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CHAPTER 1. Why Read Literature?

Exercise

Why Do You Read Literature?

Why Do We Read Literature?

Bridging the Gap

Responding to What You Read

Exercise

ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken

Sample Student Response to The Road Not Taken

Commentary

Exercise

Considering Evidence to Support Your Response

Close Active Reading

Sample Oral Response to The Road Not Taken

Commentary

Exercise

Keeping a Reading Journal

Guidelines: Keeping a Reading Journal

CHAPTER 2. Joining the Conversation: Ways of Talking about Literature

PATRICIA GRACE, Butterflies (short story)

Responding to Butterflies

LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B (poem)

Responding to Theme for English B

WENDY WASSERSTEIN, The Man in a Case (play)

Responding to The Man in a Case

E. B. WHITE, Education (essay)

Responding to Education

The Vocabulary of Literature

Actions and Events

Plot

Structure

Conflict

Irony of Situation

Box: Terms Related to Actions and Events

Exercises: Actions and Events

People

Characters: Listening and Observing

Listening

Observing

Characters: Growing and Changing

Characters: Point of View

Author and Speaker

Narrator

People in Nonfiction

Box: Terms Related to People

Exercises: People

Places and Times

Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader

Place

Time

Box: Terms Related to Places and Times

Exercises: Places and Times

Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns

Style

Tone

Diction

Syntax

Rhythm and Rhyme

Figurative Language

Verbal Irony

Allusions

Box: Trems Related to Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns

Exercises: Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns

Ideas

Exercises: Ideas

CHAPTER 3. Continuing the Conversation: Considering Genre and Listening to Other Voices

Expectations: Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction

Distinctions: Short Fiction and Drama

Distinctions: Poetry

MARGARET ATWOOD, you fit into me

Distinctions: Nonfiction

An Introduction to Short Fiction

Early Forms of Fiction

Allegory

Myth

Legend

Fairy Tale

Fable

Parable

Modern Short Fiction

The Realistic Short Story

The Nonrealistic Short Story

A Word about Fiction and Truth

Guidelines: Short Fiction

An Introduction to Poetry

Suggestions for Reading Poetry

Types of Poetry

Guidelines: Poetry

An Introduction to Drama

Suggestions for Reading Drama

Traditional Forms of Drama

Modern Forms of Drama

Types of Drama

Guidelines: Drama

An Introduction to Nonfiction

Suggestions for Reading Speeches

Suggestions for Reading Letters

Suggestions for Reading Documents

Suggestions for Reading Journals and Diaries

Suggestions for Reading Essays

Guidelines: Nonfiction

Considering Other Voices

Authors Commentaries and Interviews

Reviews

Scholarly Criticism

CHAPTER 4. Writing About Literature

DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Responding to Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

JOAN ALESHIRE, Slipping

Responding to Slipping

Preparing to Write About Literature

Understanding the Assignment

Thinking about the Assignment

Assignment Topics

Writing to Respond

Topic 1

Discovering Ideas: Journal Entries

Considering Audience

Narrowing the Topic

Devising a Preliminary Thesis Statement

Planning and Organizing

Drafting

Changes, KAREN ANGSTROM (draft student paper)

Revising Focus: Titles, Openings, Conclusions

Karen Angstroms Revision List

Editing Focus: To Be, Expletives, Passive Voice

Karen Angstroms Editing List

Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices

Exercise

Final Copy: Writing to Respond

Changes: For Better or Worse? KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)

Exercise

Guidelines: Writing a Response

Writing to Compare

Topic 2

Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration

Box: Strategies for Collaborative Work

Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis

Drafting

Responses: Raging Versus Slipping, WALTER JOHNSON (draft student paper)

Revising Focus: Transitions, Development of Ideas

Workshop Excerpt

Editing Focus: Nominalizations, Parallel Structure

Workshop Excerpt

Proofreading Focus: Subject-Verb Agreement, Tense Agreement

Workshop Excerpt

Exercise

Final Copy: Writing to Compare

Responses: Raging Versus Slipping, WALTER JOHNSON (student paper)

Exercise

Guidelines: Writing a Comparison

Writing to Analyze

Topic 3

Discovering Ideas: Listing and Grouping

Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work

Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis

Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work

Planning, Organizing, and Drafting

Love and Loss in Slipping, CATHERINE HUPEL (draft student paper)

Revising Focus: Using and Explaining Examples

Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work

Exercise

Editing Focus: Word Choice

Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work

Exercise

Proofreading Focus: Misplaced Modifiers

Excerpt from Catherine Hupel's Work

Exercise

Final Copy: Writing to Analyze

Love and Loss in Slipping, CATHERINE HUPEL (student paper)

