Literature for Composition Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

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

• ISBN13: 9780321021533
• ISBN10: 0321021533
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-24
• Publisher: Pearson Higher Education

Summary

Literature for Composition is a versatile anthology which has both diverse selections and excellent coverage of writing instruction. The book begins with six chapters on the reading and writing process, followed by a section on literary works and forms, a section on argument, and a thematic anthology. The new edition features updated casebooks on prominent writers as well as a new mini-casebook on The Titanic.

Table of Contents

Alternate Contents	xix
List of Illustrations	xxv
Preface	xxvii
PART I Getting Started	1	(146)
The Writer as Reader: Reading and Responding	3	(8)
Ripe Figs	3	(1)
Kate Chopin
Reading As Re-Creation	4	(1)
Making Reasonable Inferences	5	(1)
Reading with Pen in Hand	6	(1)
Reconding Your First Responses	7	(1)
Audience and Purpose	8	(1)
A Writing Assignment on ``Ripe Figs''	8	(3)
The Assignment	8	(1)
A Sample Essay by a Student: ``Ripening''	9	(1)
Other Possibilities for Writing	10	(1)
The Reader as Writer: Developing a Thesis, Drafting and Writing an Argument	11	(21)
Pre-Writing: Getting Ideas	11	(8)
Annotating a Text	11	(1)
More About Getting Ideas: A Second Story by Kate Chopin	11	(1)
The Story of an Hour	12	(1)
Kate Chopin
Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing	13	(1)
Focused Free Writing	14	(1)
Listing	14	(1)
Asking Questions	15	(1)
Keeping a Journal	16	(1)
Critical Thinking: Arguing with Yourself	17	(1)
Arriving at a Thesis, and Arguing it	18	(1)
Writing A Draft	19	(4)
A Sample Draft: ``Ironies in an Hour''	20	(1)
Revising a Draft	21	(1)
Outlining a Draft	21	(1)
Peer Review	22	(1)
The Final Version (A Sample by a Student): ``Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour''	23	(3)
A Brief Overview of the Final Version	25	(1)
Writing with a Word Processor	26	(1)
A Checklist for Writing with a Word Processor	26	(1)
A Third Story by Kate Chopin The Storm	27	(4)
Writing About ``The Storm''	31	(1)
A Note About Literary Evaluations	31	(1)
What Is Literature?	32	(28)
Literature and Form	32	(2)
Literature and Meaning	34	(1)
Arguing About Meaning	35	(1)
Form and Meaning	35	(2)
The Span of Life	35	(2)
Robert Frost
The Literary Canon	37	(1)
Literature, Texts, Discourses, and Cultural Studies	38	(1)
In Brief: A Contemporary Author Speaks About Literature	39	(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading	39	(1)
A Casebook on the Titanic: Songs, Poems, and an Essay on a Film	40	(6)
Columbia Encyclopedia Titanic	40	(4)
The Convergence of the Twain	44	(2)
Thomas Hardy
The Titanic and Folk Songs	46	(6)
The Titanic	47	(1)
Anonymous
De Titanic (with Music)	47	(3)
Anonymous
De Titanic (with music)	50	(2)
Huddie Ledbetter
Three Poems for Study	52	(3)
Reliquary	53	(1)
Michael Donaghy
The Arrival of the Titanic	53	(1)
William Dickey
Titanic	54	(1)
David R. Slavitt
Film and Literature	55	(5)
An Essay on James Cameron's Film, Titanic	56	(1)
Women and Children First	57	(3)
Katha Pollitt
Reading Literature Closely: (1) Explication	60	(13)
Reading in Slow Motion	60	(1)
Explication	61	(1)
A Sample Explication: Langston Hughes's ``Harlem''	62	(1)
Harlem	62	(5)
Langston Hughes
Working Toward an Explication of ``Harlem''	63	(1)
