Literature Across Cultures

by Gillespie, Sheena; Fonseca, Terezinha; Pipolo, Anthony P.

• ISBN13: 9780321172082
• ISBN10: 0321172086
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

With classic and contemporary selections by authors from a wide range of racial and ethnic groups, "Literature Across Cultures, 5/e" introduces the reader to important literary works and helps readers explore critical themes of our times, such as gender and identity, the effects of war and violence, and many more. The 5th edition focuses on the political, social, and multicultural aspects of literary debates related to the dialectics of roots and rebellions, self and society, gender and identity, the causes and effects of war and violence as well as issues of class, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. These features have brilliantly distinguished this volume from other thematic volumes. "Literature Across Cultures, 5/e "Includes both classical and contemporary writers from diverse ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	xv
Preface for Students	xxi
Introduction Reading and Writing as a Social Act	1	(1)
The Meaning of Literature	2	(1)
The Function of Literature	3	(1)
Strategies for Reading Literature	3	(8)
Step 1: Previewing	4	(1)
Step 2: Highlighting	4	(1)
Step 3: Annotating	4	(1)
Guided Reading: Kate Chopin, ``The Story of an Hour''	5	(6)
Strategies for Writing About Literature	11	(17)
Sample Reading: Sherwood Anderson, ``Hands''	13	(4)
Step 1: Generating Ideas	17	(1)
Brainstorming	17	(1)
Freewriting	17	(1)
Clustering	18	(1)
Developing a Rough Outline	18	(1)
Step 2: Finding a Thesis	19	(1)
Step 3: Organizing the Essay: A Formal Outline	20	(2)
Step 4: Writing a Rough Draft with Peer Editing	22	(2)
Peer Editing Evaluation Form	24	(1)
Step 5: Revising	25	(3)
Strategies for Revising the Draft	28	(2)
Step 1: Responding to Content and Organization	28	(1)
Step 2: Developing Paragraphs	28	(1)
Step 3: Checking for Purpose, Audience, and Tone	29	(1)
Step 4: Using Effective Language, Style, and Verbs	29	(1)
Strategies for Preparing the Final Draft	30	(7)
Writing the Final Draft	30	(7)
PART ONE Origins and Insights	37	(272)
Fiction
And the Soul Shall Dance	41	(6)
Wakako Yamauchi
Roman Fever	47	(9)
Edith Wharton
First Confession	56	(7)
Frank O'Connor
Father and I	63	(3)
Par Lagerkvist
The Watch	66	(4)
Elie Wiesel
The Sky Is Gray	70	(21)
Ernest J. Gaines
Young Goodman Brown	91	(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Essays
My People	102	(3)
Chief Seattle
The Allegory of the Cave	105	(2)
Plato
Fraternity	107	(6)
Garrett Hongo
From Imaginary Homelands	113	(4)
Salman Rushdie
Poetry
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	117	(1)
Langston Hughes
First Light	117	(1)
Linda Hogan
warm heart contains life	118	(3)
Evangelina Vigil-Pinon
The Lamb	121	(1)
William Blake
The Tyger	121	(2)
William Blake
In the Tree House at Night	123	(1)
James Dickey
Mid-term Break	124	(3)
Seamus Heaney
During a Son's Dangerous Illness	127	(1)
Denise Levertov
Lost Sister	128	(3)
Cathy Song
The Possessive	131	(1)
Sharon Olds
Breaking Tradition	132	(1)
Janice Mirikitani
A Breeze Swept Through	133	(2)
Luci Tapahonso
Fern Hill	135	(1)
Dylan Thomas
If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness	136	(2)
Richard Eberhart
Poem for My Father	138	(1)
Eric Chock
The Gift	139	(1)
Li-Young Lee
Fishermen	140	(2)
James A. Emanuel
Frederick Douglass	142	(1)
Robert Hayden
Tour 5	142	(1)
Robert Hayden
Those Winter Sundays	143	(1)
Robert Hayden
Runagate Runagate	144	(4)
Robert Hayden
Drama
Oedipus Rex	148	(43)
Sophocles
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	191	(118)
William Shakespeare
Topics for Discussion and Writing	300	(2)
Film Angles	302	(7)
PART TWO Gender and Identity	309	(150)
