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Preface for Instructors Contents by Genre
PART ONE: A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature
1. What Is Argument? An Argument about Cell PhonesPaul Goldberger, Disconnected Urbanism Getting Another PerspectivePamela Paul, The Phone CallUnderstanding Rhetoric The Elements of Argument Sample Argument for Analysis Sandy Sufian and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, The Dark Side of CRISPR Writing a Response to an ArgumentFurther Strategies for Analyzing an Argument So You Can Write a Response to It An Argument for AnalysisRegina Rini, Should We Rename Institutions That Honor Dead Racists?
2. Writing Effective Arguments Strategies for Developing an Effective Style of Argument Structuring Your Argument: Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay A Student Response to an Argument Paul Austin, The Need for True Consent to CRISPR Arguing in the First Person: Can You Use I? Use Inclusive Language Arguments for Analysis Lee Siegel, Why I Defaulted on My Student LoansAlexandra Petri, Take all books off the shelves. They’re just too dangerous.
3. How to Argue about Literature Why Study Literature in a College Writing Course? A Story for Analysis Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Strategies for Arguing about Literature A Sample Student Argument about Literature Ann Schumwalt, The Mother’s Mixed Messages in “Girl” Looking at Literature as Argument Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans Robert Frost, Mending WallTed Chiang, The Great SilenceLiterature and Current Issues: Poems about Climate Change Jane Hirshfield, Let Them Not Say Rena Priest, The Index Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Dear Matafele Peinem
4. The Reading Process Strategies for Close Reading A Poem for Analysis Sharon Olds, Summer Solstice, New York City Applying the Strategies Reading Closely by AnnotatingEmily Skillings, Girls Online Further Strategies: Topics of Literary Studies Lynda Hull, Night Waitress Identify Speech ActsRobert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningElizabeth Bishop, One Art 5. The Writing ProcessRachel Kadish, Letters Arrive from the Dead Strategies for Exploring Strategies for Planning Strategies for Composing First Draft of a Student Essay Dylan Rieff, Letters Don’t Arrive from the Dead Strategies for Revising A Checklist for Revising Revised Draft of a Student Essay Dylan Rieff, Letters Don’t Arrive from the DeadStrategies for Writing a Comparative Essay Don Paterson, Two Trees Luisa A. Igloria, Regarding History A Student Comparative Essay Jeremy Cooper, Don Paterson’s Criticism of Nature’s Owners
6. Writing about Literary Genres Writing about Stories Rivka Galchen, Usl at the Stadium The Elements of Short Fiction Final Draft of a Student EssayLydia Marsh, Why It’s Good for Usl to Wait Writing about Poems Mary Oliver, Singapore Yusef Komunyakaa, Blackberries Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Mill The Elements of Poetry Final Draft of a Student Essay Michaela Fiorucci, Negotiating Boundaries Comparing Poems and Pictures Rolando Perez, Office at Night Edward Hopper, Office at Night A Sample Essay Comparing a Poem and a Picture Karl Magnusson, Lack of Motion and Speech in Rolando Perez’s “Office at Night” Writing about Plays August Strindberg, The Stronger A Student’s Personal Response to the Play The Elements of Drama Final Draft of a Student Essay Carly Chen, Which Is the Stronger Actress in August Strindberg’s Play?