Some Journal Entries	64	(1)
A Sample Essay by a Student (The Final Draft): ``Langston Hughes's Harlem'''	65	(2)
Why Write? Purpose and Audience	67	(1)
Five Poems for Explication	67	(6)
Sonnet 73 (``That times of Year thou mayst in me behold'')	67	(1)
William Shakespeare
London	68	(1)
William Blake
Spellbound	69	(1)
Emily Bronte
I Ask My Mother to Sing	70	(1)
Li-Young Lee
Martin Luther King Jr.	71	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Reading Literature Closely: (2) Analysis	73	(60)
Analysis	73	(1)
Analysing a Story From the Hebrew Bible	74	(1)
The Judgement of Solomon	74	(3)
Analyzing the Story	75	(1)
Other Possible Topics for Analysis	76	(1)
Analyzing a Story from the New Testament	77	(1)
The Parable of the Prodigal Son	78	(1)
Comparison: An Analytic Tool	79	(2)
A Sample Essay by a Student, Making a Comparison: ``Two New Women''	81	(3)
Evaluation in Explication and Analysis	84	(1)
Choosing a Topic and Developing a Thesis in an Analytic Paper	85	(2)
A Analysis of a Story	87	(6)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	87	(3)
James Thurber
Some Journal Entries	90	(1)
List Notes	91	(1)
Sample Draft by a Student: ``Walter Mitty Is No Joke''	92	(1)
Introductions, Middles, Endings	93	(4)
Introductory Paragraphs	93	(2)
Middle Paragraphs	95	(1)
Concluding Paragraphs	95	(2)
A Checklist for Revising Paragraphs	97	(1)
Review: Writing an Analysis	97	(1)
A Word About Technical Terminology	98	(2)
Example: A Lyric and a Student's Essay	98	(1)
Song: Love Armed	98	(1)
Aphra Behn
Journal Entries	99	(1)
A Sample Essay by a Student: ``The Double Nature of Love''	100	(2)
Editing Checklist: Questions to Ask Yourself	102	(1)
Three Short Stories for Analysis	102	(25)
Roger Malvin's Burial	102	(13)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Everyday Use	115	(7)
Alice Walker
El Tonto del Barrio	122	(5)
Jose Armas
Three Poems by Elizabeth Bishop for analysis	127	(6)
Filling Station	127	(2)
The Fish	129	(2)
Brazil, January 1, 1502	131	(2)
Other Kinds of Writing About Literature	133	(14)
Summary	133	(1)
Paraphrase	134	(2)
What Paraphrase Is	134	(1)
The Value of Paraphrase	134	(2)
Literary Response	136	(5)
Writing a Literary Response	136	(1)
A Story, by a Student, Based on a Story: ``The Ticket (A Different View of 'The Story of an Hour')''	136	(3)
A Poem Based on a Poem	139	(1)
The Tyger	139	(1)
William Blake
For Allen Ginsberg	140	(1)
X. J. Kennedy
Parody	141	(1)
Reviewing a Dramatic Production	142	(5)
A Sample Review by a Student: ``An Effective Macbeth''	143	(2)
The Review Reviewed	145	(2)
PART II Up Close: Thinking Critically About Literary Works and Literary Forms	147	(306)
Critical Thinking: Asking Questions and Making Comparisons	149	(12)
What is Critical Thinking?	149	(1)
Asking and Answering Questions	150	(2)
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill	151	(1)
William Notman
Comparing and Constrasting	152	(1)
Analyzing and Evaluating Evidence	153	(1)
Thinking Critically About a Work of Literature, By Asking Questions and by Comparing: E. E. Cummings's ``Buffalo Bill's''	153	(4)
Cummings Draft's for ``Buffalo Bill's''	154	(3)
Two Encyclopedia Accounts of Sitting Bull: An Exercise in Close Reading and Critical Thinking	157	(4)
Reading (and Writing About) Essays	161	(29)
Some Kinds of Essays	161	(1)
The Essayist's Persona	162	(10)
Tone	163	(1)
Pre-Writing	164	(1)
