Exploring Literature Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay with NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Access Card Package

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Table of Contents:
Detailed Contents Alternate Contents by Genre Preface to Instructors About the Author   Part I Making Connections   Chapter 1 Participation: Personal Response and Critical Thinking  The Personal Dimension of Reading Literature  Personal Response and Critical Thinking  Writing to Learn  Your First Response  Checklist: Your First Response  Keeping a Journal or Reading Log  Double-Entry Journals and Logs  The Social Nature of Learning: Collaboration  Personal, Not Private  Ourselves as Readers  Different Kinds of Reading  Peter Meinke,  Advice to My Son  Making Connections with Literature  Images of Ourselves  Connecting Through Experience  Paul Zimmer, Zimmer in Grade School  Culture, Experience, and Values  Connecting Through Experience  Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays  Connecting Through Experience  Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll  Being in the Moment  New York Times, “Birmingham Bomb Kills 4”  Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham  Participating, Not Solving  Using Our Imaginations  The Whole and Its Parts    Chapter 2 Communication: Writing a Personal Response Essay    The Personal Response Essay  Checklist: The Basics of a Personal Response Essay Voice and Writing  Voice and Response to Literature  Connecting Through Experience  Countee Cullen, Incident  Writing to Describe  Choosing Details  Choosing Details from Literature  Connecting Through Experience  Sandra Cisneros, Eleven  Writing to Compare  Comparing and Contrasting Using a Venn Diagram  Connecting Through Experience  Anna Quindlen, Mothers  Connecting Through Experience  Langston Hughes, Salvation  Possible Worlds  From First Response to Final Draft  The Importance of Revision  Using First or Third Person in Formal Essays  Step 1: Using Your First Response  Choosing a Topic  Brainstorming  Semantic Mapping, or Clustering  Mix and Match  Generating Ideas Through Collaboration  Step 2: Composing a Draft  Developing a Thesis Statement  Checklist: Thesis Statement  Writing Effective Paragraphs Checklist: Paragraphs  Dierdre’s Draft  Step 3: Revising the Essay  Checklist: Revision  Revising Dierdre’s Draft  Formatting and Documenting Your Essay  Checklist: Basics for a Literary Essay  A Primer on  Punctuation Checklist: Editing and Proofreading   Step 4: Dierdre’s Revised Essay    Part II Analysis, Argumentation, and Research   Chapter 3 Exploration and Analysis: Genre and the Elements of Literature  Close Reading  Annotating the Text  First Annotation: Exploration  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias  Second Annotation: Analysis  Literature in Its Many Contexts  Your Critical Approach  Reading and Analyzing Fiction  Narration  Point of View  Setting  Conflict  Plot  Character  Language and Style  Diction  Symbol  Irony Theme  Checklist: Analyzing Fiction  Getting Ideas for Writing About Fiction  Kate Chopin,   The Story of an Hour  Reading and Analyzing Poetry  Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry Language and Style  Denotation and Connotation  Voice  Tone  Irony  Stephen Crane, War Is Kind  Imagery            Helen Chasin, The Word Plum  Robert Browning, Meeting at Night  Parting at Morning  Figurative Language: Everyday Poetry  Langston Hughes, A Dream Deferred  N. Scott Momaday, Simile  Carl Sandburg, Fog  James Stephens, The Wind Symbol  Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken  Sound and Structure  Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme  Rhyme and Rhythm: Limericks Haiku Poetry: Chiyojo, Basho, Buson, Matsushita, Brutschy Meter  Formal Verse: The Sonnet  Francis Petrarch, The Eyes that Drew from Me William Shakespeare, Sonnet No. 29 Blank Verse  Free or Open Form Verse  Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer  Interpretation: What Does the Poem Mean?  Explication  Types of Poetry  Lyric Poetry  Narrative Poetry  Checklist: Analyzing Poetry  Getting Ideas for Writing About Poetry  May Swenson, Pigeon Woman  Reading and Analyzing Drama  Reading a Play  Point of View  Set and Setting  Conflict  Plot  The Poetics  Tragedy  Comedy  Characterization  Language and Style  Diction  Symbol Irony  Theme  Periods of Drama: A Brief Background  Greek Drama  Shakespearean Drama  Tips on Reading the Language of Shakespeare Modern Drama Checklist: Analyzing Drama  Getting Ideas for Writing About Drama  Edith Hamilton, from The Royal House of Thebes: “Oedipus” Tips on Reading Antigone Sophocles, Antigone Reading and Analyzing Essays  Types of Essays  Narrative  Expository  Argumentative  Language, Style, and Structure  Formal or Informal  Voice  Irony  Word Choice and Style  Theme: What’s the Point?  