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The Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing

by: Kirszner, Laurie G.

The Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing

by: Kirszner, Laurie G.

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9780838458747
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0838458742
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/08/2003
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Designed for literature classes that only need the essentials, The PORTABLE LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, 5th Edition is the affordable, portable alternative to a full length--or even a compact--introduction to literature texts.

Preface
1. Reading and Writing About Literature
Reading Literature
Previewing
Highlighting
Checklist: Using Highlighting Symbols
Maya Angelou, My Arkansas
Annotating
Writing About Literature
Planning an Essay
Considering your Audience
Understanding Your Purpose
Writing To Respond
Writing To Interpret
Writing To Evaluate
Choosing a Topic
Finding Something to Say
Brainstorming
Keeping a Journal
Seeing Connections
Listing
Deciding on a Thesis
Preparing an Outline
Drafting an Essay
Revising and Editing an Essay
Strategies for Revision
The Revision Process
Thesis Statement
Support
Topic Sentences
Introductions and Conclusions
Sentences and Words
Using and Documenting Sources
Checklist: Using Sources
Checklist: Conventions for Writing About Literature
Three Model Student Papers
" 'The Secret Lion': Everything Changes
"Digging for Memories
"Desperate Measures: Acts of Defiance in Trifles
FICTION
2. Understanding Fiction
Defining Fiction
The Short Story
*Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
Gary Gildner, Sleepytime Gal
A Final Note
3. Plot
Conflict
Stages of Plot
Order and Sequence
A Final Note
Checklist: Writing about Plot
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Lorrie Moore, How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)
Writing Suggestions: Plot
4. 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
Writing Suggestions: Character
5. Setting
Historical Setting
Geographical Setting
Physical Setting
Checklist: Writing About Setting
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
*Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
Writing Suggestions: Setting
6. Point of View
First Person Narrator
Unreliable Narrators
Third Person Narrator
Omniscient
Limited Omniscient
Objective
Selecting an Appropriate Point of View
Limited Omniscient Point of View
First-Person Point of View (Child)
First-Person Point of View (Adult)
Omniscient Point of View
Selecting An Appropriate Point of View: Review
Checklist: Writing about Point of View
Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Richard Wright, Big Black Good Man
William Faulkner, Barn Burning
Writing Suggestions: Point of View
7. 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
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find
Writing Suggestions: Style, Tone, and Language
8. Symbol and Allegory
Literary Symbols
Recognizing Symbols
The Purpose of Symbols
Allegory
Checklist: Writing About Symbol and Allegory
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
*Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Writing Suggestions: Symbol and Allegory
9. Theme
Understanding Theme
Identifying Themes
Checklist: Writing About Theme
David Michael Kaplan, Doe Season
D
H
Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Writing Suggestions: Theme
10. Fiction for Further Reading
Chinua Achebe, Dead Man's Path
T
oraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Alberto Alvaro RÃos, The Secret Lion
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
POETRY
11. Understanding Poetry
Nikki Giovanni, Poetry
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica
Marianne Moore, Poetry
Defining Poetry
William Shakespeare, That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold
Louis Zukofsky, I Walk in the Old Street
E
E
Cummings, l(a
Approaching Poetry
Recognizing Kinds of Poetry
Narrative Poetry
Lyric Poetry
12. Discovering Themes in Poetry
Adrienne Rich, A Woman Mourned by Daughters
Raymond Carver, Photograph of my Father in His Twenty Second Year
Judith Ortiz Cofer, My Father In the Navy: A Childhood Memory
Poems About Parents
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Lucille Clifton, My Mama Moved among the Days
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Poems about Love
Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Thomas Campion, There Is a Garden in Her Face
William Shakespeare, My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Edna St
Vincent Millay, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
Poems About War
Rupert Brooke, The Soldier
Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead
Denise Levertov, What Were They Like
*Wislawa Szymborska, The End and the Beginning
13. Voice
Emily Dickinson, I'm Nobody! Who Are You? The Speaker in the Poem
Louise Gluck, Gretel in Darkness
Leonard Adame, My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly and Hum
Langston Hughes, Negro
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Janice Mirikitani, Suicide Note
*James Tate, Nice Car, Camille
The Tone of the Poem
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
Amy Lowell, Patterns
William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
*Steve Kowit, The Grammar Lesson
Irony
Robert Browning, Porphyria's Lover
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Ariel Dorfman, Hope
W

