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Summary
This anthology provides broad coverage for the three genres of literature--fiction, poetry, and drama--and exceptionally clear presentation of the elements of literature. The text has a clear and up-to-date chapter on critical theory that features helpful checklists. It also features Robert DiYanni's well-known three-part pedagogy that presents each of the three genres in light of a reader's experience, interpretation, and evaluation. The compact edition includes full coverage of writing about literature with 2 student papers in each chapter, incorporates a beautifully illustrated poetry section with four-color art, author biographies, and in-depth cverage of 8 writers: D.H. Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, Sandra Cisneros, Emily Dickenson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Sophocles (containing both Oedipus and Antigone), and Shakespeare (containing both Hamlet ant Othello).
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
READING (AND WRITING ABOUT) LITERATURE
Reading Literature
The Pleasures of Fiction
The Dog and the Shadow
Learning to Be Silent
The Pleasures of Poetry
Robert Frost, Dust of Snow
The Pleasures of Drama
Understanding Literature:
Experience, Interpretation, Evaluation
Writing About Literature
Reasons for Writing About Literature
Ways of Writing About Literature
Writing the Paper
Stephen Crane, War Is Kind
PART ONE: FICTION
CHAPTER 1: READING STORIES
The Prodigal Son
The Experience of Fiction
The Interpretation of Fiction
The Evaluation of Fiction
John Updike A&P
The Act of Reading Fiction
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
CHAPTER 2: TYPES OF SHORT FICTION
Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale
Aesop, The Wolf and the Mastiff
Petronius, The Widow of Ephesus
The Short Story
The Nonrealistic Story
The Short Novel
CHAPTER 3: THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION
Plot and Structure
Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation
Character
Kay Boyle, Astronomer's Wife
Setting
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh
Point of View
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Language and Style
James Joyce, Araby
Theme
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Irony and Symbol
Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
CHAPTER 4: WRITING ABOUT FICTION
Reasons for Writing About Fiction
Informal Ways of Writing About Fiction
Katherine Anne Porter, Magic
Formal Ways of Writing About Fiction
Student Papers on Fiction
Questions for Writing about Fiction
Suggestions for Writing
CHAPTER 5: THREE FICTION WRITERS IN CONTEXT
Reading D. H. Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, and Sandra
Cisneros in Depth
Questions for In-Depth Reading
Introduction to D. H. Lawrence
Critical Comments by Lawrence from The Bright Book of
Life Man and Woman
Critics on Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence: Stories
The Blind Man
The Horse Dealer's Daughter
The Rocking-Horse Winner
Introduction to Flannery O'Connor
Critical Comments by O'Connor
On Symbol and Theme
On "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
On "Good Country People"
Critics on O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor: Stories
Good Country People
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Introduction to Sandra Cisneros
Cisneros on Herself
Critics on Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros: Stories
Eleven
Barbie-Q
There Was a Man, There Was a Woman
CHAPTER 6: A COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog
TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Luigi Pirandello, War
James Joyce, The Boarding House
James Joyce, The Dead
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Ernest Hemingway, Soldier's Home
Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths
TRANSLATED BY DONALD YATES
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool
TRANSLATED BY SAUL BELLOW
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Jean Stafford, Bad Characters
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous
Wings
TRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSA
Margaret Atwood, Rape Fantasies
Raymond Carver, Cathedral
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Lee K. Abbott, The View of Me from Mars
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
Amy Tan, Rules of the Game
Louise Erdrich, American Horse
PART TWO: POETRY
CHAPTER 7: READING POEMS
The Experience of Poetry
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
The Interpretation of Poetry
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Evaluation of Poetry
Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The Act of Reading Poetry
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
CHAPTER 8: TYPES OF POETRY
Narrative Poetry
Lyric Poetry
CHAPTER 9: ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Voice: Speaker and Tone
Stephen Crane, War Is Kind
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Muriel Stuart, In the Orchard
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thou art indeed just, Lord
Anonymous, Western Wind
Henry Reed, Naming of Parts
Jacques Prevert, Family Portrait
Diction
William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy
William Wordsworth, It is a beauteous evening
Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder
Adrienne Rich, Rape
Imagery
Elizabeth Bishop, First Death in Nova Scotia
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Robert Browning, Meeting at Night
H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Heat
Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones
Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor
William Shakespeare, That time of year thou may'st in me behold
John Donne, Hymn to God the Father
Robert Wallace, The Double-Play
Louis Simpson, The Battle
Judith Wright, Woman to Child
Symbolism and Allegory
Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son
Christina Rossetti, Up-Hill
William Blake, A Poison Tree
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
George Herbert, Virtue
Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death
Syntax
John Donne, The Sun Rising
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His
Death
Robert Frost, The Silken Tent
E. E. Cummings, "Me up at does"
Stevie Smith, Mother Among the Dustbins
Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance
Gerard Manley Hopkins, In the Valley of the Elwy
Thomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain
Alexander Pope, Sound and Sense
Bob McKenty, Adam's Song
May Swenson, The Universe
Helen Chasin, The Word Plum
Rhythm and Meter
Robert Frost, The Span of Life
George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction of
Sennacherib
Anne Sexton, Her Kind
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
Structure: Closed Form and Open Form
John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Walt Whitman, When I heard the learn'd astronomer
E. E. Cummings, el(a
E. E. Cummings, [Buffalo Bill's]
William Carlos Williams, The Dance
Denise Levertov, O Taste and See
Theodore Roethke, The Waking
C. P. Cavafy, The City
TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD
Theme
Emily Dickinson, Crumbling is not an instant's Act
CHAPTER 10: TRANSFORMATIONS
Revisions
William Blake, London
William Butler Yeats, A Dream of Death
Emily Dickinson, The Wind begun to knead (rock) the
Grass
D. H. Lawrence, (The) Piano
Parodies
William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say
Kenneth Koch, Variations on a Theme by William Carlos
Williams
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carrion Comfort
Gary Layne Hatch, Terrier Torment; or, Mr.Hopkins and
His Dog
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's
day
Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
Robert Frost, Dust of Snow
Bob McKenty, Snow on Frost
Poems and Paintings
Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night
Anne Sexton, The Starry Night
Robert Fagles, The Starry Night
Francesco de Goya, The Third of May, 1808
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
Francesco de Goya, from The Disasters of War
David Gewanter Goya's The Third of May, 1808
Pieter Breughel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of
Icarus
W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
Joseph Langland, Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Breughel, the Elder Hunters in the Snow
Edward Hopper, Sunday
E. Ward Herlands, When Edward Hopper Was Painting
William Blake, The Sick Rose (watercolor)
William Blake, The Sick Rose (poem)
Sandro Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi
T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone, Adoration of the Magi
William Butler Yeats, The Magi
Henri Matisse, Dance
Natalie Safir, Matisse's Dance
Pablo Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin
Vinnie-Marie D'Ambrosio, If I Were a Maker I'd
Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Pitcher, Bowl, & Fruit
Gustav Klimt, The Kiss
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Short Story on a Painting of