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Portable Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing

by: Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.

Portable Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing

by: Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.

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1413022812
Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/30/2006
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Designed for literature classes that only need the essentials, The PORTABLE LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, Sixth Edition is the affordable, portable alternative to full length-or even compact-introduction to literature texts.

Preface

xxiv

PART 1 A GUIDE TO WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

(70)

1 READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

(34)

Reading Literature

(4)

Previewing

(1)

Highlighting

(1)

Checklist: Using Highlighting Symbols

(1)

Maya Angelou, My Arkansas

(2)

Annotating

(1)

Writing about Literature

(30)

Planning an Essay

(6)

Drafting an Essay

(1)

Revising and Editing an Essay

(7)

Checklist: Using Sources

(1)

Checklist: Conventions of Writing about Literature

(1)

Three Model Student Papers

(15)

Student Paper: "The Secret Lion": Everything Changes

(4)

Student Paper: Digging for Memories

(4)

Student Paper: Desperate Measures: Acts of Defiance in Trifles

(6)

2 WRITING LITERARY ARGUMENTS

(16)

Planning a Literary Argument

(3)

Choosing a Debatable Topic

(1)

Developing an Argumentative Thesis

(1)

Defining Your Terms

(1)

Considering Your Audience

(1)

Refuting Opposing Arguments

(1)

Using Evidence Effectively

(3)

Supporting Your Literary Argument

(1)

Establishing Credibility

(2)

Being Fair

(1)

Using Visuals as Evidence

(1)

Organizing a literary Argument

(10)

Sample Student Paper: Writing a Literary Argument

(9)

Student Paper: The Politics of "Everyday Use"

(8)

3 DOCUMENTING SOURCES AND AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

(18)

Avoiding Plagiarism

(3)

Document All Material That Requires Documentation

(1)

Enclose Borrowed Words in Quotation Marks

(1)

Do Not Imitate a Source's Syntax and Phrasing

(1)

Differentiate Your Words from Those of Your Source

(1)

Checklist: Plagiarism and Internet Sources

(1)

Documenting Sources

(4)

Parenthetical References in the Text

(17)

Checklist: Guidelines for Punctuating Parenthetical References

(3)

The Works-Cited List

(9)

Content Notes

(2)

PART 2 FICTION

(366)

4 UNDERSTANDING FICTION

(12)

Origins of Modern Fiction

(6)

The History of the Novel

(4)

The History of the Short Story

(1)

Defining the Short Story

(5)

Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants

(5)

Recognizing Kinds of fiction

(1)

5 FICTION SAMPLER: THE SHORT-SHORT

(15)

Gary Gildner, Sleepy Time Gal

(2)

Jonathan Safran Foer, A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease

(5)

Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings

(3)

Jamaica Kincaid, Girl

(1)

Amanda Holzer, Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape

(1)

Monica Ware, Mislaid Plans

(2)

6 PLOT

100

(25)

Conflict

100

(1)

Stages of Plot

101

(1)

Order and Sequence

102

(20)

Checklist: Writing about Plot

103

(1)

Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

103

(4)

Stephen Dobyns, Kansas

107

(6)

William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

113

(9)

WRITING SUGGESTIONS: Plot

122

(3)

7 CHARACTER

125

(29)

Round and Flat Characters

125

(1)

Dynamic and Static Characters

126

(1)

Motivation

127

(26)

Checklist: Writing about Character

127

(1)

John Updike, A&P

128

(6)

Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill

134

(5)

Charles Baxter, Gryphon

139

(14)

WRITING SUGGESTIONS: Character

153

(1)

8 SETTING

154

(28)

Historical Setting

155

(1)

Geographical Setting

155

(1)

Physical Setting

156

(25)

Checklist: Writing about Setting

157

(1)

Kate Chopin, The Storm

158

(5)

Sherman J. Alexie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona

163

(10)

Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing

173

(8)

WRITING SUGGESTIONS: Setting

181

(1)

9 POINT OF VIEW

182

(43)

First-Person Narrators

182

(3)

Unreliable Narrators

183

(2)

