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FICTION
1. READING A STORY
Fable, Parable, and Tales
W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra
* Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun
Bidpai, The Camel and His Friends
Chuang Tzu, Independence
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death
Plot
The Short Story
John Updike, A & P
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
John Updike, Why Write?
Writing About Plot
Paying Attention to Plot
Checklist: Analyzing Plot
Writing Assignment on Plot
More Topics For Writing
2. POINT OF VIEW
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
* Anne Tyler, Teenage Wasteland
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
* Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
James Baldwin, Race and the African American Writer
Writing About Point of View
How Point of View Shapes a Story
Checklist: Understanding Point of View
Writing Assignment on Point of View
More Topics for Writing
3. CHARACTER
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill
* Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Raymond Carver, Commonplace but Precise Language
Writing About Character
How Character Creates Action
Checklist: Writing About Character
Writing Assignment on Character
More Topics For Writing
4. SETTING
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Jack London, To Build a Fire
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake
Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Amy Tan, Setting the Voice
Writing About Setting
The Importance of Setting
Checklist: Analyzing Setting
Writing Assignment on Setting
More Topics For Writing
5. TONE AND STYLE
Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
William Faulkner, Barn Burning
Irony
* O. Henry, Gift of the Magi
Ha Jin, Saboteur
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Ernest Hemingway, The Direct Style
Writing About Tone and Style
Be Style Conscious
Checklist: Thinking about Style and Tone
Writing Assignment on Tone and Style
More Topics For Writing
6. THEME
Stephen Crane, The Open Boat
* Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband
Luke 15: 11-32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Themes of Science Fiction
Writing About Theme
Stating the Theme
Checklist: Determining a Story’s Theme
Writing Assignment on Theme
More Topics For Writing
7. SYMBOL
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Elizabeth Tallent, No One’s a Mystery
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
* Shirley Jackson, Reactions to "The Lottery"
Writing About Symbols
Recognizing Symbols
Checklist: Thinking about Symbols
Writing Assignment on Symbols
Student Essay, An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums"
More Topics For Writing
8. EVALUATING A STORY
* Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
* Yiyun Li, “What I Could Not Write about Was Why I Was Writing”
Writing An Evaluation
Judging a Story’s Value
Checklist: Evaluating Fiction
Writing Assignment on Evauating Fiction
More Topics for Writing
9. READING LONG STORIES AND NOVELS
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Franz Kafka, Discussing The Metamorphosis
Writing About Long Stories and Novels
Know What to Leave Out
Checklist: Wrting About a Long Story or Novel
Writing Assignment on Long Works of Fiction
Student Essay, Kafka's Greatness
More Topics for Writing
10. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor, Revelation
* Flannery O'Connor, Parker’s Back
Flannery O'Connor on Writing
Flannery O'Connor, An Excerpt from “On Her Own Work”: The Element of Suspense in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Flannery O'Connor, On Her Catholic Faith
Flannery O'Connor, An Excerpt from “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction”: The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader
Flannery O'Connor, Yearbook Cartoons
Critics on Flannery O'Connor
Robert Brinkmeyer Jr., Flannery O’Connor and Her Readers
J. O. Tate, A Good Source Is Not so Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit
Mary Jane Schenck, Deconstructing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
* Kathleen Feeley, The Mystery of Divine Direction: “Parker’s Back”
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writing About an Author
How One Story Illuminates Another
Checklist: Reading an Author in Depth
Writing Assignment on an Author
More Topics For Writing
11. CRITICAL CASEBOOK: 3 Stories in Depth
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe on Writing
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tale and Its Effect
Edgar Allan Poe, On Imagination
Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
Critics on “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Daniel Hoffman, The Father-Figure in “The Tell-Tale Heart”
* Scott Peeples, “The Tell-Tale Heart” as a Love Story
* John Chua, The Figure of the Double in Poe
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Writing
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Whatever Is
* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Nervous Breakdown of Women
Critics on “Yellow Wallpaper”
Juliann Fleenor, Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
* Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement
* Elizabeth Ammons, Biographical Echoes in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Alice Walker on Writing
* Black Women Writers in America, Interview by John O’Brien
* Alice Walker: “I Know What the Earth Says, ” Interview by William R. Ferris
Critics on “Everyday Use”
Barbara T. Christian, “Everyday Use” and the Black Power Movement
* Houston A. Baker and Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Stylish vs. Sacred in “Everyday Use”
* Elaine Showalter, Quilt as Metaphor in “Everyday Use”
12. STORIES FOR FURTHER READING
Chinua Achebe, Dead Men's Path
Anjana Appachana, The Prophecy
Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark
Willa Cather, Paul's Case
John Cheever, The Five-Forty-Eight
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street.
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Gabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
* Dagoberto Gilb, Look on the Bright Side
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper
James Joyce, Araby
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
* Octavio Paz, My Life with the Wave
Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds
* Helena María Viramontes, The Moths
POETRY
13. READING A POEM
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Lyric Poetry
D. H. Lawrence, Piano
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Narrative Poetry
Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence
Robert Frost, “Out, Out—”
Dramatic Poetry
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Adrienne Rich, Recalling "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
Writing a Paraphrase
Can a Poem be Paraphrased?
