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Prentice Hall Literature World Masterpieces

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Prentice Hall Literature World Masterpieces

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Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 01/01/1996
Publisher: SCHOLG

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PART 1 Beginnings in the East (3000 B.C.-A.D. 1400)

Sumerian, Egyptian, and Hebrew Literature (3000 B.C.-C. 100 B.C.)

Introduction

(10)

Timeline

(8)

Reading Critically

Model

Background: The Gilgamesh Epic

(3)

from The Epic of gilgamesh

Prologue

(1)

The Battle with Humbaba

(3)

Enkidu's Dream of the Underworld

(4)

The Story of the Flood

(3)

The Return

(6)

Egyptian Poetry

Your Love, Dear Man, Is as Lovely to Me

(1)

I Think I'll Go Home and Lie Very Still

(1)

The Voice of the Swallow

(2)

Ideas and Insights

Egyptian Book of the Dead

(4)

Hebrew Literature

Genesis

1--3 The Creation and the Fall

(7)

6--9 The Story of the Flood

(5)

Ideas and Insights

Archeological Discoveries

(20)

The Book of Ruth

(6)

1 Samuel 17 (David and Goliath)

(6)

Psalms 8, 19, 23, 137

(5)

Themes in World Literature: The Quest for Immortality

(1)

Cross Currents: George Lucas

(1)

Writing About Literature: Autobiographical Incident

(4)

Persian and Arabic Literature (C. A.D. 600-A.D. 1400)

Introduction

(10)

Timeline

(8)

Reading Critically

Model

Firdawsi

Background: The Shah-nama

(3)

from the Shah-nama

(9)

Omar Khayyam

(6)

from The Rubaiyat

100

(4)

Ideas and Insights

Translators: The Unsung Heroes

104

(6)

from the Koran

106

(2)

The Opening

108

(1)

Power

108

(1)

Daybreak

109

(1)

Sa'di

110

(1)

from the Gulistan

from The Manners of Kings 1, 6, 7, 35

112

(3)

from On the Excellence of Contentment 2, 3, 11, 17

115

Hafiz

110

(10)

from the Divan

Alive from the Dead

118

(2)

Rumi

120

(16)

from the Masnavi

The Marks of the Wise Man, of the Half Wise, and of the Fool

122

(2)

The Counsels of the Bird

124

(2)

from The Thousand and One Nights

126

(2)

The Fisherman and the Jinnee

128

(8)

Themes in World Literature: The Individual and Society

136

(1)

Cross Currents: Scheherazade

137

(1)

Writing About Literature: Analytical Essay

138

(6)

PART 2 The Rise of Asia (C. 1400 B.C.-A.D. 1890)

Indian Literature (C. 1400 B.C.-C. A.D. 500)

Introduction

144

(10)

Timeline

146

(8)

Reading Critically

154

Model

Background: The Rig Veda

152

(3)

from the Rig Veda

Creation Hymn

155

(4)

Night

159

(1)

from the Taittiriya Upanishad

160

(2)

The Mystery of Brahman

162

(2)

Ideas and Insights

Religion in India

164

(24)

from the Mahabharata

166

(2)

Sibi

168

(6)

from the Bhagavad-Gita

174

(2)

The Yoga of Knowledge

176

(6)

from the Panchatantra

182

(2)

Numskull and the Rabbit

184

(4)

Themes in World Literature: Conduct in Life

188

(1)

Cross Currents: The Beatles

189

(1)

Writing About Literature: Logical Argument

190

(4)

Chinese Literature (1000 B.C.-A.D. 1890)

Introduction

194

(8)

Timeline

196

(6)

Reading Critically

202

(20)

Model

T'ao Ch'ien

222

Substance, Shadow, and Spirit

203

(5)

Philosophy

Lao Tzu

208

(4)

from the Tao Te Ching

The Way That Can Be Spoken Of

210

(1)

Not to Honor Men of Worth

210

(1)

Rather Than Fill It to the Brim

211

(1)

The Most Submissive Thing in the World

211

(1)

Confucius

212

(5)

from The Analects

214

(3)

Ideas and Insights

The Three Schools of Thought

217

(3)

Poetry

from The Book of Songs

I Beg of You, Chung Tzu

220

(1)

Thick Grow the Rush Leaves

221

(1)

T'ao Ch'ien

222

(6)

Poem on Returning to Dwell in the Country

225

(1)

I Built My House Near Where Others Dwell

226

(2)

Wang Wei

228

(4)

To the Assistant Prefect Chang

230

(1)

The Hill

230

(1)