The Aims of an Essay: Inform, Preach, or Reveal Checklist: Analyzing Essays  Getting Ideas for Writing About the Essay  Amy Tan, Mother Tongue   Chapter 4 Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay  The Critical Essay  Suzanne’s Response to Antigone  Interpretation and Evaluation  Interpretation: What Does It Mean?  Evaluation: How Well Does It Work?  Options for a Critical Essay: Process and Product  Checklist: Options for a Critical Essay  An Analytical Essay  A Comparative Essay  A Thematic Essay  A Philosophical or Ethical Evaluation A Contextual Essay  Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay  Other Models: Classical, Toulmin, and Rogerian  The Shape of an Argument  Checklist: Writing a Critical Essay Planning Your Argument  Supporting Your Argument: Induction and Substantiation  Opening, Closing, and Revising Your Argument  The Development of a Critical Essay  Step 1: Using Your First Response  Step 2: Composing a Draft  Suzanne’s Draft  Step 3: Revising the Essay  Step 4: Suzanne’s Revised Essay    Chapter 5 Research: Writing with Secondary Sources  The Research Essay  Creating, Expanding, and Joining Interpretive Communities  It Is Your Interpretation  Getting Started  Choosing a Topic  Some Popular Areas of Literary Research  Your Search  Peer Support  The Library  Reference Works  Some Other Encyclopedias and Indexes Useful for Literary Research  Some Bibliographies, Indexes, and Abstracts Useful for Literary Research  Finding Sources on the Internet  Some Internet Sources Useful for Literary Research  Evaluating Internet Sources  Checklist: Evaluating Internet Sources  Taking Notes  Integrating Sources into Your Writing  What Must Be Documented  Where and How  Paraphrasing and Summarizing  Quoting  Avoiding Plagiarism  Examples of Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Quoting, and Plagiarizing  From First Response to Research Essay  Checklist: Writing a Research Essay  Case Study in Research James Joyce and “Eveline” Step 1: Using Your First Response  James Joyce, Eveline  Step 2: Composing a Draft  Professor Devenish’s Commentary  Kevin’s Motivation and Process  Step 3: Revising the Essay  Step 4: Kevin’s Revised Essay    Part III A Thematic Anthology   Family and Friends  A Dialogue Across History  Family and Friends: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs  Reading and Writing About Family and Friends  Fiction  Connecting Through Comparison: Sibling Relationships  James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues  Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible  Other Stories Chinua Achebe, Marriage Is a Private Affair  John Cheever, Reunion  Linda Ching Sledge, The Road  Connecting Through Comparison: Parent and Children  Amy Tan, Two Kinds  Poetry Julia Alvarez, Dusting  Janice Mirikitani, For My Father  Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz  Cathy Song, The Youngest Daughter  Other Poems Margaret Atwood, Siren Song  Robert Frost, Mending Wall  Seamus Heaney, Digging  Philip Larkin, This Be the Verse  Li-Young Lee, The Gift  Sharon Olds, 35/10   Susan Musgrave, You Didn’t Fit William Stafford, Friends  Connecting Through Comparison: Remembrance  Elizabeth Gaffney, Losses That Turn Up in Dreams  William Shakespeare, When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet No. 30)                                                                                             Drama  Essays  bell hooks, Inspired Eccentricity  Graphic narrative:  Marjane Satrapi from PERSEPOLIS Case Study in Biographical Context Lorraine Hansberry and A Raisin in the Sun  Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun  Lorraine Hansberry–In Her Own Words  In Others’ Words  James Baldwin, Sweet Lorraine  Julius Lester, The Heroic Dimension in A Raisin in the Sun  Anne Cheney, The African Heritage in A Raisin in the Sun  Steven R. Carter, Hansberry’s Artistic Misstep  Margaret B. Wilkerson, Hansberry’s Awareness of Culture and Gender  Michael Anderson, A Raisin in the Sun: A Landmark Lesson in Being Black  A Student’s Research Essay  Exploring the Literature of Family and Friends: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using Research  Writing About Connections Across Themes  Collaboration: Writing and Revising with Your Peers  A Writing/Research Portfolio Option    Innocence and Experience  A Dialogue Across History  Innocence and Experience: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs  Reading and Writing About Innocence and Experience  Fiction  Connecting Through Comparison: Illusion and Disillusion  Liliana Heker, The Stolen Party  James Joyce, Araby  Other Stories Julia Alvarez, Snow  Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson  Thomas Bulfinch, The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus  Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal  Haruki Murakami, On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning  Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?  