Fiction
Girl	313	(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Revolt of ``Mother''	315	(12)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
A Respectable Woman	327	(3)
Kate Chopin
The Storm	330	(4)
Kate Chopin
Roselily	334	(4)
Alice Walker
The Yellow Wallpaper	338	(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Another Evening at the Club	350	(5)
Alifa Rifaat
Town and Country Lovers	355	(14)
Nadine Gordimer
Essays
Professions for Women	369	(4)
Virginia Woolf
One Man's Kids	373	(3)
Daniel Meier
The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship	376	(6)
Peter Lyman
Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?	382	(6)
Deborah Tannen
Poetry
Woman's Constancy	388	(1)
John Donne
The Sun Rising	389	(2)
John Donne
For My Lover, Returning to His Wife	391	(1)
Anne Sexton
Adultery	392	(3)
James Dickey
The Faithful Wife	395	(1)
Barbara L. Greenberg
Genesis	395	(3)
Mahwash Shoaib
Ragazza	398	(1)
Maryfrances Wagner
Borders	399	(1)
Pat Mora
Home Burial	400	(5)
Robert Frost
The Harlem Dancer	405	(1)
Claude McKay
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed	405	(2)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Colours	407	(1)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I Knew a Woman	407	(3)
Theodore Roethke
My Last Duchess	410	(1)
Robert Browning
My Ex-Husband	411	(3)
Gabriel Spera
To His Coy Mistress	414	(1)
Andrew Marvell
The Willing Mistress	415	(2)
Aphra Behn
Bright Star	417	(1)
John Keats
She Proves the Inconsistency of the Desires and Criticism of Men Who Accuse Women of What they Themselves Cause	417	(4)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Sonnet 30 ``When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought''	421	(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 ``Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds''	421	(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 129 ``Th' Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame''	422	(1)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 ``My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun''	422	(2)
William Shakespeare
Drama
Medea	424	(35)
Euripides
Topics for Discussion and Writing	449	(2)
Film Angles	451	(8)
PART THREE War and Violence	459	(128)
Fiction
A Mystery of Heroism	463	(7)
Stephen Crane
The Sniper	470	(3)
Liam O'Flaherty
Silence	473	(2)
Tadeusz Borowski
The Curse	475	(5)
Andre Dubus
The Things They Carried	480	(13)
Tim O'Brien
Like a Winding Sheet	493	(9)
Ann Petry
Essays
A Brother's Murder	502	(2)
Brent Staples
Vietnam: What I Remember	504	(2)
David W. Powell
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts	506	(3)
Bruce Catton
Not Just the Inner City: Well-to-Do Join Gangs	509	(5)
Seth Mydans
Poetry
Reflection on the Vietnam War Memorial	514	(1)
Jeffrey Harrison
Facing It	515	(2)
Yusef Komunyakaa
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	517	(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Man He Killed	517	(2)
Thomas Hardy
What Were They Like?	519	(1)
Denise Levertov
Babiy Yar	520	(3)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Prisons of Silence	523	(3)
Janice Mirikitani
Disabled	526	(3)
Wilfred Owen
Waking This Morning	529	(1)
Muriel Rukeyser
The Dying Veteran	530	(1)
Walt Whitman
The Artilleryman's Vision	530	(3)
Walt Whitman
Concord Hymn	533	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Charge of the Light Brigade	533	(3)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Idle Hands	536	(1)
Gabriel Spera
Kindness	537	(2)
Gabriel Spera
The Colonel	539	(1)
Carolyn Forche
The Visitor	539	(1)
Carolyn Forche
The Memory of Elena	540	(1)
Carolyn Forche
As Children Together	541	(3)
Carolyn Forche
Drama
Picnic on the Battlefield	544	(12)
Fernando Arrabal
The Conduct of Life	556	(31)
Maria Irene Fornes
