Literature for Composition, Interactive Edition

Literature for Composition, MyLiteratureLab Interactive Edition offers superior coverage of reading, writing, and arguing about literature and a deep anthology of readings presented in Sylvan Barnet’s signature accessible style along with the powerful and complete integration of My Literature Lab (www.MyLiteratureLab.com).   Literature for Composition, MLL Interactive Edition enables students to access a wealth of media resources, developed to enhance their enjoyment and to help them master material.  Icons in the chapters and the Table of Contents take students to film and audio clips, interactive readings, critical articles, student papers, writing prompts and other exercises. 

Table of Contents:
Contents by Genre List of Illustrations Preface to Instructors Letter to Students   PART I Getting Started: From Response to Argument      CHAPTER 1 The Writer as Reader Reading and Responding     Kate Chopin, Ripe Figs     Reading as Re-creation     Collecting Evidence, Making Reasonable Inferences     Reading with Pen in Hand     Recording Your First Responses     Identifying Your Audience and Purpose Your Turn: Arguing a Thesis in an Essay     A Sample Essay by a Student: "Images of Ripening in Kate Chopin’s `Ripe Figs’”     The Argument Analyzed     *Behind the Scenes: Tenori’s Essay, from Early Responses to Final Version     Other Possibilities for Writing     *A Second Story about a Young Woman: Michele Serros, Senior Picture Day     Two Stories about a Bitter Argument         Raymond Carver, Mine         Raymond Carver, Little Things         Your Turn: Writing an Argument about Carver’s Two Stories   CHAPTER 2  The Reader as Writer  Developing a Thesis, Drafting, and Writing an Argument     Pre-writing: Getting Ideas     Annotating a Text     More about Getting Ideas: A Second Story by Kate Chopin         Kate Chopin,  The Story of an Hour     Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing     Focused Free Writing     Listing     Asking Questions     Keeping a Journal     Arguing with Yourself: Critical Thinking     Arguing a Thesis Drafting Your Argument     v  Checklist: Thesis Sentence     A Sample Draft: "Ironies in an Hour"     Revising an Argument     Outlining an Argument     Soliciting Peer Review, Thinking about Counterarguments     Final Version of the Sample Essay: "Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an         Hour’”     A Brief Overview of the Final Version Writing on Your Computer     v Checklist: Writing with a Computer Your Turn: Two Additional Stories     Kate Chopin, The Storm  Kate Chopin, Désirée’s Baby     *John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums A Note about Literary Evaluations   * CHAPTER 3  Literature and Argument Beginning with Proverbs: Proverbs as Arguments Arguments in Lyric Poems     *A. E. Housman, Loveliest of  Trees     *John Donne, The Flea Fables and Arguments     *Aesop Three Fables: The Pine-tree and the Bramble, The Snake and the Farmer, The         City Mouse and the Country Mouse     *William March, Aesop’s Last Fable Thinking Further about Messages in Literature     *Emily Wu, The Lesson of the Master     *Linda Pastan, Ethics   CHAPTER 4   Reading Literature Closely: Explication  What is Literature?     Literature and Form     Form and Meaning         Robert Frost, The Span of Life Reading in Slow Motion Explication     A Sample Explication         Langston Hughes, Harlem     Working Toward an Explication     Some Journal Entries      A Sample Essay by a Student (Final Version): "Langston Hughes' 'Harlem"'      Explication as Argument      v Checklist: Drafting an Explication  Why Write? Purpose and Audience Your Turn: Poems for Explication     William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold)     John Donne, Holy Sonnet XIV  (Batter my heart, three-personed God )     Emily Brontë, Spellbound     Li-Young Lee, I Ask My Mother to Sing     Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner     *Elizabeth Bishop, One Art     CHAPTER 5   Reading Literature Closely: Analysis    Analysis Analyzing a Story from the Hebrew Bible: The Judgment of Solomon     The Judgment of Solomon     Analyzing the Story     Other Possible Topics for Analysis Analyzing a Story from the *Testament: The Parable of the Prodigal Son     The Parable of the Prodigal Son Summary Paraphrase Comparison: An Analytic Tool     A Sample Essay by a Student: "Two *Women"     Looking at the Essay     v Checklist: Revising a Comparison Evaluation in Explication and Analysis Choosing a Topic and Developing a Thesis in an Analytic Paper Analyzing