Black Men and Public Space	164	(2)
Brent Staples
Summarizing	166	(5)
Some Writing Assignments	171	(1)
A Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing About Essays	171	(1)
Five Essays	172	(18)
A Modest Proposal	172	(7)
Jonathan Swift
The Death of the Moth	179	(2)
Virginia Woolf
Salvation	181	(2)
Langston Hughes
A Woman's Land	183	(4)
Sallie Bingham
The American Indian Wilderness	187	(3)
Louis Owens
Reading (and Writing About) Fiction	190	(49)
Stories True and False	190	(13)
Samuel	190	(3)
Grace Paley
Plot and Character	193	(1)
Foreshadowing	194	(1)
Setting and Atmosphere	195	(1)
Symbolism	195	(2)
Narrative Point of View	197	(2)
Style and Point of View	199	(1)
Determining and Discussing the Theme	199	(1)
A Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing About Fiction	200	(3)
Six Short Stories	203	(36)
The Cask of Amontillado	203	(5)
Edgar Allan Poe
Misery	208	(4)
Anton Chekhov
A Worn Path	212	(6)
Eudora Welty
The Lesson	218	(5)
Toni Cade Bambara
Powder	223	(3)
Tobias Wolff
In the Gloaming	226	(13)
Alice Elliott Dark
Thinking Critically About a Short Story	239	(28)
A Casebook on Ralph Ellison's ``Battle Royal''	239	(28)
Battle Royal	239	(11)
Ralph Ellison
Atlanta Exposition Address	250	(3)
Booker T. Washington
Of Our Spiritual Strivings	253	(1)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others	254	(3)
W. E. B. Du Bois
On Social Equality	257	(4)
Gunnar Myrdal
On Negro Folklore	261	(2)
Ralph Ellison
Life in Oklahoma City	263	(4)
Ralph Ellison
Reading (and Writing About) Drama	267	(77)
Types of Plays	267	(2)
Tragedy	267	(1)
Comedy	268	(1)
Elements of Drama	269	(4)
Theme	269	(1)
Plot	270	(1)
Gestures	271	(1)
Setting	272	(1)
Characterization and Motivation	273	(1)
Organizing an Analysis of a Character	273	(4)
First Draft	274	(1)
Revised Draft	274	(2)
A Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing About Drama	276	(1)
Three Plays	277	(1)
A Note on Greek Tragedy	277	(67)
Oedipus Rex	279	(36)
Sophocles
Trifles	315	(10)
Susan Glaspell
On Tidy Endings	325	(19)
Harvey Fierstein
Thinking Critically About Drama	344	(53)
A Sample Essay By a Student	344	(53)
Preliminary Notes	344	(1)
The Final Version: ``The Solid Structure of The Glass Menagerie''	345	(4)
The Glass Menagerie	349	(45)
Tennessee Williams
Production Notes	394	(3)
Tennessee Williams
Reading (and Writing About) Poetry	397	(47)
The Speaker and the Poet	397	(2)
I'm Nobody! Who are you?	397	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights---Wild Nights	398	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Language of Poetry: Diction and Tone	399	(4)
Writing About the Speaker	400	(1)
The Telephone	400	(1)
Robert Frost
Journal Entries	401	(2)
Figurative Language	403	(2)
Imagery and Symbolism	405	(2)
The Sick Rose	406	(1)
William Blake
Verbal Irony and Paradox	407	(1)
Structure	407	(1)
Upon Julia's Clothes	407	(1)
Robert Herrick
A Sample Essay by a Student: ``Herrick's Julia, Julia's Herrick''	408	(3)
In an Artist's Studio	410	(1)
Christina Rossetti
Explication	411	(2)
An Example	412	(1)
The Balloon of the Mind	412	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Annotations and Journal Entries	412	(1)
A Sample Essay by a Student: ``Explication of W. B. Yeats's `The Balloon of the Mind'''	413	(1)
Rhythm and Versification: A Glossary for Reference	414	(8)
Meter	416	(2)
Patterns of Sound	418	(1)
Stanzaic Patterns	419	(1)
