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Literature and Its Writers : A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
Literature and Its Writers : A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
- ISBN 13:
9781457606472
- ISBN 10:
145760647X
- Edition: 6th
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 08/03/2012
- Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
Literature is a conversation between writers and other writers, and between writers and readers. In Literature and Its Writers, Ann and Samuel Charters complement a rich and varied selection of stories, poems, and plays with an unparalleled array of commentaries about that literature by the writers themselves. Such "writer talk" inspires students to respond as it models ways for them to enter the conversation. In the sixth edition, the Charters continue to entice students to join the conversation, with adventurous and intriguing new literary works, more detailed coverage of literary elements, and more help with reading and writing. This anthology is now available with video! Learn more about VideoCentral for Literature.
Author Biography
Read moreAnn Charters received her B.A. at Berkeley and her Ph.D. at Columbia. She first met Kerouac at a poetry reading in Berkeley in 1956, and compiled a comprehensive bibliography of his work in 1967. A professor of English at the University of Connecticut, she is also the editor of Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac and the Portable Kerouac Reader, and the author of Beats and Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation. Samuel Charters has taught creative writing and published widely in a variety of genres, including eleven books of poetry, four novels, a book of criticism on contemporary American poetry, a biography (coauthored with Ann Charters) of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, and translations of the poetry of Tomas Transtromer and Edith Sodergran. An ethnomusicologist, he produces blues and jazz recordings and has published many books about music, among them a history of New Orleans jazz and a study of bluesman Robert Johnson.
Table of Contents
Read moreIntroduction: Connecting with Literature Sample Paper — Raymond Carver's "Creative Writing 101" Reading Literature
Formalist Criticism
Biographical Criticism
Psychological Criticism
Mythological Criticism
Historical Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Poststructuralist and Deconstructionist Criticism
Gender Criticism
Cultural Criticism
Selected Bibliography
26. Developing Your Ideas in an Essay
Keeping a Journal or Notebook to Record Your Initial Responses to the Text Using the Commentaries to Ask New Questions about What You Have Read Generating Ideas for Brainstorming, Freewriting, and Listing Organizing Your Notes into a Preliminary Thesis Sentence and Outline Writing the Rough Draft
Revising Your Essay
Sample Revised Draft: The Voice of the Storyteller in Eudora Welty's A Worn Path
Making a Final Check of Your Finished Essay
Peer Review
Common Problems in Writing about Literature
Guidelines for Writing an Essay about Literature
27. Basic Types of Literary Papers Explication Sample Essay: An Interpretation of Langston Hughes's The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Analysis
Sample Essay: Nature and Neighbors in Robert Frost's Mending Wall
Comparison and Contrast
Sample Essay: On the Differences between Susan Glaspell's Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers
Writing about the Context of Literature
28. Writing Research Papers
Three Keys to Literary Research
Finding and Focusing a Topic
Assigned Topics
Choosing Your Own Topic
Finding and Using Sources
Library Research
Using the Web for Research
Evaluating Print and Online Sources
Your Working Bibliography
Working with Sources and Taking Notes
Drafting Your Research Paper
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
Documenting Your Sources
MLA Format
In-Text or Parenthetical Citations
List of Works Cited
Footnotes and Endnotes
Revising Your Research Paper Student Research Paper: Jennifer Silva, Emily Dickinson and Religion
Glossary of Literary Terms
Index of First Lines
Index of Authors and Titles Glossary of Literary Terms Index of First Lines/Authors and Titles
Thinking and Writing about Literature
Part One — FICTION
- What is a Short Story? *Old Testament, The Judgment of Solomon Grace Paley, Samuel
