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* signifies new work or section INTRODUCTION READING (AND WRITING ABOUT) LITERATURE Reading Literature The Pleasures of Fiction The Dog and the Shadow Learning to Be Silent *Reading the Parable in Context The Pleasures of Poetry Robert Frost, Dust of Snow *Reading Frost's Poem in Context The Pleasures of Drama *Reading a Play in Context Understanding Literature: *Experience *Interpretation *Evaluation *Reading in Context Writing About Literature Reasons for Writing About Literature Ways of Writing About Literature The Writing Process Stephen Crane, War Is Kind PART ONE: FICTION CHAPTER 1: READING STORIES Luke: The Prodigal Son The Experience of Fiction The Interpretation of Fiction Reading in Context The Evaluation of Fiction John Updike A&P The Act of Reading Fiction Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour CHAPTER 2: TYPES OF SHORT FICTION Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale Aesop, The Wolf and the Mastiff Petronius, The Widow of Ephesus The Short Story The Nonrealistic Story The Short Novel CHAPTER 3: THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION Plot and Structure Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation Character Kay Boyle, Astronomer's Wife Setting Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh Point of View William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Language and Style James Joyce, Araby Theme Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Irony and Symbol D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner CHAPTER 4: WRITING ABOUT FICTION Reasons for Writing About Fiction Informal Ways of Writing About Fiction Annotation Katherine Anne Porter, Magic Freewriting Formal Ways of Writing About Fiction Student Papers on Fiction Questions for Writing about Fiction Suggestions for Writing CHAPTER 5: THREE FICTION WRITERS IN CONTEXT Reading Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor Questions for In-Depth Reading *Edgar Allan Poe in Context *Poe and Journalism *Poe and the Horror Story *Poe and the Detective Story *The Dimension of Style *Edgar Allan Poe: Stories The Black Cat *The Cask of Amontillado *The Fall of the House of Usher *The Purloined Letter *Writer Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe *Joyce Carol Oates, Artist *Edgar Allan Poe: Essays *Critics on Poe *Flannery O'Connor in Context *Southern Gothics *The Catholic Dimension *O'Connor's Irony Flannery O'Connor: Stories Good Country People A Good Man Is Hard to Find Everything That Rises Must Converge The Life You Save May Be Your Own *Writer Inspired by Flannery O'Connor Mary Hood, How Far She Went Flannery O'Connor: Essays and Letters Critics on O'Connor CHAPTER 6: A COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION *Sherman Alexis, Indian Education *Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings *Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson *Charles Baxter, Gryphon Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths TRANSLATED BY DONALD YATES Raymond Carver, Cathedral Anton Chekhov, The Kiss TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal *F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings TRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSA Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown *Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants *Ha Jin, Taking a Husband James Joyce, The Boarding House Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis TRANSLATED BY ALEXIS WALKER Jamaica Kincaid, Girl *Alistair MacLeod, There is a Season *Lorrie Moore, Community Life *Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth *Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried *Frank O'Connor, My Oedipus Complex Tilie Olson, I Stand Here Ironing *Carol Shields, Dressing for the Carnival Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman Amy Tan, Rules of the Game Alice Walker, Everyday Use Eudora Welty, Why I live at the P.O. *New Voices Maile Meloy, Ranch Girl Timothy A. Westmoreland, Darkening of the World *Literature in the News *Catcher in the Rye *Bad Writing *Oprah's Book Club *The Best Book in the World PART TWO: POETRY CHAPTER 7: READING POEMS The Experience of Poetry Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays *Reading in Context The Interpretation of Poetry Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening *Reading in Context The Evaluation of Poetry Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers The Act of Reading Poetry Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz CHAPTER 8: TYPES OF POETRY Narrative Poetry Lyric Poetry CHAPTER 9: ELEMENTS OF POETRY Voice: Speaker and Tone Stephen Crane, War Is Kind Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Muriel Stuart, In the Orchard Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thou art indeed just, Lord Anonymous, Western Wind Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Jacques Prevert, Family Portrait Diction William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy William Wordsworth, It is a beauteous evening Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder Adrienne Rich, Rape Imagery Elizabeth Bishop, First Death in Nova Scotia William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree Robert Browning, Meeting at Night H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Heat Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor William Shakespeare, That time of year thou may'st in me behold John Donne, Hymn to God the Father Robert Wallace, The Double-Play Louis Simpson, The Battle Judith Wright, Woman to Child Symbolism and Allegory Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son Christina Rossetti, Up-Hill William Blake, A Poison Tree Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken George Herbert, Virtue Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death Syntax John Donne, The Sun Rising Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Robert Frost, The Silken Tent E. E. Cummings, Me up at does Stevie Smith, Mother Among the Dustbins Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance Gerard Manley Hopkins, In the Valley of the Elwy Thomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain Alexander Pope, Sound and Sense Bob McKenty, Adam's Song May Swenson, The Universe Helen Chasin, The Word Plum Rhythm and Meter Robert Frost, The Span of Life George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib Anne Sexton, Her Kind William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow Structure: Closed Form and Open Form John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Walt Whitman, When I heard the learn'd astronomer E. E. Cummings, el(a E. E. Cummings, [Buffalo Bill's] William Carlos Williams, The Dance Denise Levertov, O Taste and See Theodore Roethke, The Waking C. P. Cavafy, The City TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD Theme Emily Dickinson, Crumbling is not an instant's Act CHAPTER 10: TRANSFORMATIONS Revisions William Blake, London William Butler Yeats, A Dream of Death Emily Dickinson, The Wind begun to knead (rock) the Grass D. H. Lawrence, Piano Langston Hughes, Ballad of Booker T. Parodies William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Kenneth Koch, Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carrion Comfort Gary Layne Hatch, Terrier Torment; or, Mr.Hopkins and His Dog William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day Robert Frost, Dust of Snow Bob McKenty, Snow on Frost Poems and Paintings Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night Anne Sexton, The Starry Night Francesco de Goya, The Third of May, 1808 David Gewanter Goya's The Third of May, 1808 Pieter Breughel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts Pieter Breughel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow Joseph Langland, Hunters in the Snow William Blake, The Sick Rose (watercolor) William Blake, The Sick Rose (poem) Henri Matisse, Dance Natalie Safir, Matisse's Dance *Cathy Song, Girl Powdering Her Neck *Kitagawa Utamaro, Girl Powdering Her Neck *Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Jug *Stephen Mitchell, Vermeer *Marcel Duchamp, Nude Des cending a Staircase *X.J. Kennedy, Nude Descending a Staircase Gustav Klimt, The Kiss Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt *John Everett Milais, Ophelia *E.J. Bellocq, Ophelia Nathasha Trethewey, Bellocq's Ophelia *Lun-Yi Tsai, Disbelief *Lucille Clifton, Tuesday 9/11/01 CHAPTER 11: WRITING ABOUT POETRY Reasons for Writing About Poetry Informal Ways of Writing About Poetry Annotation Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Freewriting Robert Graves, Symptoms of Love Formal Ways of Writing About Poetry Sylvia Plath, Mirror Student Papers of Poetry Questions for Writing about Poetry Suggestions for Writing CHAPTER 12: THREE POETS IN CONTEXT Reading Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes in Depth Questions for In-Depth Reading *Emily Dickinson in Context *The Nineteenth-Century New England Literary Scene *Dickinson and Modern Poetry *Dickinson and Christianity Dickinson's Style Emily Dickinson: Poems Emily Dickinson, I cannot dance upon my Toes Emily Dickinson, The Soul selects her own Society 199 I'm "wife"--I've finished that 258 There's a certain Slant of light 341 After great pain, a formal feeling comes 214 I taste a liquor never brewed 348 I dreaded that first Robin, so 986 A narrow Fellow in the Grass 1068Further in Summer than the Birds 536 The Heart asks Pleasure--first 599 There is a pain--so utter 650 Pain--has an element of Blank 744 Remorse--is Memory--awake 280 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain 419 We grow accustomed to the Dark 449 I died for Beauty--but was scarce 465 I heard a Fly buzz--when I died 1078 The Bustle in a House 1100 The last Night that She lived 675 Essentials Oils--are wrung-- 328 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church 632 The brain is wider than the sky 1624 Apparently with no surprise 249 Wild Nights--Wild Nights! 