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Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing : Compact Edition : 1998 Mla Guidelines Included
by Roberts, Edgar V.; Jacobs, Henty E.; Jacobs, Henry E.Edition:
5th
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0130121231
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Summary
For Introduction to Literature; Freshman Composition, second semester, where the focus is on writing about literature. A brief, paperback version of the best-selling Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, this compact edition retains all of the outstanding features of the original text. Like the book on which it is based, it is dedicated throughout to the interlocking processes of reading and writing. In addition to carefully chosen literary selections, each chapter contains detailed information on and sample essays for writing about literature.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Reading, Responding To, and Writing about Literature | |
| Reading And Writing About Fiction | |
| Fiction: An Overview | |
| Stories for Study | |
| The Things They Carried | |
| Everyday Use | |
| Taking Care | |
| Plot and Structure: The Development and Organization of Stories Stories for Study | |
| The Blue Hotel | |
| A Worn Path | |
| Blue Winds Dancing | |
| Characters: The People in Fiction.Stories for Study | |
| Paul's Case | |
| Barn Burning | |
| A Jury of Her Peers | |
| Two Kinds | |
| Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Narrator or Speaker.Stories for Study | |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | |
| The Lottery | |
| Miss Brill | |
| How To Become A Writer. Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing | |
| A & P | |
| Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Stories | |
| Stories for Study | |
| The Story of an Hour | |
| And Sarah Laughed | |
| The Shawl | |
| The Cask of Amontillado | |
| Tone and Style: The Words That Convey Attitudes in Fiction | |
| Stories for Study | |
| Rape Fantasies | |
| Soldier's Home | |
| The Concert Stages of Europe | |
| The Found Boat | |
| First Confession | |
| Symbolism and Allegory: Keys to Extended Meaning | |
| Stories for Study | |
| The Fox and the Grapes | |
| Young Goodman Brown | |
| The Parable of the Prodigal Son | |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | |
| The Chrysanthemums | |
| The Thimble | |
| Idea or Theme: The Meaning and the Message in Fiction | |
| Stories for Study | |
| Araby | |
| The Horse Dealer's Daughter | |
| Home Soil | |
| Stories for Additional Study | |
| Snow | |
| Neighbors | |
| The Curse | |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
| The Loons | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
| Reading And Writing About Poetry | |
| Meeting Poetry: An Overview | |
| Schoolsville | |
| Here a Pretty Baby Lies | |
| Sir Patrick Spens | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| My Last Duchess | |
| Because I Could Not Stop for Death | |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
| The Man He Killed | |
| Eagle Poem | |
| Loveliest of Trees | |
| The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner | |
| Ogichidag | |
| Sonnet 55: Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments | |
| Words: The Building Blocks of Poetry | |
| The Naked and the Nude | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| The Lamb | |
| Green Grow the Rashes, O | |
| E.e. cummings, next to of course god america i | |
| Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God | |
| The Fury of Aerial Bombardment | |
| Sonnet on the Death of Richard West | |
| Hello, Hello Henry | |
| Ethics | |
| Naming of Parts | |
| Richard Cory | |
| Dolor | |
| I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great | |
| Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock | |
| Eating Poetry | |
| A Blessing | |
| Imagery: The Poem's Link to the Senses | |
| Cargoes | |
| Anthem for Doomed Youth | |
| The Fish | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| The Tyger | |
| Sonnets from the Portugese, No 14 | |
| The Pulley | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring | |
| A Time Past | |
| Photos of a Salt Mine | |
| In a Station of the Metro | |
| Sonnet 130: My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun | |
| It's Only Rock and Roll, but I Like It: The Fall of Saigon | |
| Rhetorical Figures: A Source of Depth and Range in Poetry | |
| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
| Bright Star | |
| Let Us Take the Road | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| Rain Towards Morning | |
| A Red, Red Rose | |
| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
| Harlem | |