William Stafford, Ask Me
William Stafford, A Paraphrase of "Ask Me"
Checklist: Paraphrasing a Poem
Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing
More Topics for Writing
14. LISTENING TO A VOICE
Tone
Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know
Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book
Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter
Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, To the Desert
Weldon Kees, For My Daughter
The Person in the Poem
Natasha Trethewey, White Lies
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal
Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting
* Suji Kwock Kim, Monologue for an Onion
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry
James Stephens, A Glass of Beer
Anne Sexton, Her Kind
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Irony
Robert Creeley, Oh No
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage
John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey
Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links
* Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second Fig
* Joseph Stroud, Missing
Thomas Hardy, The Workbox
For Review and Further Study
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper
* David Lehman, Rejection Slip
William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border
H. L. Hix, I Love the World, As Does Any Dancer
Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Wilfred Owen, War Poetry
Writing About Voice
Listening to Tone
Checklist: Analyzing Tone
Writing Assignment on Tone
Student Essay, Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz"
More Topics for Writing
15. WORDS
Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say
Marianne Moore, Silence
Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down!
John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You
The Value of a Dictionary
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
John Clare, Mouse’s Nest
J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead
Kelly Cherry, Advice to a Friend Who Paints
Carl Sandburg, Grass
Word Choice and Word Order
Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes
Kay Ryan, Blandeur
Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid
Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts
For Review and Further Study
E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town
Billy Collins, The Names
Anonymous, Carnation Milk
* Kenneth Rexroth, Vitamins and Roughage
* Gina Valdes, English con Salsa
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Lewis Carroll, Humpty Dumpty Explicates "Jabberwocky"
Writing About Diction
Every Word Counts
Checklist: Thinking About Word Choice
Writing Assignment on Word Choice
More Topics for Writing
16. SAYING AND SUGGESTING
John Masefield, Cargoes
William Blake, London
Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock
* Gwendolyn Brooks, Southeast Corner
Timothy Steele, Epitaph
* E. E. Cummings, next to of course to god america i
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice
Clare Rossini, Final Love Note
* Jennifer Reeser, Winter-proof
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears
Richard Wilbur, Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Richard Wilbur, Concerning "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"
Writing About Denotation and Connotation
The Ways a Poem Suggests
Checklist: Analyzing What a Poem Says and Suggests
Writing Assignment on Denotation and Connotation
More Topics for Writing
17. IMAGERY
Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
Taniguchi Buson, The piercing chill I feel
T. S. Eliot, The winter evening settles down
Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
Anne Stevenson, The Victory
Charles Simic, Fork
Emily Dickinson, A Route of Evanescence
Jean Toomer, Reapers
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
About Haiku
Arakida Moritake, The falling flower
Matsuo Basho, Heat-lightning streak
Matsuo Basho, In the old stone pool
Taniguchi Buson, On the one-ton temple bell
Taniguchi Buson, I go
Kobayashi Issa, only one guy
Kobayashi Issa, Cricket
Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps
Suiko Matsushita, Rain shower from mountain
Neiji Ozawa, War forced us from California
Hakuro Wada, Even the croaking of frogs
Contemporary American Haiku
Etheridge Knight, Lee Gurga, Penny Harter, John Ridland,
• Garry Gay, Adelle Foley, Jennifer Brutschy, Connie Bensley, A Selection of Haiku
For Review and Further Study
John Keats, Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
T. C. Hulme, The Image
Walt Whitman, The Runner
* William Carlos Williams, El Hombre
Chana Bloch, Tired Sex
Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter
* Rita Dove, Silos
Louise Glück, Mock Orange
Billy Collins, Embrace
John Haines, Winter News
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Ezra Pound, The Image
Writing About Imagery
Analyzing Images
Checklist: Thinking About Imagery
Writing Assignment on Imagery
Student Essay, Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Imagery in "The Fish"
More Topics for Writing
18. FIGURES OF SPEECH
Why Speak Figuratively?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Metaphor and Simile
Emily Dickinson, My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Flower in the Crannied Wall
William Blake, To see a world in a grain of sand
Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
N. Scott Momaday, Simile
Emily Dickinson, It dropped so low – in my Regard
Craig Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Other Figures
James Stephens, The Wind
Margaret Atwood, You fit into me
John Ashbery, The Cathedral Is
George Herbert, The Pulley
* Dana Gioia, Money
* Charles Simic, My Shoes
For Review and Further Study
Robert Frost, The Silken Tent
* April Lindner, Low Tide
Jane Kenyon, The Suitor
Robert Frost, The Secret Sits
A. R. Ammons, Coward
Kay Ryan, Turtle
* Heather McHugh, Language Lesson, 1976
Robinson Jeffers, Hands
Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Robert Frost, The Importance of Poetic Metaphor
Writing About Metaphors
How Metaphors Enlarge a Poem's Meaning
Checklist: Analyzing Metaphor
Writing Assignment on Figures of Speech
More Topics for Writing
19. SONG
Singing and Saying
Ben Jonson, To Celia
Anonymous, The Cruel Mother
* William Shakespeare, O Mistress Mine
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Paul Simon, Richard Cory
Ballads
Anonymous, Bonny Barbara Allan
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Blues
Bessie Smith with Clarence Williams, Jailhouse Blues
W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues
Rap
Run D.M.C., from Peter Piper
For Review and Further Study
John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Eleanor Rigby
Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin'
* Aimee Mann, Deathly
WRITING EFFECTIVELY
Writers on Writing
Paul McCartney, Creating "Eleanor Rigby"
Writing About Song Lyrics
Poetry’s Close Kinship with Song
Checklist: Looking at Lyrics as Poetry
Writing Assignment on Song Lyrics
More Topics for Writing
20. SOUND
Sound as Meaning
Alexander Pope, True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance
William Butler Yeats, Who Goes with Fergus?
John Updike, Recital
William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
Emanuel di Pasquale, Rain
Aphra Behn, When Maidens Are Young
Alliteration and Assonance
A. E. Housman, Eight O’Clock
* James Joyce, All Day I Hear
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The splendor falls on castle walls
Rime
William Cole, On my boat on Lake Cayuga
James Reeves, Rough Weather
Hilaire Belloc, The Hippopotamus
* Ogden Nash, The Panther
William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur
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