On an Autumn Evening in the Mountains

231

(1)

Li Po

232

(6)

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

234

(2)

In the Mountains on a Summer Day

236

(1)

Addressed Humorously to Tu Fu

236

(1)

The Moon at the Fortified Pass

237

(1)

Tu Fu

238

(6)

Jade Flower Palace

240

(1)

Sent to Li Po as a Gift

241

(1)

The Return of the Wanderers

242

(1)

Loneliness

242

(2)

Po Chu-i

244

(6)

Sick Leave

246

(1)

At the End of Spring

246

(1)

To Li Ch'ien

247

(1)

Last Poem

248

(2)

Ideas and Insights

I Ching (The Book of Change)

250

(2)

Themes in World Literature: The Journey Inward

252

(1)

Cross Currents: Bertolt Brecht

253

(1)

Writing About Literature: Personal Narrative Essay

254

(4)

Japanese Literature (500 B.C.-A.D. 1890)

Introduction

258

(8)

Timeline

260

(6)

Reading Critically

266

(5)

Model

Yoshida Kenko

271

(3)

from Essays in Idleness

267

(7)

Poetry

Kakinomoto Hitomaro

274

(6)

In the Sea of Iwami

276

(2)

I Loved Her Like the Leaves

278

(2)

Ideas and Insights

Women Writers in Japan

280

(2)

Tanka

Ki no Tsurayuki

282

(1)

When I Went to Visit

284

Ono Komachi

282

(1)

Was It That I Went to Sleep

284

Priest Jakuren

282

(1)

One Cannot Ask Loneliness

284

Minamoto no Toshiyori

282

(4)

The Clustering Clouds

284

(2)

Haiku

Matsuo Basho

286

(1)

The Sun's Way

288

(1)

Poverty's Child

288

(1)

Clouds Come from Time to Time

288

(1)

The Cuckoo

288

(1)

Seven Sights Were Veiled

288

(1)

Summer Grasses

288

Yosa Buson

286

(1)

Scampering over Saucers

290

(1)

Four Views of Spring Rain

290

(1)

Fuji Alone

290

Kobayashi Issa

286

(8)

Melting Snow

292

(1)

Beautiful, Seen Through Holes

292

(1)

Far-off Mountain Peaks

292

(1)

A World of Dew

292

(1)

Viewing the Cherry-Blossom

292

(1)

With Bland Serenity

292

(2)

Prose

Sei Shonagon

294

(8)

from The Pillow Book

In Spring It Is the Dawn

296

(1)

The Cat Who Lived in the Palace

296

(2)

Oxen Should Have Very Small Foreheads

298

(1)

Nothing Can Be Worse

298

(1)

Hateful Things

299

(1)

Things That Make One's Heart Beat Faster

300

(1)

Things That Arouse a Fond Memory of the Past

300

(1)

I Remember a Clear Morning

300

(2)

Zeami

302

(12)

Background: The No Theater

303

(3)

The Deserted Crone

306

(8)

Themes in World Literature: The Natural World

314

(1)

Cross Currents: Frank Lloyd Wright

315

(1)

Writing About Literature: The Interpretive Essay

316

(6)

PART 3 The Rise of Classical Civilizations (800 B.C.-A.D. 500)

Ancient Greece (C. 800 B.C.-323 B.C.)

Introduction

322

(12)

Timeline

324

(10)

Reading Critically

334

Model

Homer

330

(60)

Background: The Iliad

331

(4)

from the Iliad

from Book I. The Quarrel

335

(12)

from Book VI. The Meeting of Hektor and Andromache

347

(8)

from Book XVIII. The Arming of Achilleus

355

(11)

from Book XXII. The Death of Hektor

366

(13)

from Book XXIV. Achilleus and Priam

379

(11)

Ideas and Insights

The Discovery of Troy

390

(2)

Poetry

Archilochus

392

(1)

Some Barbarian Is Waving My Shield

394

(1)

To the Gods All Things Are Easy

394

Callinus

392

(4)

A Call to Arms

395

(1)

Sappho

396

(1)

Awed by Her Splendor

398

(1)

Although They Are

398

(1)

And Their Feet Move

398

(1)

You Know the Place: Then

399

(1)

You May Forget But

400

(1)

He Is More Than a Hero

401

(1)

Invocation to Aphrdite

402

Pindar

396

(10)

Olympia 11

404

(2)

Prose

Thucydides

406

(8)

from History of the Peloponnesian War Pericles' Funeral Oration

408

(6)

Plato

414

(15)

from the Apology

416

(13)

