An Introduction to Literature: Fiction, Poetry, Drama

by Barnet, Sylvan; Berman, Morton; Burto, William; Cain, William E.; Barnet, Sylvan; Berman, Morton; Burto, William; Cain, William E.

Edition:

12th

ISBN13:

9780321061270

ISBN10:

0321061276

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

7/1/2000

Publisher(s):

Pearson College Div

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Summary

A leader in the market for over 30 years, this paperback anthology continues to uphold the traditions that have made it a successclassic and contemporary selections with a range of multicultural voices as well as a non-intrusive apparatus that covers the elements of literature and the writing processwhile incorporating fresh new material. The new edition features "Writer's at Work", a novel, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, a new casebook on Hamlet, a 24-page color insert "Poems and Paintings" and more student writing throughout.

Preface

xxi

Part One Reading, Thinking, and Writing Critically about Literature

(52)

Reading and Responding to Literature

(21)

What is Literature?

(5)

Looking at an Example: Robert Frost's Immigrants

(3)

Looking at a Second Example: Pat Mora's, Immigrants

(1)

Thinking About a Story: The Parable of the Prodigal Son

(3)

Stories True and False

(3)

Samuel

(2)

Grace Paley

What's Past is Prologue

(10)

The Hanging of the Mouse

(2)

Elizabeth Bishop

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

(2)

A. E. Housman

Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries

(1)

Hug MacDiarmid

Christmas Tree

(2)

James Merrill

Might We Too?

(2)

W. F. Bolton

Writing about Literature: From Idea to Essay

(29)

Why Write?

(1)

Getting Ideas: Pre-Writing

(8)

Annotating a Text

(1)

Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing

(1)

The Story of an Hour

(2)

Kate Chopin

Focused Free Writing

(1)

Listing and Clustering

(1)

Developing an Awareness of the Writer's Use of Language

(1)

Asking Questions

(1)

Keeping a Journal

(1)

Arriving at a Thesis

(1)

Writing a Draft

(5)

Sample Draft of an Essay on Kate Chopin's ``The Story of an Hour'': Ironies in an Hour

(1)

Revising a Draft

(1)

Peer Review

(2)

The Final Version: ``Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin's The Story an Hour''

(2)

A Brief Overview of the Final Version

(1)

Explication

(4)

A Sample Explication

(1)

The Balloon of the Mind

(3)

William Butler Yeats

Comparison and Contrast

(1)

Review: How to Write an Effective Essay

(2)

Additional Readings

(6)

Ripe Figs

(1)

Kate Chopin

For the Feeling of an Elm in the Harvard Yard

(1)

Adrienne Rich

The Black Walnut Tree

(1)

Mary Oliver

Refugee Ship

(3)

Lorna Dee Cervantes

Part Two Fiction

(586)

Approaching Fiction: Responding in Writing

(11)

Cat in the Rain

(3)

Ernest Hemingway

Responses: Annotations and Journal Entries

(4)

A Sample Essay by a Student: ``Hemingway's American Wife''

(4)

Stories and Meanings: Plot, Character, Theme

(19)

The Vixen and the Lioness

(1)

Aesop

The Appointment in Samara

(1)

W. Somerset Maugham

Muddy Road

(1)

Anonymous

Misery

(7)

Anton Chekhov

The Storm

(4)

Kate Chopin

Desiree's Baby

(5)

Kate Chopin

Narrative Point of View

(24)

Participant (or First-Person) Points of View

(1)

Nonparticipant (or Third-Person) Points of View

(1)

The Point of a Point of View

(21)

A & P

(6)

John Updike

In the Gloaming

(14)

Alice Elliot Dark

Allegory and Symbolism

109

(21)

A Note on Setting

112

(18)

Two Stories

112

(1)

Eudora Welty

A Worn Path

113

(6)

Livvie

119

(11)

In Brief: Writing about Fiction

130

(14)

Plot

130

(1)

Character

130

(1)

Point of View

131

(1)

Setting

131

(1)

Symbolism

132

(1)

Style

132

(1)

Theme

132

(1)

A Story, Notes, and an Essay

133

(5)

The Cask of Amontillado

133

(5)

