Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction Book

Part One: ACTS OF INTERPRETATION. 1. Critical Thinking and Critical Analysis of Literature. The Critical Thinking Process. The Critical Thinking/Critical Reading Connection. Critical Analysis of Literature: A Classroom Experience. 2. The Reading Process. Reader Response. The Reading/Writing Connection. Glossing and Annotating. Brainstorming and Questioning. Freewriting. Journal Writing. Notetaking and the Double-Entry Notebook. "Think" Writings. Creative Responses to Literature. Some Final Considerations about the Reading Process. 3. The Writing Process: Writing the Essay about Literature. Interrelated Stages of Writing. Prewriting. Shaping. Drafting. Revising and Editing. Proofreading. Composing on a Computer. The Writing Process: An Example. Peer Evaluation. Special Requirements for Writing about Literature. Forms of the Essay about Literature. Response Essay. Explication Essay. Comparison/Contrast Essay. Argumentation Essay. Patterns of Argumentative Thinking and Writing. Logical Fallacies to Avoid in Creating Literary Arguments. Critical Analysis Essay. Historical, Social, or Cultural Analysis Essay. Evaluation and Review Essay. The Creative Essay About Literature. The Research Essay. Summary. Part Two: THEMATIC ANTHOLOGY. 4. The Heroic Journey. Crossing Genres/Dangers of Adolescence. Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?" (Fiction). John Steinbeck, "Flight" (Fiction). Marie Howe, "The Attic" (Poetry). Robert Frost, "Birches" (Poetry). William S. Kowinski, "Kids in the Mall" (Nonfiction). Fiction. Sarah Orne Jewett, "A White Heron." John Updike, "A & P." Liliana Heker, "The Stolen Party." William Faulkner, "Barn Burning." BarbaraKingsolver, "Rose-Johnny." Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." Raymond Carver, "Cathedral." STORIES FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: FAIRY TALES. Nadine Gordimer, "Once Upon a Time." Angela Carter, "The Company of Wolves." On the Web: Introduction to Fairy Tales. Poetry. Diane Wakoski, "Wind Secrets." Countee Cullen, "Incident." Lorna Dee Cervantes, "Uncle's First Rabbit." Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." Gary Soto, "Black Hair." Gary Soto, "Oranges." Louise Gluck, "Summer at the Beach." Rita Dove, "Adolescence I, II, III." Audre Lorde, "Hanging Fire." Nikki Giovanni, "Ego Tripping." Anne Sexton, "Cinderella." Anthony Hecht, "It Out-Herods Herod. Pray You, Avoid It." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Latin Women Pray." Cathy Song, "Lost Sister." Naomi Shihab Nye, "Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl." Louise Erdrich, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways." Janice Mirikitani, "Suicide Note." POEMS FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: METAMORPHISES. John Milton, "When I consider how my light is spent." Walt Whitman, "There Was a Child Went Forth." Emily Dickinson, "My Life Had Stood-." Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Lesson of the Sugarcane." Lisel Mueller, "Not Only the Eskimos." Ha Jin, "The Past." Aron Keesbury, "Who Places things Exactly." Drama. William Shakespeare, Hamlet. On the Web: Shakespeare and His Times. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House. Nonfiction. David Elkind, "Our Hurried Children." Gretel Ehrlich, "Looking for a Lost Dog." Bruno Bettelheim, "The Uses of Enchantment." James Hollis, "The Heroic Journey." David Sedaris, "I Like Guys." Writing Assignments. Student Essays. Staci Anna Marie Ferris, "Response to Greg Delanty's 'Leavetaking'"(Student Essay: Personal Response). Joella Knapp, "Spiritual Evolution of Literary Characters" (Student Essay: Character Analysis). Jean Thompson, "Journal for Sylvia: 'A White Heron'" (Student Essay: Creative Response to Literature and Character Analysis). 5. Haunted Houses. Crossing Genres/Family Secrets. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Rappaccini's Daughter" (Fiction). Edwidge Danticat, "The Book of the Dead" (Fiction). Robyn Joy Leff, "Burn Your Maps" (Fiction). Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays" (Poetry). bell hooks, s 49, 50, 51 from bone black (Nonfiction). Fiction. Tillie Olsen, "I Stand Here Ironing." Junot Diaz, "Fiesta 1980." James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues." Sherman Alexie, "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona." Amy Tan, "Scar" from The Joy Luck Club. Louise Erdrich, "The Shawl." STORIES FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: ALIENATION IN FAMILIES. Dan Chaon, "Fitting Ends." Gish Jen, "Chin." On the Web: Visions of Hauntings: Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry. Ben Jonson, "On My First Son." Amiri Baraka, "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note." Linda Pastan, "In the Old Guerilla War." Sylvia Plath, "Daddy." Simon Ortiz, "My Father's Song." Li-Young Lee, "Persimmons." Seamus Heaney, "Digging." Martin Espada, "The Sign in My Father's Hands." Lyn Lifshin, "My Mother and the Bed." Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl." Marie Howe, "The Boy." Anne Sexton, "My Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman." Maxine Kumin, "Making the Jam Without You." Pat Mora, "Elena." Margaret Walker, "Lineage." Etheridge Knight, "The Idea of Ancestry." Agha Shahid Ali, "Snowmen." POEMS FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: LOSS AND FAMILY. Anne Bradstreet, "To My Dear and Loving Husband." William Wordsworth, "The Sailor's Mother." Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "The Slave Mother." D. H. Lawrence, "Piano." Harold A. Zlotnik, "Odyssey." Linda Hogan, "Heritage." Martin Espada, "Coca-cola and Coco Frio." Dwight Okita, "The Nice Thing About Counting Stars." Julia Alvarez, "Homecoming." Drama. Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun. John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea. Nonfiction. Gloria Steinem, "Ruth's Song." F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Letter to his Daughter" from Letters to his Daughter. Garrett Hongo, "Kubota." Chang-rae Lee, "Coming Home Again." Writing Assignments. Student Essays. Melissa Del Castillo and Michelle Ing, "Fathers and Sons" (Student Essay: Comparison/Contrast). Anne Cilia, "Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy' and an Analysis of Poetic Language" (Student Essay: Critical Analysis and Research). 6. Gender and Sexuality. Crossing Genres/The Elusive Sexual Self. ZZ Packer, "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" (Fiction). David Leavitt, "Territory"(Fiction). C. P. Cavafy, "The Next Table" (Poetry). C. P. Cavafy, "On the Stairs" (Poetry). David Henry Hwang, M Butterfly(Drama). Kim Ficera, "All in the Family" (Nonfiction). Bernard Cooper, "Burl's"(Nonfiction). Fiction. Anton Chekhov, "Lady with Lapdog." Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants." James Joyce, "Eveline." William Faulkner, "A Rose For Emily." Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper." Octavio Paz, "My Life with the Wave." Alberto Moravia, "The Chase." Leslie Marmon Silko, "Yellow Woman." Bobbie Ann Mason, "Shiloh." Mary Gordon, "Violation." l^e thi diem thúy, "The Gangster We Are All Looking For." Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings." Margaret Atwood, "The Female Body." Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." STORIES FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: APPETITES. T. C. Boyle, "Modern Love." Alice McDermott, "Enough." Poetry. William Shakespeare, "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds." William Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" John Donne, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress." Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach." Anthony Hecht, "The Dover Bitch." William Blake "The Garden of Love." Pablo Neruda, "Sweetness, Always." Pablo Neruda, "Tonight I Can Write...." Léopold-Sédar Senghor, "Nuit de Sine." Gary Snyder, "The Bath." Liz Rosenberg, "In the End, We Are All Light." Huda Naamani, "I Take You an Orange." Virginia Hamilton Adair, "Peeling an Orange." Marge Piercy, "Barbie Doll." Cherrie Moraga, "Loving in the War Years." Billy Collins, "Osso Buco." Elizabeth Spires, "Like Water." Anna Akhmatova, "Lot's Wife." T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." POEMS FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: POEMS OF PASSION. Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." John Donne, "The Flea." George Gordon, Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty." John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci." Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee?" Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market." Edna St. Vincent Millay, "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why." E. E. Cummings, "LVII." Adrienne Rich, "my mouth hovers across your breasts." Drama. Susan Glaspell, Trifles. Rebecca Gilman, Boy Gets Girl. David Ives, "Sure Thing." Ntozake Shange, "Sorry" from for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Nonfiction. Plato, "The Sexes" from The Symposium. M. Elaine Mar, "Bi Bi Hua." Kim Ficera, "Bi-Bye." Maxine Hong Kingston, "No Name Woman." Virginia Woolf, "Professions for Women." Simone de Beauvoir, "Woman as Other." Writing Assignments. Student Essays. Leigh Grimm, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" (Student Essay: Explication and Character Analysis). Kimberley Thomas, "The Concept of Love in The English Patient" (Student Essay: Thematic Analysis and Movie Review). 7. Sites of Conflict. Crossing Genres/Terror and Terrorism. Luisa Valenzuela, "I'm Your Horse in the Night" (Fiction). Bharati Mukherjee, "The Management of Grief" (Fiction). Nathan Englander, "In This Way We Are Wise" (Fiction). Jessica Hagedorn, "The Song of Bullets" (Poetry). Carolyn Forche, "The Colonel" (Poetry). Carolyn Forche, "Prayer" (Poetry). Laura Blumenfeld, "The Apology: Letters from a Terrorist" (Nonfiction). Philip Gourevitch, Excerpt from We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families (Nonfiction). Fiction. Luigi Pirandello, "War." Panos Ioannides, "Gregory." Cynthia Ozick, "The Shawl." Sara Nomberg Pryztyk, "Natasha's Triumph." Shusaku Endo, "The War Generation." Tim O'Brien, "How To Tell a True War Story." Frederick Busch, "Ralph the Duck." STORIES FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: IN[VISIBILITY]:MINORITIES VS.MAJORITIES. Alice Walker, "Nineteen Fifty-Five." Tayeb Salih, "A Handful of Dates." F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Ice Palace." Poetry. W. H. Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts." W. H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen." Lao-tzu, "Weapons at Best." Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est." Mary Jo Salter, "Welcome to Hiroshima." Marilyn Chin, "Love Poem from Nagasaki." Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It." Yusef Komunyakaa, "Nude Interrogation." Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again." Langston Hughes, "Harlem." Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock." Allen Ginsberg, "America." Gloria Anzaldúa, "horse." Joy Harjo, "For Anna Mae Aquash Whose Spirit Is Present Here and in the Dappled Stars." Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise." Lucille Clifton, "Jasper Texas 1998." Naomi Shihab Nye, "Steps." Wole Soyinka, "Telephone Conversation." Charlotte Delbo, "Prayer to the Living to Forgive Them for Being Alive." POEMS FOR 9/11. Galway Kinnell, "When the Towers Fell." Bruce Springsteen, "The Rising." Adam Zagajewski, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World." On the Web: Wendell Berry, "Thoughts in the Presence of Fear." Narratives about 9/11. POEMS FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: THE IDEAL VS. REAL WORLD. Jonathan Swift, "A Description of the Morning." William Blake, "London." Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, "The Slave Auction." Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Sympathy." Hart Crane, "Episode of Hands." Paul Simon, "American Tune." Sarah Jones, "God Bless America." Paul Celan, "Death Fugue." Drama. Sophocles, Antigone. Anna Deavere Smith, "Limbo/Twilight #2" from Twilight Los Angeles 1992. Jose Rivera, "Gas." Nonfiction. Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Manning Marable, "The Prism of Race." Elie Wisel, "Why I Write: Making No Become Yes." Emma Goldman, "Minorities vs. Majorities." Czeslaw Milosz, "American Ignorance of War." Jason Hartley, "I, Jailor." On the Web: Civil Rights Timeline. W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk. Martin Luther King Speeches. Malcolm X Speeches. Dudley Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham." Writing Assignments. Student Essays. Melanie Chopko, "A Mother's Survival" (Student Essay: Thematic Analysis and Research). Gloria M. Winter, "Rosa's Final Scream" (Student Essay: Creative Response). Online Forum and Discussion: Creative Responses to "horse." 8. Strange New Worlds. Crossing Genres/Science Fiction. Octavia E. Butler, "Bloodchild" (Fiction). William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" (Poetry). Stephen Jay Gould, "Nonmoral Nature" (Nonfiction). Fiction. Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., "Harrison Bergeron." Chinua Achebe, "Girls at War." Sandra Cisneros, "There Was a Man, There Was a Woman." Jhumpa Lahiri, "The Third and Final Continent." Isabel Allende, "And of Clay Are We Created." STORIES FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: FACING DEATH. Lorrie Moore, "Dance in America." Ben Okri, "A Prayer from the Living." Poetry. W. S. Merwin, "The Chinese Mountain Fox." Judith Emlyn Johnson, "Stone Olives." Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali: "Song I" and "Song II." Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnet 1." Rainer Maria Rilke, "Sonnet 29." Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck." Derek Walcott, "A Far Cry from Africa." Gloria Anzaldúa, "To live in the Borderlands means you." Marjorie Agosin, "Far Away." Marjorie Agosin, "The Foreigner." Donald Justice, "The Missing Person." Anna Lee Walters, "My Name Is 'I Am Living'." Mary Oliver, "Ghosts." Wislawa Szymborska, "The Century's Decline." Wislawa Szymborska, "Could Have." Wislawa Szymborska, "Hatred." POEMS FOR COMPARISON/CONTRAST: LIFE IN THE MIDST OF DEATH. William Wordsworth, "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan: or, a Vision in a Dream." John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Haunted Palace." Walt Whitman, "Facing West from California's Shores." Emily Dickinson, "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died." Charlotte Mew, "The Forest Road." William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium." Theodore Roethke, "The Waking." Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." James Wright, "A Blessing." Wallace Stevens, "The Idea of Order at Key West." Cathy Song, "Heaven." Jane Kenyon, "Otherwise." Drama. Athol Fugard, "Master Harold" and the Boys. Nonfiction. Andre Aciman, "Alexandria: The Capital of Memory." Toni Morrison, "The Nobel Prize Speech: Nobel Lecture, 7 December l993." Alice Walker, "Am I Blue?" Herman Melville, "The Encantadas." Joan Didion, "At The Dam." Scott Russell Sanders, "Wayland." Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave." Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sisyphus." Writing Assigments. Student Essays. Michael Mei, "Lost in Transition" (Student Essay: Cultural Analysis). Part Three: READING AND WRITING ABOUT THE GENRES. 9. Fiction. Forms of Narrative. Elements of Fiction. Point of View. Setting. Plot. Conflict. Character. Language. Tone. Symbolism. Theme. The Reading/Writing Process: Fiction. Checklist for Reading Short Fiction. Student Portfolio: Response to Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour." 10. Poetry. Kinds of Poetry. Narrative Poetry. Lyric Poetry. Dramatic Poetry. Performance Poetry. Elements of Poetry. Voice. Tone. Theme. Setting. Imagery. Figures of Speech. Metaphor and Simile. Personification, Synecdoche, Metonymy, and Hyperbole. Symbol, Myth, Allusion. Structure. Stanzas. Rhyme and Sound. Rhythm. Meter. Scansion. Strong Stress Meter. Syllabic Rhythm. Free Verse. The Reading/Writing Process: Poetry. Checklist for Writing about Poetry. Student Portfolio: Response to Wilfred Owen's "Arms and the Boy." 11. Drama. Forms of Drama. Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Drama. Realism. Theater of the Absurd. Symbolist Drama. Performance Drama. Film and Television. Elements of Drama. Character. Soliloquy, Monologue, and Dialogue. Action. Plot. Setting. Symbolism. Irony. Theme. The Reading/Writing Process: Drama Checklist for Writing about Drama. Student Portfolio: Response to Rebecca Gilman's Boy Gets Girl. 12. Nonfiction. Forms of Nonfiction. Speech. Philosophical Treatise. Autobiography. Memoir. Journal. Essay. Kinds of Essays. Forms of Creative Nonfiction. Elements of Nonfiction. The Reading/Writing Response: Nonfiction. Checklist of Questions for Nonfiction Prose. Student Portfolio: Response to King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Part Four: APPENDIXES. Appendix A The Research Process and MLA Documentation. The Research Process. The Research Process Online-Research on the Web. Principles of Documentation. Forms of MLA Documentation-Citations within the Text. "Works Cited" Page. Common forms of Bibliographic Entries for Internet Sources on the "Works Cited" Page. Principles of Online Documentation. Common Forms of Bibliographic Entires for the "Works Cited" Page. Endnotes. An Example of the Research Process-MLA Documentation. Erik Schoonebeek, "Literature as History" (Student Essay:). Historical and Cultural Analysis and Argument. Appendix B Critical Approaches to Literature. Formalism/New Criticism. Structuralism. Gender Criticism. New Historicism. Marxist Criticism. Postcolonial Criticism. Conclusion. Glossary of Terms. Literary Credits. Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry. Subject Index.