Guidelines: Writing an Analysis

Writing to Explicate

Topic 4

Discovering Ideas: Paraphrasing

Matt Cejaks Paraphrases (student work)

Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis

Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Work

Planning and Organizing

Drafting

Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Work

Revising Focus: Summarizing Versus Analzying

Guidelines: Preparing for a Writing Conference

Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Writing Conference

Matt Cejaks Second Draft

Explication: Do Not Go Gentle, MATTHEW CEJAK (draft student paper)

Editing Focus: Conciseness

Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Work

Exercise

Proofreading Focus: Apostrophes, Quotation Marks to Indicate Words Used in a Special Way

Excerpt from Matt Cejaks Work

Exercise

Final Copy: Writing to Explicate

The Power of Sound and Sight in Do Not Go Gentle, MATTHEW CEJAK

Exercise

Guidelines: Writing an Explication

Writing to Evaluate

Topic 5

Discovering Ideas: Interviewing

Joann Epsteins Journal Entry

Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis

Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work

Planning and Organizing

Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work

Drafting

Revising Focus: Logic

Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work

Editing Focus: Integrating and Punctuating Quotations

Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work

Proofreading Focus: Pronoun Reference, Pronoun Agreement, Treatment of Titles

Excerpt from Joann Epsteins Work

Final Copy: Writing to Evaluate

Love and Strength, JOANN EPSTEIN (student paper)

Exercise

Guidelines: Writing an Evaluation of Beliefs and Values

5. Argument, Critical Thinking, and Research

Argument and Critical Thinking

Definition of Argument

Purpose for Argument

"The Storm" Kate Chopin

Argument and Controversy

Determining a Thesis for Argument

Topics for Argument

Considering Audience

Exploring Ways to Refine the Thesis and Support the Argument

Close Reading

Discussion and Interviews

Library and On-line Research

Argument and Research

The Research Question

The Persuasive Research Paper

Exploring the Research Question

Resources for Research: Reference Works

Monographs and Other Books

Printed Periodicals

Online Resources

Guidelines: Locating Online Resources

Guidelines: Evaluating Internet Resources

Planning an Argument and Formulating the Thesis

Drafting an Argument

Guidelines: Rational Appeals

Revising an Argument

Using and Documenting Sources

Taking Notes

Organizing Your Notes

Summarizing and Paraphrasing

Copying Quotations

Sample Notecards

Determining What Needs to be Documentated

What Does Not Need to Be Documented

Avoiding Plagiarism

Exercise

Using and Documenting Quotations from Literary Works: MLA Style

Quoting from Poems

Quoting from Plays

Quoting from Fiction

Incorporating Material from Sources into Your Paper

Compiling a List of Works Cited

Print Resources

Oral Communication

Media and Performance Sources

Online Sources

Guidelines: Preparing the List of Works Cited

Sample of a Completed Researched Argument

A Closer Look at Bobint, JOSH LACHANCE (student paper)

Note: Selections that are new to the fifth edition are indicated with an asterisk

CHAPTER 6. Innocence and Experience

On Reading Literature Thematically: Critical Thinking Fiction

[Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to its theme]

[Considerations questions follow each selection]

[Connections questions, Suggestions for Connections Across Chapters, and Suggestions for Collaborative Learning conclude each chapter]

FICTION

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Young Goodman Brown

JAMES JOYCE, Araby

WAKAKO YAMAUCHI, And the Soul Shall Dance

LOUISE ERDRICH, The Red Convertible

W.D. WETHERELL, The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant

POETRY

WILLIAM BLAKE, London

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Spring and Fall

A.E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One and Twenty

COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident

*GWENDOLYN BROOKS, We Real Cool

JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player

SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break

GARY SOTO, Oranges

*NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, Rain

DRAMA

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

Commentary: CAROLYN HEILBRUN, The Character of Hamlets Mother

*Commentary: LAURA BOHANNAN, Shakespeare in the Bush

*Photo Essay THEN AND NOW : Images of Hamlet

*Film Connection: Hamlet

ESSAYS

LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation

MAYA ANGELOU, Graduation in Stamps

Chapter 7. Roots, Identity, and Culture

FICTION

RICHARD WRIGHT, The Man Who Was Almost a Man (moved from Ch. 6 in Responding 4th Ed.)