Edgar Allan Poe

A Student's Written Response to a Story

138

(6)

Notes

138

(2)

Essay:``Revenge, Noble and Ignoble''

140

(4)

A Fiction Writer at Work: Raymond Carver

144

(7)

Mine

145

(1)

Little Things

145

(2)

Talking about Stories

147

(2)

On Rewriting

149

(2)

Thinking Critically about a Short Story: A Casebook on Ralph Ellison's ``Battle Royal''

151

(34)

Battle Royal

151

(16)

Ralph Ellison

Atlanta Exposition Address

167

(3)

Booker T. Washington

Of Our Spiritual Strivings

170

(1)

W. E. B. Du Bois

Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others

171

(3)

W. E. B. Du Bois

On Social Equality

174

(4)

Gunnar Myrdal

On Negro Folklore (Interview)

178

(2)

Ralph Ellison

Life in Oklahoma City

180

(5)

Ralph Ellison

Three Fiction Writers in Depth

185

(97)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Flannery O'Connor

Alice Munro

Three Stories and Remarks on Fiction

186

(33)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Roger Malvin's Burial

186

(13)

Young Goodman Brown

199

(10)

The Minister's Black Veil

209

(9)

Selections from the Notebooks

218

(1)

Two Stories and Observations on Literature

219

(33)

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

220

(12)

Revelation

232

(14)

On Fiction: Remarks from Essays and Letters

246

(5)

On Interpreting A Good Man Is Hard to Find

251

(1)

Two Stories and an Interview

252

(30)

Alice Munro

Boys and Girls

253

(9)

The Children Stay

262

(17)

A Conversation (Interview)

279

(3)

A Collection of Short Fiction

282

(255)

The Death of Ivan Ilych

285

(40)

Leo Tolstoy

Hautot and His Son

325

(8)

Guy de Maupassant

The Yellow Wallpaper

333

(12)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Araby

345

(4)

James Joyce

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

349

(12)

D. H. Lawrence

A Rose for Emily

361

(12)

William Faulkner

The Gospel According to Mark

373

(4)

Jorge Luis Borges

The Chrysanthemums

377

(8)

John Steinbeck

One Friday Morning

385

(6)

Langston Hughes

The Son from America

391

(5)

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Woman on a Roof

396

(7)

Doris Lessing

The Mourners

403

(5)

Bernard Malamud

Contemporary Voices

Civil Peace

408

(4)

Chinua Achebe

Separating

412

(8)

John Updike

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

420

(5)

A. S. Byatt

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

425

(12)

Joyce Carol Oates

The Lesson

437

(5)

Toni Cade Bambara

Shiloh

442

(10)

Bobbie Ann Mason

If You Touched My Heart

452

(6)

Isabel Allende

Everyday Use

458

(7)

Alice Walker

Powder

465

(3)

Tobias Wolff

The Things They Carried

468

(12)

Tim O'Brien

The Man to Send Rain Clouds

480

(4)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Girl

484

(1)

Jamaica Kincaid

The Two

485

(6)

Gloria Naylor

Two Kinds

491

(9)

Amy Tan

Courting a Monk

500

(10)

Katherine Min

How to Become a Writer

510

(5)

Lorrie Moore

The Red Convertible

515

(7)

Louise Erdrich

Territory

522

(15)

David Leavitt

The Novel

537

(102)

Observations on the Novel

537

(102)

Reading Kate Chopin's The Awakening

541

(1)

Picture Portfolio: Kate Chopin and New Orleans

542

(4)

The Awakening

546

(93)

Kate Chopin

Part Three Poetry

639

(310)

Approaching Poetry: Responding in Writing

641

(11)

Harlem

641

(2)

Langston Hughes

Thinking about ``Harlem''

643

(1)

Some Journal Entries

644

(1)

Final Draft

645

(2)

Song: Love Armed

647

(1)

Aphra Behn

Journal Entries

648

(1)

A Sample Essay by a Student: ``The Double Nature of Love''

649

(3)

Lyric Poetry

652

(19)

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

652

(1)

Anonymous

Careless Love

653

(1)

Anonymous

The Colorado Trail

654

(1)