Blank Verse and Free Verse	420	(1)
A Checklist: Getting Ideas for Writing About Poetry	420	(2)
Fifteen Poems About People, Places, and Things	422	(22)
People	422	(1)
Anonymous Sir Patrick Spence	423	(2)
On My First Son	425	(1)
Ben Jonson
My Last Duchess	426	(2)
Robert Browning
anyone Lived in a pretty how town	428	(1)
E. E. Cummings
The Mother	429	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Daddy	431	(2)
Sylvia Plath
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	433	(1)
Louise Erdrich
Places	434	(1)
An Old Pond	434	(1)
Basho
A Supermarket in California	435	(2)
Allen Ginsberg
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota	437	(1)
James Wright
Nothing in Heaven Functions as It Ought	438	(1)
X. J. Kennedy
Things	439	(1)
The World Is Too Much with Us	439	(1)
William Wordsworth
I Like to See it lap the Miles---	440	(1)
Emily Dickinson
A Noiseless Patient Spider	441	(1)
Walt Whitman
Hawk	441	(3)
Mary Oliver
Thinking Critically About Poetry	444	(9)
A Casebook on Emily Dickinson	444	(6)
I Heard a Fly Buzz---when I died---	444	(1)
The Soul selects her own Society	445	(1)
These are the days when Birds come back	446	(1)
Papa above!	446	(1)
There's a Certain Slant of light	447	(1)
This world is not Conclusion	447	(1)
I got so I could hear his name---	448	(1)
Because I Could not stop for Death	448	(1)
Those---dying, then	449	(1)
Apparently with no surprise	449	(1)
Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant	450	(1)
A Sample Essay by a Student: ``Religion and Religious Imagery in Emily Dickinson''	450	(3)
PART III Standing Back: Arguing Interpretations and Evaluations, and Understanding Critical Approaches	453	(66)
Arguing an Interpretation	455	(17)
Interpretation and Meaning	455	(1)
Is the Author's Intention a Guide to Meaning?	455	(1)
Is the Work the Author's or the Reader's?	456	(1)
What Characterizes a Good Interpretation?	457	(1)
An Example: Interpreting Pat Mora's ``Immigrants''	458	(2)
Thinking Critically About Responses to Literature	460	(1)
Two Sample Interpretations	461	(7)
``Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening''	461	(1)
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	461	(1)
Robert Frost
Sample Essay by a Student: ``Stopping by Woods---and Going On''	462	(3)
Sample Essay by a Student: ``Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' as a Short Story''	465	(3)
Additional Poems for Interpretation	468	(4)
Mending Wall	468	(1)
Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay	469	(1)
Robert Frost
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	470	(2)
William Wordsworth
Arguing an Evaluation	472	(23)
Criticism and Evaluation	472	(1)
Evaluative Language and the Canon	472	(1)
Are There Critical Standard?	473	(4)
Morality and Truth as Standards	473	(2)
Other Ways of Thinking About Truth and Realism	475	(2)
Is Sentimentality a Weakness---And if So, Why?	477	(4)
Little Boy Blue	478	(1)
Eugene Field
Little Elegy	479	(1)
X. J. Kennedy
We Real Cool	480	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Additional Works for Evaluation	481	(14)
Dover Beach	481	(1)
Matthew Arnold
The Dover Bitch	482	(2)
Anthony Hecht
From the Wash the Laundress Sends	484	(1)
A. E. Housman
The Man That Got Away	485	(2)
Ira Gershwin
Women	487	(1)
Louise Bogan
An Occurrence at Owl: Creek Bridge	488	(7)
Ambrose Bierce
Writing About Literature: An Overview	495	(24)