Topics for Discussion and Writing	576	(2)
Film Angles	578	(9)
PART FOUR Race and Difference	587	(226)
Fiction
The Moment Before the Gun Went Off	591	(4)
Nadine Gordimer
The Smells of Home	595	(5)
Sandip Roy
The Lesson	600	(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
I Stand Here Ironing	606	(7)
Tillie Olsen
Jasmine	613	(8)
Bharati Mukherjee
Desiree's Baby	621	(5)
Kate Chopin
Essays
Silent Dancing	626	(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
How I Learned to Read and Write	633	(4)
Frederick Douglass
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir	637	(6)
Paul Monette
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream	643	(8)
Eric Liu
Poetry
I Hear America Singing	651	(1)
Walt Whitman
Poet Power	651	(2)
Denise Levertov
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways	653	(1)
Louise Erdrich
Public School No. 18: Paterson, New Jersey	654	(2)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
The Weary Blues	656	(1)
Langston Hughes
Dream Variations	657	(1)
Langston Hughes
Harlem (A Dream Deferred)	657	(2)
Langston Hughes
Telephone Conversation	659	(1)
Wole Soyinka
On the Subway	660	(2)
Sharon Olds
Chinese Fireworks Banned in Hawaii	662	(1)
Eric Chock
Latero Story	663	(1)
Tato Laviera
AIDS	664	(3)
May Sarton
How to Watch Your Brother Die	667	(4)
Michael Lassell
Cross Plains, Wisconsin	671	(1)
Martin Espada
Federico's Ghost	671	(2)
Martin Espada
Tony Went to the Bodega but He Didn't Buy Anything	673	(2)
Martin Espada
Drama
Othello, the Moor of Venice	675	(89)
William Shakespeare
Kiss of the Spider Woman	764	(49)
Manuel Puig
Topics for Discussion and Writing	800	(3)
Film Angles	803	(10)
PART FIVE Individualism and Community	813	(212)
Fiction
The Lottery	817	(7)
Shirley Jackson
The Metamorphosis	824	(32)
Franz Kafka
Eveline	856	(4)
James Joyce
The Boarding House	860	(5)
James Joyce
A Rose for Emily	865	(7)
William Faulkner
The Guest	872	(10)
Albert Camus
Dead Men's Path	882	(13)
Chinua Achebe
Essays
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life	895	(1)
May Sarton
The Declaration of Independence	896
Thomas Jefferson
I Have a Dream	890	(3)
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Nobel Lecture in Literature	893	(7)
Toni Morrison
Poetry
A Blessing	900	(1)
James Wright
Danse Russe	901	(2)
William Carlos Williams
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls	903	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	903	(2)
Wallace Stevens
What Is the Grass?	905	(1)
Walt Whitman
Ozymandias	906	(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
London	908	(1)
William Blake
London, 1802	908	(1)
William Wordsworth
The World Is Too Much with Us	909	(2)
William Wordsworth
People	911	(1)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Street Kid	912	(2)
Duane Niatum
Summer Solstice, New York City	914	(1)
Sharon Olds
What the Gossips Saw	915	(2)
Leo Romero
Constantly Risking Absurdity	917	(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Writer	918	(2)
Richard Wilbur
Volcanoes be in Sicily	920	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Soul selects her own society---	920	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Much madness is divinest sense---	921	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---	921	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Drama
Antigone	923	(30)
Sophocles
Tartuffe	953	(72)
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Topics for Discussion and Writing	1017	(2)
Film Angles	1019	(6)
APPENDIX A An Introduction to the Elements of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Drama	1025	(20)
Fiction	1025	(4)
Character	1025	(1)
Plot	1026	(1)
Setting	1027	(1)
Theme	1027	(1)
Narrator	1027	(1)
Style and Tone	1028	(1)
Creative or Literary Nonfiction: The Essay	1029	(3)
