Literature and Society : An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction

by Annas, Pamela J.; Rosen, Robert C.

• ISBN13: 9780130124814
• ISBN10: 0130124818
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

An enriching introduction to the diverse and exciting world of literature, this anthology offers a broad collection of short fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction selections written by a diverse group of writers who represent different social classes, races, genders, cultures, and sexual orientations. Organizes selections around five socially relevant themes--Growing Up and Growing Older; Women and Men; Money and Work; Peace and War; and Varieties of Protest. Shows how literary technique serves larger purposes--the recreation of experience, the exploration of ideas, the analysis of social issues--and how these larger purposes themselves shape literary form. Explains the ways in which literary form creates meaning, and provides a strong emphasis on writing about literature throughout, with a full chapter on all stages of the writing process --generating ideas, developing a thesis, discovering a form, drafting, revising, and editing--plus numerous excerpts from sample papers and journals. Now contains 42 new works, with more by Native American and Latino/Latina writers, as well as Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Shakespeare's Othello ; also includes 18 works of nonfiction prose that have been chosen both for their literary technique as well as for their exploration of the five major themes.

Table of Contents

Contents	xix
Genre
Preface	xxvii
LITERATURE AND THE WRITING PROCESS	1	(40)
Beginning, Discovering, Inventing, Planning, Drafting	1	(6)
Taking Notes	2	(1)
Exploratory Writing	2	(1)
Inventing an Approach	3	(2)
Outlining	5	(1)
Drafting	5	(2)
Surviving The Writing Process	7	(2)
Revising And Editing	9	(5)
The Whole Paper	10	(1)
Paragraphs	11	(1)
Beginnings and Endings	11	(2)
Sentences and Words	13	(1)
Revising And Editing: An Example	14	(3)
Writing Under Pressure: The Essay Exam	17	(2)
Kinds Of Writing	19	(4)
Free Writing	19	(1)
Explication	20	(1)
Response	20	(1)
Analysis	20	(1)
Comparison/Contrast	21	(1)
Review	21	(1)
Research Paper	22	(1)
Critical Reading Journal	22	(1)
Passages From Student Critical Reading Journals	23	(4)
Sample Paper: Original And Revision	27	(7)
Manuscript Form	34	(7)
Titles	34	(1)
Quotations	34	(2)
Documentation	36	(1)
The Works Cited Approach	37	(2)
The Endnote/Footnote Approach	39	(1)
Final Manuscript Preparation	40	(1)
GROWING UP AND GROWING OLDER	41	(5)
Introduction	42	(4)
FICTION	46	(85)
from Brave New World	46	(14)
Aldous Huxley
The Director leads a tour through the Hatchery, where elaborate machinery makes babies in several different models, and through the Conditioning Rooms, where hypnopaedia and shock treatment teach infants to like and dislike the right things
Battle Royal	60	(12)
Ralph Ellison
A young black man, newly graduated from high school and eager to prove himself, is invited to deliver a speech before the most important white men in town, but he doesn't get quite the reception he expects
Girl	72	(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
A Caribbean girl gets more advice than she wants from a very insistent mother
from the Bluest Eye	74	(3)
Toni Morrison
Who does Claudia destroy white baby dolls?
The Family of Little Feet	77	(2)
Sandra Cisneros
Three pairs of high heels fall into the lives of some girls on the edge of adolescence and create an afternoon of scary magic
Sonny's Blues	79	(25)
James Baldwin
A teacher in Harlem initially views his younger brother as just another kid in trouble with drugs but comes to love and undersand him better when he hears him play piano in a nightclub
Young Goodman Brown	104	(10)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A young man has an encounter with the devil, and his life is never the same
A Mistaken Charity	114	(9)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Two women are put in an Old Ladies' Home with surprising results
Lullaby	123	(8)
Leslie Marmon Silko
An old Navajo woman, whose ``life had become memories,'' sets out in the snow to look for her husband
POETRY	131	(47)
We Two Boys Together Clinging	131	(1)
Walt Whitman
From the House of Yemanja	132	(2)
Audre Lorde
Those Winter Sundays	134	(1)
Robert Hayden
Undertaker	135	(2)
Patricia Smith
Ex-Basketball Player	137	(2)
John Updike
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	139	(5)
T.S. Eliot
Sailing to Byzantium	144	(2)
William Butler Yeats
That time of year thou mayst in me behold	146	(1)
William Shakespeare
they did not build wings for them	147	(2)
Irena Klepfisz
Remember	149	(2)
Joy Harjo
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey	151	(4)
William Wordsworth
When I Have Fears	155	(1)
John Keats
