Discovering Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays (reprint)

by Guth, Hans P.; Rico, Gabriele L.

• ISBN13: 9780131917583
• ISBN10: 0131917587
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This incredible collection of stories, poems, and plays enables the reader to compare and contrast literature from the different perspectives of culture, race, and gender. Carefully selected readings from the classics through today were chosen for their diversity and universal appeal. The book not only offers the selections themselves, but also offers comparative criticisms of the readings, enabling the reader to more fully understand and enjoy the best of literature through the ages.This anthology covers fiction, poetry, drama, comedy, and criticism from the perspectives of setting, character, plot, point of view, symbolism, theme, tone, and style.For anyone who is interested in owning an anthology that encompasses the greatest writings from the past and present in fiction, poetry, and plays.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Preview The World of Fiction

Focus on Fiction. The Art of the Story

(setting) Sandra Cisneros Mericans. (character) Grace Paley Wants. (plot) Chinua Achebe Why the Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth. (point of view) TOBIAS WOLFF Say Yes. (symbol) MARY ROBISON Yours. (theme) AESOP The Wolf and the Lamb. (style) ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hills like White Elephants. Close Reading and the Personal Response. Writing about Literature: Starting a Short Story Journal (Materials for Writing)

Setting Landscapes of the Mind

Focus on Setting

larry Fondation Deportation at Breakfast. Settings: The Sense of Place. James Joyce Araby. Bobbie Ann MASON Shiloh. YUKIO Mishima Swaddling Clothes. Writing about Literature: Exploring the Setting (The Structured Paper)

Character The Buried Self

Focus on Character

Tim O'Brien Stockings. The Range of Characterization. Raymond Carver The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off. ALICE MUNRO Boys and Girls. LOUISE ERDRICH The Red Convertible. Juxtaposit ions: Capsule Portraits. SHERWOOD ANDERSON Paper Pills. JAMAICA KINCAID Girl. Writing about Literature: Tracing Character (Focus on Prewriting)

Plot The Chain of Events

Focus on Plot. Doris Lessing Homage for Isaac Babel. Plotting the Story. Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel. SHIRLEY JACKSON The Lottery. WILLIAM FAULKNER A Rose for Emily. Writing about Literature: Charting the Plot (Focus on Revision)

Point Of View Windows on the World

Focus on Point of View. Anton Chekhov Vanka. Worlds of Thought and Feeling. Joyce Carol Oates Stalking. TILLIE OLSEN I Stand Here Ironing. KATHERINE ANNE PORTER The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. Writing about Literature: Sharing a Point of View (Focus on Peer Response)

Symbol The Eloquent Image

Focus on Symbols

Ann Beattie Snow The Central Symbol. John Steinbeck The Chrysanthemums. Juxtapositions: The Range of Interpretation. STANLEY RENNER The Real Woman in The Chrysanthemums. MARILYN H. MITCHELL Steinbeck's Strong Women and The Chrysanthemums. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN The Yellow Wallpaper. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World. Writing about Literature: Decoding Symbols (Two Readings of a Story)

Theme The Search for Meaning

Focus on Theme. Luisa Valenzuela The Censors The Thinking Reader. Alice Walker Everyday Use. STEPHEN CRANE The Open Boat. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Young Goodman Brown. Writing about Literature: Tracing a Recurrent Theme (Comparing and Contrasting)

Style The Writer's Voice

Focus on Style

David Michael Kaplan Love, Your Only Mother. The Challenge to Convention

Margaret Atwood Bread. John Cheever The Enormous Radio. Franz Kafka The Country Doctor. Juxtapositions: Playing the Role. DOROTHY PARKER The Standard of Living. TONI CADE BAMBARA The Lesson. Writing about Literature: Responding to Style (Prewriting to Finished Paper)

A Writer In Depth Flannery O'Connor

Focus on the Writer. Flannery O'Connor: Author and Work. A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Everything That Rises Must Converge. Enoch and the Gorilla. Juxtapositions: The Range of Sources. FLANNERY O'CONNOR On A Good Man Is Hard to

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