7. Writing Researched Arguments Begin Your Research by Giving It Direction Search for Sources in the Library and Online Evaluate the Sources Record Your Sources’ Key Details Strategies for Integrating Sources Avoid Plagiarism Strategies for Documenting Sources (MLA Format) Directory to MLA Works-Cited Entries Books Short Works from Collections and Anthologies Multiple Works by the Same Author Works in Periodicals Online Sources Citation Formats for Other Kinds of Sources A Note on Endnotes Three Annotated Student Researched Arguments Sarah Hassan, “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a Guide to Social Factors in Postpartum Depression How Sarah Uses Her SourcesNathan Johnson, The Meaning of the Husband’s Fainting in “The Yellow Wallpaper” How Nathan Uses His SourcesFatima Nagi, The Relative Absence of the Human Touch in “The Yellow Wallpaper” How Fatima Uses Her Sources Contexts for Research: Confinement, Mental Illness, and “The Yellow Wallpaper”Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Cultural ContextsCharlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”S. Weir Mitchell, From “The Evolution of the Rest Treatment” John Harvey Kellogg, From The Ladies’ Guide in Health and Disease
8. Evaluating Internet Resources in a “Post-Truth” Age Evaluating Written Arguments You Find on the Internet Margaret Atwood, All BreadHelena Minton, “Bread”Varda He, Restaurants Should Be More Aware of Celiac, Gluten-Free Diet Limits Critically Analyzing Web Sites’ Truth Claims Summing Up the Recommendations Understanding Strategies in Visual Arguments on the Internet Topic: War Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est (poem) WWI recruitment poster Identifying the Visual Strategies Topic: Environmental Destruction Linda Hogan, Songs for Turtles in the Gulf (poem) Image: Anti-liter ad Identifying the Visual Strategies Topic: Refugees Tracy K. Smith, Refuge Photograph: Ukrainian refugees Identifying the Visual Strategies Topic: Borders Alberto Ríos, The Border: A Double Sonnet (poem) Map: U.S.-Mexico Border Identifying the Visual Strategies Topic: Guns Katie Bickham, The Ferryman (poem) Graph: Mass Shootings in 222 Identifying the Visual Strategies Summing Up the Strategies Identifying Biases You Might Bring to Your Internet Research
PART TWO: Literature and Arguments
9. Families
Mothers and Daughters: Stories Alice Walker, Everyday Use Amy Tan, Two KindsAlma Luz Villanueva, Her Choice
Siblings in Conflict: Stories Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues
Reconciling with Fathers: Poems Lucille Clifton, forgiving my father Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz Li-Young Lee, My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud Legacies: Poems Nikki Giovanni, Legacies Linda Hogan, Heritage Richard Blanco, Queer Theory: According to My Grandmother Gary Soto, Behind Grandma’s House Ruth Ellen Kocher, We May No Longer Consider the End Philip Schultz, The Women’s March
Literature and Current Issues: Family History and Climate Denial: A Poem and an Essay Shelley Wong, How to Live in Southern California David Wallace-Wells, What’s Worse: Climate Denial or Climate Hypocrisy?
Arguments about a Poem: “Daddy” Sylvia Plath, Daddy Arguments about the Poem Lynda K. Bundtzen, From Plath’s Incarnations Tim Kendall, From Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study
Literature and Current Issues: Families in Conflict: A Story and an Essay Yxta Maya Murray, Paradise Hira Ahmad, Political Animosity and Estrangement
Context for Research: Would You Die for a Belief? A Play and an Essay Sophocles, Antigone Nayan Shah, Inmates’ hunger strikes take powerful stand against injustice
10. Love
Is This Love?: Stories James Joyce, Araby Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman T.C. Boyle, The Love of My LifeWilliam Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
True Love: Poems William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds John Keats, Bright Star Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? E. E. Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Be Near Me
Melancholy Loves: Poems Edna St. Vincent Millay, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why Robin Becker, Morning Poem W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
Literature and Current Issues: What Constitutes Consent? A Story and an Essay Kristen Roupenian, Cat Person Katelyn Ewen, When “Yes” Really Means “Yes”
Literature and Current Issues: Is Tribalistic Hate Necessary? Poems and An Essay Thomas Lux, The People of the Other Village Danusha LamÉris, Small Kindnesses Thomas B. Edsall, No Hate Left Behind
11. Freedom and Confinement
Where Tradition Is a Trap: Stories Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Alexander Weinstein, Rocket Night
Contexts for Research: Confinement at Work: A Story and an Essay Daniel Orozco, Orientation Edith Cooper, Don’t Return to the Office for Your Boss. Go Back for Yourself.
