Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature : Reading, Thinking, and Writing

by Michael Meyer

• ISBN13: 9780312132637
• ISBN10: 0312132638
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: VHP SMP

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	ix
Introduction: Reading Imaginative Literature	3	(6)
FICTION	9	(440)
Reading Fiction	11	(27)
Plot	38	(36)
Character	74	(39)
Setting	113	(18)
Point of View	131	(37)
Symbolism	168	(18)
Theme	186	(22)
Style, Tone, and Irony	208	(27)
Writing about Fiction	235	(5)
A Study of Three Authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro	240	(118)
Critical Case Study: William Faulkner's``Barn Burning''	358	(26)
A Collection of Stories	384	(65)
POETRY	449	(354)
Reading Poetry	451	(29)
Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone	480	(26)
Images	506	(14)
Figures of Speech	520	(17)
Symbol, Allegory, and Irony	537	(20)
Sounds	557	(19)
Patterns of Rhythm	576	(14)
Poetic Forms	590	(19)
Open Form	609	(13)
Writing about Poetry	622	(6)
A Study of Three Poets: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Langston Hughes	628	(86)
Critical Case Study: T. S. Eliot's``The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''	714	(11)
A Collection of Poems	725	(78)
DRAMA	803	(596)
Reading Drama	805	(31)
Writing about Drama	836	(6)
A Study of Sophocles	842	(52)
A Study of William Shakespeare	894	(170)
Modern Drama	1064	(64)
Critical Case Study: Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House	1128	(17)
A Collection of Plays	1145	(254)
CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING	1399	(90)
Critical Strategies for Reading	1401	(38)
Reading and Writing	1439	(32)
The Literary Research Paper	1471	(18)
Glossary of Literary Terms	1489	(32)
Index of First Lines	1521	(6)
Index of Authors and Titles	1527
Index of terms