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Preface for Instructors
Contents by Genre
Part One: Working with Literature
1. What Is Literature? How and Why Does It Matter?
James Wright, "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" (poem)
How Have People Defined Literature?
*Why Study Literature in a College Writing Course?
What Can You Do to Make Literature Matter to Others?
*J. Robert Lennon, When I married, I became an old woman. . . . (story)
*Strategies for Close Reading
*Close Readings of a Poem
*Sharon Olds, "Summer Solstice, New York City" (poem)
Using Topics of Literary Studies to Get Ideas
Lynda Hull, Night Waitress (poem)
Daniel Orozco, Orientation (story)
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl (story)
Strategies for Making Arguments about Literature
Looking at Literature as Argument
John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent" (poem)
W. H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen" (poem)
*Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" (poem)
4. The Writing Process
William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper" (poem)
Strategies for Exploring
Strategies for Planning
Strategies for Composing
First Draft of a Student Paper
Abby Hazelton, The Passage of Time in "The Solitary Reaper"
Strategies for Revising
Revised Draft of a Student Paper
Abby Hazelton, The Passage of Time in "The Solitary Reaper"
Strategies for Writing a Comparative Paper
Ted Kooser, "Four Secretaries" (poem)
A Student Comparative Paper
Marla Tracy, When Singing Is Not Singing
A Writing Exercise
*C. K. Williams, The Singing (poem)
5. How to Write about Stories
Eudora Welty, A Visit of Charity
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
*Anton Chekhov, Sleepy
Students’ Personal Responses to the Stories
The Elements of Short Fiction
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Alison Caldwell, Forms of Blindness in "The Use of Force"
6. How to Write about Poems
Rosanna Warren, In Creve Coeur, Missouri
Charles Fort, We Did Not Fear the Father
Philip Levine, What Work Is
Mary Oliver, Singapore
Yusef Komunyakaa, Blackberries
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Mill
Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs Away from Americans
Louise Erdrich, The Lady in the Pink Mustang
*Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant
A Student’s Personal Responses to the Poems
Michaela Fiorruci, Boundaries in Robinson, Komunyakaa, and Oliver
The Elements of Poetry
Revised Draft of a Student Paper
Michaela Fiorruci, Negotiating Boundaries
7. How to Write about Plays
Tennessee Williams, From The Glass Menagerie (scene)
Marsha Norman, from ‘night Mother (scene)
The Elements of Drama
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Tim Kerwin, The Significance of What Jessie "Thinks"
8. How to Write about Essays
A Student’s Personal Response
The Elements of Essays
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Isla Bravo, Resisting Women’s Roles
9. How to Write a Research Paper
Strategies for Identifying an Issue and a Tentative Claim
Strategies for Finding and Using Secondary Sources
Strategies for Working with Sources
Strategies for Integrating Sources
Strategies for Documenting Sources (MLA Format)
Three Annotated Student Research Papers
*Katie Johnson, The Meaning of the Husband’s Fainting in "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
*Brittany Thomas, Substitution in Mitchell’s "The Evolution of the Rest Treatment" and Gilman’s "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
*Keith Alexander, What the Argument between Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields Demonstrated about the Media
Part Two: Literature and Its Issues
10. Families
Memories of Family: Essays
Brent Staples, The Runaway Son
Rick Moody, Demonology
*Paule Marshall, Poets in the Kitchen
*José Raul Bernardo, Happy Blue Crabs
Reconciling with Fathers: Poems
Lucille Clifton, forgiving my father
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
*Li-Young Lee, My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
Louise Gluck, Terminal Resemblance
Exorcising the Dead: Critical Commentaries on a Poem
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
Critical Commentaries:
Mary Lynn Broe, From Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Lynda K. Bundtzen, From Plath's Incarnations
Steven Gould Axelrod, From Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words
Tim Kendall, from Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study
Mothers and Daughters: Stories
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Siblings in Conflict: Stories
Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues
Family Dramas: Re-Visions of a Play
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Christopher Durang, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
Grandparents and Legacies: Poems
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Grandfather at the Indian Health Clinic
Nikki Giovanni, Legacies
Linda Hogan, Heritage
Gary Soto, Behind Grandma's House
Alberto Rios, Mi Abuelo
Yvonne V. Sapia, Grandmother, a Caribbean Indian, Described by My Father
*Judith Ortiz Cofer, Claims
Family Bonds: A Collection of Essays by bell hooks
bell hooks, Inspired Eccentricity
bell hooks, Talking Back
bell hooks, Spirit
A Family’s Dreams: Cultural Contexts for a Play
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Cultural Contexts:
The Crisis, The Hansberrys of Chicago: They Join Business Acumen with Social Vision
Lorraine Hansberry, April 23, 1964, Letter to the *York Times
Alan Ehrenhalt, From The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s
Sidney Poitier, from The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Parental Crisis: Stories
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Love of My Life
Kate Braverman, Pagan Night
Gays and Lesbians in Families: Poems
Essex Hemphill, Commitments
Kitty Tsui, A Chinese Banquet
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Two Small-Sized Girls
*Rane Arroyo, My Transvestite Uncle Is Missing
The Family as Prison: A Story and Images
*Art Spiegelman, Prisoner on the Hell Planet
*Images from Maus
11. Love
True Love: Poems
William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
e. e. cummings, somewhere i have never travelled
Wislawa Szymborska, True Love
Sharon Olds, True Love
Michael S. Harper, Discovery
*Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights — Wild Nights!