Auden, The Unknown Citizen
Anne Sexton, Cinderella
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Checklist: Writing about Voice
Writing Suggestions: Voice
14. Word Choice, Word Order
Sipho Sepamla, Words, Words, Words
Word Choice
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
William Stafford, For the Grave of Daniel Boone
Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin
E
E
Cummings, in Just-
Theodore Roethke, I Knew a Woman
*Robert Pinsky, ABC
Levels of Diction
Margaret Atwood, The City Planners
Jim Sagel, Baca Grande
*Mark Halliday, The Value of Education
Richard Wilbur, For the Student Strikers
Charles Bukowski, Dog Fight
Word Order
Edmund Spenser, One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand
E
E
Cummings, Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town
A
E
Housman, To An Athlete Dying Young
Emily Dickinson, My Life Had Stood--A Loaded Gun
Checklist: Writing About Word Choice, Word Order
Writing Suggestions: Word Choice, Word Order
15. Imagery
Jane Flanders, Cloud Painter
William Carlos Williams, Red Wheelbarrow
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
William Carlos Williams, The Great Figure
*Michael Chitwood, Division
*Michael McFee, Valentine's Afternoon
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum est
Checklist: Writing about Imagery
Writing Suggestions: Imagery
16. Figures of Speech
William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Simile, Metaphor, and Personification
Langston Hughes, Harlem
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity
Audre Lorde, Rooming Houses Are Old Women
Robert Burns, Oh, My Love Is like A Red, Red, Rose
John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player
Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
*Martin Espada, My Father as Guitar
Hyperbole and Understatement
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
David Huddle, Holes Commence Falling
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Donald Hall, My Son, My Executioner
Margaret Atwood, You Fit Into Me
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Going to the Wars
Apostrophe
Sonia Sanchez, On Passing thru Morgantown, Pa
*Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
Checklist: Writing About Figures of Speech
Writing Suggestions: Figures of Speech
17. Sound
Walt Whitman, Had I the Choice
Rhythm
Gwendolyn Brooks, Sadie and Maud
Meter
Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Alliteration and Assonance
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder
Rhyme
Ogden Nash, The Llama
Richard Wilbur, A Sketch
Gerald Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
W
H
Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening
*Robert Francis, Pitcher
*Mona Van Duyn, The Beginning
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
Checklist: Writing About Sound
Writing Suggestions: Sound
18. Form
John Keats, On the Sonnet
*Billy Collins, Sonnet
Closed Form
Blank Verse
Stanza
The Sonnet
William Shakespeare, When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
Claude McKay, The White City
John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Gwendolyn Brooks, First Fight
Then Fiddle
The Sestina
Alberto Alvaro RÃos, Nani
Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina
The Villanelle
Theodore Roethke, The Waking
William Meredith, In Memory of Donald A
Stauffer
The Epigram
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, What Is an Epigram? William Blake, Her Whole Life Is an Epigram
*Martin Espada, Why I Went to College
Haiku
Richard Brautigan, Widow's Lament
Matsuo Basho, Four Haiku
Carolyn Kizer, After Basho
Open Form
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
Louise Gluck, Life is a Nice Place
E
E
Cummings, The Sky Was Can Dy
Walt Whitman, from Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
William Carlos Williams, Spring and All
*Czeslaw Milosz, Christopher Robin
Concrete Poetry
May Swenson, Women
George Herbert, Easter Wings
*Greg Williamson, Group Photo with Winter Trees
Checklist: Writing About Form
Writing Suggestions: Form
19. Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, and Myth
William Blake, The Sick Rose
Symbol
Robert Frost, For Once, Then Something
Jim Simmerman, Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama
Emily Dickinson, Volcanoes Be in Sicily
Langston Hughes, Island
Allegory
Christina Rossetti, Uphill
Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck
Allusion
Wole Soyinka, Future Plans
William Meredith, Dreams of Suicide
Delmore Schwartz, The True-Blue American
Myth
Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes
W
H
Auden, MusÃ¨e des Beaux Arts
*T
S
Eliot, The Journey of the Magi
Checklist: Writing about Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, and Myth
Writing Suggestions: Symbol Allegory, Allusion, and Myth
20. Poetry for Further Reading
Maya Angelou, Africa
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
*Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
William Blake, The Lamb
*William Blake, To See a World in a Grain of Sand
William Blake, The Tyger
Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book
Gwendolyn Brooks, Medgar Evers
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
George Gordon, Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
*Hart Crane, To Brooklyn Bridge
E
E
Cummings, Buffalo Bill's
E
E
Cummings, Next To Of Course God America I
Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights--Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson, Nature--sometimes sears a Sapling
Emily Dickinson, After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson, I heard a fly buzz--when I died
Emily Dickinson, I dwell in Possibility
John Donne, Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
Rita Dove, The Satisfaction Coal Company
T
S
Eliot, The Love Song of J
Alfred Prufrock
Robert Frost, Birches
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa
H
D
Heat
Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain
*Seamus Heaney, Mid-term Break
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes, Park Bench
Ted Hughes, Visit
John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
John Keats, Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats, When I Have Fears
*Aron Keesbury, On the Robbery across the Street
*M

Merwin, For the Anniversary of My Death
John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Sharon Olds, Rite of Passage
*Frank O'Hara, Autobiographia Literaria
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
Sylvia Plath, Mirror
Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Carl Sandburg, Fog
Anne Sexton, Sylvia's Death
William Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
William Shakespeare, Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
Cathy Song, Lost Sister
Gary Soto, Black Hair
William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

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