Colum McCann, Everything in this Country Must Two Readers–Two Different Views: Exploring A&P and Making Connections  John Updike, A&P  Two Student Essays–Two Different Views  Poetry  Connecting Through Comparison: The City  William Blake, London  William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802  Connecting Through Comparison: The Chimney Sweepers  William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper (From Songs of Innocence)  The Chimney Sweeper (From Songs of Experience)  Other Poems A. E. Housman, When I Was One-and-Twenty  Alberto Rios, In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did  Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory  Anne Sexton, Pain for a Daughter  Walt Whitman, There Was a Child Went Forth  Stephen Crane, The Wayfarer  Connecting Through Comparison: The Death of a Child  Robert Frost, “Out, Out. . .”  Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break  Essays  Judith Ortiz Cofer, I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened  David Sedaris, The Learning Curve  Case Study in Theatrical Context Hamlet and Performance  Interpretation and Performance  Multiple Interpretations of Hamlet  William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark  Desperately Seeking Hamlet: Four Interpretations  Olivier’s Hamlet  Jacobi’s Hamlet  Gibson’s Hamlet  Branagh’s Hamlet  From Part to Whole, from Whole to Part A Student’s Critical Essay–Explication/Analysis of the “To be, or not to be” Soliloquy  A Critic’s Influential Interpretation Ernest Jones, Hamlet’s Oedipus Complex  Hamlet On Screen  Bernice W. Kliman, The BBC Hamlet  Claire Bloom, Playing Gertrude on Television  Stanley Kauffmann, Branagh’s Hamlet  Russell Jackson, A Film Diary of the Shooting of Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet  Exploring the Literature of Innocence and Experience: Options for Making       Connections, Building Arguments, and Using  Research  Writing About Connections Across Themes  Collaboration: Writing and Revising with Your Peers  A Writing/Research Portfolio Option  Case Study in Aesthetic Context Poetry and Painting    Making Connections with Painting and Poetry  Pieter Brueghel the Elder: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus  W. H. Auden: Musée des Beaux Arts  Alan Devenish: Icarus Again   Lun Yi Tsai  Disbelief  Lucille Clifton--tuesday 9/11/01 Edward Hopper: Nighthawks  Samuel Yellen: Nighthawks  Vincent van Gogh: Starry Night  Anne Sexton: The Starry Night  Henri Matisse: Dance  Natalie Safir: Matisse’s Dance  Kitagawa utamaro: Two Women Dressing Their Hair  Cathy Song: Beauty and Sadness  Edwin Romanzo Elmer: Mourning Picture  Adrienne Rich: Mourning Picture  Jan Vermeer: The Loveletter  Sandra Nelson: When a Woman Holds a Letter  A Student’s Comparison and Contrast Essay: Process and Product  Exploring Poetry and Painting: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using Research    Women and Men  A Dialogue Across History  Women and Men: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs  Reading and Writing About Women and Men  Fiction  Robert Olen Butler, Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper  Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants  D. H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter  Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh  Rosario Morales, The Day It Happened  Poetry  Connecting Through Comparison: Be My Love  Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love  Walter Raleigh, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd  Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress  Other Poems Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman  Margaret Atwood, You Fit into Me  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee?  Robert Browning, Porphyria’s Lover  Nikki Giovanni, Woman  Sharon Olds, Rite of Passage Judy Grahn, Ella, in a Square Apron, Along Highway Donald Hall, The Wedding Couple  Essex Hemphill, Commitments  Michael Lassell, How to Watch Your Brother Die  Edna St. Vincent Millay, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why Love Is Not All  Sharon Olds, Sex Without Love  Octavio Paz, Two Bodies  Sylvia Plath, Mirror  Connecting Through Comparison: Shall I Compare Thee?  William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (Sonnet No. 18)              My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet No. 130)  Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?  