Reading Literature and Writing Argument

by James, Missy; Merickel, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780131891098
• ISBN10: 013189109X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Based on the premise that literature liberates thinking, and argument disciplines it. This anthology features a critical thinking, analytical approach that readers in turn will apply to their own thought and writing processes.It introduces and explains the tools of argument, and presents reading selections centered on four enduring themesIndividuality and Community, Nature and Place, Family and Identity, and Power and Responsibility.For those interested in literature, composition, and argumentative writing.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
1 Reading to Explore and Examine	1	(24)
Explore	2	(2)
Examine	4	(1)
Argument Structure	5	(6)
Claims	5	(4)
Randy Horick,
Truer to the Game	5	(2)
Kenneth Rexroth,
Cold before Dawn	7	(1)
Ezra Pound,
In a Station of the Metro	8	(1)
William Blake,
London	8	(1)
Evidence	9	(1)
Warrants	10	(1)
Audience Appeal and Tone	11	(10)
Pathos	12	(2)
Martin Espada,
Federico's Ghost	12	(2)
Logos	14	(1)
William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 18	14	(1)
Ethos	14	(3)
William Shakespeare,
Sonnet 130	15	(1)
Jamaica Kincaid,
Girl	15	(2)
Rogerian Argument Strategy	17	(4)
Lucille Clifton,
For deLawd	19	(1)
N. Scott Momaday,
New World	20	(1)
Chapter Activities	21	(4)
Robert Hayden,
Those Winter Sundays	21	(1)
Wilfred Owen,
Dulce Et Decorum Est	22	(2)
Robert Crumb,
A Short History of America	24	(1)
2 Writing to Evaluate and Articulate	25	(36)
Evaluate	26	(6)
William Shakespeare,
from Romeo and Juliet	27	(1)
Arthur Miller,
from The Crucible	28	(2)
Deductive and Induction: An Overview	30	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Ozymandias	31	(1)
Articulate	32	(27)
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
from Letter from Birmingham Jail	32	(2)
Sample Student Essays
Shawn Mullin,
Yes, the Future Looks Bright, but the Moment Is Hell	34	(1)
Daphne Beckham,
Perspective on Men	35	(3)
Four-Part Written Exploration and Articulation	38	(6)
Sample Student Essays
Lisa Colletti,
Super-Size It!	44	(4)
Meredith Newman Blanco,
Who Are the Real Victims of Alcoholism?	48	(5)
Literature
Walt Whitman,
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	53	(1)
Jane Martin,
Rodeo	53	(2)
William Wordsworth,
The World Is Too Much with Us	55	(1)
Marge Piercy,
To Be of Use	56	(1)
Gary Snyder,
After Work	57	(1)
Sample Four-Part Written Exploration and Articulation	58	(1)
Chapter Activities	59	(2)
3 Individuality and Community	61	(138)
Prewriting and Discussion	64	(1)
Readings
Fiction
Kate Chopin,
Désireé's Baby	65	(4)
Frank Chin,
Donald Duk and the White Monsters from Donald Duk	69	(5)
Stephen Crane,
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	74	(8)
Louise Erdrich,
The Red Convertible	82	(7)
Randall Kenan,
The Foundations of the Earth	89	(13)
Maile Meloy,
Ranch Girl	102	(5)
Tim O'Brien,
On the Rainy River	107	(12)
Ernesto Quiñonez,
from Bodega Dreams	119	(6)
Poetry
Sherman Alexie,
The Reservation Cab Driver	125	(1)
Michael Cleary,
Burning Dreams on the Sun	126	(1)
Emily Dickinson,
Much madness is divinest sense	127	(1)
T.S. Eliot,
The Love Song off Alfred Prufrock	128	(4)
Judy Grahn,
Ella, in a square apron, along Highway 80	132	(1)
Langston Hughes,
Passing	133	(1)
Etheridge Knight,
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	134	(2)
Claude McKay,
Outcast	136	(1)
Dwight Okita,
In Response to Executive Order 9066	137	(1)
Mary Oliver,
Wild Geese	138	(1)
E.A. Robinson,
Richard Cory	139	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser,
The Lost Romans	140	(1)
Cathy Song,
Lost Sister	141	(2)
Gary Soto,
Mexicans Begin Jogging	143	(1)
Wallace Stevens,
