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Preface | |
Writing About Literature | |
Why Write about Literature? | |
For Whom Do You Write? | |
Two Basic Approaches | |
Choosing a Topic | |
Proving Your Point | |
Writing the Paper | |
Writing In-Class Essays or Essay Tests | |
Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q11) | |
Documentation | |
Stance and Style (S1-S6) | |
Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | |
Writing Samples | |
Fiction: The Elements of Fiction | |
Reading the Story | |
Reviewing Chapter One | |
The Most Dangerous Game | |
Hunters in the Snow | |
Understanding and Evaluating Fiction | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Plot and Structure | |
Reviewing Chapter Two | |
The Destructors | |
How I Met My Husband | |
Interpreter of Maladies | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Characterization | |
Reviewing Chapter Three | |
Everyday Use | |
Miss Brill | |
The Man Who Was Almost a Man | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Theme | |
Reviewing Chapter Four | |
Welding with Children | |
The Darling | |
Translated by Constance Garnett | |
A Worn Path | |
Once upon a Time | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Point of View | |
Reviewing Chapter Five | |
Paul''s Case | |
The Lottery | |
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
Hills Like White Elephants | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy | |
Reviewing Chapter Six | |
The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
Young Goodman Brown | |
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
Translated by Gregory Rabassa | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Humor and Irony | |
Reviewing Chapter Seven | |
The Drunkard | |
Rape Fantasies | |
The Guest | |
Translated by Justin O''Brien | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Evaluating Fiction | |
Reviewing Chapter Eight | |
Exercise | |
Roman Fever | |
A New Leaf | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Three Featured Writers | |
Introduction | |
James Joyce | |
Araby | |
Eveline | |
The Boarding House | |
Flannery O''Connor | |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
Everything That Rises Must Converge | |
Greenleaf | |
Joyce Carol Oates | |
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Life After High School | |
June Birthing | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Stories for Further Reading | |
Civil Peace | |
The Swimmer | |
The Story of an Hour | |
A Rose for Emily | |
A Jury of Her Peers | |
The Gilded Six-Bits | |
The Real Thing | |
Bartleby the Scrivener | |
The Cask of Amontillado | |
A & P. Poetry: The Elements of Poetry | |
What is Poetry? | |
The Eagle | |
Winter | |
Dulce et Decorum Est | |
Reviewing Chapter One | |
Understanding and Evaluating Poetry | |
Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day? | |
The Whipping | |
The last Night that She lived | |
Ballad of Birmingham | |
Kitchenette Building | |
The Red Wheelbarrow | |
Constantly risking absurdity | |
Suicide''s Note | |
Terence, this is stupid stuff | |
Ars Poetica | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Reading the Poem | |
The Man He Killed | |
A Study of Reading Habits | |
Is my team plowing | |
Reviewing Chapter Two | |
Break of Day | |
There''s been a Death, in the Opposite House | |
When in Rome | |
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives | |
Question | |
Mirror | |
The Clod and the Pebble | |
Ethics | |
Storm Warnings | |
Suggestions for Writing | |
Denotation and Connotation | |
There is no Frigate l | |
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