Reading Literature and Writing Argument

by James, Missy; Merickel, Alan P.

• ISBN13: 9780130880116
• ISBN10: 0130880116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• 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 themes Individuality 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	xi
Reading to Explore and Examine	1	(23)
Explore	2	(2)
Examine	4	(1)
Argument Structure	5	(1)
Claims	5	(4)
Truer to the Game	5	(3)
Randy Horick
Cold before Dawn	8	(1)
Kenneth Rexroth
In a Station at the Metro	8	(1)
Ezra Pound
London	8	(1)
William Blake
Evidence	9	(1)
Warrants	10	(2)
Audience Appeal and Tone	12	(1)
Pathos	12	(2)
Federico's Ghost	12	(2)
Martin Espada
Logos	14	(1)
Sonnet 18	14	(1)
William Shakespeare
Ethos	15	(2)
Sonnet 130	15	(1)
William Shakespeare
Girl	16	(1)
Jamaica Kincaid
Rogerian Argument Strategy	17	(4)
For de Lawd	19	(1)
Lucille Clifton
New World	20	(1)
N. Scott Momaday
Chapter Activities	21	(3)
Those Winter Sundays	22	(1)
Robert Hayden
Dulce Et Decorum Est	22	(2)
Wilfred Owen
Writing to Evaluate and Articulate	24	(34)
Evaluate	25	(5)
from Romeo and Juliet	26	(1)
William Shakespeare
from The Crucible	27	(3)
Arthur Miller
Deduction and Induction: An Overview	30	(1)
Ozymandias	30	(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Articulate	31	(2)
from Letter from Birmingham Jail	31	(2)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Student Essays	33	(4)
Yes, the Future is Bright, but the Moment is Hell	33	(2)
Shawn Mullin
Perspective on Men	35	(2)
Daphne Beckham
Four-Part Written Exploration and Articulation	37	(1)
Student Samples	38	(13)
Super-Size It!	43	(4)
Lisa Colletti
Who Are the Real Victims of Alcoholism?	47	(4)
Meredith Newmon Blanco
Chapter Activities	51	(7)
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	53	(1)
Walt Whitman
Rodeo	53	(3)
Jane Martin
The World Is Too Much with Us	56	(1)
William Wordsworth
To Be of Use	56	(1)
Marge Piercy
After Work	57	(1)
Gary Snyder
Individuality and Community	58	(160)
Prewriting and Discussion	61	(2)
Fiction	63	(52)
Desiree's Baby	63	(5)
Kate Chopin
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	68	(9)
Stephen Crane
The Red Convertible	77	(8)
Louise Erdrich
Ranch Girl	85	(6)
Maile Meloy
On the Rainy River	91	(12)
Tim O'Brien
from Bodega Dreams	103	(6)
Ernesto Quinonez
Harrison Bergeron	109	(6)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Poetry	115	(21)
The Reservation Cab Driver	115	(2)
Sherman Alexie
Burning Dreams On The Sun	117	(1)
Michael Cleary
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	118	(5)
T. S. Eliot
Ella, in a Square Apron, along Highway 80	123	(1)
Judy Grahn
Passing	124	(1)
Langston Hughes
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane	125	(2)
Etheridge Knight
Outcast	127	(1)
Claude McKay
In Response to Executive Order 9066	128	(2)
Dwight Okita
Richard Cory	130	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Lost Romans	131	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
Lost Sister	132	(2)
Cathy Song
Crazy Courage	134	(2)
Alma Luz Villanueva
Drama	136	(32)
Antigone	136	(32)
Sophocles
Nonfiction	168	(48)
The Train from Hate	168	(2)
John Hope Franklin
Letter from Birmingham Jail	170	(13)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
from Crito	183	(5)
Plato
The Chinese in All of Us	188	(7)
Richard Rodriguez
Frank Chin	195	(5)
Studs Terkel
Civil Disobedience	200	(16)
Henry David Thoreau
Chapter Activities	216	(2)
Nature and Place	218	(147)
Prewriting and Discussion	221	(2)
Fiction	223	(63)
Antlers	223	(9)
Rick Bass
The Slaughter of the Pigeons	232	(7)
James Fenimore Cooper
A Blizzard under Blue Sky	239	(5)
Pam Houston
A White Heron	244	(8)
Sarah Orne Jewett
May's Lion	252	(6)
Ursula K. LeGuin
To Build a Fire	258	(12)
Jack London
The Man to Send Rain Clouds	270	(4)
Leslie Marmon Silko
A Worn Path	274	(7)
Eudora Welty
Kew Gardens	281	(5)
Virginia Woolf
Poetry	286	(33)
For de Lawd	286	(2)
Lucille Clifton
Deer among Cattle	288	(1)
James Dickey
Dulcimer Maker	289	(2)
Carolyn Forche
A Young Birch	291	(1)
Robert Frost
Heartland	292	(2)
Linda Hogan
Saint Francis and the Sow	294	(1)