Anonymous

Sally Goodin

654

(1)

Anonymous

Western Wind

655

(1)

Anonymous

Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone

656

(1)

W. H. Auden

Spellbound

657

(1)

Emily Bronte

The Self-Unseeing

658

(1)

Thomas Hardy

Deep River

659

(1)

Anonymous

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

660

(1)

Anonymous

Evenin' Air Blues

661

(1)

Langston Hughes

I Ask My Mother to Sing

662

(1)

Li-Young Lee

The Spring and the Fall

662

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Anthem for Doomed Youth

663

(1)

Wilfred Owen

A Noiseless Patient Spider

664

(1)

Walt Whitman

Ode on a Grecian Urn

665

(2)

John Keats

e. e. cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town

667

(2)

Sympathy

669

(1)

Pual Laurence Dunbar

Jump Cabling

670

(1)

Linda Pastan

The Speaking Tone of Voice

671

(21)

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

672

(2)

Emily Dickinson

The Hour-Glass

674

(1)

Ben Jonson

We Real Cool

674

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Reader as the Speaker

675

(3)

Not Waving but Drowning

676

(1)

Stevie Smith

Homosexuality

676

(2)

Frank O'Hara

The Dramatic Monologue

678

(2)

My Last Duchess

678

(2)

Robert Browning

Diction and Tone

680

(7)

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

681

(1)

Robert Herrick

The Man He Killed

682

(1)

Thomas Hardy

An Epitaph

683

(1)

Walter de la Mare

Spring and Fall: To a Young Child

684

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

For a Lady I Know

685

(1)

Countee Cullen

My Mother and the Bed

685

(2)

Lyn Lifshin

The Voice of the Satirist

687

(5)

e. e. cummings, next to of course god america i

687

(1)

Barbie Doll

688

(1)

Marge Piercy

Dear John Wayne

689

(3)

Louise Erdrich

Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe

692

(16)

A Red, Red Rose

693

(1)

Robert Burns

Metaphors

694

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Simile

695

(1)

A Simile for Her Smile

695

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Metaphor

696

(3)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

697

(1)

John Keats

A Work of Artifice

698

(1)

Marge Piercy

Personification

699

(1)

Apostrophe

699

(9)

Song

700

(1)

Edmund Waller

The Red Wheelbarrow

701

(1)

William Carlos Williams

The Eagle

702

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet

703

(1)

Samuel Johnson

Digging

704

(1)

Seamus Heaney

Hawk

705

(3)

Mary Oliver

Imagery and Symbolism

708

(26)

The Sick Rose

709

(1)

William Blake

I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

710

(3)

Walt Whitman

The Whale in the Blue Washing Machine

713

(1)

John Haines

Kubla Khan

713

(3)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Master

716

(2)

Frederick Morgan

The Tropics in New York

718

(1)

Claude McKay

Diving into the Wreck

719

(2)

Adrienne Rich

Salvator Mundi: Via Crucis

721

(2)

Denise Levertov

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

723

(3)

Wallace Stevens

A Note on Haiku

726

(2)

Fallen petals rise

726

(1)

Moritake

If only we could

726

(1)

Sokan

River in summer

726

(1)

Shiki

Four Haiku

727

(1)

Richard Wright

After weeks of watching the roof leak

727

(1)

Gary Snyder

Writing a Haiku

727

(1)

Look, O look, there go

728

(1)

Taigi

Can Poetry be Translated?

728

(6)

Looking at Translations of a Poem

729

(1)

Charles Baudelaire

L'Albatros

729

(2)

Charles Baudelaire

El Pensador de Rodin

731

(3)

Gabriela Mistral

Irony

734

(12)

Rites of Passage

735

(1)

Sharon Olds

How to Eat Alone

736

(2)

Daniel Halpern

Ozymandias

738

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To His Coy Mistress

739

(1)

Andrew Marvell

Holy Sonnet XIV (``Batter my heart, threepersoned God'')

740

(1)

John Donne

Dream Boogie

741

(2)

Langston Hughes

Tony Went to the Bodega but He Didn't Buy Anything

743

(1)

Martin Espada

Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink

744

(2)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rhythm and Versification

746

(18)