The Nature of Critical Writing	495	(1)
Criticism as Argument: Assumptions and Evidence	496	(1)
Some Critical Stances	497	(18)
Formalist Criticism (New Criticism)	497	(2)
Deconstruction	499	(1)
Reader-Response Criticism	500	(3)
Archetypal Criticism (Myth Criticism)	503	(1)
Historical Scholarship	504	(1)
Marxist Criticism	505	(1)
New Historicism	506	(1)
Biographical Criticism	507	(1)
Psychological or Psychoanalytic Criticism	507	(1)
Gender Criticism ( Feminist, and Lesbian and Gay Criticism)	508	(7)
Suggestions for Further Reading	515	(4)
PART IV A Thematic Anthology	519	(788)
Love and Hate	521	(96)
Essays	521	(12)
A Lover's Departure	521	(1)
Sei Shonagon
I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened	522	(4)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Like Mexicans	526	(3)
Gary Soto
Love Stories	529	(4)
Louis Menand
Fiction	533	(2)
Cat in the Rain	533	(2)
Ernest Hemingway
A Student's Annotations and Journal Entries on ``Cat in the Rain''	535	(1)
Asking Questions About a Story	536	(2)
A Sample Essay by a Student: ``Hemingway's American Wife''	538	(3)
A Second Example: An Essay Drawing on Related Material in the Chapter	541	(1)
Journal Entries	541	(1)
Sample Essay by a Student: ``Hemingway's Unhappy Lovers''	542	(41)
The Happy Prince	544	(6)
Oscar Wilde
Lappin and Lapinova	550	(6)
Virginia Woolf
A Rose for Emily	556	(11)
William Faulkner
Sweat	567	(9)
Zora Neale Hurston
Popular Mechanics	576	(2)
Raymond Carver
Second-Hand Man	578	(5)
Rita Dove
Poetry	583	(34)
Anonymous Western Wind	583	(1)
Come Live with Me and Be My Love	583	(1)
Christopher Marlowe
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	584	(1)
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Bait	585	(1)
John Donne
Sonnet 29 (When, in Disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes)	586	(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds)	587	(1)
William Shakespeare
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	588	(2)
John Donne
To His Coy Mistress	590	(1)
Andrew Marvell
The Garden of Love	591	(2)
William Blake
A Poison Tree	593	(1)
William Blake
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	594	(2)
Robert Browning
When I Heard at the Close of the Day	596	(2)
Walt Whitman
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	598	(3)
Walt Whitman
A Birthday	601	(1)
Christina Rossetti
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	602	(3)
T. S. Eliot
The Spring and the Fall	605	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink	606	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Silken Tent	607	(2)
Robert Frost
Diving in to the Wreck	609	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Novella	611	(1)
Adrienne Rich
XI.	612	(1)
Adrienne Rich
The Frog Prince	612	(1)
Robert Pack
Love Song	613	(1)
Joseph Brodsky
Quarrel	614	(1)
Ellen Bryant Voight
Love in Place	615	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
Chivalry	616	(1)
Carol Muske
Drama	617	(1)
The Man in a Case	617	(1)
Wendy Wasserstein
Gender Roles: Making Men and Women	617	(236)
Essays	624	(8)
Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls	624	(3)
Katha Pollitt
I Want a Wife	627	(2)
Judy Brady
The Men We Carry in Our Minds... and How They Differ from the Real Lives of Most Men	629	(3)
Scott Russell Sanders
Fiction	632	(82)
The Yellow Wallpaper	632	(11)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Horse Dealer's Daughter	643	(12)