*Wendy Rose, Julia
Romantic Dreams: Stories
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
James Joyce, Araby
John Updike, A & P
*Sherwood Anderson, Adventure
Love and Myth: Essays
Diane Ackerman, Orpheus and Eurydice
Carol Gilligan, Psyche and Cupid
A Seductive Argument: Re-Visions of a Poem
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Peter De Vries, To His Importunate Mistress
To Love or Not to Love: Critical Commentaries on a Poem
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Critical Commentaries:
Charles Child Walcutt, Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Bruce Hayman, How Old is Prufrock? Does He Want to Get Married?
Leon Waldoff, Prufrock’s Defenses and Our Response
Heather Brown, The Ambiguity of Romance in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Melinda Hollis, Prufrock’s Road to Love Is Paved with Irony
The Appearance of Love: A Collection of Stories by Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin, Désirée's Baby
Is This Love?: Stories
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits
*William Trevor, The Room
Jealous Love: A Play and Images
William Shakespeare, Othello
Images:
Eugene Delacroix, Desdemona Cursed by Her Father (painting)
Eugene Delacroix, Othello and Desdemona (painting)
The Need for Romantic Illusions: Cultural Contexts for a Story
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Cultural Contexts
*Sullivan Ballou, "My very dear Sarah"
*Brian Sullivan, Letter to Tobie
*Tyrone Parnell, Letter to Tracy
Looking Back on Past Love: Stories
Edith Wharton, Roman Fever
Alice Elliott Dark, The Secret Spot
Love as a Have? Poems
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
*Susan Minot, My Husband’s Back
12. Freedom and Confinement
Freedom for Animals: Poems
Maxine Kumin, Woodchucks
D. H. Lawrence, Snake
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
*Thomas Lux, To Help the Monkey Cross the River
Can Tradition Be a Trap?: Critical Commentaries on a Story
*Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Critical Commentaries
*Nick Crawford, Learning from "The Lottery": How Jackson’s Story Might Help Us Rethink Tradition
*Joe Romano, Sacrifice, Solidarity, and Senselessness
*Jon Schneiderman, Tradition, Justice, and Bloodlust in American Society
*Aimee Wilson, Under the Guise of Tradition: "The Lottery" and Female Circumcision
The Marriage Trap: Plays
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Confined for Her Own Good: Cultural Contexts for a Story
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Cultural Contexts
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper"
S. Weir Mitchell, From The Evolution of the Rest Treatment
John Harvey Kellogg, From The Ladies’ Guide in Health and Disease
Hobbled by Language: Essays
Richard Rodriguez, Aria
Tomas Rivera, On Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory
Victor Villaneuva, Jr., Reflecting on Richard Rodriguez
Trapped in Stereotypes: Poems
Chrystos, Today Was s Good Day Like TB
Louise Erdrich, Dear John Wayne
Dwight Okita, In Response to Executive Order 9066
David Hernandez, Pigeons
Sonia Sanchez, Song No. 3
*Pat Mora, Legal Alien
*Naomi Shihab Nye, Blood
A Torturous Confinement: Re-Visions of a Story
*Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony
*R. Crumb, In the Penal Colony
Remembering the Death Camps: Poems
Pastor Martin Niemoller, "First They Came for the Jews"
Nelly Sachs, "A Dead Child Speaks"
Yevgeny Yevtuchenko, "Babii Yar"
Karen Gershon, "Race"
Anne Sexton, "After Auschwitz"
Prisoners of War: Stories
Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation
Haruki Murakami, Another Way to Die
A Letter from Jail: An Essay and Images
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Images:
Protesting Desegregation in Montgomery, Alabama (photograph)
The Arrest of Martin Luther King, Jr. (photograph)
Martin Luther King, Jr. in Birmingham Jail (photograph)
A Dream of Freedom: A Collection of Poems by Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes, Open Letter to the South
Langston Hughes, Theme for English B
Langston Hughes, Harlem
The Cage of Socialization: Stories
*Karen Russell, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Steven Millhauser, Kaspar Hauser Speaks
13. Doing Justice
On Trial: Essays
Scott Russell Sanders, Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair
*Kathleen Alcala, The Woman Who Loved Water
*Slavenka Drakulic, He Would Never Hurt a Fly
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