| To Autumn | |
| Portrait of a Figure Near Water | |
| Exit, Pursued by a Bear | |
| A Work of Artifice | |
| Metaphors | |
| Looking at Each Other | |
| Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? | |
| Sonnet 30: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thoughts | |
| Facing West from California's Shores | |
| London, 1802 | |
| I Find No Peace | |
| Tone: The Creation of Attitude in Poetry | |
| The First-Rate Wife | |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
| The Workbox | |
| Epigram from the French | |
| Epigram, Engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to his Royal Highness | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| London | |
| The Author to Her Book | |
| Homage to my hips | |
| She being Brand/-new | |
| Theme for English B | |
| John while swimming in the ocean | |
| The Planned Child | |
| Late Movies with Skyler | |
| From Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I | |
| Poem | |
| My Papa's Waltz | |
| True Love | |
| My Physics Teacher | |
| Dimensions | |
| Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | |
| Prosody: Sound, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| We Real Cool | |
| To Hear an Oriole Sing | |
| The Sun Rising | |
| Macavity: The Mystery Cat | |
| Upon Julia's Voice | |
| God's Grandeur | |
| Let America Be America Again | |
| A Theory of Prosody | |
| The Bells | |
| Miniver Cheevy | |
| Sonnet 73: That Time of Year Thou May'st in Me Behold | |
| Ode to the West Wind | |
| From Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur | |
| March for a One-Man Band | |
| Daffodills (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) | |
| Form: The Shape of the Poem | |
| The Eagle | |
| Anonymous, Spun in High, Dark Clouds | |
| Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds | |
| Reconciliation | |
| Easter Wings | |
| Poems For Study | |
| Buffalo Bill's Defunct | |
| To the Memory of Mr. Oldham | |
| Desert Places | |
| A Supermarket in California | |
| Nikki-Rosa | |
| Museum | |
| Virtue | |
| Mantle | |
| Ode to a Nightingale | |
| To His Coy Mistress | |
| When I Consider How My Light is Spent | |
| Ballad of Birmingham | |
| A Christmas Carol | |
| Ozymandias | |
| Women | |
| Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night | |
| Reapers | |
| The Shape of History | |
| Poetics Against the Angel of Death | |
| The Dance | |
| The Solitary Reaper | |
| Symbolism and Allusion: Windows to a Wide Expanse of Meaning | |
| Snow | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| Dover Beach | |
| In Just- | |
| The Canonization | |
| The Geese | |
| The Collar | |
| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
| The Purse- Seine | |
| La Belle Dame Sans Merci | |
| Ode on a Grecian Urn. Carol Muske, Real Estate | |
| Wild Geese | |
| A Noiseless Patient Spider | |
| Lines Written in Early Spring | |
| The Second Coming | |
| Myth: Systems of Symbolic Allusion In Poetry | |
| Leda and the Swan | |
| Poems Related to Homer's Odyssey | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| Siren Song | |
| Odysseus | |
| Penelope | |
| Odyssey: 20 Years Later | |
| Poems About the Story of Icarus | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| Flight 063 | |
| Icarus | |
| Waiting for Icarus | |
| Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
| Poems Related to the Phoenix | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| Berceuse | |
| The Phoenix Again | |
| A Poem about Oedipus | |
| Poems for Study: | |
| Myth | |
| Two Poetic Careers: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost | |
| Poems by Emily Dickinson | |
| After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes (Poem 341) | |
| The Bustle in a House (Poem 1078) | |
| Faith Is a Fine Invention (Poem 185) | |
| The Heart Is the Capital of the Mind (Poem 1354) | |
| I Cannot Live with You (Poem 640) | |
| I Died for Beauty but Was Scarce (Poem 449) | |
| I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died (Poem 465) | |
| I Like to See It Lap the Miles (Poem 585) | |
| I'm Nobody! Who Are You (Poem 288)? | |
| I Never Felt at Home Below (Poem 413) | |
| I Never Lost as Much But Twice (Poem 49) | |
| I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed (Poem 214) | |
| Much Madness Is Divinest Sense (Poem 435) | |
| My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close (Poem 1732) | |
| My Triumph Lasted Till the Drums (Poem 1227) | |
| One Need Not Be a Chamber To Be Haunted (Poem 670) | |
| Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers (Poem 216) | |
| Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church (Poem 324) | |
| The Soul Selects Her Own Society (Poem 303) | |
