Text Book : Writing Through Literature

by Scholes, Robert; Comley, Nancy R.; Ulmer, Gregory L.

• ISBN13: 9780312248796
• ISBN10: 0312248792
• Edition: 3RD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Designed for literature-based writing courses,Text Bookintroduces students to the idea that literary texts and ordinary spoken and written language share many of the same features. By providing imaginative methods and unique assignments that let students work with those features in their writing,Text Bookinvolves students in the processes of exploring literature creatively, not simply consuming and analyzing it, helping them understand literature "from the inside out."

Author Biography

ROBERT SCHOLES, professor of modern culture and media at Brown University, is a distinguished teacher and a leading scholar in literary studies. He has published many influential books and articles, including The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline (1998); Protocols of Reading (1989); and Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English (1985), which won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize of the Modern Language Association in 1986 and the David H. Russell Research Award from NCTE in 1988. Scholes is a contributor of numerous articles and book reviews to learned journals, literary magazines, and weekly reviews. His Bedford/St. Martin's publications include The Practice of Writing, Fifth Edition (2001) with Nancy R. Comley and Janice Peritz, and Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing, Sixth Edition (2001) with Nancy R. Comley, David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, and Nancy Sommers.

NANCY R. COMLEY, professor and chair of English and former Director of Freshman Composition at Queens College, CUNY, has written numerous articles on teaching writing and literature and on modernist literature. She has published, with Robert Scholes, Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text (1994). Her Bedford/St. Martin's publications include The Practice of Writing, Fifth Edition (2001) with Robert Scholes and Janice Peritz and Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing, Sixth Edition (2001) with David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, Robert Scholes, and Nancy Sommers.

GREGORY L. ULMER, professor of English and Media Studies at the University of Florida, has published numerous professional articles and books on critical theory and electronic communication, including Heuretics: The Logic of Invention (1994), Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video (1989), and Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys (1985). As coordinator of the Electronic Learning Forum (www.elf.ufl.edu), Ulmer collaborates with students and faculty at the University of Florida and elsewhere on projects relating to teaching, research, and service involving new media and technology.

Table of Contents

1. Texts as Representation
    
    Story and Storyteller
       Mary Louise Pratt, Natural Narrative
          For Discussion and Writing: Telling and Writing Anecdotes
    
    The "Literary" Anecdote
       Walter Benjamin, Ordnance
       Patricia J. Williams, Polar Bears
       *Paul Auster, Tell Me a Story
       Storm Jameson, Departures
       *Brent Staples, Blake
          For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Anecdotes
    
    The Short Story
       Kate Chopin, The Kiss
          For Discussion and Writing: Comparing "Natural" and "Literary" Narratives
       William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
          For Discussion and Writing: Evaluating and Interpreting Anecdote and Story
       *Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father
          For Discussion and Writing: What makes a "Good Story"?
    
    Character and Confrontation
       *Susan Glaspell, Trifles
          For Discussion and Writing: Staging and Writing Drama
       Kate Chopin, dialogue from The Kiss
          For Discussion and Writing: Changing Dialogue to Drama
       Erving Goffman, Character Contests
          For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing and Writing Character Contests
       August Strindberg, The Stronger
          For Discussion and Writing: Revising a Character Contest
       Martin Esslin, from Aristotle and the Advertisers: The Television Commercial as Drama
      *AIG: The Greatest Risk Is Not Taking One
          For Discussion and Writing:Reversals and Recognitions
    
    Representation and Its Complications
       *Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Film of Familiarity
       *Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Veil of Familiarity
       *Victor Shklovsky, Defamiliarization
          For Discussion and Writing: The Familiar and the Unfamiliar
       *Man Ray, 221 Boulevard Raspail
       *René Magritte, Personal Values
       *Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro
       *W. S. Merwin, Tool
       *E. E. Cummings, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
    
    
    
  2. Texts, Thoughts, and Things
    The Linguistic Basis of Metaphor
       Roger Brown, What Words Are: Reference and Categories
          For Discussion and Writing: Defining Categories
       Roger Brown, What Words Are: Metaphor
       Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder
          For Discussion and Writing: Defining Metaphor
    
    Metaphor in Three Poems
       W. S. Merwin, Separation
          For Discussion and Writing: Metaphor and the Unexpected
       W. H. Auden, Let Us Honor…
          For Discussion and Writing: Modifying Metaphor
       Sylvia Plath, Metaphors
          For Discussion and Writing: Making Metaphors
    
    Metaphor and Dream
       Sigmund Freud, from Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
       *Tony Crisp, Getting to Work on Your Dream
       *Julia and Derek Parker, Symbolism
          For Discussion and Writing: Interpreting the Defamiliarized World
       *Edward Hopper, Night Shadows
       *Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealist Versailles
       *Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
    
    Surrealist Metaphor
       *André Breton, Surrealist Images
          For Discussion and Writing: Comparing Terms: Freud and Breton
       *André Breton, Surrealist Methods
          For Discussion and Writing: Constructing and Analyzing a Random Assemblage
    
    Poetic Uses of Metaphor
          For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing the Work of Metaphors in Poetry
       Ono No Kamachi, Doesn't He Realize…
       John Donne, The Flea
       Stephen Spender, Word
       Robert Francis, Pitcher
       Margaret Atwood, You fit into me
       Marge Piercy, You don't understand me
       Adrienne Rich, Moving in Winter
       *Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death
       *Theodore Roethke, Dolor
       *W. S. Merwin, Coming to the Morning
       *Edna St. Vincent Millay, Spring
       *Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
    