a Story     James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty     Working Toward a Thesis: Journal Entries      Developing the Thesis: List Notes      Sample Draft by a Student: "Walter Mitty Is No Joke” Developing an Argument     Introductory Paragraph     Middle Paragraphs     Concluding Paragraphs     Coherence in Paragraphs: Using Transitions     v Checklist: Revising Paragraphs Review: Writing an Analysis     A Note on Technical Terminology     A Lyric Poem and a Student's Argument         Aphra Behn, Song  Love Armed      Journal Entries      A Sample Essay by a Student: "The Double Nature of Love"      v Checklist: Editing a Draft Your Turn: Short Stories and Poems for Analysis     Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado     Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace     Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall     José  Armas, El Tonto del Barrio     Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds     *Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry     Robert Frost, Come In     *Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken     Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time     Lyn Lifshin, My Mother and the Bed     Martín Espada, Bully   CHAPTER 6   Arguing an Interpretation Interpretation and Meaning     Is the Author's Intention a Guide to Meaning?     What Characterizes a Sound Interpretation?     An Example: Interpreting Pat Mora's "Immigrants"         Pat Mora, Immigrants     Thinking Critically about Responses to Literature Two Interpretations by Students     Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening     Sample Essay by a Student: "Stopping by Woods--and Going On"     Sample Essay by a Student: “’Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' as a         Short Story” Your Turn: Poems for Interpretation      John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent      Robert Frost, Mending Wall                William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal      T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock     John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn     *Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed     *Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother   CHAPTER 7  Arguing an Evaluation Criticism and Evaluation Are There Critical Standards?     Morality and Truth as Standards     Other Ways of Thinking about Truth and Realism      Your Turn: Poems and Stories for Evaluation     *Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Link     Matthew Arnold, DoverBeach     Anthony Hecht, The Dover Bitch     *Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est     *Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth     *Henry Reed, Naming of Parts     Robert Frost, Design     Ira Gershwin, The Man That Got Away     Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill     *W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra     *O. Henry, The Ransom of Red Chief     Tobias Wolff, Powder A Note about Literary Evaluations     CHAPTER 8  Research: Writing with Sources     What Research Is Not, and What Research Is Primary and Secondary Materials      Locating Materials: First Steps      Other Bibliographic Aids       Electronic Sources     Encyclopedias: Electronic Versions    The Internet/World Wide Web         Evaluating Sources on the World Wide Web         What Does Your Own Institution Offer?         Using the World Wide Web Taking Notes      Two Mechanical Aids: The Photocopier and the Computer     A Guide to Note-Taking Drafting the Paper  Focus on Primary Sources  Avoiding Plagiarism Literature, History, and the World Wide Web Case Study on Literature and History: Writing Arguments about the Internment of     Japanese Americans Literary Texts     Mitsuye Yamada, The Question of Loyalty     David Mura, An Argument: On 1942  Historical Sources        Basic Reference Books (Short Paper)        Getting Deeper (Medium Paper)        v Checklist: Researching a Literary Historical Paper          A Review of Researching a Literary History Paper     Other Reference Sources (Long Paper)     Too Much Information?    