| Success Is Counted Sweetest (Poem 67) | |
| There's a Certain Slant of Light (Poem 258) | |
| This World Is Not Conclusion (Poem 501) | |
| Wild Nights Wild Nights! (Poem 249) | |
| Poems by Robert Frost: A Line-Storm Song (Poem 1913) | |
| Mending Wall (Poem 1914) | |
| Birches (Poem 1915) | |
| The Road Not Taken (Poem 1915) | |
| 'Out, Out ' (Poem 1916) | |
| The Oven Bird (Poem 1916) | |
| Fire and Ice (Poem 1920) | |
| Nothing Gold Can Stay (Poem 1923) | |
| Misgiving (1923) | |
| Acquainted with the Night (Poem 1928) | |
| Design (Poem 1936) | |
| A Considerable Speck (Poem 1942) | |
| Poems for Additional Study | |
| My Arkansas | |
| Anonymous, Healing Prayer from the Beautyway Chant | |
| Variation on the Word Sleep | |
| The Unknown Citizen | |
| Ka 'Ba | |
| Things We Dreamt We Died For | |
| Can. Lit | |
| A Black Man Talks of Reaping | |
| To My Dear and Loving Husband | |
| In Memory of My Father: Australia | |
| Primer for Blacks | |
| Sonnetts from the Portuguese: No. 43: How Do I Love Thee? | |
| Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister | |
| The Destruction of Sennacherib | |
| This morning. the poet | |
| The killers that run.. | |
| Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind | |
| Yet Do I Marvel | |
| If there are any heavens | |
| The Lifeguard | |
| Holy Sonet 6: This Is My Play's Last Scene | |
| Holy Sonet 7: At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners | |
| Holy Sonet 10: Death Be Not Proud | |
| A Hynm to God the Father | |
| Song. (Go, And Catch a Falling Star | |
| Since There's No Help | |
| Sympathy | |
| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
| Because One Is Always Forgotten | |
| Woman | |
| Sonnet Ending with a Film Subtitle | |
| Snapshot of Hué | |
| Hamod Leaves | |
| She's Free! | |
| Called | |
| Spring Rain | |
| Those Winter Sundays | |
| The Otter | |
| The Hair: Jacob Korman's Story | |
| Advice to Young Ladies | |
| Pied Beauty | |
| Negro | |
| The Answer | |
| Haiku | |
| Woodchucks | |
| Rhine Boat Trip | |
| A Final Thing | |
| In Computers | |
| Every Traveler Has One Vermont Poem | |
| To Lucasta, Going to the Wars | |
| Patterns | |
| Dark Pines under Water | |
| The White City | |
| What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why | |
| Very Like a Whale | |
| Wahbegan | |
| Poem | |
| Ghosts | |
| A Story of How a Wall Stands | |
| Résumé | |
| Marks | |
| The Secretary Chant | |
| Last Words. Mirror | |
| Annabel Lee | |
| Archaeology | |
| The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter | |
| Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter | |
| Diving Into the Wreck | |
| The Waking | |
| Right on: white america | |
| Chicago | |
| Dreamers | |
| I Have a Rendezvous with Death | |
| Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun | |
| Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes | |
| Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, the Center of My Sinful Earth | |
| Auto Wreck | |
| Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer | |
| Bluejays | |
| Not Waving But Drowning | |
| These Trees Stand | |
| Lost Sister | |
| Oranges | |
| Traveling Through the Dark | |
| Burying an Animal on the Way to New York | |
| The Emperor of Ice-Cream | |
| The Blue Booby | |
| A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London | |
| Perfection Wasted | |
| The Boxes | |
| Revolutionary Petunias | |
| Go, Lovely Rose | |
| Heart of Autumn | |
| Song of Napalm | |
| On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
| Walt Whitman, Full of Life Now. Beat! Beat! Drums! Dirge for Two Veterans | |
| The Sirens | |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | |
| Sailing to Byzantium | |
| The Day Zimmer Lost Religion | |
| Reading And Writing About Drama | |
| The Dramatic Vision: An Overview | |
| Plays For Study: | |
| Trifles | |
| Mulatto | |
| Tea Party | |
| Before Breakfast | |
| The Tragic Vision: Affirmation Through Loss | |
| Sophocles | |
| Oedipus the King | |
| Hamlet | |
| The Comic Vision: Restoring the Balance | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| The Bear | |
| Am I Blue | |
| Plays for Additional Study | |
| A Dollhouse | |
| Death of a Salesman | |
| The Glass Menagerie | |
| Special Writing Topics About Literature | |
| Writing and Documenting the Research Essay | |
| Critical Approaches Important in the Study of Literature | |
| Taking Examinations on Literature | |
| Comparison-Contrast and Extended Comparison-Contrast: Learning by Seeing Literary Works Together | |
| Appendix: Brief Biographies of the Poets in Part III | |
| Glossary of Literary Terms | |
| Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines | |
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