Discovering Injustice: Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
Punishments: Poems
Carolyn Forché, The Colonel
Seamus Heaney, Punishment
Rita Dove, Parsley
Sherman Alexie, Capital Punishment
He Said/She Said: Re-Visions of a Poem
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Gabriel Spera, My Ex-Husband
Avenging a Killing: Stories
Andre Dubus, Killings
Yiyun Li, Persimmons
Issues of Guilt: A Collection of Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe, The Telltale Heart
*Edgar Allan Poe, Hop-Frog
Eyewitness Testimony: Cultural Contexts for a Play
*Ida Fink, The Table
Cultural Contexts
*Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Umschleagplatz
*Inga Clendinnen, Assessing Witness Testimony: Flilip Muller
*Dori Laub and Shoshana Felman, Bearing Witness
Misfit Justice: Critical Commentaries on a Story
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Critical Commentaries
Flannery O’Connor, from Mystery and Manners
Martha Stephens, from The Question of Flannery O’Connor
Madison Jones, from "A Good Man’s Predicament"
Stephen Bandy, from "’One of My Babies’: The Misfit and the Grandmother"
Conscience on Trial: A Play and Images
Sophocles, Antigone
Images:
Jose Domjan, Poster for a Production of Antigone
Wieslaw Grzegorczyk, Poster for a Production of Antigone
Moreland Theatre Company, Poster for a Production of Antigone
Religious Justice: Stories
Hanif Kureishi, My Son, The Fanatic
*Rishi Reddi, Lord Krishna
Racial Injustice: Poems
Countee Cullen, Incident
*Natasha Trethewey, Incident
14. Journeys
An Errand of Love? Critical Commentaries on a Story
*Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Critical Commentaries:
*Roland Bartel, Life and Death in Eudora Welty’s "A Worn Path"
*Neil Isaacs, Life for Phoenix
*Eudora Welty, Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead?
Dangerous Journeys: Stories
*Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
*Tim O’Brien, Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
*Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Roads Taken: A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost
*Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
*Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
*Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
Journeys to the Past: Essays
*Joan Didion, On Going Home
*E. B. White, Once More to the Lake
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
*Marianna De Marco Torgovnick, On Being White, Female, and Born in Bensonhurst
Inner Journeys: Stories
*Willa Cather, Wagner Matinee
*Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh
*John Cheever, The Swimmer
A Journey’s Terrifying Beginning: Cultural Contexts for a Story
Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
Cultural Contexts:
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address
W.E. B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington
Gunnar Myrdal, Social Equality
Journeys to a Dark Future: Stories
*Octavia Butler, Human Evolution
*Douglas Coupland, Shopping Is Not Creating
*Ursula LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
*Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron
Accidental Journeys: Poems
*William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
*John Burnside, Penitence
*Robert Wrigley, Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho
*James Tate, Thinking Ahead to Possible Options and the Worse Case Scenario
*Loren Goodman, Traveling Through the Dark (2005)
End of a Journey: A Play and Images
Marsha Norman, ’night, Mother
Images of Jessie and Thelma
*Kathy Bates and Anne Pituiak (1983; photograph)
*Edie Falco and Brenda Blethyn (2004; photograph)
*Oracle Theatre Production (2006; photograph)
A Journey to Death: Poems
*Mary Oliver, When Death Comes
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Wislawa Szymborska, On Death, without Exaggeration
Journey to Experience: Re-Visions of a Story
Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Cap
Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves
Crossing the Waters: Poems
*Katia Kapovich, The Ferry
*Linda Pastan, Leaving the Island
*Anne Sexton, Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
Mark Doty, Night Ferry
Appendix: Critical Approaches to Literature
Contemporary Schools of Criticism
Working with the Critical Approaches
James Joyce, Counterparts (story)
Ann Petry, Like a Winding Sheet (story)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines
Index of Key Terms
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