CHAPTER 9   Reading and Writing about Visual Culture  The Language of Pictures  *Beginning with Advertisements         *v A Checklist for Analyzing the Arguments Offered in Advertisements Writing abut Pictures Analyzing a Picture: Navajo Dancers Entertaining a Tourist Train           Notes and a Sample Essay by a Student     The Analysis Analyzed Thinking about Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California A Sample Documented Essay by a Student       Photographers on Photography     Lou Jacobs Jr., What Qualities Does a Good Photograph Have? v Checklist for Analyzing Pictures An American Picture Album: Ten Images   PART  I I   Up Close: Thinking Critically about Literary Works and Literary Forms   CHAPTER 10  Critical Thinking: Arguing with Oneself, Asking Questions and Making Comparisons    What Is Critical Thinking? Asking and Answering Questions Comparing and Contrasting Analyzing and Evaluating Evidence Thinking Critically: Arguing with Oneself, Asking Questions and Comparing--E. E. Cummings's "Buffalo Bill 's"     E. E. Cummings, BuffaloBill's Rewriting a Poem             William Butler Yeats, Annunication      William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan (1924)     William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan (1925/1933) Emily Dickinson: Three Versions of a Poem, and More     Emily Dickinson, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain     Emily Dickinson, I felt a Cleaving in my Mind-     Emily Dickinson, The Dust behind I strove to join Imaginative Play: Thinking about Four Poems     William Butler Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole     Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool     Andrew Hudgins, The Wild Swans Skip School     Anonymous, The Silver Swan   CHAPTER 11 Reading and Writing about Essays  Types of Essays The Essayist's Persona     Voice     Tone Pre-writing: Identifying the Topic and Thesis     Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space Stating the Thesis of an Essay Drafting a Summary     v Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Essays Your Turn: Essays for Analysis     Langston Hughes, Salvation     Laura Vanderkam, Hookups Starve the Soul      CHAPTER 12 Reading and Writing about Stories   Stories True and False     Grace Paley, Samuel Elements of Fiction     Plot and Character     Foreshadowing     Setting and Atmosphere     Symbolism     Narrative Point of View     Style and Point of View     Theme     v Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing about Stories Your Turn: Stories for Analysis     Anton Chekhov, Misery     * Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible     Oscar Casares, Yolanda     CHAPTER 13 Writing Arguments about Short Stories: Two Case Studies  Case Study: Writing Arguments about Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor, Revelation Remarks from Essays and Letters     From "The Fiction Writer and His Country"     From "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction      From "The Nature and Aim of Fiction"     From "Writing Short Stories"     On Interpreting "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"     "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable    Case Study: Writing Arguments about John Updike John Updike, A&P (with manuscript pages) John Updike, Pygmalion (with manuscript pages) * John Updike, Separating John Updike, Oliver’s Evolution John Updike on the Art of Fiction         Thinking about an Author’s Manuscripts         What a Short Story Is         What Updike as a Reader Wants from a Short Story         On His Own Early Stories         On a Writer’s Early Years    On the Importance of Fiction   CHAPTER 14  Fiction into Film   Asking Questions, Thinking Critically, and Making Comparisons Film as a Medium Film Techniques     Shots     Sequences     Editing  Theme Comparing Filmed and Printed Stories Getting Ready to Write Drafting an Essay v Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing Arguments about Film Suggestions for Further Reading     Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?     Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? and Smooth   Talk: Short Story into Film     Your Turn: Thinking about Filming Fiction   CHAPTER 15   Reading and Writing about Plays  Types of Plays     Tragedy     Comedy Elements of Drama     Theme     Plot     Gestures     Setting     Characterization and Motivation Organizing an Analysis of a Character     First Draft     Revised Draft     v  Checklist:  Getting Ideas for Writing Arguments about Plays     Reviewing a dramatic Production     A Sample Review by a Student: “An Effective Macbeth”     The Review Reviewed Thinking about a Filmed Version of Play     Getting Ready to Write     v Checklist: Writing about a Filmed Play Your Turn:  Plays for Analysis     A Note on Greek Tragedy         Sophocles, Antigone     *David Ives, Sure Thing   CHAPTER 16 Thinking Critically about Plays Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams's Production Notes     The Screen Device     The Music     The Lighting A Sample Essay by a Student     Preliminary Notes     Final Version of the Student's Essay: "The Solid Structure of The Glass Menagerie"   CHAPTER 17  Reading and Writing about Poems  Elements of Poetry     The Speaker and the Poet         Emily Dickinson, I'm Nobody! Who are you?         Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights--Wild Nights     The Language of Poetry: Diction and Tone         William Shakespeare, Sonnet 146 ( Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth )     Writing about the Speaker         Robert Frost, The Telephone      Journal Entries      Figurative Language         William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130  ( My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun )         Dana Gioia, Money         Robert Frost, The Hardship of Accounting         Anonymous, Thirty Days Hath September     Imagery and Symbolism.         Edmund Waller, Song (Go, Lovely Rose)         William Blake, The Sick Rose         Linda Pastan, Jump Cabling     Verbal Irony and Paradox     Structure         Robert Herrick, Upon Julia's Clothes      A Sample Essay by a Student: "Herrick's Julia, Julia's Herrick"     The Argument Analyzed     Christina Rossetti,  In an Artist’s Studio Explication     An Example         William Butler Yeats, The Balloon of the Mind     Annotations and Journal Entries     A Sample Essay by a Student: "Explication of W. B. Yeats's 'The Balloon of the         Mind’”     v Checklist: Explication Rhythm and Versification: A Glossary for Reference     Meter     Patterns of Sound     Stanzaic Patterns     Billy Collins, Sonnet     Blank Verse and Free Verse v Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing Arguments about Poems Your Turn:  Poems about People, Places, and Things     People         Robert Browning,  My Last Duchess         E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town         Sylvia Plath, Daddy         Louise Erdrich, IndianBoarding School: The Runaways         Etheridge Knight, For Malcolm, a Year After         * Anne Sexton,  Her Kind     Places         Basho, An Old Pond           Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones         William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium         James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island,                   Minnesota         Anonymous, Deep River     Things         William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow         Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider         Thomas Hardy, The Photograph   CHAPTER 18  Writing Arguments about Poems: Three Case Studies Case Study: Writing Arguments about Emily Dickinson     Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--     Emily Dickinson, The Soul selects her own Society     Emily Dickinson , These are the days when Birds come back     Emily Dickinson, Papa above!     Emily Dickinson, There's a certain Slant of light     Emily Dickinson, This World is not Conclusion     Emily Dickinson, I got so I could bear his name--     Emily Dickinson, Those--dying, then     Emily Dickinson, Apparently with no surprise     Emily Dickinson, Tell all the Truth but tell it slant     A Sample Argument by a Student: "Religion and Religious Imagery in Emily Dickinson"   Case Study: Writing Arguments about Songs and Poems: America Sings the Blues Short Views     W. C. Handy, St. LouisBlues     Bessie Smith, Thinking Blues     Robert Johnson, Walkin’  Blues     Paul Laurence Dunbar, Blue     W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues     Langston Hughes, Too Blue     Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues     Merle Haggard, Working  Man Blues     Linda Pastan, Mini Blues     Allen Ginsberg, Father Death Blues     Charles Wright, Laguna Blues     Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues   Case Study: Writing Arguments Comparing Poems and Pictures A Sample Argument by a Student Word and Image     Jane Flanders, Van Gogh’s  Bed     William Carlos Williams, The Great Figure     Adrienne Rich, Mourning Picture     Cathy Song, Beauty and Sadness     Mary Jo Salter, The Rebirth of Venus     Anne Sexton, The Starry Night     W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts     X. J. Kennedy, Nude Descending a Staircase     Greg Pape, American Flamingo     Carl Phillips, Luncheon on the Grass     John Updike, Before the Mirror     Wislawa Szymborska, Brueghel’s Two Monkeys   PART I I I Standing Back: A Thematic Anthology   CHAPTER 19 JOURNEYS  Short Views  Essays Joan Didion, On Going Home Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu), Persian