1732 My life closed twice before its close 241 I like a look of Agony 435 Much Madness is divinest Sense 1129 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant 585 I like to see it lap the Miles 754 My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun 1463 A Route of Evanescence Three Dickinson Poems with Aletered Punctuation *Poets Inspired by Dickinson *Jane Kenyon, Notes from the Other Side *Jane Hirshfield, Three Times My Life Has Opened *Billy Collins, Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes *Linda Pastan, Emily Dickinson *Kay Ryan, Crash *Dickinson on Herself and her First Poems *Critics on Dickinson *Robert Frost in Context *Frost and Popularity *Frost and Nature *Frost and the Sonnet *Frost's Voices Robert Frost: Poems The Tuft of Flowers Mending Wall Birches Home Burial Putting in the Seed Two Look at Two Fire and Ice Acquainted with the Night Tree at my Window Departmental Desert Places Design Provide, Provide The Most of It *Poets Inspired Frost *Edward Thomas, When First *W.S. Merwin, Unknown Bird *Seamus Heaney, The Forge *Neal Bowers, Driving Lessons Critical Comments by Frost Critics on Frost Langston Hughes in Context *The Harlem Renaissance *Hughes on Music *Hughes's Influences *Hughes's Style Langston Hughes: Poems Same in Blues Dream Deferred The Negro Speaks of Rivers Mother to Son I, Too My People The Weary Blues Young Gal's Blues Morning After Trumpet Player Dream Boogie Madam and the Rent Man Theme for English #B Aunt Sue's Stories Let America Be America Again *Poets Inspired by Huges *Rita Dove, Testimonial *Michael Harper, Martin's Blues *Dudley Randal, The Ballad of Birmingham *Kevin Young, Langston Hughes *Hughes on Harlem, the Blues *Critics on Hughes CHAPTER 13: A COLLECTION OF POEMS A Selection of Classic Poems Anonymous, Barbara Allan Anonymous, Edward, Edward William Blake, The Clod & the Pebble William Blake, The Lamb William Blake, The Tyger William Blake, The Garden of Love Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I Love Thee? Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Samule Taylor Coleridge, Kuba Khan John Donne, Song John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning John Donne, The Flea John Donnne, Death, be not proud John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God George Gordon, Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid Thomas Hardy, Afterwards George Herbert, The Altar Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur Gerard Manely Hopkins, The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall: To a Young Child A. E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young Ben Jonson, On My First Son Ben Jonson, Song: To Celia John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent John Milton, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Alexander Pope, from An Essay on Man William Shakespeare, When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds William Shakespeare, Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame William Shakespeare, My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Edmund Spenser, One day I wrote her name upon the strand Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle Walt Whitman, One's Self I Sing Walt Whitman, A noiseless patient spider William Wordsworth, The worldis too much with us William Wordworth, The Solitary Reaper Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me A Selection of Modern Poems W.H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen W.H. Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues *W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939 Gwendolyn Brooks, We real cool Gwendolyn Brooks, First fight. Then fiddle. *Gwendolyn Brooks, Song in the Front Yard Countee Cullen, Incident e.e. cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town e.e. cummings, I thank You God for this most amazing Paul Laurence Dunbar, We wear the mask T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Philip Larkin, A Study of Reading Habits D.H. Lawrence, Humming-bird D.H. Lawrence, Snake Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York Marianne Moore, Poetry Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Sylvia Plath, Blackberrying Sylvia Plath, Metaphors *Sylvia Plath, Morning Song Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Ezra Pound, The Garden John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane *Siegfried Sassoon, They Anne Sexton, Two Hands William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Mary Swenson, Women Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night Jean Toomer, Reapers William Carlos Williams, Spring and All William Carlos Williams, Dance Russe William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Richard Wilbur, The Death of a Toad James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota James Wright, A Blessing William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old A Selection of Contemporary Poems *Diane Ackerman, Spiders *Sherman Alexie, Indian Boy Love Song #1 *Sherman Alexie, Indian Boy Love Song #2 Margaret Atwood, This is a Photograph of Me Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Meditations on the South Valley XVII *Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Ogun Raymond Carver, Photograph of My Father in his Twenty-Second Year Lucille Clifton, Homage to My Hips *Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Game *Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry *Billy Collins, The History Lesson *Billy Collins, My Number *Wendy Cope, The Ted Williams Villanelle Gregory Corso, Marriage *Mark Doty, Golden Retrievals Rita Dove, Canary Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways Nikki Giovanni, Ego Tripping Nikki Giovanni, Nikki Rosa Donald Hall, My son, my executioner Robert Hass, Meditation at Lagunitas Seamus Heaney, Digging Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break *Michael Hogan, Kickoff *Aron Keesbury, To Waist *Jane Kenyon, Peonies at Dusk *Jane Kenyon, Otherwise *Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It *Michael Longley, The Butchers Audre Lorde, Hanging Fire *Paul Muldoon, Lag