Galway Kinnell
The Victors	295	(1)
Denise Levertov
The Panther	296	(1)
Rainer Marian Rilke
Meditation at Oyster River	297	(3)
Theodore Roethke
Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew	300	(2)
Pattiann Rogers
Chicago	302	(2)
Carl Sandburg
The Fury of Flowers and Worms	304	(2)
Anne Sexton
The Call of the Wild	306	(3)
Gary Snyder
Traveling through the Dark	309	(2)
William Stafford
from Audubon	311	(3)
Robert Penn Warren
Song of Myself, ``14''	314	(1)
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself, ``31''	315	(1)
Walt Whitman
To My Sister	316	(2)
William Wordsworth
A Blessing	318	(1)
James Wright
Nonfiction	319	(44)
The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud	319	(6)
Edward Abbey
The Obligation to Endure	325	(6)
Rachel Carson
from ``The Present''	331	(3)
Annie Dillard
from Nature	334	(5)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time and the Machine	339	(2)
Aldous Huxley
Thinking Like a Mountain	341	(2)
Aldo Leopold
Against Nature	343	(6)
Joyce Carol Oates
from The Way to Rainy Mountain	349	(5)
N. Scott Momaday
Solitude	354	(6)
Henry David Thoreau
The Place Where I Was Born	360	(3)
Alice Walker
Chapter Activities	363	(2)
Family and Identity	365	(138)
Prewriting and Discussion	368	(1)
Fiction	369	(66)
The Storm	369	(4)
Kate Chopin
Too Much His Father's Son	373	(6)
Genaro Gonzalez
Safe	379	(8)
Cherylene Lee
A Father	387	(9)
Bharati Mukherjee
A Red Sweater	396	(8)
Fae Myenne Ng
A Conversation with My Father	404	(4)
Grace Paley
Red Moccasins	408	(11)
Susan Power
Separating	419	(9)
John Updike
Everyday Use	428	(7)
Alice Walker
Poetry	435	(27)
The Mother	435	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mothers	437	(2)
Nikki Giovanni
The Ruined Maid	439	(2)
Thomas Hardy
Digging	441	(2)
Seamus Heaney
Advice to My Son	443	(2)
Peter Meinke
Arabic Coffee	445	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
I Go Back to May, 1937	446	(2)
Sharon Olds
The Black Walnut Tree	448	(2)
Mary Oliver
Ballad of Birmingham	450	(2)
Dudley Randall
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	452	(1)
Adrienne Rich
Cinderella	453	(3)
Anne Sexton
Not Leaving the House	456	(1)
Gary Snyder
The Continuous Life	457	(2)
Mark Strand
Lineage	459	(1)
Margaret Walker
The Writer	460	(2)
Richard Wilbur
Drama	462	(19)
On Tidy Endings	462	(19)
Harvey Fierstein
Nonfiction	481	(20)
Divorce and Our National Values	481	(3)
Peter D. Kramer
The Inheritance of Values	484	(5)
Pauli Murray
The Men We Carry in Our Minds	489	(5)
Scott Russell Sanders
Frankenstein's Daughter	494	(7)
Harper Stevens
Chapter Activities	501	(2)
Power and Responsibility	503	(137)
Prewriting and Discussion	506	(1)
Fiction	507	(86)
The Lesson	507	(7)
Toni Cade Bambara
Cathedral	514	(11)
Raymond Carver
The Book of the Dead	525	(9)
Edwidge Danticat
Terminal	534	(3)
Nadine Gordimer
The Maypole of Merry Mount	537	(8)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby the Scrivener	545	(26)
Herman Melville
The Things They Carried	571	(13)
Tim O'Brien
Spanish Roulette	584	(9)
Ed Vega
Poetry	593	(19)
The Boy Died in My Alley	593	(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Bully	595	(2)
Martin Espada
The Colonel	597	(2)
Carolyn Forche
Mending Wall	599	(2)
Robert Frost
The Laws of God, the Laws of Man	601	(1)
A. E. Housman
Theme for English B	602	(2)
Langston Hughes
Everything That Acts Is Actual	604	(1)
Denise Levertov
Casual Wear	605	(1)
James Merrill
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	606	(1)
John Milton
Famous	607	(2)
Naomi Shihab Nye
The Promise	609	(2)
Sharon Olds
Ethics	611	(1)
Linda Pastan
Nonfiction	612	(17)
Inaugural Address	612	(3)
John F. Kennedy
A Hanging	615	(4)
George Orwell
To Dr. William Ross	619	(3)
Katherine Anne Porter
Religion and Animal Rights	622	(11)
Tom Regan
from Black Boy	633
Richard Wright
Chapter Activities	629	(11)
Appendix A: Notes on the Writing Process	640	(8)
Appendix B: Notes on Using Sources and Creating a Draft	648	(6)
Glossary	654	(6)
Authors' Biographical Notes	660	(11)
Author and Title Index	671	(4)
Subject Index	675	(4)
Credits	679