An Immorality

747

(2)

Ezra Pound

Eight O'Clock

749

(1)

A. E. Housman

The Dance

750

(1)

William Carlos Williams

Do not go gentle into that good night

751

(1)

Dylan Thomas

The Pitcher

752

(1)

Robert Francis

The Boyhood of Raleigh

753

(2)

Roger McGough

Versification: A Glossary for Reference

755

(9)

Meter

755

(2)

Patterns of Sound

757

(2)

Blackberry Eating

759

(1)

Galway Kinnell

Stanzaic Patterns

760

(1)

Nothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought

761

(1)

X. J. Kennedy

Blank Verse and Free Verse

762

(1)

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

763

(1)

Walt Whitman

In Brief: Writing about Poetry

764

(10)

First Response

764

(1)

Speaker and Tone

764

(1)

Audience

765

(1)

Structure and Form

765

(1)

Center of Interest and Theme

765

(1)

Diction

765

(1)

Sound Effects

766

(1)

A Note on Explication

766

(1)

A Student's Written Response to a Poem

767

(3)

Gretal in Darkness

767

(3)

Louise Gluck

Student Essay: ``A Memory Poem: Louise Gluck's `Gretal in Darkness'''

770

(4)

Poets at Work

774

(13)

Three Versions of ``Leda and the Swan''

774

(2)

William Butler Yeats

Cathy Song: Two Versions of ``Out of Our Hands''

776

(3)

Two Versions of ``Enfans d' Adam, number 9''

779

(1)

Walt Whitman

Two Versions of ``Gesture, Possibly Archaic''

780

(2)

Carl Phillips

Two Versions of ``The Mercy''

782

(1)

Philip Levine

On Writing ``The Mercy''

783

(4)

Philip Levine

Modern and Contemporary Perspectives on Multicultural America

787

(18)

Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe

787

(2)

Paula Gunn Allen

The Vanishing Red

789

(1)

Robert Frost

Child of the Americas

790

(1)

Aurora Levins Morales

Ellis Island

791

(1)

Joseph Bruchac III

To the Lady

792

(3)

Mitsuye Yamada

To live in the Borderlands means you

795

(1)

Gloria Anzaldua

Facing It

796

(2)

Yusef Komunyakaa

America

798

(1)

Claude McKay

The Melting Pot

798

(1)

Dudley Randall

Bully

799

(1)

Martin Espada

So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans

800

(1)

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Moving Camp Too Far

801

(1)

Nila northSun

On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City

802

(2)

Sherman Alexie

My Mother, Who Came from China, Where She Never Saw Snow

804

(1)

Laureen Mar

Variations on Themes: Poems and Paintings

805

(24)

Writing About Poems and Paintings

805

(1)

A Sample Student Essay: ``Two Ways of Looking at A Starry Night''

806

(23)

Van Gogh's Bed

808

(2)

Jane Flanders

Mourning Picture

810

(2)

Adrienne Rich

Cathy Song, Beauty and Sadness

812

(2)

Luncheon on the Grass

814

(2)

Carl Phillips

The Starry Night

816

(2)

Anne Sexton

Musee des Beaux Arts

818

(2)

W. H. Auden

Nude Descending a Staircase

820

(2)

X. J. Kennedy

American Flamingo

822

(2)

Greg Pape

Before the Mirror

824

(2)

John Updike

The Man with the Hoe

826

(3)

Edwin Markham

Three Poets in Depth: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes

829

(44)

On Reading Authors Represented in Depth

829

(2)

Emily Dickinson

831

(13)

These are the days when Birds come back

832

(1)

Papa above!

832

(1)

Wild Nights---Wild Nights!