Drama

Sophocles

429

(25)

Background: Oedipus the King

430

(3)

Oedipus the King

433

(21)

Ideas and Insights

The Delphic Oracle

454

(18)

Ideas and Insights

Aristotle on Tragedy

472

(2)

Themes in World Literature: The Hero

474

(1)

Cross Currents: Nikos Kazatzakis

475

(1)

Writing About Literature: The Reflective Essay

476

(4)

Roman Literature (c. 300 B.C.-A.D. 500)

Introduction

480

(12)

Timeline

482

(10)

Reading Critically

492

Model

Virgil

488

(16)

Background: The Aeneid

489

(4)

from the Aeneid

Book II. How They Took the City

493

(11)

Ideas and Insights

Tracing Aeneas' Journey

504

(22)

Book IV. The Passion of the Queen

507

(19)

Poetry

Catullus

526

(6)

My Woman Says There's Nobody She'd Rather Marry

528

(1)

I Hate Her and I Love Her

528

(1)

I Crossed Many Lands and a Lot of Ocean

528

(1)

My Mind's Sunk So Low, Lesbia, Because of You

529

(3)

Ovid

from the Metamorphoses

The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe

532

(4)

Prose

Tacitus

536

(8)

from the Annals

from The Burning of Rome

538

(6)

Pliny

544

(6)

from Letters The Eruption of Vesuvius

546

(4)

Themes in World Literature: Journeys to the Underworld

550

(1)

Cross Currents: The Planning of Washington, D.C.

551

(1)

Writing About Literature: Firsthand Biography

552

(6)

PART 4 Europe in Transition (450--1890)

The Middle Ages (A.D. 450--1300)

Introduction

558

(10)

Timeline

560

(8)

Reading Critically

568

Model

Background: Song of Roland

566

(3)

from the Song of Roland

Cantos 1--68

569

(12)

Cantos 80--289

581

(9)

from the Nibelungelied

590

(2)

How Siegfried Was Slain

592

(6)

Ideas and Insights

The Code of Chivalry

598

(2)

Chretien de Troyes

600

(10)

from Perceval The Grail

602

(8)

Marie de France

610

(8)

The Lay of the Werewolf

612

(6)

Dante Alighieri

618

(28)

Background: The Divine Comedy

619

(3)

from the Divine Comedy

from the Inferno

Canto I: The Dark Wood of Error

622

(7)

Canto III: The Vestibule of Hell The Opportunists

629

(6)

Canto V: Circle Two: The Carnal

635

(6)

Canto XXXIV: Circle Nine: Cocytus

641

(5)

Ideas and Insights

The Poet as Outlaw

646

(2)

Francois Villon

648

(4)

Ballade

650

(2)

Themes in World Literature: Types of Love

652

(1)

Cross Currents: The Operas of Richard Wagner

653

(1)

Writing About Literature: Evaluation

654

(4)

The Renaissance (1300--1650)

Introduction

658

(10)

Timeline

660

(8)

Reading Critically

668

Model

Niccolo Machiavelli

666

(8)

Background: The Prince

667

(2)

from The Prince

Chapter XV: Of the Things for Which Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed

669

(1)

Chapter XVI: Of Liberality and Niggardliness

670

(4)

Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)

674

(6)

from Canzoniere

Laura

676

(2)

The White Doe

678

(1)

Spring

678

(2)

Ideas and Insights The Black Plague

680

(2)

Giovanni Baccaccio

682

(8)

from the Decameron Federigo's Falcon

684

(6)

Pierre de Ronsard

690

(4)

Roses

692

(1)

When You Are Old

693

(1)

Great Works

The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

694

(4)

Christopher Marlowe

698

(6)

from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus Act 1, Scene 3

700

(4)

William Shakespeare

704

(80)

Background: Shakespearean Drama

705

(4)

The Tempest

709

(75)

Ideas and Insights

Bridges to the Americas

784

(2)

Themes in World Literature: Knowledge and Power

786

(1)

Cross Currents: Modern Love Poetry

787

(1)

Writing About Literature: Cause and Effect

788

(4)

The Age of Rationalism (1650--1800)

Introduction

792

(8)

Timeline

794

(6)

Reading Critically

800

(10)

Model

Jonathan Swift

810

(2)

A Modest Proposal

801

(11)

John Milton

812

(12)

from Paradise Lost

from Book IX

814

(10)

Great Works

Tartuffe by Moliere

824

(6)

Blaise Pascal

from Thoughts

Man and the Universe

830

(4)

Jean de La Fontaine

834

(8)

