Literature And Ourselves: A Thematic Introduction For Readers And Writers

by Henderson, Gloria Mason; Day, William; Waller, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780321277138
• ISBN10: 0321277139
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This thematically organized anthology treats literature as a continually expanding commentary on our infinitely varied lives, helping students make the connection between literature and their own unique life stories. Each of the anthology's themes Family, Men and Women, Fear and Loss, Freedom and Responsibility, Imagination and Reality, and Quest progresses outward from reflections on the self to larger, more universal issues. Within each theme, the readings provide a unique combination of traditional and contemporary works that highlight the diverse cultures and perspectives that make up our world today. Brief, but essential, writing apparatus includes new coverage of literary argument and a stronger emphasis on writing about film.

Table of Contents

Alternate Contents by Genre	xiii
Preface	xix
Introduction	1	(59)
Literature	1	(2)
Text-Oriented Approaches	1	(1)
Author-Oriented Approaches	2	(1)
Reader-Oriented Approaches	2	(1)
Essays	3	(4)
Theme/Tone/Imagery/Diction/Syntax	3	(3)
Review: Reading and Analyzing Essays	6	(1)
Fiction 6
Point of View/Setting/Style/Character/Plot/Theme	7	(4)
Review: Reading and Writing about Short Stories	11	(1)
Poetry	12	(9)
Speaker and Situation/Theme/Tone/Diction/Syntax/Imagery/Sound	12	(8)
Review: Reading and Writing about Poems	20	(1)
Drama	21	(6)
Performance versus Reading: Stage Directions/Setting/Style/Character/Plot/Theme	21	(5)
Review: Reading and Writing about Plays	26	(1)
The Writing Process	27	(16)
Developing Ideas	28	(1)
Brainstorming/Freewriting/Clustering/Keeping a Journal/Narrowing the Topic/Developing a Thesis Statement/Focusing Your Paper/Defining the Purpose	28	(4)
Researching	32	(1)
Finding Sources/Selecting Material/Documenting Sources	32	(3)
Organizing	35	(1)
Blocking and Planning/Identifying Your Audience	35	(1)
Drafting	35	(2)
Getting Started: Writing Your Introduction/Developing Paragraphs and Making Transitions/Concluding Well	37	(2)
Revising and Editing	39	(1)
Using Active Voice/Grammar and Punctuation/Proofreading Effectively	39	(4)
Ways to Write about Literature	43	(3)
The Literary Response Essay	43	(1)
The Comparison/Contrast Essay	44	(1)
The Critical Analysis Essay	44	(1)
The Evaluative Essay	45	(1)
The Research Paper	45	(1)
Writing a Strong Argumentative Essay	46	(14)
Inductive Argument	48	(1)
Literary Argument	48	(1)
Evaluating and Using Sources	49	(11)
THEMATIC ANTHOLOGY
Family	60	(202)
Writing about Family	62	(2)
Essays
On Going Home	64	(3)
Joan Didion
Jewish Christmas	67	(4)
Faye Moskowitz
Bramare: (Archaic) To Yearn For	71	(13)
Frances Mayes
Native Genius	84	(6)
Janisse Ray
Fiction
The Parable of the Prodigal Son	90	(2)
Luke
A Domestic Dilemma	92	(9)
Carson McCullers
Sonny's Blues	101	(25)
James Baldwin
A Christmas Memory	126	(10)
Truman Capote
Everyday Use	136	(8)
Alice Walker
Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play The Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock	144	(7)
Sherman Alexie
Poetry
A Prayer for My Daughter	151	(3)
William Butler Yeats
Mother to Son	154	(1)
Langston Hughes
My Papa's Waltz	155	(2)
Theodore Roethke
The Mother	157	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
There Is No Word for Goodbye	158	(2)
Mary TallMountain
Nurture	160	(1)
Maxine Kumin
First Love	161	(1)
Alicia Ostriker
My Father Is a Simple Man	162	(2)
Luis Omar Salinas
Nikki-Rosa	164	(2)
Nikki Giovanni
The House on Moscow Street	166	(2)
Marilyn Nelson
Improvisation for Piano: After Mood Indigo	168	(2)
Afaa M. Weaver
The Gift	170	(1)
Li-Young Lee
Future Connected By	171	(2)
Ed Whitelock
Drama
Andre's Mother	173	(5)
Terrence McNally
Casebook on August Wilson
Writing about Relationships	178	(84)
Fences	178	(56)
August Wilson
The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson	234	(8)
Sandra Shannon
Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone	242	(5)
Alan Nadel
Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson	247	(4)
John Timpane
August Wilson's Women	251	(3)
Harry Elam Jr.