Disillusionment at Ten O'Clock	144	(1)
Alma Luz Villanueva,
Crazy Courage	145	(2)
Nonfiction
Sherman Alexie,
Superman and Me	147	(3)
John Hope Franklin,
The Train from Hate	150	(1)
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Letter from Birmingham Jail	151	(13)
Plato,
from Crito	164	(5)
Richard Rodriguez,
The Chinese in All of Us	169	(6)
Studs Terkel,
Frank Chin	175	(5)
Henry David Thoreau,
Civil Disobedience	180	(15)
Chapter Activities	195	(1)
Collaboration Activity	195	(1)
Making Connections	196	(1)
Cross-Chapter Connections	197	(2)
4 Nature and Place	199	(138)
Prewriting and Discussion	202	(1)
Readings
Fiction
Rick Bass,
Antlers	203	(8)
James Fenimore Cooper,
The Slaughter of the Pigeons, from The Pioneers	211	(6)
Pam Houston,
A Blizzard under Blue Sky	217	(5)
Sarah Orne Jewett,
A White Heron	222	(7)
Ursula K. Le Guin,
May's Lion	229	(6)
Jack London,
To Build a Fire	235	(11)
Leslie Marmon Silko,
The Man to Send Rain Clouds	246	(4)
Eudora Welty,
A Worn Path	250	(6)
Virginia Woolf,
Kew Gardens	256	(6)
Poetry
Lucille Clifton,
For deLawd	262	(1)
James Dickey,
Deer Among Cattle	263	(1)
Carolyn Forché,
Dulcimer Maker	264	(1)
Robert Frost,
A Young Birch	265	(1)
Linda Hogan,
Heartland	266	(1)
Galway Kinnell,
Saint Francis and the Sow	267	(1)
Denise Levertov,
The Victors	268	(1)
Rainer Maria Rilke,
The Panther	269	(1)
Theodore Roethke,
Meditation at Oyster River	270	(2)
Pattiann Rogers,
Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew	272	(2)
Carl Sandburg,
Chicago	274	(1)
Anne Sexton,
The Fury of Flowers and Worms	275	(1)
Gary Snyder,
The Call of the Wild	276	(2)
William Stafford,
Traveling through the Dark	278	(1)
Robert Penn Warren,
Excerpts from Audubon	279	(3)
Walt Whitman,
Song of Myself 14	282	(1)
Walt Whitman,
Song of Myself, 31	283	(1)
William Wordsworth,
To My Sister	284	(1)
James Wright,
A Blessing	285	(2)
Nonfiction
Edward Abbey,
The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud, from Desert Solitaire	287	(5)
Rachel Carson,
The Obligation to Endure, from Silent Spring	292	(5)
Annie Dillard,
The Present, chapter excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	297	(2)
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Excerpts from Nature	299	(5)
Aldous Huxley,
Time and the Machine, from The Olive Tree	304	(2)
Aldo Leopold,
Thinking Like a Mountain	306	(2)
Joyce Carol Oates,
Against Nature	308	(6)
N. Scott Momaday,
Excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain	314	(4)
Janisse Ray,
Forest Beloved, from Ecology of a Cracker Childhood	318	(4)
Henry David Thoreau,
Solitude, from Walden or Life in the Woods	322	(5)
Alice Walker,
My Heart Has Reopened to You: The Place Where I Was Born	327	(4)
Chapter Activities	331	(2)
Collaboration Activity	333	(1)
Making Connections	333	(1)
Cross-Chapter Connections	334	(3)
Sample Student Essay, Chapter Activity 3
Daniel Godwin,
Stewards and Tenants of the Wilderness	334	(3)
5 Family and Identity	337	(124)
Prewriting and Discussion	340	(1)
Readings
Fiction
Kate Chopin,
The Storm	341	(4)
Genaro González,
Too Much His Father's Son	345	(5)
Cherylene Lee,
Safe	350	(7)
Bharati Mukherjee,
A Father	357	(8)
Fae Myenne Ng,
A Red Sweater	365	(7)
Grace Paley,
A Conversation with My Father	372	(4)
Susan Power,
Red Moccasins	376	(10)
John Updike,
Separating	386	(8)
Alice Walker,
Everyday Use	394	(8)
Poetry
Anne Bradstreet,
To My Dear and Loving Husband	402	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks,
The Mother	402	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks,
Ulysses	404	(1)
Nikki Giovanni,
Mothers	405	(2)
Thomas Hardy,
The Ruined Maid	407	(1)
Seamus Heaney,
Digging	408	(1)
Peter Meinke,
Advice to My Son	409	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye,
Arabic Coffee	410	(1)
Sharon Olds,
I Go Back to May, 1937	411	(2)
Mary Oliver,
The Black Walnut Tree	413	(1)