I'm ceded---I've stopped being Their's---	156	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Spring and Fall	156	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Grown-up	157	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed	157	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
in Just---	158	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	158	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Lineage	159	(1)
Margaret Walker
My Papa's Waltz	160	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night	160	(1)
Dylan Thomas
The Bean Eaters	161	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool	161	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note	162	(1)
Amiri Baraka
Edge	163	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	163	(1)
James Wright
In the Waiting Room	164	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Language of the Brag	166	(2)
Sharon Olds
Transition	168	(2)
Toi Derricotte
Not Knowing, in Aztlan	170	(1)
Tino Villanueva
Rain	171	(1)
William Carpenter
Old Women	172	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Immigrants	173	(1)
Pat Mora
My Father's Song	174	(1)
Simon J. Ortiz
diagnosis (4-10-86)	175	(1)
Ron Schreiber
June 25	176	(2)
Essex Hemphill
DRAMA	178	(20)
Three Women	178	(11)
Sylvia Plath
Three women in a maternity ward have strikingly different experiences with pregnancy and childbirth
Krapp's Last Tape	189	(9)
Samuel Beckett
A comic and pathetic old man listens to and talks back at tape recordings about his life that he made when he was younger
NONFICTION	198	(23)
No Name Woman	198	(9)
Maxine Hong Kingston
A Chinese-American girl tries to cope with a terrifying story her mother tells her about what it means to be a woman
from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name	207	(8)
Audre Lorde
An American girl reachers puberty and discovers something about her West Indian heritage
Gun Crazy	215	(4)
Dorothy Allison
In the rural South, where learning to shoot is a badge of adult power, one girl finally gets access to a gun
Growing Up And Growing Older: Paper Topics	219	(2)
WOMEN AND MEN	221	(4)
Introduction	222	(3)
FICTION	225	(110)
The Yellow Wallpaper	225	(13)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Told by her doctor to rest, a woman develops a strange relationship with the wallpaper in her room
The White Stocking	238	(18)
D. H. Lawrence
A young wife has been receiving gifts from an admirer and when her usband finds out, things turn ugly
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber	256	(24)
Ernest Hemingway
Francis Macomber hopes to kill a lion to impress his wife, but it doesn't work out as planned
Seventeen Syllables	280	(10)
Hisaye Yamamoto
A teen-age girl learns more than she wants to about her parents' marriage
Shiloh	290	(12)
Bobbie Ann Mason
Injured truck driver Leroy Moffitt works on his needlepoint and dreams of building a log cabin, while Norma Jean, his wife, exercises her pectorals and goes to night school
A & P	302	(5)
John Updike
Three young women in bathing suits stroll into the supermarket, and checkout clerk Sammy's mind goes into overdrive
Boys at the Rodeo	307	(6)
Judy Grahn
Six women are mistaken for boys and have an unusual day at the rodeo
The Story of an Hour	313	(3)
Kate Chopin
A married woman receives some shocking news-twice
Fern	316	(4)
Jean Toomer
Men find Fern distant, mysterious, and self-contained
Etta Mae Johnson	320	(15)
Gloria Naylor
An independent woman, feeling her years, falls for the charm and energy of smooth-talking Reverend Woods
POETRY	335	(62)
The Flea	335	(1)
John Donne
The Garden of Love	336	(1)
William Blake
For my Lover, Returning to His Wife	337	(2)
Anne Sexton
Wonder Woman	339	(3)
Genny Lim
Beautiful Black Women...	342	(1)
Amiri Baraka
Buick	343	(2)
Karl Shapiro
The Lovepet	345	(2)
Ted Hughes
Cinderella	347	(1)
Olga Broumas
Jacklight	348	(3)
Louise Erdrich
Orar: To Pray	351	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	352	(1)
Christopher Marlowe
When my love swears that she is made of truth	353	(1)
William Shakespeare
The Song of Solomon	353	(1)
Anonymous
The Sun Rising	354	(1)
John Donne
The Canonization	355	(2)
John Donne
To His Coy Mistress	357	(1)
Andrew Marvell
How Do I Love Thee?	358	(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To a Stranger	359	(1)
Walt Whitman
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	359	(1)
Walt Whitman
My Life had stood---a Loaded Gun	360	(1)
Emily Dickinson
A Decade	360	(1)
Amy Lowell
Song: Down Hearted Blues	361	(1)
Alberta Hunter
Lovie Austin
The Harlem Dancer	362	(1)
Claude Mckay
Leda and the Swan	362	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Women	363	(1)
Louise Bogan
Song: How Much Can I Stand?	364	(1)
Gladys Bentley
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink	365	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story	365	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Drunken Lover	366	(1)
Owen Dodson