Third-Person Narrators

185

(2)

Omniscient Narrators

185

(1)

Limited Omniscient Narrators

186

(1)

Objective Narrators

187

(1)

Selecting an Appropriate Point of View

187

(37)

Checklist: Selecting an Appropriate Point of View: Review

190

(1)

Checklist: Writing about Point of View

191

(1)

Richard Wright, Big Black Good Man

191

(12)

Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

203

(6)

William Faulkner, Barn Burning

209

(15)

WRITING SUGGESTIONS: Point of View

224

(1)

10 STYLE, TONE, AND LANGUAGE

225

(1)

Style and Tone

225

(1)

The Uses of Language

225

(2)

Formal and Informal Diction

227

(2)

Imagery

229

(1)

Figures of Speech

230

(36)

Checklist: Writing about Style, Tone, and Language

231

(1)

James Joyce, Araby

231

(7)

Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find

238

(13)

Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

251

(15)

WRITING SUGGESTIONS: Style, Tone, and Language

266

(1)

11 SYMBOL, ALLEGORY, AND MYTH

267

(1)

Symbol

267

(2)

Literary Symbols

268

(1)

Recognizing Symbols

269

(1)

Allegory

269

(2)

Myth

271

(42)

Checklist: Writing about Symbol, Allegory, and Myth

273

(1)

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

273

(8)

Alice Walker, Everyday Use

281

(8)

Raymond Carver, Cathedral

289

(13)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

302

(11)

WRITING SUGGESTIONS: Symbol, Allegory, and Myth

313

(1)

12 THEME

314

(1)

Interpreting Themes

315

(1)

Identifying Themes

316

(36)

Checklist: Writing about Theme 318

Eudora Welty, A Worn Path

319

(7)

David Michael Kaplan, Doe Season

326

(13)

D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner

339

(13)

WRITING SUGGESTIONS: Theme

352

(1)

13 FICTION FOR FURTHER READING

353

(1)

Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson

353

(6)

T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake

359

(8)

Gabriel Garcia Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

367

(5)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

372

(12)

Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

384

(13)

Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge

397

(12)

Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart

409

(3)

Alberto Alvaro Rios, The Secret Lion

412

(4)

Amy Tan, Two Kinds

416

(9)

Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables

425

(12)

PART 3 POETRY

437

(1)

14 UNDERSTANDING POETRY

439

(270)

Marianne Moore, Poetry

439

(1)

Nikki Giovanni, Poetry

440

(1)

Origins of Modern Poetry

441

(6)

Bob Holman, 6 Short Poems

446

(1)

Defining Poetry

447

(3)

William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me behold

448

(1)

Louis Zukofsky, I walk in the old street

448

(1)

E.E. Cummings, I(a

449

(1)

Recognizing Kinds of Poetry

450

(4)

Narrative Poetry

450

(1)

Lyric Poetry

450

(2)

15 POETRY SAMPLER: VISUAL POETRY

452

(7)

George Herbert, Easter Wings

454

(1)

May Swenson, Women

455

(1)

Greg Williamson, Group Photo with Winter Trees

455

(1)

Charles Bernstein, this poem intentionally left blank

456

(1)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Acrobats

456

(1)

Reed Altemus and Jim Leftwich, Flake upper phase

457

(1)

Bob Grumman, Mathemaku No. 10

458

(1)

16 VOICE

459

(1)

Emily Dickinson, I'm nobody! Who are you?

459

(1)

The Speaker in the Poem

459

(12)

Louise Glück, Gretel in Darkness

460

(2)

Leonard Adamé, My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly and Hum

462

(2)

Langston Hughes, Negro

464

(1)

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

465

(2)

FURTHER READING: The Speaker in the Poem

467

(1)

Leslie Marmon Silko, Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer

467

(1)

Janice Mirikitani, Suicide Note

468

(2)

Pat Mora, Veiled

470

(1)

The Tone of the Poem

471

(8)

Robert Frost, Fire and Ice

471

(1)

Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed

472

(1)

Amy Lowell, Patterns

473

(3)

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