832

(1)

There's a certain Slant of light

833

(1)

I got so I could hear his name---

833

(1)

The Soul Selects her own Society

834

(1)

This was a Poet---It is That

834

(1)

I heard a Fly buzz---when I died

835

(1)

This World is not Conclusion

835

(1)

I like to see it lap the Miles

836

(1)

Because I could not stop for Death

836

(1)

A narrow Fellow in the Grass

837

(1)

Further in Summer than the Birds

837

(1)

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant

838

(1)

A Route of Evanescence

838

(1)

Those---dying, then

839

(1)

Apparently with no surprise

839

(1)

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

840

(2)

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

842

(1)

I felt a Cleaving in my Mind---

843

(1)

The Dust behind I strove to join

843

(1)

Letters About Poetry

844

(2)

Letter to Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) (1852)

844

(1)

Letter to T. W. Higginson (1862)

845

(1)

Letter to T. W. Higginson (1876)

846

(1)

Robert Frost

846

(10)

The Pasture

847

(1)

Mending Wall

847

(1)

The Wood-Pile

848

(1)

The Road Not Taken

849

(1)

The Telephone

849

(1)

The Oven Bird

850

(1)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

850

(1)

The Aim Was Song

851

(1)

The Need of Being Versed in Country Things

852

(1)

Acquainted with the Night

852

(1)

Desert Places

853

(1)

Design

853

(1)

The Silken Tent

854

(1)

Come In

854

(1)

The Most of It

855

(1)

Robert Frost on Poetry

856

(2)

The Figure a Poem Makes

856

(2)

From ``The Constant Symbol''

858

(1)

Langston Hughes

858

(9)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

859

(1)

Mother to Son

859

(1)

The Weary Blues

860

(1)

The South

860

(1)

Ruby Brown

861

(1)

Let America Be America Again

862

(2)

Poet to Patron

864

(1)

Ballad of the Landlord

864

(1)

Too Blue

865

(1)

Harlem [1]

865

(1)

Theme for English B

866

(1)

Poet to Bigot

867

(1)

Langston Hughes on Poetry

867

(6)

``The Negro and the Racial Mountain''

867

(4)

On the Cultural Achievement of African-Americans

871

(2)

A Collection of Poems

873

(76)

A Note on Folk Ballads

873

(76)

Sir Patrick Spence

874

(2)

Anonymous

The Three Ravens

876

(1)

Anonymous

The Twa Corbies

877

(1)

Anonymous

Edward

878

(1)

Anonymous

The Demon Lover

879

(2)

Anonymous

John Henry

881

(1)

Anonymous

(``When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes'')

882

(1)

William Shakespeare

(``That time of year thou mayst in me behold'')

883

(1)

William Shakespeare

(``Let me not to the marriage of true minds'')

883

(1)

William Shakespeare

(``Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth'')

884

(1)

William Shakespeare

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

884

(2)

John Donne

On My First Son

886

(1)

Ben Jonson

When I consider how my light is spent

886

(1)

John Milton

Infant Joy

887

(1)

William Blake

The Lamb

888

(1)

William Blake

Infant Sorrow

888

(1)

William Blake

The Tyger

888

(1)

William Blake

London

889

(1)

William Blake

The World Is Too Much with Us

889

(1)

William Wordsworth

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

890

(1)

William Wordsworth

On Being Brought from Africa to America

891

(1)

Phillis Wheatley

The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers

892

(2)

Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

To Autumn

894

(1)

John Keats

Ulysses

895

(2)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

The March into Virginia

897

(2)

Herman Melville

Dover Beach

899

(1)

Matthew Arnold

The Convergence of the Twain

900

(2)

Thomas Hardy

God's Grandeur

902

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Shropshire Lad #19 (To an Athlete Dying Young)

903

(1)

A. E. Housman

Sailing to Byzantium

904

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Richard Cory

905

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson

To America

906

(1)

James Weldon Johnson

Spring and All

906

(1)

William Carlos Williams

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

907

(2)

Ezra Pound

In a Station of the Metro

909

(1)

Ezra Pound

Helen

909

(1)

H. D.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

910

(3)

T. S. Eliot

Incident

913

(1)

Countee Cullen

Ars Poetica

914

(1)

Archibald MacLeish

e. e. cummings, In Just-

915

(1)

The Unknown Citizen

916

(1)

W. H. Auden

The Fish

917

(2)

Elizabeth Bishop

Poem

919

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Those Winter Sundays

920

(1)

Robert Hayden

Myth

921

(1)

Muriel Rukeyser

Contemporary Voices

Martin Luther King Jr.