Resisting Stereotypes: Poems Chrystos, Today Was a Bad Day like TB Dwight Okita, In Response to Executive Order 966 Pat Mora, Legal Alien Toi Derricotte, Black Boys Play the ClassicsNaomi Shihab Nye, Blood David Hernandez, Words without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go Uma Wwivedi, I Conflate Shame and Desire and the Ocean Purses Her Lips
A Creative Confinement: Poems by Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson, Tell all the truth but tell it slant? —? Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense? —? Emily Dickinson, I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Domestic Prisons: Plays Susan Glaspell, Trifles Lynn Nottage, POOF!
Dreams of Escape: Stories Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Manzanos
Literature and Current Issues: Deadly Addiction: A Poem and an Essay Emily Yong, Opioid, Alcohol, Despair Maia Szalavitz, Opioids Feel Like Love: That’s Why They’re Deadly in Tough Times
Literature and Current Issues: Indian Displacement Scandals: A Story and an Essay Brand Hobson, Escape from the Dysphesiac People Rukmini Callimachi, Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indigenous Boarding Schools
Literature and Current Issues: Dealing with a Pandemic: A Story and an Essay Edgar Allen Poe, Masque of the Red Death Rupert Neate, Super-Rich Jet Off to Disaster Bunkers Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Contexts for Research: Domesticity, Women’s Rights, and A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House Susanna Rustin, Why A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen Is More Relevant than Ever
Literature and Current Issues: Robots and Consciousness: A Story and an Essay Isaac Asimov, Liar Cade Metz, A.I. Is Not Sentient: Why Do People Say It Is?
12. Crime and Justice
Discovering Injustice: Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson Ha Jin, Saboteur
Justice for Workers: Poems William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper Deborah Garrison, Worked Late on a Tuesday Night
Secret Crimes: Stories Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart Edward J. Delaney, Clean
A Dream of Justice: Poems by Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, Open Letter to the South Langston Hughes, Theme for English B Langston Hughes, Harlem
Literature and Current Issues: Can War Crimes Be Punished?: A Story and Essays Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl Lorenzo Tondo, Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine, say UN investigators Masha Gessen, From The Law of War
Arguments about a Story: “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Arguments about the Story Flannery O’Connor, From Mystery and Manners Stephen Bandy, From “ ‘One of My Babies’: The Misfit and the Grandmother”
Contexts for Research: Innocence, Evil, and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Contexts for Research Don Moser, The Pied Piper of Tucson: He Cruised in a Golden Car, Looking for the Action Joyce Carol Oates, Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film
Literature and Current Issues: Racial Injustice: Poems Marilyn Nelson, A Wreath for Emmett Till (Sonnet IV) Aracelis Girmay, From The Black Maria Hafizah Geter, Testimony Terrance Hayes, George Floyd
13. Journeys Fairy Tale Journeys: Stories Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Cap Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves
Wartime Journeys: Stories Tim O’Brien, The Things They CarriedAmbrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Final Journeys: Poems John Donne, Death Be Not Proud Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory Claude McKay, If We Must Die
Journey through Time: Stories Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven! Octavia Butler, From Imago Joanna Russ, When It Changed
Literature and Current Issues: Immigration and Justice Juan Felipe Herrera, Roll Under the Waves Arguments on the IssueDouglas Rand, Want to Get Rich? Let in More Immigrants
Arguments about a Poem: “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost, The Road Not TakenDavid Orr, From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
Contexts for Research: Race and Social Equality: “Battle Royal” and Essays Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal Contexts for Research Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (The Atlanta Compromise) W. E. B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington Gunnar Myrdal, Social Equality
Appendix: Writing with Critical Approaches to Literature Contemporary Schools of Criticism Working with the Critical Approaches James Joyce, Counterparts Sample Student Essay Molly Frye, A Refugee at Home (student essay) James Joyce, Eveline (story) Index of Authors, Titles, First Lines, and Key Terms
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