Connecting and Comparing Across Genres: Cinderella  Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Cinderella  Anne Sexton, Cinderella  Bruno Bettelheim, Cinderella  Drama  Anton Chekhov, The Proposal  Connecting and Comparing Across Genres: Fiction and Drama  Susan Glaspell, Trifles              A Jury of Her Peers  Essays  Steven Doloff, The Opposite Sex  Virginia Woolf, If Shakespeare Had a Sister  Case Study in Historical Context Women in Culture and History  Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House  The Adams Letters  A Husband’s Letter to His Wife  Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman  Henrik Ibsen, Notes for the Modern Tragedy  The Changed Ending of A Doll’s House for a German Production  Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women’s Rights  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Excerpt from “The Solitude of Self”  Wilbur Fisk Tillett, Excerpt from “Southern Womanhood”  Dorothy Dix, The American Wife  Women and Suicide  Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman), Excerpt from “Women and Economics”  Natalie Zemon Davis and Jill Ker Conway, The Rest of the Story  A Student’s Personal Response Essay  A Student’s Critical Essay A Student’s Research Essay Exploring the Literature of Women and Men: Options for Making Connections,     Building Arguments, and Using Research  Writing About Connections Across Themes  Collaboration: Writing and Revising with Your Peers  A Writing/Research Portfolio Option    Culture and Identity  A Dialogue Across History  Culture and Identity: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs  Reading and Writing About Culture and Identity  Fiction  José Armas, EI Tonto del Barrio  Kate Chopin, Désirée’s Baby  William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily  Jamaica Kincaid, Girl  Thomas King, Borders  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World  Tahira Naqvi, Brave We Are  Alice Walker, Everyday Use  Poetry  Connecting Through Comparison: The Mask We Wear  W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen  Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask  T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock  Other Poems Sherman Alexie, Evolution  Gloria Anzaldúa, To Live in the Borderlands Means You  Elizabeth Bishop, In the Waiting Room  Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool  e. e. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town   Martin Espada, Coca-Cola and Coco Frío  Connecting Through Comparison: Immigration  Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus  Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Learning to Love America  Pat Mora, Immigrants  John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player  William Carlos Williams, At the Ball Game  William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree Drama  Connecting through Comparison: Modern Realism and Parody Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Christopher Durang, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls Connecting through Comparison: Political Satire across Time and Genre Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal  Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos  Essays  Connecting Through Comparison: Work and Identity  Richard Rodriguez, Workers  Marge Piercy, To Be of Use  Other Essays Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write  Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream  Henry David Thoreau, From Civil Disobedience    Case Study in Cultural Context Writers of the Harlem Renaissance  Alain Locke, The New Negro  Langston Hughes, From The Big Sea  The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain  The Negro Speaks of Rivers  I, Too  The Weary Blues  One Friday Morning  Theme for English B  Claude McKay, America  Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Heritage  Jean Toomer, Reapers  Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel              From the Dark Tower  Anne Spencer, Lady, Lady  Georgia Douglas Johnson, I Want to Die While You Love Me  Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat  Commentary on “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”  Langston Hughes  Jessie Fauset  Onwuchekwa Jemie  R. Baxter Miller  Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View  A Student’s Critical Essay  Exploring the Literature of Culture and Identity: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using Research   Writing About Connections Across Themes  Collaboration: Writing and Revising with Your Peers  A Writing/Research Portfolio Option    Faith and Doubt  A Dialogue Across History  Faith and Doubt: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs  Reading and Writing About Faith and Doubt  Fiction  Raymond Carver, Cathedral  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown  Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried  Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find  Poetry  Connecting