- Reading, Thinking and Writing about Short Fiction Close Reading Short Fiction Some Guidelines for Close Reading Sample Close Reading —Grace Paley, Samuel Critical Thinking about Short Fiction Writing about Short Fiction Sample Paper — Grace Paley's Commentary and "Samuel" Other Resources to Help Your Writing Sample Paper —Grace Paley's Point of View in "Samuel"
- Plot and Point of View Plot *Plot Summary *Raymond Carver, Popular Mechanics *Questions for Critical Thinking about Plot *Writing about Plot *Alasdair Gray, Pillow Talk Point of View *Herta Muller, Workday *Dagoberto Gilb, Love in L.A. *Questions for Critical Thinking about Point of View *Writing about Point of View *Useful Terms to Remember
- Character and Setting Character *Roberto Bolano, Jim *Questions for Critical Thinking about Character *Writing about Character Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Setting *Daniel Orozco, Orientation *Questions for Critical Thinking about Setting *Writing about Setting Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings * Useful Terms to Remember
- Style and Theme Style *David Foster Wallace, Everything is Green *Lydia Davis, Blind Date Voice Tone Irony Symbol *Franz Kafka, I Wish I Were a Red Indian *Yasunari Kawabata, The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket *Questions for Critical Thinking about Style *Writing about Style Theme Interpreting the Theme of a Story *Naguib Mahfouz, Half a Day *Rosario Morales, The Day It Happened *Questions for Critical Thinking about Theme *Writing about Theme *Useful Terms to Remember
- CONVERSATIONS ON STORIES AND STORYTELLERS Flannery O'Connor Good Country People A Good Man Is Hard to Find On Flannery O'Connor's Fiction Flannery O'Connor From Letters, 1954-55 Flannery O'Connor Writing Short Stories Flannery O'Connor The Element of Suspense in A Good Man Is Hard to Find Sally Fitzgerald Southern Sources of A Good Man Is Hard to Find Edgar Allan Poe The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher On Critical Views of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories Edgar Allan Poe The Importance of the Single Effect in a Prose Tale D.H. Lawrence On The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren A New Critical Reading of The Fall of the House of Usher J. Gerald Kennedy On The Fall of the House of Usher David S. Reynolds PoeÕs Art of Transformation in The Cask of Amontillado *Writing about Flannery OÕConnor and Edgar Allan Poe
- STORIES AND STORYTELLERS
Formalist Criticism
Biographical Criticism
Psychological Criticism
Mythological Criticism
Historical Criticism
Sociological Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Poststructuralist and Deconstructionist Criticism
Gender Criticism
Cultural Criticism
Selected Bibliography
26. Developing Your Ideas in an Essay
Keeping a Journal or Notebook to Record Your Initial Responses to the Text Using the Commentaries to Ask New Questions about What You Have Read Generating Ideas for Brainstorming, Freewriting, and Listing Organizing Your Notes into a Preliminary Thesis Sentence and Outline Writing the Rough Draft
Revising Your Essay
Sample Revised Draft: The Voice of the Storyteller in Eudora Welty's A Worn Path
Making a Final Check of Your Finished Essay
Peer Review
Common Problems in Writing about Literature
Guidelines for Writing an Essay about Literature
27. Basic Types of Literary Papers Explication Sample Essay: An Interpretation of Langston Hughes's The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Analysis
Sample Essay: Nature and Neighbors in Robert Frost's Mending Wall
Comparison and Contrast
Sample Essay: On the Differences between Susan Glaspell's Trifles and A Jury of Her Peers
Writing about the Context of Literature
28. Writing Research Papers
Three Keys to Literary Research
Finding and Focusing a Topic
Assigned Topics
Choosing Your Own Topic
Finding and Using Sources
Library Research
Using the Web for Research
Evaluating Print and Online Sources
Your Working Bibliography
Working with Sources and Taking Notes
Drafting Your Research Paper
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting
Documenting Your Sources
MLA Format
In-Text or Parenthetical Citations
List of Works Cited
Footnotes and Endnotes
Revising Your Research Paper Student Research Paper: Jennifer Silva, Emily Dickinson and Religion
Glossary of Literary Terms
Index of First Lines
Index of Authors and Titles Glossary of Literary Terms Index of First Lines/Authors and Titles
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