The Boy and the Schoolmaster

836

(2)

The Wolf and the Lamb

838

(2)

The Council Held by the Rats

840

(2)

Great Works

Candide by Voltaire

842

(4)

Themes in World Literature: Eldorado and the Longing for Paradise

846

(1)

Cross Currents: Bruce Chatwin

847

(1)

Writing About Literature: Problem Solution

848

(4)

Romanticism and Realism (1800--1890)

Introduction

852

(10)

Timeline

854

(8)

Reading Critically

862

Model

Background: The Faust Legend

860

(1)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

861

(17)

from Faust

Prologue in Heaven

863

(6)

from The First Part of the Tragedy

869

(9)

Poetry

Alexander Pushkin

878

(6)

The Bridegroom

880

(4)

Heinrich Heine

884

(3)

The Lorelei

886

(1)

The Lotus Flower

887

(3)

Victor Hugo

888

(2)

from The Expiation Russia 1812

890

(4)

William Wordsworth

894

(8)

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

896

(6)

Charles Baudelaire

902

(4)

Invitation to the Voyage

904

(1)

The Albatross

905

(1)

Arthur Rimbaud

906

(6)

Ophelia

908

(2)

Eternity

910

(2)

Prose

Guy de Maupassant

912

(8)

Two Friends

914

(6)

Nikolai Gogal

920

(22)

The Overcoat

922

(20)

Leo Tolstoy

942

(12)

How Much Land Does a Man Need?

944

(10)

Great Works The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

954

(4)

Anton Chekhov

958

(9)

The Bet

960

(7)

The New Age of Drama

Henrik Ibsen

967

(53)

A Doll's House

969

(51)

Ideas and Insights

The Slamming of the Door in A Doll's House

1020

(2)

Themes in World Literature: The Artist and Society

1022

(1)

Cross Currents: Simone de Beauvoir

1023

(1)

Writing About Literature: Controversial Issue

1024

(6)

PART 5 The Twentieth Century (1890--Present)

The Modern World (1890--1945)

Introduction

1030

(8)

Timeline

1032

(6)

Reading Critically

1038

(10)

Model

Thomas Mann (Germany)

1048

(4)

The Infant Prodigy

1039

(11)

Background: Mann's Stand against the Nazis

1050

(2)

Europe

Rainer Maria Rilke (Germany)

1052

(6)

The Grownup

1055

(1)

Interior of the Rose

1056

(1)

Archaic Torso of Apollo

1057

(1)

Ideas and Insights

Comparing Translations

1058

(2)

Great Works

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

1060

(4)

Isak Dinesen (Denmark)

1064

(12)

The Pearls

1066

(10)

Par Lagerkvist (Sweden)

1076

(5)

The Princess and All the Kingdom

1078

(3)

Ideas and Insights

The Nobel Prize

1081

(1)

Franz Kafka (Czechoslovakia)

1082

(30)

The Metamorphosis

1084

(28)

Anna Akhmatova (Russia)

1112

(4)

Everything Is Plundered

1114

(1)

I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land

1115

(1)

Boris Pasternak (Russia)

1116

(4)

The Drowsy Garden

1118

(1)

The Weeping Garden

1118

(2)

Colette (France)

1120

(6)

The Bracelet

1122

(4)

Paul Valery (France)

1126

(6)

Caesar

1128

(1)

The Friendly Wood

1129

(1)

Palm

1130

(2)

Luigi Pirandello (Italy)

1132

(8)

A Breath of Air

1134

(6)

Federico Garcia Lorca (Spain)

1140

(6)

The Guitar

1143

(1)

My Child Went to Sea

1144

(1)

Rider's Song

1145

(1)

Constantine Cavafy (Greece)

1146

(6)

Waiting for the Barbarians

1148

(2)

Artifical Flowers

1150

(2)

The Americas

Manuel Rojas (Chile)

1152

(8)

The Glass of Milk

1154

(6)

Ruben Dario (Nicaragua)

1160

(4)

Sonatina

1162

(2)

Gabriela Mistral (Chile)

1164

(8)

Bread

1166

(2)

The Prayer

1168

(2)

Fear

1170

(2)

Asia

Mori Ogai (Japan)

1172

(8)

Under Reconstruction

1174

(6)

Lu Hsun (China)

1180

(10)

My Old Home

1182

(8)

Rabindranath Tagore (India)

1190

(8)

The Artist

1192

(6)

Themes In World Literature: Alienation and Despair

1198

(1)

Cross Currents: Isadora Duncan

1199

(1)