922

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Dover Bitch

923

(1)

Anthony Hecht

A Supermarket in California

924

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

925

(1)

James Wright

Disagreements

926

(1)

John Hollander

Living in Sin

927

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Rape

927

(1)

Adrienne Rich

Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

928

(1)

Adrienne Rich

For Allen Ginsberg

928

(1)

X. J. Kennedy

The Real Work

929

(1)

Gary Snyder

A Far Cry from Africa

930

(1)

Derek Walcott

Daddy

931

(3)

Sylvia Plath

A Poem for Black Hearts

934

(1)

Amiri Baraka

in the inner city

935

(1)

Lucille Clifton

Love Song

936

(1)

Joseph Brodsky

The Times They Are A-Changin'

936

(2)

Bob Dylan

Sonrisas

938

(1)

Pat Mora

But He Was Cool or: he even stopped for green lights

939

(1)

Don L. Lee

The School Children

940

(1)

Louise Gluck

The Hug

940

(1)

Tess Gallagher

Master Charge Blues

941

(1)

Nikki Giovanni

Quarrel

942

(1)

Ellen Bryant Voight

Chivalry

943

(1)

Carol Muske

Three Thousand Dollar Death Song

944

(2)

Wendy Rose

Vision

946

(1)

Joy Harjo

Daystar

946

(1)

Rita Dove

My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory

947

(2)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Part Four Drama

949

(638)

Some Elements of Drama

951

(17)

Thinking About the Language of Drama

951

(4)

Plot and Character

955

(13)

Trifles

957

(11)

Susan Glaspell

Tragedy

968

(210)

A Note on Greek Tragedy

972

(66)

Oedipus Rex

973

(37)

Sophocles

Antigone

1010

(28)

Sophocles

A Casebook on Hamlet

1038

(1)

A Note on the Elizabethan Theater

1038

(1)

A Note on the text of Halmet

1038

(7)

Hamlet on the Stage

1045

(133)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

1048

(112)

William Shakespeare

Hamlet and the Oedipus Complex

1160

(2)

Ernest Jones

On the First Soliloquy

1162

(2)

Stanley Wells

Representing Ophelia

1164

(1)

Elaine Showalter

Playing Gertrude on Television

1165

(1)

Claire Bloom

``Praised Be Rashness'': Hamlet's Chance Encounter with the Pirates (student essay)

1166

(7)

Emily Sandy

The BBC Hamlet: A Television Production

1173

(2)

Bernice W. Kliman

Branagh's Film of Hamlet (student essay)

1175

(3)

Will Saretta

Comedy

1178

(68)

The Man in a Case

1181

(6)

Wendy Wasserstein

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1187

(59)

William Shakespeare

In Brief: Writing about Drama

1246

(14)

Plot and Conflict

1246

(1)

Character

1247

(1)

Tragedy

1247

(1)

Comedy

1247

(1)

Nonverbal Language

1248

(1)

The Play in Performance

1248

(1)

A Sample Student Essay, Using Sources

1249

(1)

``The Women in Death of a Salesman'' (student essay)

1250

(10)

Ruth Katz

A Playwright at Work: Joyce Carol Oates

1260

(36)

Tone Clusters

1261

(31)

On Writing Drama

1292

(2)

Further Thoughts on Tone Clusters

1294

(2)

A Collection of Plays in Contexts

1296

(291)

A Doll's House

1296

(52)

Henrik Ibsen

Contexts for a Doll's House

Notes for the Tragedy of Modern Times

1348

(1)

Henrik Ibsen

Adaptation of A Doll's House for a German Production

1349

(1)

Henrik Ibsen

Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women's Rights

1350

(1)

Henrik Ibsen

The Glass Menagerie

1350

(47)

Tennessee William

A Context for the Glass Menagerie

Production Notes

1397

(2)

Tennessee Williams

Contemporary Voices

The Death of a Salesman

1399

(69)

Arthur Miller

A Context for Death of a Salesman

Tragedy and the Common Man

1468

(3)

Arthur Miller

Los Vendidos

1471

(11)

Luis Valdez

A Context for Los Vendidos

The Actos

1482

(1)

Luis Valdez

On Tidy Endings

1483

(18)

Harvey Fierstein

Fences

1501

(51)