JAMES BALDWIN, Sonnys Blues

RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral

JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio

TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson

POETRY

PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR, We Wear the Mak

LUCILLE CLIFTON, Quilting

*LUCILLE CLIFTON, in the inner city

WOLE SOYINKA, Telephone Conversation

MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Frio

CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter

JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, Latin Women Pray

*N.SCOTT MOMADAY, New World

*SHERMAN ALEXIE, Evolution

DRAMA

ATHOL FUGARD, Master Haroldand The Boys

Commentary:

*ERVIN BECK "Fugard's 'Master Harold' and The Boys

*BRIAN SUTTON "Fugard's 'Master Harold' and The Boys (A RESPONSE TO ERVIN BECK)

ESSAYS

CHIEF SEATTLE, My People

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write

Chapter 8. Love and Hate

FICTION

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper

Commentary:

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper

EDITH WHARTON, Roman Fever

*SUSAN GLASPELL, A Jury of Her Peers

NADINE GORDIMER, Town and Country Lovers

RITA DOVE, Second Hand Man

Poetry

SAPPHO, To Me He Seems Like a God

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Let me not to the marriage of true minds

JOHN DONNE, The Sun Rising

ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress

APHRA BEHN, The Willing Mistress

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

SIR WALTER RALEIGH, The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd

*W.S. MERWIN, Separation

*KRISTINE BATEY, Lot's Wife

DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple

TESS GALLAGHER, The Hug

*KITTY TSUI, A Chinese Banquet

Drama

HENRIK IBSEN, A Dolls House

*SUSAN GLASPELL, Trifles

Essays

C.S. LEWIS, We Have No Right to Happiness"

*JOAN DIDION, Marrying Absurd

Chapter 9. Families

Fiction

TILLIE OLSON, I Stand Here Ironing

JOYCE CAROL OATES, Shopping

ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use

MARY HOOD, How Far She Went

*GISH JEN "Who's Irish?"

Poetry

THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papas Waltz

SHARON OLDS, The Possessive

SYLVIA PLATH, Metaphors

DONALD HALL, My Son, My Executioner

NEAL BOWERS, Driving Lesson

ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays

Commentary:

DAVID HUDDLE, The Banked Fires of Robert Haydens Those Winter Sundays

*URSULA K. LEGUIN, The Old Falling Down

*LOUSE GLCK, Terminal Resemblance

*GAIL MAZUR, Family Plot, October

Drama

SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex

*LANGSTON HUGHES, Soul Gone Home

Essays

*RAYMOND CARVER, My Father's Life

*JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

PHOTO ESSAY: THEN AND NOW: Images of Families

*Chapter 10. Nature

Fiction

*STEPHEN CRANE, The Open Boat

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants

EUDORA WELTY, A Worn Path

Commentary:

EUDORA WELTY, Is Phoenix Jacksons Grandson Really Dead?

*LESLIE MARMON SILKO, The Man to Send Rain Clouds

Poetry

Haiku

Moritake, Fallen Petals Rise

So Kan, If Only We Could

Meisetsu, City People

Kyoshi, The Snake

*WILLIAM BLAKE, The Tyger

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The World Is Too much With Us

*JOHN KEATS, La Belle Dame Sans Merci

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS, Gods Grandeur

*JEAN TOOMER, November Cotton Flower

*H.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE), Sheltered Garden

ELIZABETH BISHOP, The Fish

WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark

MARY OLIVER, A Certain Sharpness in the Morning

Drama

*JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE, Riders to the Sea

Essays

BARRY HOLSTUN LOPEZ, Landscape and Narrative

*ANNIE DILLARD, The Deer at Providencia

*VIRGINIA WOOLF, The Death of a Moth

Chapter 11. War and Power

Fiction

AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

FRANK OCONNOR, Guests of the Nation

Commentary:

STANLEY RENNER, The Theme of Hidden Powers: Fate vs. Human Responsibility in Guests of the Nation

CYNTHIA OZICK, The Shawl

TIM OBRIEN, The Things They Carried

*BHARATI MUKHERJEE, The Management of Grief

Poetry

*PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ozymandias

*WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Second Coming

THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed

WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est

RANDALL JARRELL, Gunner

DENISE LEVERTOV, What Were They Like

YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It

CAROLYN FORCHE, The Colonel

STEPHEN DUNN, On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers (Moved from Ch. 6, Responding 4th ed)

*GALWAY KINNELL, When the Towers Fell

Drama

SOPHOCLES, Antigone

Essays

ANDREW LAM, Goodbye, Saigon, Finally

BARBARA KINGSOLVER, And Our Flag Was Still There

*NAOMI SHIHAB NYE, To Any Would-Be Terrorists

*PHOTO ESSAY: THEN AND NOW: Images of War

*FILM CONNECTION: Three Kings

Chapter 12. Technology and Ethics

Fiction

*NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Birthmark

KAY BOYLE, The Astronomers Wife (Moved from Chapter 8, Responding 4th ed)

*B. TRAVEN, Assembly Line

*DON DELILLO, Videotape

*GEORGE SAUNDERS, My Flamboyant Grandson

Poetry

*EMILY DICKINSON, I like to see it lap the Miles

*WALT WHITMAN, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

*WILLIAM JAY SMITH, Galileo Galilei

*ADRIENNE RICH, Power

*MARGARET ATWOOD, The City Planners

*CHARLES BUKOWSKI, maybe we'll see . . .