An Interview with August Wilson	254	(2)
Bonnie Lyons
A Student Essay	256	(4)
Family: Suggestions for Writing	260	(1)
Family: Writing about Film	261	(1)
Men and Women	262	(286)
Writing about Men and Women	264	(2)
Essays
Professions for Women	266	(5)
Virginia Woolf
Love Is a Fallacy	271	(9)
Max Shulman
Here's to You Mrs. Robinson	280	(4)
Paul Theroux
The Fishing Car	284	(10)
John Gierach
Beyond the Cult of Fatherhood	294	(9)
David Osborne
Americanization Is Tough on ``Macho''	303	(2)
Rose del Castillo Guilbault
Fiction
The Wife of Bath's Tale	305	(9)
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Birth-Mark	314	(13)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Desiree's Baby	327	(6)
Kate Chopin
The Yellow Wallpaper	333	(13)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Gilded Six-Bits	346	(10)
Zora Neale Hurston
Hills Like White Elephants	356	(4)
Ernest Hemingway
Mama Day	360	(17)
Gloria Naylor
A Temporary Matter	377	(14)
Jhumpa Lahiri
Poetry
Sonnets 116, 130, and 138	391	(2)
William Shakespeare
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	393	(1)
John Donne
To His Coy Mistress	394	(2)
Andrew Marvell
Sonnet 43	396	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To Helen	397	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Porphyria's Lover	398	(2)
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess	400	(2)
199	402	(1)
Emily Dickinson
339	403	(1)
Home Burial	404	(4)
Robert Frost
The Death of the Hired Man	408	(4)
Helen	412	(2)
H[ilda] D[oolittle]
Sonnet 42	414	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Myth	415	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Chess	416	(1)
Rosario Castellanos
The Judgment of Paris	417	(3)
W. S. Merwin
Phenomenal Woman	420	(2)
Maya Angelou
Incompatibilities	422	(2)
Ted Hughes
Barbie Doll	424	(1)
Marge Piercy
Breaking Tradition	425	(2)
Janice Mirikitani
Anniversary	427	(2)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Courtship from Beulah and Thomas	429	(2)
Rita Dove
Courtship, Diligence	431	(1)
Drama
A Doll's House	432	(60)
Henrik Ibsen
Casebook on Sylvia Plath
Writing about Men and Women	492	(56)
Daddy	493	(2)
Sylvia Plath
All the Dead Dears	495	(2)
The Colossus	497	(1)
By Candlelight	498	(1)
Mirror	499	(1)
Metaphors	500	(1)
Lady Lazarus	500	(3)
On Writing from The Journals of Sylvia Plath	503	(3)
Sincerity Kills	506	(10)
Hugh Kenner
Fueling the Phoenix Fire: The Manuscripts of Sylvia Plath's ``Lady Lazarus''	516	(13)
Susan Van Dyne
Plath's Mirror	529	(2)
Donna Richardson
Plath's Metaphors	531	(3)
Karen Alkalay-Gut
``Daddy'': Sylvia Plath's Debt to Anne Sexton	534	(3)
Heather Cam
Colossal Influences on Sylvia Plath	537	(4)
Thomas Dilworth
A Student Essay	541	(5)
Men and Women: Suggestions for Writing	546	(1)
Men and Women: Writing about Film	547	(1)
Fear and Loss	548	(320)
Writing about Fear and Loss	550	(2)
Essays
Terrorism: The Problem of Definition Revisited	552	(13)
H. H. A. Cooper
Yom Kippur: The Day Without Forgiveness	565	(5)
Elie Wiesel
Loss	570	(9)
V. S. Naipaul
Coyote v. Acme	579	(5)
Ian Frazier
Fiction
The Grave	584	(5)
Katherine Anne Porter
Winter Dreams	589	(18)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Rose for Emily	607	(8)
William Faulkner
A Summer Tragedy	615	(8)
Arna Bontemps
Dead Men's Path	623	(3)
Chinua Achebe
The Management of Grief	626	(13)
Bharati Mukherjee
Customs of the Country	639	(12)
Madison Smartt Bell
The Runt	651	(12)
Eric Skipper
Poetry
Sonnet 73	663	(1)
William Shakespeare