Letters   Stories Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh   Poems John Keats, On first looking into Chapman’s Homer Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses  Carl Sandburg, Limited Countee Cullen, Incident William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark Robert Frost, The Pasture Wendell Berry, Stay Home Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck Derek Walcott, A Far Cry from Africa Sherman Alexie, On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City Christina Rossetti, Uphill Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death     CHAPTER 20  Love and Hate   Short Views Essay Judith Ortiz Cofer, I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened   Stories     Ernest Hemingway, Cat in the Rain         A Student's Notes and Journal Entries on "Cat in the Rain"         Asking Questions about a Story         Sample Essay by a Student: "Hemingway's American Wife"         Second Example: An Essay Drawing on Related Material in the Chapter         Sample Essay by a Student: "Hemingway's Unhappy Lovers" William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat Bel Kaufman, Sunday in the Park Raymond Carver, Cathedral   Poems Anonymous, Western Wind Christopher Marlowe, Come Live with Me and Be My Love Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd John Donne, The Bait William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes) William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds) John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Morning Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress William Blake, The Garden of Love William Blake, A Poison Tree Walt  Whitman, When I Heard at the Close of the Day Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink Robert Frost, The Silken Tent Adrienne Rich, Novella Adrienne Rich, XI (from Twenty-One Love Poems) Robert Pack, The Frog Prince Joseph Brodsky, Love Song Nikki Giovanni, Love in Place Carol Muske, Chivalry Kitty Tsui, A Chinese Banquet   Play  Terrence McNally, Andre’s Mother       CHAPTER 21  Making Men and Women Short Views Essays Steven Doloff, The Opposite Sex Gretel Ehrlich, About Men   Stories Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man Gloria Naylor, The Two Alice Munro, Boys and Girls   Poems Anonymous Nursery Rhyme, What Are Little Boys Made Of  Anonymous, Higamus, Hogamus *William Shakespeare, Sigh No More, Ladies  Dorothy Parker, General Review of the Sex Situation * Louise Bogan, Women Rita Dove, Daystar Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage Frank O'Hara, Homosexuality Julia Alvarez, Woman's Work Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll    Play Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House   CHAPTER 22  Innocence and Experience   Short Views Essay Maya Angelou, Graduation   Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown James Joyce, Araby      Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Son from America    Poems  William Blake, Infant Joy William Blake, Infant Sorrow William Blake, The Echoing Green William Blake, The Lamb William Blake, the Tyger Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall A. E. Housman, When I Was One-and-Twenty (A Shropshire Lad #13) E. E. Cummings, in Just-      Louise Glück, The School Children Louise Glück, Gretel in Darkness   Play    Case Study: Writing Arguments  about  Shakespeare's Hamlet A Note on the Elizabethan Theater  A Note on Hamlet on the Stage A Note on the Text of Hamlet William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Ernest Jones, Hamlet and the Oedipus Complex Anne Barton, The Promulgation of Confusion Stanley Wells, On the First Soliloquy Elaine Showalter, Representing Ophelia Claire Bloom, Playing Gertrude on Television Bernice W. Kliman, The BBC Hamlet:A Television Production Will Saretta, Branagh’s Film of Hamlet     CHAPTER 23  Identity in America  Short Views Essays Anna Lisa Raya, It's Hard Enough Being Me Andrew Lam, Who Will Light Incense When Mother’s Gone?   