D. H. Lawrence
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	655	(9)
Richard Wright
Shilon	664	(9)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Bridging	673	(7)
Max Apple
The Rumor	680	(8)
John Updike
Territory	688	(13)
David Leavitt
A Woman on a Roof	701	(6)
Doris Lessing
The Two	707	(7)
Gloria Naylor
A Casebook on Alice Munro	714	(41)
Boys and Girls	714	(9)
How I Met My Husband	723	(12)
The Children Stay	735	(15)
What Is Real? (Lecture)	750	(3)
A Conversation (Interview)	753	(2)
Poetry	755	(1)
Three Nursery Rhymes	755	(18)
What are little boys made of?	756	(1)
Georgie Porgie	756	(1)
The Milk Maid	757	(1)
Daystar	758	(1)
Rita Dove
Those Winter Sundays	759	(1)
Robert Hayden
Myth	760	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
My Papa's Waltz	761	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Wishes for sons	762	(1)
Lucille Clifton
Rites of Passage	763	(1)
Sharon Olds
Homosexuality	764	(1)
Frank O'hara
A Boy Named Sue	765	(3)
Shel Silverstein
I Stop Writing the Poem	768	(1)
Tess Gallagher
Woman's Work	769	(1)
Julia Alvarez
Is There Life After Feminism	770	(1)
Maud Meehan
Barbie Doll	771	(1)
Marge Pierce
A Work of Artifice	772	(1)
Marge Pierce
Dramma	773	(80)
A Doll's House	774	(51)
Henrik Ibsen
Oleanna	825	(28)
David Mamet
Innocence and Experience	853	(185)
Essay	853	(8)
Graduation	853	(8)
Maya Angelou
Fiction	861	(28)
Araby	861	(5)
James Joyce
One Friday Morning	866	(6)
Langston Hughes
Yoneko's Earthquake	872	(8)
Hisaye Yamamoto
A & P	880	(5)
John Updike
The Stolen Party	885	(4)
Liliana Heker
Poetry	889	(9)
Infant Joy	889	(1)
William Blake
Infant Sorrow	890	(2)
William Blake
The Echoing Green	892	(1)
William Blake
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child	893	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
When I Was One-and-Twenty (A Shropshire Lad # 13)	894	(1)
A. E. Housman
Into My Heart an Air That Kills	894	(1)
A. E. Housman
In Just-	895	(1)
E. E. Cummings
The School Children	896	(1)
Louise Gluck
Gretel in Darkness	897	(1)
Louise Gluck
Drama	898	(1)
A Casebook on Shakespeare's Hamlet	898	(1)
A Note on the Elizabethan Theater	899	(1)
A Note on the Text of Hamlet	900	(138)
Hamlet	910	(111)
William Shakespeare
Hamlet and the Oedipus Complex	1021	(2)
Ernest Jones
The Promulgation of confusion	1023	(3)
Anne Barton
On the First Soliloquy	1026	(2)
Stanley Wells
Representing Ophelia	1028	(1)
Elaine Showalter
Playing Gertrude on Television	1029	(1)
Claire Bloom
The BBC Hamlet: A Television Production	1030	(2)
Bernice W. Kliman
At Elsinore	1032	(3)
Stanley Kauffmann
Branagh's Film of Hamlet	1035	(3)
Will Saretta
Identity in Pluralistic America	1038	(128)
Essays	1038	(7)
A Conflict of Interest	1038	(2)
Zora Neale Hurston
It's Hard Enough Being Me	1040	(3)
Anna Lisa Raya
Goodbye, Saigon, Finally	1043	(2)
Andrew Lam
Fiction	1045	(34)
The Son from America	1045	(5)
Isaac bashevis Singer
The Oriental Contingent	1050	(5)
Diana Chang
Cathedral	1055	(10)
Raymond Carver
Two Kinds	1065	(8)
Amy Tan
The Red Convertible	1073	(6)
Louise Erdrich
Poetry	1079	(17)
The New Colossus	1079	(2)
Emma Lazarus
The Unguarded Gates	1081	(1)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Ellis Island	1082	(2)
Joseph Bruchac III
Richard Cory	1084	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Joe Hill	1085	(2)
Alfred Hayes
Child of the Americas	1087	(1)