Writing About Literature: Reporting Information

1200

(4)

The Contemporary World (1946--Present)

Introduction

1204

(8)

Timeline

1206

(6)

Reading Critically

1212

(7)

Model

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)

1219

(5)

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World

1213

(8)

Background: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Address

1221

(3)

The Americas

Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)

1224

(10)

The Garden of Forking Paths

1226

(8)

Ideas and Insights

Labyrinths

1234

(2)

Julio Cortazar (Argentina)

1236

(8)

House Taken Over

1238

(6)

Octavio Paz (Mexico)

1244

(4)

Poet's Epitaph

1246

(1)

Concord

1246

(1)

Fable

1246

(2)

Pablo Neruda (Chile)

1248

(4)

Ode to My Socks

1250

(2)

Derek Walcott (St. Lucia)

1252

(10)

Sea Grapes

1254

(3)

from Omeros

1257

(5)

Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)

1262

(8)

from Annie John

1264

(6)

Ideas and Insights

Calypso and Dub Poetry

1270

(2)

Western Europe

Albert Camus (France)

1272

(6)

The Myth of Sisyphus

1274

(4)

Gunter Grass (Germany)

1278

(4)

Folding Chairs

1280

(1)

Food for Prophets

1281

(1)

Italo Calvino (Italy)

1282

(10)

The Garden of Stubborn Cats

1284

(8)

Primo Levi (Italy)

1292

(8)

from Survival in Auschwitz

1294

(6)

Ideas and Insights

Elie Wiesel: Survivor and Witness

1300

(2)

Eastern Europe

Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)

1302

(4)

A Song on the End of the World

1304

(2)

Stanislaw Lem (Poland)

1306

(10)

The First Sally (A) or Trurl's Electronic Bard

1308

(8)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russia)

1316

(6)

The One Great Heart

1318

(4)

Andrei Voznesensky (Russia)

1322

(4)

I Am Goya

1325

(1)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russia)

1326

(6)

Visit

1328

(1)

Weddings

1329

(3)

The Middle East

Najib Mahfouz (Egypt)

1332

(8)

The Happy Man

1334

(6)

Yehuda Amichai (Israel)

1340

(6)

The Diameter of the Bomb

1342

(1)

From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment

1343

(3)

Africa

Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal)

1346

(6)

Prayer to Masks

1348

(2)

Night of Sine

1350

(2)

Ideas and Insights

The Nubian Excavations

1352

(2)

Okot p'Bitek (Uganda)

1354

(6)

from Song of Lawino

1356

(4)

Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)

1360

(4)

Season

1362

(1)

Civilian and Soldier

1363

(1)

Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)

1364

(10)

The Ultimate Safari

1366

(8)

Bessie Head (South Africa)

1374

(6)

Snapshots of a Wedding

1376

(4)

Barbara Kimenye (Uganda)

1380

(10)

The Winner

1382

(8)

Ousmane Sembene (Senegal)

1390

(12)

Tribal Scars or The Voltaique

1392

(10)

Ideas and Insights

Ousmane Sembene: Father of African Cinema

1402

(2)

Great Works

Things Fall Aprt by Chinue Achebe

1404

(4)

Asia

R. K. Narayan (India)

1408

(6)

An Astrologer's Day

1410

(4)

Anita Desai (India)

1414

(10)

Studies in the Park

1416

(8)

Pak Tu-jin (South Korea)

1424

(4)

High Mountain Plant

1426

(1)

August River

1426

(2)

Kawabata Yasunari (Japan)

1428

(6)

The Jay

1430

(4)

Nguyen Thi Vinh (Vietnam)

1434

(4)

Thoughts of Hanoi

1436

(2)

The Misty Poets (China)

Bei Dao

1438

(1)

Answer

1440

(1)

Testament

1441

(1)

All

1441

Gu Cheng

1438

(1)

When Hope Comes Back

1442

Shu Ting

1438

(10)

Assembly Line

1444

(1)

Also All

1445

(1)

Fairy Tales

1446

(2)

Themes in World Literature: Justice and Injustice

1448

(1)

Cross Currents: Black Women Writers and Magical Realism

1449

(1)

Writing About Literature: Generalization

1450

(2)

Handbook of Grammer and Revising Strategies

1452

(20)

Handbook of Literary Terms and Techniques

1472

(11)

Glossary

1483

(11)

Index of Fine Art

1494

(6)

Index of Skills

1500

(4)

Index of Titles by Themes

1504

(3)

Index of Authors and Titles

1507

(4)

Acknowledgments

1511

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