Stories Amy Tan, Two Kinds Alice Walker, Everyday Use Katherine Min, Courting a Monk   Poems *Emma Lazarus, The Colossus Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Unguarded Gates Joseph Bruchac III, Ellis Island Aurora Levins Morales, Child of the Americas Gloria Anzaldúa, To Live in the Borderlands Means You Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans Langston Hughes, Theme for English B Pat Parker, For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend Mitsuye Yamada, To the Lady     Play Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos   Case Study: Writing Arguments about American Indian Identity  Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers  Robert Frost, The Vanishing Red   Wendy Rose, Three Thousand Dollar Death Song  Nila northSun, Moving Camp Too Far     *CHAPTER 24 American Dreams and Nightmares Short Views Essays *Chief Seattle, My People * Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions *Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream  *Studs Terkel, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Dream   Stories *Edward Everett Hale, The Man Without a Country  Langston Hughes, One Friday Morning  *William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force  *Shirley Jackson, The Lottery *Grace Paley, A Man Told Me the Story of His Life  Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried   Poems  *Ralph Waldo Emerson, ConcordHymn  *Anonymous, Go Down, Moses  *Anonymous, Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel  *Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass  Walt Whitman, Reconciliation  *Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden *Lorna Dee Cervantes, Refugee Ship  Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory  *Edgar Lee Masters, Minerva Jones *Edgar Lee Masters, Doctor Meyers *Edgar Lee Masters, MRs. Meyers *Edgar Lee Masters, Lucinda Matlock  *Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California  *Marge Piercy, To be of use  *Marge Piercy, What’s that Smell in the Kitchen? Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It  Billy Collins, The Names *Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters *Dorothy Parker, Résumé   Case Study: Writing Arguments about the National Anthem *Photographs: “Marines Raising the Flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945” and “What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S, Flag”  *Caldwell Titcomb, Star-Spangled Earache; What So Loudly We Wail  *Hendrik Hertzberg, Star-Spangled Banter  *Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner *Samuel Francis Smith, America *Katharine Lee Bates, Americathe Beautiful  *James Weldon Johnson, Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing   Plays  *Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun  *Janet Martin, Rodeo   CHAPTER 25 Law and Disorder  Short Views Essays Zora Neale Hurston, A Conflict of Interest Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail    Stories Seven Very Short Stories     Aesop, A Lion and Other Animals Go Hunting     John (?), The Woman Taken in Adultery     Anonymous, Three Hasidic Tales     Franz Kafka, Before the Law     Elizabeth Bishop, The Hanging of the Mouse Four Longer Stories     Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas     William Faulkner, Barn Burning     James Alan McPherson, An Act of Prostitution Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal   Poems Anonymous, BirminghamJail A. E. Housman, The Carpenter's Son A. E. Housman, Eight O'Clock A. E. Housman, Oh who is that young sinner  A. E. Housman, The laws of God, the laws of man Edgar Lee Masters, Judge Selah Lively *Edna St. Vincent Millay, Justice Denied in Massachusetts *Countee Cullen, Not Sacco and Vanzetti Claude McKay, If We Must Die Jimmy Santiago Baca, Cloudy Day   Play Susan Glaspell, Trifles   Appendix A  Remarks about Manuscript Form   Basic Manuscript Form Corrections in the Final Copy Quotations and Quotation Marks    Quotation Marks or Underlining?   A Note on the Possessive Documentation: Footnotes, Internal Parenthetical Citations, and a List of Works Cited   (MLA Format)     Footnotes     Internal Parenthetic Citations     Parenthetical Citations and List of works Cited     Forms of Citation in Works Cited     Citing Sources on the World Wide Web      v Checklist: Citing Sources on the World Wide Web MLA General Conventions   Appendix B   Writing about Literature: An Overview of Critical Strategies  The Nature of Critical Writing Criticism as Argument: Assumptions and Evidence Some Critical Strategies     Formalist Criticism (*Criticism)     Deconstruction     Reader-Response Criticism     Archetypal Criticism (Myth Criticism)     Historical Criticism     Psychological or Psychoanalytic Criticism     Gender Criticism (Feminist, and Lesbian and Gay Criticism     Your Turn: Putting Critical Strategies to Work     Suggestions for Further Reading   *Appendix C Writing Essay Examinations Why Do Instructors Give Examinations? Getting Ready Writing Arguments Under Pressure   Literary Credits Photo Credits Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems Index of Terms Short Retail Description