Through Comparison: Facing Our Own Mortality  John Donne, Death, Be Not Proud  John Keats, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be  Mary Oliver, When Death Comes  Connecting Through Comparison: Nature and Humanity  Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach  Robert Bridges, London Snow  Robert Frost, Fire and Ice  Galway Kinnell, Saint Francis and the Sow  William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark  Walt Whitman, Song of Myself    Connecting Through Comparison: September    Deborah Garrison, I Saw You Walking  Brian Doyle, Leap  Billy Collins, The Names  Connecting Through Comparison: Belief in a Supreme Being  Stephen Crane, A Man Said to the Universe  Thomas Hardy, Hap  Connecting Through Comparison: The Impact of War  Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed  Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est  Carl Sandburg, Grass  Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It  Connecting Through Comparison: Responding to the Deaths of Others  Mark Doty, Brilliance  A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young  Pablo Neruda, The Dead Woman  Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night  Drama  David Mamet, Oleanna  John Millington Synge, Riders to the Sea  Anton Chekhov, The Swan Song  John Galsworthy, The Sun Essays  Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus  Plato, The Allegory of the Cave  Philip Simmons, Learning to Fall  Case Study in Contextual Criticism The Poetry of Emily Dickinson  Her Life  Her Work  The Poems  Success is counted sweetest  Faith is a fine invention  There’s a certain Slant of light  I like a look of Agony  Wild Nights–Wild Nights!  The Brain–is wider than the Sky–  Much Madness is divinest Sense–  I’ve seen a Dying Eye  I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–  After great pain, a formal feeling comes–  Some keep the Sabbath going to Church–  This World is not Conclusion  There is a pain–so utter–  Because I could not stop for Death–  The Bustle in a House  Tell all the Truth but tell it slant–  Emily Dickinson–In Her Own Words  To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) (1852)  To T. W. Higginson (1862)  In Others’ Words  Thomas Wentworth Higginson, On Meeting Dickinson for the First Time (1870)  Mabel Loomis Todd, The Character of Amherst (1881)  Richard Wilbur, On Dickinson’s Sense of Privation (1960)  Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, On Dickinson’s White Dress (1979)  Critical Commentary on Her Poetry  Helen McNeil, Dickinson’s Method  Cynthia Griffin Wolff, On the Many Voices in Dickinson’s Poetry  Allen Tate, On “Because I could not stop for Death”  Paula Bennett, On “I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–”  Poems About Emily Dickinson  Linda Pastan, Emily Dickinson  Billy Collins, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes  A Student’s Critical Essay  Exploring the Literature of Faith and Doubt: Options for Making Connections,     Building Arguments, and Using Research   Using Research  Writing About Connections Across Themes  Collaboration: Writing and Revising with Your Peers  A Writing/Research Portfolio Option    Appendix A: Critical Approaches to Literature  Appendix B: Writing About Film  Appendix C: Documentation  Glossary of Literary Terms  Literary and Photo Credits  Index of Author Names, Titles, and First Lines of Poems  Index of Terms 

About the Author :
Frank Madden is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of the English Department at SUNY Westchester Community College where he also holds the Carol Russett Endowed Chair for English. He has a Ph.D. from NYU, has taught in graduate programs at CCNY, Iona College, and the New School for Social Reserach, and in 1998 was Chair of the NCTE College Section Institute on the Teaching of Literature. He is a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship, the Foundation for Westchester Community College Award for Excellence in Scholarship, and the Phi Delta Kappan Educator of the Year Award from Iona College. He was awarded the 2003 Neil Ann Pickett Service Award, granted by the NCTE to an outstanding college teacher whose vision and voice have had a major impact, and who exemplifies such outstanding personal qualities as creativity, sensitivity, and leadership. He has been Chair of the College Section of the NCTE and Chair of TYCA, and served on the Executive Committee of the NCTE, the CCCC, the MLA ad hoc Committee on Teaching, and as NCTE delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. His articles, chapters, and commentary about the teaching of literature have appeared in a variety of books and journals, including College English, PMLA, College Literature, English Journal, Computers and Composition, Computers and the Humanities, and the ADE Bulletin.