Ozymandias	664	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Richard Cory	665	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
We Wear the Mask	666	(2)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Flanders Fields	668	(1)
John McCrae
Design	669	(1)
Robert Frost
Once by the Pacific	670	(1)
If We Must Die	670	(1)
Claude McKay
Dulce et Decorum Est	671	(2)
Wilfred Owen
Buffalo Bill's Defunct	673	(1)
e. e. cummings
anyone lived in a pretty how town	674	(1)
Drama for Winter Night (Fifth Avenue)	675	(1)
Langston Hughes
Incident	676	(1)
Countee Cullen
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	677	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Naming of Parts	678	(1)
Henry Reed
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	679	(2)
Dylan Thomas
The Young Wife	681	(2)
Derek Walcott
University Hospital, Boston	683	(1)
Mary Oliver
Forgetfulness	684	(2)
Billy Collins
On the Subway	686	(2)
Sharon Olds
Try to Praise the Mutilated World	688	(1)
Adam Zagajewski
Rievaulx Abbey, Winter	689	(1)
Samuel Wharton
Drama
Othello, the Moor of Venice	690	(114)
William Shakespeare
Casebook on Amy Tan
Writing about Fear and Loss	804	(64)
Young Girl's Wish	805	(13)
Amy Tan
Heart	818	(16)
Amy Tan: A Critical Companion	834	(16)
E. D. Huntley
Chinese American Women, Language, and Moving Subjectivity	850	(8)
Victoria Chen
The Salon Interview: Amy Tan, The Spirit Within	858	(4)
A Student Essay	862	(3)
Fear and Loss: Suggestions for Writing	865	(1)
Fear and Loss: Writing about Film	866	(2)
Freedom and Responsibility	868	(186)
Writing about Freedom and Responsibility	870	(2)
Essays
A Modest Proposal	872	(7)
Jonathan Swift
The Declaration of Independence	879	(3)
Thomas Jefferson
The Gettysburg Address	882	(2)
Abraham Lincoln
The Slave Who Dared to Feel Like a Man	884	(8)
Harriet Jacobs
Letter from Birmingham City Jail	892	(14)
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Trial	906	(6)
Vaclav Havel
Fiction
Harrison Bergeron	912	(6)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Minority Report	918	(31)
Philip K. Dick
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	949	(6)
Ursula K. LeGuin
A & P	955	(6)
John Updike
Poetry
London	961	(1)
William Blake
The World Is Too Much with Us	962	(1)
William Wordsworth
If	963	(2)
Rudyard Kipling
A Man Said to the Universe	965	(1)
Stephen Crane
I, Too	966	(1)
Langston Hughes
The Unknown Citizen	966	(2)
W. H. Auden
The Conscientious Objector	968	(2)
Karl Shapiro
The Woman at the Washington Zoo	970	(1)
Randall Jarrell
Ringing the Bells	971	(2)
Anne Sexton
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	973	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Ethics	973	(2)
Linda Pastan
Immigrants	975	(1)
Pat Mora
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window	976	(2)
Joy Harjo
In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers	978	(2)
Dwight Okita
Drama
Trifles	980	(13)
Susan Glaspel
Casebook on Tim O'Brien
Writing about War	993	(61)
On the Rainy River	993	(13)
Tim O'Brien
How to Tell a True War Story	1006	(10)
The Man I Killed	1016	(4)
The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried	1020	(10)
Steven Kaplan
``How to Tell a True War Story'': Metafiction in The Things They Carried	1030	(8)
Catherine Calloway
Getting It Right: The Short Fiction of Tim O'Brien	1038	(8)
Daniel Robinson
A Student Essay	1046	(6)
Freedom and Responsibility: Suggestions for Writing	1052	(1)
Freedom and Responsibility: Writing about Film	1053	(1)
Imagination and Reality	1054	(156)
Writing about Imagination and Reality	1056	(2)
Essays
The Child and the Shadow	1058	(10)