Aurora Levins Morales
To Live in the Borderlands Means You	1088	(2)
Gloria Anzaldua
So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans	1090	(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Theme for English B	1091	(2)
Langston Hughes
For the white person who wants to know how to be my friend	1093	(1)
Pat Parker
To the Lady	1094	(2)
Mitsuye Yamada
Drama	1096	(48)
Fences	1096	(48)
August Wilson
A Casebook on American Indian Identity	1144	(10)
My Children, When at First I Liked the Whites	1144	(1)
Anonymous Arapaho
Father, Have Pity on Me	1145	(1)
Anonymous Arapaho
The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers	1146	(1)
Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney
The Vanishing Red	1147	(2)
Robert Frost
Three Thousand Dollar Death Song	1149	(1)
Wendy Rose
Moving Camp Too Far	1150	(2)
Nila Northsun
On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City	1152	(2)
Sherman Alexie
Representations---Visual and Verbal---of Pocahontas	1154	(12)
John Smith Saved by Pocahontas	1154	(2)
John Smith
Last Wish of Pocahontas	1156	(2)
Miss Baker
Pocahontas	1158	(1)
George P. Morris
Pocahontas	1158	(1)
Moses Y. Scott
Pocahontas to Her English Husband, John Rolfe	1159	(2)
Paula Gunn Allen
Review of Disney's Pocahontas	1161	(5)
John D'Entremont
Literary Visions: Poems and Paintings	1166	(29)
A Word about connections Between Literature and the Other Arts	1168	(1)
Thinking and Writing about Poems and Paintings	1168	(27)
Van Gogh's Bed	1170	(1)
Jane Flanders
Vincent's Bed in Arles	1170	(2)
Vincent van Gogh
The Great Figure	1172	(1)
William Carlos Williams
I Saw the Figure Five in Gold	1172	(2)
Charles Demuth
Mourning Picture	1174	(1)
Adrienne rich
Mourning Picture	1174	(2)
Edwin Romanzo Elmer
Beauty and Sadness	1176	(1)
Cathy Song
Two Women Dressing Their Hair	1176	(2)
Kitagawa Utamaro
The Rebirth of Venus	1178	(1)
Mary Jo Salter
The Birth of Venus	1178	(2)
Sandro Botticelli
The Starry Night	1180	(1)
Anne Sexton
The Starry Night	1180	(2)
Vincent van Gogh
Musee des Beaux Arts	1182	(1)
W. H. Auden
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus	1182	(2)
Pieter Bruegel
Nude Descending a Staircase	1184	(1)
X. J. Kennedy
Nude Descending a Staircase	1184	(2)
Marcel Duchamp
American Flamingo	1186	(1)
Greg Pape
American Flamingo	1186	(2)
John James Audubon
Luncheon on the Grass	1188	(1)
Carl Phillips
Dejeuner sur l'herbe	1188	(2)
Edouard Manet
Before the Mirror	1190	(1)
John Updike
Girl Before a Mirror	1190	(2)
Pablo Picasso
Brueghel's Two Monkeys	1192	(1)
Wislawa Szymborska
Two Monkeys	1192	(1)
Pieter Brueghel
A Sample Essay by a Student: ``Two Ways of Looking at a Starry Night''	1193	(2)
Religion and Society	1195	(112)
Essays	1195	(12)
God the Mother Rules---Ok?	1195	(4)
Jill Tweedie
Of the Sorrow Songs	1199	(4)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Heaven in the Age of Reason	1203	(4)
Jeffrey L. Sheler
Fiction	1207	(21)
Young Goodman Brown	1207	(8)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
If Not Higher	1215	(3)
I. L. Peretz
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	1218	(6)
Katherine Anne Porter
The Man to Send Rain Clouds	1224	(4)
Leslie Marmon Silko
A Casebook on Flannery O'Connor	1228	(31)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find	1228	(12)
Revelation	1240	(13)
Remarks from Essays and Letters	1253	(2)
On Interpreting `` A Good Man Is Hard to Find''	1255	(4)
