche | |
| To Lucasta Going to the Wars | |
| Apostrophe | |
| On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa | |
| Further Reading: Apostrophe | |
| Ode to a Nightingale | |
| A Supermarket in California | |
| Checklist: Writing about Figures of Speech | |
| Writing Suggestions: Figures of Speech | |
| Sound | |
| Had I the Choice | |
| Rhythm | |
| Sadie and Maud | |
| Meter | |
| I like to see it lap the Miles-- | |
| Further Reading: Rhythm and Meter | |
| Aunt Jennifer's Tigers | |
| Alliteration and Assonance | |
| The Eagle | |
| Delight in Disorder | |
| Rhyme | |
| The Lama | |
| In Trackless Woods | |
| Further Reading: Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme | |
| Pied Beauty | |
| As I Walked Out One Evening | |
| Blackberry Eating | |
| Lighthouse Keeping | |
| Jabberwocky | |
| Checklist: Writing about Sound | |
| Writing Suggestions: Sound | |
| Form | |
| On the Sonnet | |
| Sonnet | |
| Closed Form | |
| Blank Verse | |
| Stanza | |
| The Sonnet | |
| When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes | |
| Further Reading: The Sonnet | |
| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
| Explaining an Affinity for Bats | |
| First Fight | |
| Then Fiddle | |
| The Sestina | |
| Nani | |
| Further Reading: The Sestina | |
| Sestina | |
| The Villanelle | |
| The Waking | |
| The Epigram | |
| Further Reading: The Epigram | |
| What Is an Epigram? | |
| Her Whole Life Is an Epigram | |
| Why I Went to College | |
| Haiku | |
| Further Reading: Haiku | |
| Four Haiku | |
| After Basho | |
| American Haiku | |
| Open Form | |
| Chicago | |
| the sky was can dy | |
| Further Reading: Open Form | |
| from "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" | |
| Spring and All | |
| The Colonel | |
| Immigrants | |
| Checklist: Writing about Form | |
| Writing Suggestions: Form | |
| Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth | |
| The Sick Rose | |
| Symbol | |
| For Once, Then, Something | |
| Volcanoes be in Sicily | |
| Further Reading: Symbol | |
| The Raven | |
| Allegory | |
| Uphill | |
| Further Reading: Allegory | |
| Diving into the Wreck | |
| Allusion | |
| Future Plans | |
| Dreams of Suicide | |
| Further Reading: Allusion | |
| Post-Colonial Studies | |
| Myth | |
| Yet Do I Marvel | |
| Further Reading: Myth | |
| Leda and the Swan | |
| Mus?e des Beaux Arts | |
| Journey of the Magi | |
| Checklist: Writing about Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth | |
| Writing Suggestions: Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth | |
| Discovering Themes in Poetry | |
| The Argument of His Book | |
| Poems about Parents | |
| My Papa's Waltz | |
| Those Winter Sundays | |
| Working Late | |
| The courage that my mother had | |
| Digging | |
| Photograph of my Father in His Twenty-Second Year | |
| The Night Before Good-bye | |
| Do not go gentle into that good night | |
| Poems about Nature | |
| I wandered lonely as a cloud | |
| Sleeping in the Forest | |
| The Windhover | |
| Birches | |
| Traveling through the Dark | |
| Fog | |
| Morning Song | |
| Poems about Love | |
| Meeting at Night | |
| Parting at Morning | |
| How Do I Love Thee? | |
| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed | |
| General Review of the Sex Situation | |
| Monologue for Selah Bringing Sleep to Whylah Falls | |
| Poems about War | |
| The Soldier | |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
| For the Union Dead | |
| What Were They Like? | |
| Facing It | |
| The Horses | |
| The End and the Beginning | |
| Poetry for Further Reading | |
| Defending Walt Whitman | |
| Papi Working | |
| Africa | |
| Bonny Barbara Allan | |
| Go Down Moses | |
| Western Wind | |
| Dover Beach | |
| The Fish | |
| One Art | |
| The Lamb | |
| To see a World in a Grain of Sand | |
| The Tyger | |
| The Author to Her Book | |
| Medgar Evers | |
| Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty | |
| There is a garden in her face | |
| Kubla Khan | |
| Introduction to Poetry | |
| Buffalo Bill's | |
| next to of course god america I | |
| Because I could not stop for Death-- | |
| "Faith" is a fine invention | |
| I heard a Fly buzz--when I died-- | |
| Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God | |
| Death Be Not Proud | |
| The Flea | |
| We Wear the Mask | |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
| Indian Boarding School: The Runaways | |
| Mending Wall | |
| The Road Not Taken | |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
| The Man with Night Sweats | |
| The Convergence of the Twain | |
| Mid-Term Break | |
| God's Grandeur | |
| Theme for English B. Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |
| Where I Sit Writing My Letter | |
| La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad | |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
| When I Have Fears | |
| Selecting a Reader | |
| The Explosion | |
| Learning Geography, 1943 | |
| And in 2005 | |
| Ars Poetica | |
| The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
| If We Must Die | |
| Page from the Koran | |
| Interpretation of a Poem by Frost | |
| The United Fruit Co | |
| The One Girl at the Boys' Party | |
| Barbie Doll | |
| Shirt | |
| Mirror | |
| The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | |
| Naming of Parts | |
| Richard Cory | |
| right on: white america | |
| Let me not to the marriage of true minds | |
| Not marble, nor the gilded monuments | |
| Ode to the West Wind | |
| Old Soldier | |
| Anecdote of the Jar | |
| The Emperor of Ice-Cream | |
| The English Canon | |
| Ulysses | |
| Fern Hill | |
| Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri | |
| On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
| A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
| from "Song of Myself" | |
| London, 1802 | |
| My heart leaps up when I behold | |
| Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop | |
| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | |
| Sailing to Byzantium | |
| The Second Coming | |
| Drama | |
| Understanding Drama | |
| Origins of Modern Drama | |
| The Ancient Greek Theater | |
| The Elizabethan Theater | |
| The Modern Theater | |
| A Note on Translations | |
| Reading Drama | |
| Anton Chekhov, The Brute | |
| Drama Sampler: Ten-Minute Plays | |
| Workout | |
| Beauty | |
| Tape | |
| Poker! | |
| Plot | |
| Plot Structure | |
| Plot and Subplot | |
| Plot Development | |
| Flashbacks | |
| Foreshadowing | |
| Checklist: Writing about Plot | |
| Nine Ten | |
| Trifles | |
| A Doll House | |
| Writing Suggestions: Plot | |
| Character | |
| Characters' Words | |
| Formal and Informal Language | |
| Plain and Elaborate Language | |
| Tone | |
| Irony | |
| Characters' Actions | |
| Stage Directions | |
| Actors' Interpretations | |
| Checklist: Writing about Character | |
| The Stronger | |
| Death of a Salesman | |
| Hamlet | |
| Writing Suggestions: Character | |
| Staging | |
| Stage Directions | |
| The Uses of Staging | |
| Costumes | |
| Props and Furnishings | |
| Scenery and Lighting | |
| Music and Sound Effects | |
| A Final Note | |
| Checklist: Writing about Staging | |
| Words, Words, Words | |
| Sophocles, Oedipus the King | |
| Writing Suggestions: Staging | |
| Theme | |
| Titles | |
| Conflicts | |
| Dialogue | |
| Characters | |
| Staging | |
| A Final Note | |
| Checklist: Writing about Theme | |
| Fences | |
| The Glass Menagerie | |
| Writing Suggestions: Theme | |
| Credits | |
| Index of First Lines of Poetry | |
| Index of Authors and Titles | |
| Index of Literary Terms | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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