Dudley Randall,
Ballad of Birmingham	414	(1)
Adrienne Rich,
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	415	(1)
Adrienne Rich,
Delta	416	(1)
Anne Sexton,
Cinderella	416	(4)
Gary Snyder,
Not Leaving the House	420	(1)
Mark Strand,
The Continuous Life	421	(1)
Margaret Walker,
Lineage	422	(1)
Richard Wilbur,
The Writer	423	(2)
Drama
Harvey Fierstein,
On Tidy Endings	425	(18)
Nonfiction
Sullivan Ballou,
Major Sullivan Ballou's Last Letter to His Wife	443	(2)
Peter D. Kramer,
Divorce and Our National Values	445	(3)
Pauli Murray,
The Inheritance of Values	448	(4)
Scott Russell Sanders,
The Men We Carry in Our Minds	452	(5)
Chapter Activities	457	(2)
Collaboration Activity	459	(1)
Making Connections	460	(1)
Cross-Chapter Connections	460	(1)
6 Power and Responsibility	461	(194)
Prewriting and Discussion	464	(1)
Readings
Fiction
Toni Cade Bambara,
The Lesson	465	(6)
Raymond Carver,
Cathedral	471	(11)
Edwidge Danticat,
The Book of the Dead	482	(8)
Nadine Gordimer,
Terminal	490	(3)
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Birth-Mark	493	(12)
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Maypole of Merry Mount	505	(7)
Tim O'Brien,
The Things They Carried	512	(13)
Brady Udall,
He Becomes Deeply and Famously Drunk	525	(18)
Ed Vega,
Spanish Roulette	543	(9)
Poetry
Gwendolyn Brooks,
The Boy Died in My Alley	552	(1)
Martin Espada,
Bully	553	(1)
Carolyn Forche,
The Colonel	554	(2)
Robert Frost,
Mending Wall	556	(1)
A.E. Housman,
The Laws of God, the Laws of Man	557	(1)
Langston Hughes,
Democracy	558	(1)
Langston Hughes,
Theme for English B	559	(2)
Denise Levertov,
Everything That Acts Is Actual	561	(1)
Claude McKay,
America	562	(1)
James Merrill,
Casual Wear	563	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Apostrophe to Man	563	(1)
John Milton,
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	564	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye,
Famous	565	(1)
Sharon Olds,
The Promise	566	(2)
Linda Pastan,
Ethics	568	(1)
Public Enemy,
Fight the Power	569	(2)
Walt Whitman,
Beat! Beat! Drums!	571	(1)
Drama
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata	572	(44)
Nonfiction
Cochise,
[I am alone]	616	(1)
Aaron Epstein and Yaron Brook,
The Evil of Animal 'Rights'	617	(2)
Allan Gurganus,
Captive Audience	619	(3)
John F. Kennedy,
Inaugural Address	622	(3)
Abraham Lincoln,
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865	625	(2)
George Orwell,
A Hanging	627	(4)
Katherine Anne Porter,
To Dr. William Ross	631	(2)
Tom Regan,
Religion and Animal Rights	633	(10)
Frank Schaeffer and John Schaeffer,
My Son the Marine?
from Keeping Faith. A Father Son Story about Love and the US. Marine Corps	643	(3)
Richard Wright,
from Black Boy	646	(6)
Chapter Activities	652	(1)
Collaboration Activity	653	(1)
Making Connections	654	(1)
Cross-Chapter Connections	654	(1)
Appendix A: Notes on the Writing Process	655	(14)
Clarifying a Subject, Purpose, and Audience	655	(1)
Organizing a Longer, Research-based Argument Paper	656	(7)
Claims of Fact, Value, and Policy	656	(1)
Appeals to Ethos, Logos, and Pathos	657	(1)
Counterarguments, Concessions, and Refutations	658	(1)
Argument Outline	658	(1)
Sample Student Essay
Josh Griep,
Wild Captives: The Exotic Animal Trade	659	(4)
The Rogerian Argument	663	(6)
Rogerian Argument Organizational Plan	663	(1)
Sample Student Essay
Russell Schneider,
To Obey or Not to Obey	664	(5)
Appendix B: Notes on Using Sources and Creating a Draft	669	(6)
The Preliminary Bibliography	669	(1)
Avoiding Plagiarism	670	(2)
Using Your Sources and Creating a Draft	672	(1)
Citations	672	(1)
The Works Cited Page	673	(1)
Strategy Questions for Organizing Your Argument Paper	674	(1)
Glossary	675	(6)
Authors' Biographical Notes	681	(14)
Credits	695	(8)
Author and Title Index	703	(6)
Subject Index	709