Literary Odysseys : An Interactive Introduction to the Short Story

by Ziemer-Kapelinski, Mary K.

• ISBN13: 9780472086030
• ISBN10: 0472086030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
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Summary

Literary Odysseysis an introduction to the strategies that enable readers to analyze the short story form. Like persons on an odyssey, students will become involved in the "world" of each text and how it relates to their own lives and to the larger world. This journey should lead students to feel "at home" and comfortable when they talk and write about literature, particularly the short story form. Literary Odysseysis not set up like many anthologies in which students read a text in isolation, answer a few questions, listen to lectures, and then write an essay. Instead, each of the seven short stories presented in this textbook is related to a social, historical, or philosophical context. The idea is for students to become familiar with some of the major trends that have influenced and shaped literature--as well as humanity--so that they have the concepts and vocabulary they need to answer the question: "What did you think about the story?" Literary Odysseysincludes Interactive activities Supplementary readings Cross-cultural component Recycled information Answer key Glossary Writing guidelines Biographical information .

Table of Contents

Introduction: To the Instructor	1	(13)
To the Student	13	(3)
The Fable	16	(20)
Activities
Introduction to the Fable	17	(1)
Origins of the Fable and Intertextuality	17	(2)
Morals: ``The Tree and the Reed''	19	(1)
Vocabulary Preview: ``The Little Red Hen''	20	(1)
Cloze Exercise: ``The Little Red Hen''	20	(3)
Morals: ``The Little Red Hen''	23	(1)
Plot Terminology	23	(1)
Cultural Values	24	(1)
Personalization	24	(1)
Sequencing: ``The Wind and the Sun''	24	(1)
Morals: ``The Wind and the Sun''	25	(1)
Biographical Information: The Buddha	25	(1)
From the Buddhist Scriptures: ``The Restraint of the Senses''	25	(2)
``The Dog and the Reflection''	27	(1)
Biographical Information: Plato	27	(1)
Prereading Activity: ``The Allegory of the Cave''	28	(1)
From ``The Allegory of the Cave''	29	(4)
Biographical Information: Marcus Aurelius	33	(1)
From Meditations	33	(1)
Marcus Aurelius
``The Lion King''	34	(1)
Plot Terminology: ``The Lion King''	34	(1)
Writing a Fable	35	(1)
Word Association	35	(1)
Review of the Fable	35	(1)
``The Tell Tale Heart,''	36	(19)
Edgar Allan Poe
Activities
From ``The Tale and Its Effect,''	37	(1)
Edgar Allan Poe
Narration: ``Appointment in Samarra,''	37	(1)
Somerset Maugham
Formalism: ``Appointment in Samarra''	38	(1)
Narrative Terminology	38	(1)
Point of View	39	(1)
New Criticism: ``Appointment in Samarra''	40	(1)
Narration	41	(1)
Vocabulary Preview: ``The Tell-Tale Heart''	41	(1)
``The Tell-Tale Heart''	41	(5)
Narrating a Story	46	(1)
Plot Terminology	46	(1)
Oral Reading	46	(1)
Irony	47	(1)
Irony: ``Appointment in Samarra''	47	(1)
Narration: ``The Tell-Tale Heart''	47	(1)
Theme	47	(1)
Psychological Theories: Case History	48	(1)
Vocabulary Preview: The Freudian Approach	49	(1)
Summary of the Freudian Approach	49	(4)
Freudian Approach: Case History	53	(1)
Title Analysis	54	(1)
Point of View: The Narrator	54	(1)
Point of View: Filming a Story	54	(1)
``Young Goodman Brown,''	55	(25)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Activities
Historical Approach: The Puritans	56	(1)
Puritan Values: From ``A Young Puritan's Code,''	57	(1)
Jonathan Edwards
Allegory	58	(1)
Cross-Cultural Values	59	(1)
Mythic Approach: Archetypal Symbols	59	(1)
Structuralism: Binary Opposites	60	(1)
Structuralism and Cultural Values	61	(1)
Poststructuralism and Deconstructionism: Introduction	62	(1)
Writing a Story	62	(1)
Puritan English	63	(1)
``Young Goodman Brown''	64	(12)
Narration	76	(1)
Irony	76	(1)
Dream Analysis	77	(1)
Point of View	77	(1)
Symbols and the Freudian Approach	77	(1)
Interview: Brown and a Freudian Psychologist	78	(1)
