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Exploring Literature Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay with NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Access Card Package

by: Madden, Frank

Exploring Literature Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay with NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Access Card Package

by: Madden, Frank

ISBN 13:
9780321851581
ISBN 10:
0321851587
Edition: 5th
Format: Package
Copyright: 05/30/2012
Publisher: Longman

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Summary

Featuring culturally rich and diverse literature, this anthology weaves critical thinking into every facet of its writing apparatus and guides students through the process of crafting their personal responses into persuasive arguments. With engaging selections, provocative themes, and comprehensive coverage of the writing process, Madden's anthology is sure to capture the reader's imagination. Exploring Literatureopens with five chapters dedicated to writing and arguing about literature. An anthology follows, organized around five themes. Each thematic unit includes an ethnically diverse collection of short stories, poems, plays, and essays, as well as a case study to help students explore literature from various perspectives.

Author Biography

Frank Madden is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of the English Department at SUNY Westchester Community College where he also holds the Carol Russett Endowed Chair for English. He has a Ph.D. from NYU, has taught in graduate programs at CCNY, Iona College, and the New School for Social Reserach, and in 1998 was Chair of the NCTE College Section Institute on the Teaching of Literature. He is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship, the Foundation for Westchester Community College Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and the Phi Delta Kappan Educator of the Year Award from Iona College. He was awarded the 2003 Neil Ann Pickett Service Award, granted by the NCTE to an outstanding college teacher whose vision and voice have had a major impact, and who exemplifies such outstanding personal qualities as creativity, sensitivity, and leadership. He has been Chair of the College Section of the NCTE and Chair of TYCA, and served on the Executive Committee of the NCTE, the CCCC, the MLA ad hoc Committee on Teaching, and as NCTE delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. His articles, chapters, and commentary about the teaching of literature have appeared in a variety of books and journals, including College English, PMLA, College Literature, English Journal, Computers and Composition, Computers and the Humanities, and the ADE Bulletin.

Detailed Contents

Alternate Contents by Genre

Preface to Instructors

About the Author

Part I Making Connections

Chapter 1 Participation: Personal Response and Critical Thinking

The Personal Dimension of Reading Literature

Personal Response and Critical Thinking

Writing to Learn

Your First Response

Checklist: Your First Response

Keeping a Journal or Reading Log

Double-Entry Journals and Logs

The Social Nature of Learning: Collaboration

Personal, Not Private

Ourselves as Readers

Different Kinds of Reading

Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son

Making Connections with Literature

Images of Ourselves

Connecting Through Experience

Paul Zimmer, Zimmer in Grade School

Culture, Experience, and Values

Connecting Through Experience

Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays

Connecting Through Experience

Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll

Being in the Moment

New York Times, “Birmingham Bomb Kills 4”

Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham

Participating, Not Solving

Using Our Imaginations

The Whole and Its Parts

Chapter 2 Communication: Writing a Personal Response Essay

The Personal Response Essay

Checklist: The Basics of a Personal Response Essay

Voice and Writing

Voice and Response to Literature

Connecting Through Experience

Countee Cullen, Incident

Writing to Describe

Choosing Details

Choosing Details from Literature

Connecting Through Experience

Sandra Cisneros, Eleven

Writing to Compare

Comparing and Contrasting Using a Venn Diagram

Connecting Through Experience

Anna Quindlen, Mothers

Connecting Through Experience

Langston Hughes, Salvation

Possible Worlds

From First Response to Final Draft

The Importance of Revision

Using First or Third Person in Formal Essays

Step 1: Using Your First Response

Choosing a Topic

Brainstorming

Semantic Mapping, or Clustering

Mix and Match

Generating Ideas Through Collaboration

Step 2: Composing a Draft

Developing a Thesis Statement

Checklist: Thesis Statement

Writing Effective Paragraphs

Checklist: Paragraphs

Dierdre’s Draft

Step 3: Revising the Essay

Checklist: Revision

Revising Dierdre’s Draft

Formatting and Documenting Your Essay

Checklist: Basics for a Literary Essay

A Primer on Punctuation

Checklist: Editing and Proofreading

Step 4: Dierdre’s Revised Essay

Part II Analysis, Argumentation, and Research

Chapter 3 Exploration and Analysis: Genre and the Elements of Literature

Close Reading

Annotating the Text

First Annotation: Exploration

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

Second Annotation: Analysis

Literature in Its Many Contexts

Your Critical Approach

Reading and Analyzing Fiction

Narration

Point of View

Setting

Conflict

Plot

Character

Language and Style

Diction

Symbol

Irony

Theme

Checklist: Analyzing Fiction

Getting Ideas for Writing About Fiction

Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

Reading and Analyzing Poetry

Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry

Language and Style

Denotation and Connotation

Voice

Tone

Irony

Stephen Crane, War Is Kind

Imagery

Helen Chasin, The Word Plum

Robert Browning, Meeting at Night

Parting at Morning

Figurative Language: Everyday Poetry

Langston Hughes, A Dream Deferred

N. Scott Momaday, Simile

Carl Sandburg, Fog

James Stephens, The Wind Symbol

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

Sound and Structure

Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme

Rhyme and Rhythm: Limericks

Haiku Poetry: Chiyojo, Basho, Buson, Matsushita, Brutschy

Meter

Formal Verse: The Sonnet

Francis Petrarch, The Eyes that Drew from Me

William Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 29

Blank Verse

Free or Open Form Verse

Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Interpretation: What Does the Poem Mean?

Explication

Types of Poetry

Lyric Poetry

Narrative Poetry

Checklist: Analyzing Poetry

Getting Ideas for Writing About Poetry

May Swenson, Pigeon Woman

Reading and Analyzing Drama

Reading a Play

Point of View

Set and Setting

Conflict

Plot

The Poetics

Tragedy

Comedy

Characterization

Language and Style

Diction

Symbol

Irony

Theme

Periods of Drama: A Brief Background

Greek Drama

Shakespearean Drama

Tips on Reading the Language of Shakespeare

Modern Drama

Checklist: Analyzing Drama

Getting Ideas for Writing About Drama

Edith Hamilton, from The Royal House of Thebes: “Oedipus”

Tips on Reading Antigone

Sophocles, Antigone

Reading and Analyzing Essays

Types of Essays

Narrative

Expository

Argumentative

Language, Style, and Structure

Formal or Informal

Voice

Irony

Word Choice and Style

Theme: What’s the Point?

The Aims of an Essay: Inform, Preach, or Reveal

Checklist: Analyzing Essays

Getting Ideas for Writing About the Essay

Amy Tan, Mother Tongue

Chapter 4 Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay

The Critical Essay

Suzanne’s Response to Antigone

Interpretation and Evaluation

Interpretation: What Does It Mean?

Evaluation: How Well Does It Work?

Options for a Critical Essay: Process and Product

Checklist: Options for a Critical Essay

An Analytical Essay

A Comparative Essay

A Thematic Essay

A Philosophical or Ethical Evaluation

A Contextual Essay

Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay

Other Models: Classical, Toulmin, and Rogerian

The Shape of an Argument

Checklist: Writing a Critical Essay

Planning Your Argument

Supporting Your Argument: Induction and Substantiation

Opening, Closing, and Revising Your Argument

The Development of a Critical Essay

Step 1: Using Your First Response

Step 2: Composing a Draft

Suzanne’s Draft

Step 3: Revising the Essay

Step 4: Suzanne’s Revised Essay

Chapter 5 Research: Writing with Secondary Sources

The Research Essay

Creating, Expanding, and Joining Interpretive Communities

It Is Your Interpretation

Getting Started

Choosing a Topic

Some Popular Areas of Literary Research

Your Search

Peer Support

The Library

Reference Works

Some Other Encyclopedias and Indexes Useful for Literary Research

Some Bibliographies, Indexes, and Abstracts Useful for Literary Research Finding Sources on the Internet

Some Internet Sources Useful for Literary Research

Evaluating Internet Sources

Checklist: Evaluating Internet Sources

Taking Notes

Integrating Sources into Your Writing

What Must Be Documented

Where and How

Paraphrasing and Summarizing

Quoting

Avoiding Plagiarism

Examples of Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Quoting, and Plagiarizing

From First Response to Research Essay

Checklist: Writing a Research Essay

Case Study in Research

James Joyce and “Eveline”

Step 1: Using Your First Response

James Joyce, Eveline

Step 2: Composing a Draft

Professor Devenish’s Commentary

Kevin’s Motivation and Process

Step 3: Revising the Essay

Step 4: Kevin’s Revised Essay

Part III A Thematic Anthology

Family and Friends

A Dialogue Across History

Family and Friends: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs

Reading and Writing About Family and Friends

Fiction

Connecting Through Comparison: Sibling Relationships

James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues

Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible

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