Ursula K. LeGuin
My One Conversation with Collin Walcott	1068	(7)
David James Duncan
Fiction
A Fable	1075	(3)
Mark Twain
There Will Come Soft Rains	1078	(6)
Ray Bradbury
The Kugelmass Episode	1084	(9)
Woody Allen
Naked Woman Playing Chopin: A Fargo Romance	1093	(11)
Louise Erdrich
Poetry
Ode on a Grecian Urn	1104	(3)
John Keats
Ars Poetica	1107	(1)
Archibald MacLeish
Yet Do I Marvel	1108	(1)
Countee Cullen
Musee des Beaux Arts	1109	(1)
W. H. Auden
Constantly Risking Absurdity	1110	(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Art of Response	1111	(2)
Audre Lorde
Digging	1113	(1)
Seamus Heaney
Poem	1114	(1)
Billy Collins
today is a day of great joy	1115	(1)
Victor Hernandez Cruz
The Vietnam Wall	1116	(2)
Alberto Rios
Drama
The Real Inspector Hound	1118	(36)
Tom Stoppard
Casebook on Joyce Carol Oates
Writing about Imagination and Reality	1154	(56)
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?	1154	(14)
Joyce Carol Oates
Valentine	1168	(12)
``Don't You Know Who I Am?'' The Grotesque in Oates's ``Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?''	1180	(6)
Joyce M. Wegs
The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action	1186	(8)
Don Moser
O'Connor's Mrs. May and Oates's Connie: An Unlikely Pair of Religious Initiates	1194	(8)
Nancy Bishop Dessommes
A Student Essay	1202	(5)
Imagination and Reality: Suggestions for Writing	1207	(1)
Imagination and Reality: Writing about Film	1207	(3)
Quest	1210	(188)
Writing about Quest	1212	(2)
Essays
Allegory of the Cave	1214	(6)
Plato
Thinking As a Hobby	1220	(7)
William Golding
Attitude	1227	(3)
Garrison Keillor
from Walk on Water	1230	(4)
Lorian Hemingway
Fiction
Araby	1234	(6)
James Joyce
Angel Levine	1240	(8)
Bernard Malamud
The Star	1248	(6)
Arthur C. Clarke
The Conversion of the Jews	1254	(12)
Philip Roth
Raymond's Run	1266	(7)
Toni Cade Bambara
And of Clay Are We Created	1273	(9)
Isabel Allende
Poetry
Psalm 8	1282	(1)
Psalm 13	1282	(1)
Holy Sonnet 14	1283	(1)
John Donne
Sonnet 16	1284	(1)
John Milton
The Tyger	1285	(1)
William Blake
My Heart Leaps Up	1286	(1)
William Wordsworth
Ulysses	1287	(2)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
God's Grandeur	1289	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sailing to Byzantium	1290	(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1291	(5)
T. S. Eliot
Harlem	1296	(1)
Langston Hughes
Carriers of the Dream Wheel	1297	(1)
N. Scott Momaday
An Old Mountain Woman Reading the Book of Job	1298	(2)
Fred Chappell
December 24, 1971	1300	(2)
Joseph Brodsky
Latin Women Pray	1302	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Drama
Oedipus Rex	1303	(41)
Sophocles
Casebook on Flannery O'Connor
Writing about Faith	1344	(54)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	1344	(13)
Flannery O'Connor
Greenleaf	1357	(17)
The Fiction Writer and His Country	1374	(2)
The Search for Redemption: Flannery O'Connor's Fiction	1376	(4)
Frederick J. Hoffman
Violence and the Grotesque	1380	(6)
Gilbert H. Muller
Understanding Flannery O'Connor: Greenleaf	1386	(3)
Margaret Earley Whitt
A Student Essay	1389	(6)
Quest: Suggestions for Writing	1395	(1)
Quest: Writing about Film	1396	(2)
Appendix A: Critical Approaches to Literature	1398	(5)
Appendix B: Writing about Film: The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings as Case Studies, by Patrick McCord	1403	(30)
A Student Essay	1426	(7)
Appendix C: Documenting a Research Paper: MLA Style Sheet	1433	(20)
A Student Essay	1446	(7)
Glossary	1453	(8)
Acknowledgments	1461	(12)
Index	1473