August Wilson

A Context for Fences

Talking about Fences

1552

(3)

August Wilson

Oleanna

1555

(29)

David Mamet

A Context for Oleanna

Talking about Drama

1584

(3)

David Mamet

Part Five Critical Perspectives

1587

(107)

Critical Approaches: The Nature of Criticism

1589

(24)

Critical Perspectives on Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness: A Casebook

1613

(81)

Heart of Darkness

1613

(60)

Remarks on Fiction

1673

(2)

An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

1675

(7)

Chinua Achebe

The Double Worlds of Men and Women

1682

(4)

Elaine Showalter

The Symbolism of the Two Knitters

1686

(3)

Ian Watt

The Imperial Attitude

1689

(1)

Edward W. Said

Teaching the Politics of Heart of Darkness

1690

(4)

Gerald Graff

Appendix A Remarks about Manuscript Form

1694

(6)

Basic Manuscript form

1694

(1)

Corrections in the Final Copy

1695

(1)

Quotations and Quotation Marks

1696

(4)

Quotations Marks or Underlining?

1699

(1)

A Note on the Possessive

1699

(1)

Appendix B Writing a Research Paper

1700

(19)

What Research is Not and What Research is

1700

(1)

Primary and Secondary materials

1700

(2)

Locating Materials: First Steps

1701

(1)

Other Bibliographic Aids

1702

(1)

Taking Notes

1703

(2)

Two Mechanical Aids: The Photocopier and the Word Processor

1703

(1)

A Guide to Note Taking

1704

(1)

Drafting the Paper: Organizing the Material, and Leading into Quotations

1705

(1)

A Sense of Proportion

1706

(1)

Documentation

1706

(13)

What to Document: Avoiding Plagiarism

1706

(2)

How to Document: Footnotes and Internal Parenthetical Citations, and a List of Works Cited (MLA Format)

1708

(11)

Appendix C New Approaches to the Research Paper: Literature, History, and the World Wide Web

1719

(28)

Case Study on Literature and History: The Internment of Japanese Americans

1720

(1)

Literary Texts

1720

(4)

The Question of Loyalty

1720

(1)

Mitsuye Yamada

An Argument: On 1942

1721

(3)

David Mura

Historical Sources

1724

(8)

Basic Reference Books (Short Paper)

1724

(2)

Getting Deeper (Medium-Length Paper)

1726

(3)

Other Reference Sources (Long Paper)

1729

(2)

Too Much Information?

1731

(1)

Using the On-Line Catalog

1732

(1)

Electronic Sources

1733

(8)

Encyclopedias: Print and Electronic Versions

1733

(3)

The Internet/World Wide Web

1736

(5)

Evaluating Sources on the World Wide Web

1741

(1)

Documentation: Citing a www Source

1742

(1)

Additional Print and Electronic Sources

1743

(4)

Print Directories

1743

(1)

Print Articles on Literature, History, and the www

1744

(1)

Online Writing Centers and Labs

1745

(1)

English Departments, Curricula, and Courses Online

1746

(1)

Appendix D Literary Research: Print and Electronic Resources

1747

(16)

Literature---Print Reference Sources

1747

(4)

Other Reference Resources

1748

(1)

Bibliographies

1749

(1)

Literary Theory and Criticism

1750

(1)

Literature---Electronic Sources

1751

(2)

Other Useful Sites on Authors

1752

(1)

Other Valuable Sites for Research

1753

(1)

History---Reference and Bibliography Sources

1753

(1)

WWW Sites for History

1754

(1)

Periodicals: Print and Electronic Sources

1754

(1)

For General Bibliography in the Humanities

1755

(1)

For Evaluating the Point of View, the Content, and the Intended Audience of Sources

1756

(1)

Other Resources

1757

(1)

What Does Your Institution Offer?

1757

(1)

Summing Up: Basic Tools for Writing and Research

1758

(5)

Books

1759

(1)

Electronic Sources

1759

(3)

An Important Reminder

1762

(1)

Appendix E Glossary of Literary Terms

1763

(12)

Acknowledgments

1775

(14)

Index of Terms

1789

(4)

Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems

1793

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