Sharon Olds, Size and Sheer Will *Sharon Olds, Rite of Passage *Sharon Olds, 35/10 Robert F. Panara, On His Deafness Linda Pastan, Ethics Alberto Rios, A Dream of Husbands Kraft Rompf, Waiting Table Gertrude Schnackenberg, Signs Cathy Song, Lost Sister Gary Soto, Behind Grandma's House *Krishna Tateneni, Blindness *Baron Wormser, Friday Night *Poetry of the World *Yehuda Amichai (Israel), A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention (Translated by Assia Gutmann) *Cairil Anwar (Indonesia), At the Mosque (Translated by Burton Rafael) *Matshuo Basho (Japan), Three Haiku (Translated by Robert Hass) Rosario Castellanos (Mexico), Chess (Translated by Maureen Ahern) *Bei Dao (China), Declaration (Translated by Bonnie McDougall) *Zbigniew Herbert (Poland), Pebble (Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott) Osip Mandelstam (Russia), The Stalin Epigram (Translated by Clarence Brown and W.S. Merwin) Czeslaw Milosz (Poland), A Song on the End of the World (Translated by Anthony Milosz) Pablo Neruda (Chile), Ode to My Socks (Translated by Robert Bly) Boris Pasternak (Russia), Hamlet (Translated by John Stallworthy and Peter France) *A.K. Ramanujan (India), Pleasure *Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Hamlet *Derek Walcott (Caribbean), Sea Grapes *New Voices *Kay Ryan *Mockingbird *Your Face Will Stick *Blandeur *All Shall Be Restored *Simon Armitage *Zoom *Poem *Drawing the Arctic Circle *On and Owd Piktcha *Literature in the News *Billy Collins, The Bard of Simple Things *Celebrating Poetry: National Poetry Day/Month *September 11th: American Poets Respond Aliki Barnstone, Making Love After September 11, 2001 Bart Edelman, Coat of Sorrow Alicia Ostriker, The window, at the moment of flame Billy Collins, The Names PART THREE: DRAMA CHAPTER 14: READING PLAYS The Experience of Drama Isabella Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory The Rising of the Moon The Interpretation of Drama The Evaluation of Drama CHAPTER 15: TYPES OF DRAMA Tragedy Comedy CHAPTER 16: ELEMENTS OF DRAMA Plot Character Dialogue *Subtext Staging Symbolism and Irony Theme CHAPTER 17: WRITING ABOUT DRAMA Reasons for Writing about Drama Informal Ways of Writing About Drama Annotation Double-Column Notebook Formal Ways of Writing About Drama Student Papers on Drama Questions for Writing About Drama Questions for In-Depth Reading Suggestions for Writing CHAPTER 18: THE GREEK THEATER: SOPHOCLES Reading Sophocles in Context *Athens in the Golden Age *Greek Tragedy *Sophocles and His Works *Oedipus the King Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Translated by Fitts and Fitzgerald) Critics on Sophocles CHAPTER 19: THE ELIZABETHAN THEATER: SHAKESPEARE Reading Shakespeare in Context *London in the Age of Elizabeth *The Arts in the Age of Elizabeth *Stagecraft in the Elizabethan Age *Shakespeare and His Works William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Critics on Shakespeare Literature in the News: In Love with Shakespeare Shakespeare and Sexuality CHAPTER 20: THE MODERN REALISTIC THEATER: IBSEN Reading Ibsen in Context Realism A Note on the Theater of the Absurd Ibsen, Exile, and Change Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House Translated bt Rolf Fjelde CHAPTER 21: A COLLECTION OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PLAYS *Anton Chekhov, A Marriage Proposal Susan Glaspell, Trifles David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly *Eugene Ionesco, The Gap Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Wendy Wasserstein, Tender Offer *Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest August Wilson, Fences *New Voices *Mary Gallagher *Brother *Warren Leight *The Final Interrogation of Ceausescu's Dog PART FOUR: RESEARCH AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES CHAPTER 22: WRITING WITH SOURCES Why Do Research About Literature Clarifying the Assignment Selecting a Topic Finding and Using Sources Using Computerized Databases Using the Internet for Research Developing a Critical Perspective Developing a Thesis Drafting and Revising Conventions Documenting Sources Documenting Electronic Sources Alternative Documentation Style: Endnotes and Footnotes A Student Essay Using One Source as a Stimulus Sample Research Papers CHAPTER 23: CRITICAL THEORY: APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE Reading for Analysis William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force (story) Emily Dickinson, I'm "wife"- I've finished that (poem) The Canon and the Curriculum Formalist Perspectives Biographical Perspectives Historical Perspectives Psychological Perspectives Feminist and Marxist Perspectives Reader-Response Perspectives Mythological Perspectives Structuralist Perspectives Deconstructive Perspectives Cultural Studies Perspectives Using Critical Perspectives as Heuristics Appendix: Poets' Lives Glossary Index

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Robert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976). Robert DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay; The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry; Women's Voices; Like Season'd Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse, Voices and Visions). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Pat Hoy, he edited Encounters: Readings for Inquiry and Argument (1997).

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