Poetry	1259	(1)
A Note on the Psalms	1259	(3)
Psalm 19	1259	(1)
Psalm 23	1260	(1)
Psalm 121	1260	(1)
From the Qu'ran Muhammad Speaks of Allah: ``There is no God But He''	1261	(1)
A Note on Spirituals	1262	(17)
Deep River	1263	(3)
Anonymous
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel	1266
Anonymous
Go Down, Moses	1264	(1)
Anonymous
Sonnet 146 (Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth)	1267	(1268)
William Shakespeare
Holy Sonnet XIV (Batter my heart, three-personed God)	1268	(1)
John Donne
When I Consider How My Light is Spent	1269	(1)
John Milton
Uphill	1270	(1)
Christina Rossetti
God's Grandeur	1270	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Design	1271	(1)
Robert Frost
Journey of the Magi	1272	(2)
T. S. Eliot
Nocturne	1274	(2)
Gabriela Mistral
Salvator Mundi: Via Crucis	1276	(2)
Denise Levertov
On the Bus of Utica	1278	(1)
Carl Dennis
Drama	1279	(28)
Antigone	1279	(28)
Sophocles
APPENDIX A Remarks About Manuscript Form	1307	(6)
Basic Manuscript Form	1307	(1)
Corrections in the Final Copy	1308	(1)
Quotations and Quotation Marks	1309	(4)
Quotation Marks or Underlining?	1311	(1)
A Note on the Possessive	1311	(2)
APPENDIX B Writing a Research Paper	1313	(18)
What Research is not, and what Research is	1313	(1)
Primary and Secondary Materials	1313	(3)
Locating Materials: First Steps	1314	(1)
Other Bibliographic Aids	1315	(1)
Taking Notes	1316	(1)
Two Mechanical Aids: The Photocopier and the Word Processor	1316	(1)
A Guide to Note-Taking	1316	(1)
Drafting the Paper	1317	(1)
A Sense of Proportion	1318	(1)
Documentation	1319	(12)
What to Document: Avoiding Plagiarism	1319	(1)
How to Document: Footnotes, Internal Parenthetical Citations, and a List of Works Cited (MLA Format)	1320	(11)
APPENDIX C New Approaches to the Research Paper: Literature, History, and the World Wide Web	1331	(38)
Case Study on Literature and History: The Internment of Japanese Americans	1331	(1)
Literary Texts	1332	(3)
The Question of Loyalty	1332	(1)
Mitsuye Yamada
An Argument: On 1942	1333	(2)
David Mura
Historical Sources	1335	(9)
Basic Reference Books (Short Paper)	1335	(2)
Getting Deeper (Medium Paper)	1337	(3)
Other Reference Sources (Long Paper)	1340	(2)
Too Much Information?	1342	(2)
Electronic Sources	1344	(7)
Encyclopedias: Print and Electronic Versions	1344	(2)
The Internet/World Wide Web	1346	(5)
Evaluating Sources on the World Wide Web	1351	(1)
A Checklist: A Review of Using the WWW	1351	(1)
Documentation: Citing a WWW Source	1352	(1)
A Checklist: Citing WWW Sources	1352	(1)
Additional Print and Electronic Sources	1353	(4)
APPENDIX D Literary Research: Print and Electronic Resources	1357	(1)
Literature---Print Reference Sources	1357	(3)
Other Reference Resources	1358	(1)
Bibliographies	1358	(2)
Literature---Electronic Sources	1360	(2)
Other Useful Sites on Authors	1361	(1)
History---Reference and Bibliography Sources	1362	(1)
WWW Sites for History	1363	(1)
Periodicals: Print and Electronic Sources	1363	(1)
For General Bibliography in the Humanities	1364	(1)
For Evaluating the Point of View, the Content, and the Intended Audience of Sources	1365	(1)
Other Resources	1365	(1)
What Does Your Own Institution Offer?	1365	(4)
APPENDIX E Glossary of Literary Terms	1369	(14)
Literary Credits	1383	(8)
Photo Credits	1391	(2)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems	1393	(11)
Index of Terms	1404