    Metaphor As a Basis for Thought
       George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Concepts We Live By
          For Discussion and Writing: Using Metaphorical Concepts
    
    Metaphorical Concepts
       Robert W. Keidel, A New Game for Managers to Play
          For Discussion and Writing: Using Sports Metaphors
       Susan Sontag, from AIDS and Its Metaphors
          For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Metaphors of Disease
    
    Arguing with Metaphor: Analogy and Ideology
       *Emily Martin, The Egg and the Sperm
          For Discussion and Writing: Arguing About Metaphors in Science
    
    Hidden Meaning: Parables and Allegory
       *The Gospel of Mark, The Parables of Jesus
       *Franz Kafka, On Parables and Before the Law
       *Jorge Luis Borges, Borges and I and Ragnarök
       Italo Calvino, Cities and Memory: Isidora and Continuous Cities: Cecilia
       John Barth, Night-Sea Journey
          For Discussion and Wrting: Composing Parables
    
    Metaphor And Metonymy: Advertising
       Vista
       productbuzz
       NEUVIS
          For Discussion and Writing: Comparing and Analyzing Metaphoric and Metonymic Qualities in Advertising
    
    
    
  3. Texts and Other Texts
    
    Intertextuality
       Book of Judges, Samson
       John Milton, From Samson Agonistes
       Nike Advertisement, Samson
          For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing a Textual Network
    
    Transforming Texts (1)
       Raymond Queneau, from Transformations
          For Discussion and Writing: Making Your Own Transformations
    
    
    
    Transforming Texts (2): Sleeping Beauties
       Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Thorn-rose (Briar-rose): The Manuscript
    Version
       *Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Thorn-rose (Briar-rose): from Grimm's Fairy Tales, 6th Edition
       *Charles Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty (La belle au bois dormant)
       *Robert Coover, Five Sections from Briar Rose
          For Discussion and Writing: Comparing Versions and Transforming Tales
    
    Completing Texts: The Reader's Work
       *Ernest Hemingway, Up in Michigan
          For Discussion and Writing: Defining Love: Writing the Reader's Work
       *Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible
          For Discussion and Writing: Cultural Knowledge and Cultural Icons
    
    Identifying with Texts
       Robert Ray, The Culmination of Classic Hollywood: Casablanca
       Woody Allen, from Play It Again, Sam
       Russell Banks, Bambi, A Boy's Story
          For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Films: Intertexts, Ideologies, Icons
    
    On Interpretation
          For Discussion and Writing: Proposing Your Own Theory of Literary Interpretation
       *Frank Kermode, The Purpose of Parables
       *Susan Sontag, Interpretation as Interference
       *Umberto Eco, The Intention of the Text
    
    Interpreting Texts
       *Bruno Bettelheim, The Sleeping Beauty
    For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing a Freudian Interpretation
       *Francine Prose, On "Sleeping Beauty"
    For Discussion and Writing: Reading and Making a Cultural Critique
       *Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes, Interpreting "Up in Michigan"
    For Discussion and Writing: Considering Intention and Interpretation
       *Robert Scholes, Interpreting "Pitcher"
          For Discussion and Writing: Interpreting a Poem
    
    Text And Hypertext

   
    
  4. Texts and Research: The Mystory
    
    Mystory
      * Lewy Olfson, ed. The Sorrows of Young Werther (plot outline)
      * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from The Sorrows of Young Werther
          For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing the Tutor Text: Werther
         *from Reflections on Werther
    The Fragment
       Roland Barthes, from A Lover's Discourse
          For Discussion and Writing: Composing an Identification
    Archive: Texts of Identification
      *Connie Porter, Rapunzel across Time and Space
          For Discussion and Writing: Emblamatizing Identity
       Eunice Lipton, History of an Encounter
          For Discussion and Writing: Encountering Exemplary Histories
       N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain
          For Discussion and Writing: Creating Patterns across Discourse
      *Susan Griffin, from A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
          For Discussion and Writing: Researching Recognition
    The Signature
       William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet (II.ii. 33-61)
          For Discussion and Writing: Naming Names
       A. A. Roback, Names and Professions
          For Discussion and Writing: Imagining Names
    The Power of Names
       Ralph Ellison, from Hidden Name and Complex Fate
       Dale Spender, from Man Made Language
          For Discussion and Writing: Changing Names
    Writing from Signatures
       James Joyce, Shem the Penman
      * Jane Morgan, Christopher O'Neil, and Rom Harré, Nicknames: Their Origins and Social Consequences
          For Discussion and Writing: Exploring the Name from Crest to Nickname
    
    Signing: (The Proper Name)
       Jacques Derrida, From Glas
          For Discussion and Writing: Devising the Portrait
    Archive: The Play of the Text
      *Lawson Fusao Inada, Making it Stick
          For Discussion and Writing: Popularizing Cultural Forms
      *Nicholas Paley, Everyone Is Welcome
          For Discussion and Writing: Stretching a Story
      *Derek Pell, The Revolver: A Textual Transformation
          FDW: Transforming the Historical Document
      *A. C. Evans, from There are Many Roads to Space
          FDW: Testing the Cut-Up
      *John Cage, Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake
          FDW: Messing with Mesotics
      *Susan Howe, Submarginalia