*MARGE PIERCY, The Market Economy

*ELLEN WOLFE, Amniocentesis

*MICHAEL RYAN, TV Room at the Children's Hospice

Drama

*MARGARET EDSON,Wit

Commentaries:

*LLOYD ROSE, Review of Wit

*ALVIN KLEIN, A Professor's Passions in Life and Death

Essays

*REBECCA MEAD, Eggs for Sale

*LOGAN HILL, Racial Digital Divide [?]

Chapter 13. Death

Fiction

CHEWING BLACKBONES, Old Man and Old Woman

EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Black Cat

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily

Commentary:

WILLIAM FAULKNER, On the Meaning of A Rose for Emily

ALICE WALKER, To Hell with Dying

Poetry

JOHN DONNE, Death Be Not Proud

EMILY DICKINSON, Apparently With No Surprise

EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a fly buzzwhen I died

EMILY DICKINSON, The Bustle in a House

A.E. HOUSMAN, To An Athlete Dying Young

e.e. cummings, Buffalo Bill's

LANGSTON HUGHES, Night Funeral in Harlem

THEODORE ROETHKE, Elegy for Jane

DENISE LEVERTOV, During a Sons Dangerous Illness

SEAMUS HEANEY, Punishment (Moved from ch. 6, Responding 4th edition)

*WILLIAM TREMBLAY, The Lost Boy

MICHAEL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die

Drama

HARVEY FIERSTEIN, On Tidy Endings

Essays

ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS, On the Fear of Death

BARBARA HUTTMAN, A Crime of Compassion (Moved from Ch. 6, Responding 4th ed.)

Chapter 14. Connections: Art and Poetry (color section)

Topics for Discussion and Writing

Sample Assignment and Student Paper

Deaths Image, JANICE MOORE (student paper)

RANDALL JARRELL, The Knight, Death, and the Devil

Albrecht Durers Knight, Death, and the Devil

ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night

Vincent van Goghs The Starry Night

Pieter Breughel the Elders Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

W.H. AUDEN, Musee des Beaux Arts

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, The Great Figure

Charles Henry Demuths I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold

DAVID RAY, A Midnight Diner by Edward Hopper

Edward Hoppers Nighthawks

SAMUEL YELLEN, Nighthawks

Edward Hoppers Nighthawks

DONALD HALL, The Scream

Edvard Munchs The Scream

NATALIE SAFIR, Matisses Dance

Henri Matisses Dance

WALLACE STEVENS, The Man With the Blue Guitar

Pablo Picassos The Old Guitarist

PATRICIA HAMPL, Woman Before an Aquarium

Henri Matisses Woman Before an Aquarium

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI, Edgar Degas: The Millinery Shop

Edgar Degass The Millinery Shop

JON STALLWORTHY, Toulouse-Lautrec at the Moulin Rouge

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge

*MARTHA HOLLANDER, The Phantom Cart

Salvador Dali, The Phantom Cart

Edward Hopper, Rooms by the Sea

*JOHN HOLLANDER, Rooms By the Sea

*KARL KIRCHWEY, Dialogue

Albert Giacometti, Hands Holding the Void

*MARILYN CHANDLER McENTRYRE, Jesus and theWoman at the Well

Rembrant van Rijn, Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Chapter 15. Four Poets, Then and Now

Making Connections

Timeline: Key Events in the Lives of Three American Poets

EMILY DICKINSON

Biography

If I can stop on heart from breaking

Wild Nights Wild Nights

Theres a certain Slant of light

Im Nobody! Who are you?

Heaven is what I cannot reach!

After great pain, a formal feeling comes--

The Brain is wider than the Sky

This is my letter to the World

The Soul selects her own Society

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant

ROBERT FROST

Biography

Mending Wall

Home Burial

Out, Out

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Acquainted with the Night

Desert Places

A Critical Casebook on Robert Frost

Mending Wall, DONALD CUNNINGHAM

From The Figure a Poem Makes, ROBERT FROST

From The Indispensable Robert Frost, DONALD J. GREINER

One Long, Wild Conversation: Robert Frost as Teacher, JAY PARINI

*"The Place Is the Asylum": Women and Nature in Robert's Frost's Poetry

*BILLY COLLINS

*Biography

*The History Teacher

*Jack

*Going Out For Cigarettes

*My Life

*The Names

*RITA DOVE

*Biography

*Geometry

*AdolescenceI

*Grape Sherbert

*Adolescence--II

*Daystar

*Poem in Which I Refuse Contemplation

*Missing

Glossary of Literary Terms

Credits

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors, Titles, and Subjects