Form	130	(900)
Narrative	1030	(1)
Descriptive	1031	(1)
Expository	1031	(1)
Argumentative	1031	(1)
Rhetorical Strategies	1032	(1)
Poetry	1032	(4)
Voice and Tone	1033	(1)
The Poetic Elements: Image, Simile, Metaphor, Symbol, Personification, Paradox	1033	(1)
Types of Poetry: Lyric, Dramatic, and Narrative	1034	(1)
The Forms of Poetry	1034	(2)
Poetry as Performance: The Sounds of Poetry	1036	(1)
Drama	1036	(6)
The Basic Elements of Drama	1037	(1)
Characterization	1037	(1)
Plot	1037	(1)
Theme	1038	(1)
Types of Plays: Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragicomedy	1038	(1)
Kinds of Theater	1039	(3)
Fiction, Poetry, and Drama as Cultural Productions	1042	(3)
APPENDIX B Writing a Research Paper	1045	(32)
What is a Literary Research Paper?	1045	(1)
What Are Primary and Secondary Sources?	1045	(1)
Locating Materials	1046	(1)
How to Choose a Topic	1046	(1)
What is Literary Criticism?	1046	(1)
Engaging in a Dialogue	1047	(1)
Drafting the Paper	1048	(2)
The ``Formula'' for a Literary Research Paper	1048	(1)
Taking Notes During the Research Process	1049	(1)
Organizing Your Information	1049	(1)
How to Document Using the MLA Format	1050	(8)
Direct Quotation	1051	(1)
Signal Phrases	1051	(1)
Short Quotations	1052	(1)
Long Quotations	1052	(1)
Quoting from a Poem	1053	(1)
Quoting from a Play	1053	(2)
Indirect Quotation: Paraphrasing	1055	(1)
List of Works Cited	1055	(1)
Print and Nonprint Sources	1056	(1)
Electronic Sources	1056	(2)
Revising and Rewriting	1058	(19)
Presenting Your Research Paper	1059	(1)
Sample Research Papers	1060	(17)
APPENDIX C Researching Literary Sources	1077	(10)
Research Resources	1078	(5)
Reference Works	1079	(1)
Electronic Databases	1080	(1)
Online Sources	1080	(1)
The Reliability of Web-Based Information	1080	(1)
Searching Online Sources	1081	(1)
Online Encyclopedias	1081	(1)
Online Literary Texts	1082	(1)
Literary Criticism Research Sites	1082	(1)
Author-Based Sites	1082	(1)
Other Online Sources	1083	(1)
Resource Guidelines	1083	(1)
Sample Research: James Joyce	1083	(4)
Online Library Catalog	1083	(1)
Author Search	1084	(1)
Keyword Search	1084	(1)
Electronic Databases and Subscription Services	1084	(1)
Online Searches	1084	(3)
APPENDIX D Critical Approaches: A Case Study of Hamlet	1087	(14)
Psychoanalytic Criticism	1087	(5)
What Is the Focus of Psychoanalytic Criticism?	1087	(1)
Freud's Theory of Repression	1088	(1)
The Oedipus Complex	1088	(1)
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Hamlet	1088	(1)
The Interpretation of Dreams	1088	(1)
Sigmund Freud
A Psychosocial Reading of Hamlet	1089	(1)
The Women in Hamlet: An Interpersonal View	1090	(1)
David Leverenz
Reading Contexts	1091	(1)
Psychoanalytic Criticism	1091	(1)
Formalism/New Criticism	1092	(2)
What Is the Focus of Formalism?	1092	(1)
A New Critical Reading of Hamlet	1092	(1)
Hamlet and His Problems	1093	(1)
T. S. Eliot
Reading Contexts	1093	(1)
Formalism/New Criticism	1093	(1)
Reader-Response Criticism	1094	(2)
What Is the Focus of Reader-Response Criticism?	1094	(1)
A Reader-Response Analysis of Hamlet	1094	(1)
On the Value of Hamlet	1094	(1)
Stephen Booth
Reading Contexts	1095	(1)
Reader Response Criticism	1095	(1)
Feminist Criticism	1096	(2)
What is the Focus of Feminist Criticism?	1096	(1)
A Feminist Reading of Hamlet	1096	(1)
Dominated Daughters	1097	(1)
Diane Elizabeth Dreher
Reading Contexts	1097	(1)
Feminist Literary Criticism	1098	(1)
The New Historicism	1098	(3)
What Is the Focus of the New Historicism?	1098	(1)
A New Historical Reading of Hamlet	1098	(1)
Power in Hamlet	1099	(1)
Leonard Tennenhouse
Reading Contexts	1099	(1)
The New Historicism	1100	(1)
Biographical Endnotes	1101	(30)
Glossary	1131	(16)
Index of Authors and Titles	1147	(8)
Index of First Lines	1155	(2)
Index of Terms	1157