You Held the Black Face	367	(1)
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Mellow	368	(1)
Langston Hughes
Marriage	368	(3)
Gregory Corso
First Time I Was Sweet Sixteen	371	(2)
Nayo (Barbara Malcolm)
The woman in the ordinary	373	(1)
Marge Piercy
Trying to Talk with a Man	373	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Diving into the Wreck	374	(3)
Adrienne Rich
Looking at Each Other	377	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Waiting for Icarus	378	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Barbie Doll	378	(1)
Marge Piercy
somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff	379	(2)
Ntozake Shange
A Lecture on Avant-Garde Art	381	(1)
Jack Anderson
With No Immediate Cause	382	(2)
Ntozake Shange
Poem XI from Twenty-one Love Poems	384	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Breaking Tradition	385	(1)
Janice Mirikitani
Right to Life	386	(2)
Marge Piercy
Six Years	388	(1)
Alice Bloch
Several Things	389	(2)
Martha Collins
Claims	391	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Portrait of a Real Hijo de Puta	391	(1)
Martin Espada
This House I Cannot Leave	392	(1)
Barbara Kingsolver
Chocolate Confessions	393	(1)
Magdalena Gomez
Touch Me	394	(1)
Stanley Kunitz
Crazy Courage	395	(2)
Alma Luz Villanueva
DRAMA	397	(166)
The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice	397	(95)
William Shakespeare
A Doll's House	492	(57)
Henrik Ibsen
Trifles	549	(14)
Susan Glaspell
NONFICTION	563	(16)
Shakespeare's Sister	563	(2)
Virginia Woolf
If Shakespeare had had a sister who shared his genius, what would have been her fate?
Ain't I a Woman?	565	(2)
Sojourner Truth
Truth argues eloquently for the rights of women
I Want a Wife	567	(2)
Judy Brady
Brady satirizes traditional gender roles by explaining why she too would like to have a wife
Sexual Culture	569	(8)
Edmund White
``Every gay discovers his sexual nature with a combination of pain and relief, regret at being excluded from the tribe but elation at discovering the solution to the puzzle.''
Women And Men: Paper Topics	577	(2)
MONEY AND WORK	579	(5)
Introduction	580	(4)
FICTION	584	(59)
I Stand Here Ironing	584	(6)
Tille Olsen
A mother thinks back on her years raising a daughter under harsh economic conditions
Spotted Horses	590	(15)
William Faulkner
Horse trading can be a tricky business, as the inhabitants of one southern community discover
Assembly Line	605	(11)
B. Traven
On vacation in Mexico, E. L. Winthrop of New york discovers a poor Indian peasant who weaves magnificent baskets, and he sees an opportunity to make himself a pile of money
from Christ in Concrete	616	(3)
Pietro Di Donato
A thirteen-year-old bricklayer tells of the excitement and terror of working in construction on tall buildings
from Waiting for Nothing	619	(9)
Tom Kromer
During the worst years of the Great Depression, a chronically unemployed man hunts for ``three hots and a flop.''
The Lesson	628	(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
College-educated Miss Moore takes a group of ghetto kids to an expensive toy store to teach them a lesson about the society they live in
Everyday Use	634	(9)
Alice Walker
A mother has to decide which of two very different daughters should get the family quilts
POETRY	643	(59)
A Worker Reads History	643	(1)
Bertolt Brecht
A Description of the Morning	644	(2)
Jonathan Swift
Dolor	646	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80	647	(1)
Judy Grahn
Chicago	648	(2)
Carl Sandburg
So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans	650	(2)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Homecoming	652	(3)
Julia Alvarez
Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat	655	(3)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Chimney Sweeper	658	(1)
William Blake
The World Is Too Much With Us	659	(1)
William Wordsworth
Song: We raise de wheat	659	(1)
Anonymous
The Ruined Maid	660	(1)
Thomas Hardy
West London	661	(1)
Mathew Arnold
The Young Housewife	661	(1)
William Carlos Williams
The golf links lie so near the mill	662	(1)
Sarah Cleghorn
Tired	662	(1)
Fenton Johnson
For a Lady I Know	663	(1)
Countee Cullen
Song: Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine	663	(2)
Anonymous
Song: Cotton Seed Blues	665	(1)
Easy Papa Johnson (Roosevelt Sykes)
City-Life	665	(1)
D. H. Lawrence
Song of the Invigorating Effect of Money	666	(1)
Bertolt Brecht
Come, live with me and be my love	667	(1)
C. Day Lewis
Two Tramps in Mud Time	668	(2)
Robert Frost
The Poor	670	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Boy with His Hair Cut Short	670	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Song: Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees)	671	(1)
Woody Guthrie
About Your Hands and Lies	672	(2)
Nazim Hikmet
Ballad of the Landlord	674	(1)
Langston Hughes
The Virgins	675	(1)
Derek Walcott
They Feed They Lion	676	(1)
Philip Levine
The Miners	677	(1)
Mafika Mbuli