Review of Cross-Cultural Values	78	(1)
Theme	78	(1)
A Cross-Cultural View of ``Young Goodman Brown''	79	(1)
Archetypal Symbols: Visual Focus	79	(1)
``On the Road,''	80	(25)
Langston Hughes
Activities
Sociological Approach: Constitutional Amendments	81	(1)
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	82	(1)
Harriet Jacobs
Constitutional Amendments	83	(1)
From ``A Paradox and a Dream,''	84	(2)
John Steinbeck
From The Ethics of Living Jim Crow	86	(4)
Richard Wright
``From Outside, In,''	90	(2)
Barbara Mellix
``On the Road''	92	(6)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement	98	(1)
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience	99	(1)
From ``Civil Disobedience,''	100	(1)
Henry David Thoreau
From The Fire Next Time	100	(1)
Henry David Thoreau
Freedom March on Washington, DC	101	(1)
Time Line: Civil Rights Movement	102	(2)
``On the Road'': Review	104	(1)
Homelessness	104	(1)
Point of View: Harriet Jacobs	104	(1)
``I Stand Here Ironing,''	105	(26)
Tillie Olsen
Activities
Feminist Criticism: Analysis of a Quilt	106	(1)
Question from In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	107	(1)
Alice Walker
Questions on In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	107	(1)
Discussion of In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	108	(1)
Discussion of ``Everyday Use,''	108	(1)
Alice Walker
Writing a Story	109	(1)
Review of 5.1a---f	110	(1)
Survey	110	(1)
Shakespeare's Sister	110	(1)
From A Room of One's Own	111	(3)
Virginia Woolf
Alice Walker and Virginia Woolf	114	(1)
Survey	114	(1)
From Silences	115	(4)
Tillie Olsen
Harriet Jacobs and Feminist Criticism	119	(1)
Prereading Questions for ``I Stand Here Ironing''	119	(1)
Vocabulary Preview for ``I Stand Here Ironing''	119	(1)
``I Stand Here Ironing''	120	(8)
Feminism and Psychology	128	(1)
Chapter Review	129	(1)
AIDS: of Analysis a Quilt	129	(2)
``A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,''	131	(26)
Ernest Hemingway
Activities
Preview Questions for Existentialism	132	(1)
The Mahabharata and Existentialism	132	(1)
From The Myth of Sisyphus	133	(2)
Albert Camus
``A Clean, Well-Lighted Place''	135	(6)
Biblical Allusions	141	(1)
Worldviews	142	(1)
Universalizing Techniques: Setting	143	(1)
Universalizing Techniques: Characterization	144	(1)
Characterization Techniques Continued	144	(1)
Characterization and Hemingway's Writing Style	145	(1)
Characterization and Hemingway's Writing Style	145	(1)
Reader Response Criticism: Summary	145	(2)
Debate on Existentialism	147	(5)
Deconstructionism: Summary	152	(3)
Deconstructionism: Advertisements	155	(1)
Deconstructionism: The Bhagavad Gita	155	(1)
Deconstructionism: Language	156	(1)
Deconstructionism: The Myth of Sisyphus	156	(1)
Review of Existentialism	156	(1)
``Gimpel the Fool,''	157	(30)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Activities
Historical Background	158	(1)
Vocabulary: Historical Background	159	(1)
From Man's Search for Meaning	159	(6)
Viktor Frankl
Existentialism and the Freudian Approach: The Doctor and the Soul and Man's Search for Meaning	165	(1)
Deconstructionism	166	(1)
From Farewell to Reason	166	(1)
Paul Feyerabend
From The Story of English	167	(1)
William Cram
Robert MacNeil
Robert McCrum: Yinglish
Preview of Idioms in ``Gimpel the Fool''	168	(1)
Preview of Proverbs in ``Gimpel the Fool''	169	(1)
Prereading Activity for ``Gimpel the Fool''	170	(1)
``Gimpel the Fool''	170	(13)
Characterization	183	(1)
Setting	183	(1)
The World of the Story	183	(1)
Feminist Approach to Setting and Characterization	184	(1)
Freudian Approach: Characterization	184	(1)
Deconstructionism: Language	184	(1)
Existentialism: Characterization	184	(1)
From Inside the Third World	184	(1)
Paul Harrison
Review of 7.1	185	(1)
``Gimpel the Fool'' and the Fable	186	(1)
Thoughts on Literature	186	(1)
Thoughts on Literary Criticism	186	(1)
Using Source Materials and Critical Approaches to Write about Literature	187	(10)
Biographies	197	(22)
Answer Key	219