Literature : A Pocket Anthology

by Gwynn, R. S.

• ISBN13: 9780205655106
• ISBN10: 0205655106
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Always a good price with quality selections, theFourth Editionof Gwynn'sLiterature: A Pocket Anthology continues that tradition. Organized chronologically with a thematic appendix and streamlined apparatus, this anthology can be taylored to however the course is taught. Individual Fiction, Poetry, and Drama introductions provide an overview for reading and analyzing each genre, defining key terms in context. More than a third of the selections overall represent voices of women, people of color, and writers from cultures outside the United States, and a strong effort has been made to include work that reflects contemporary social questions and will stimulate classroom discussion. New poems, stories, and plays are among the changes to theFourth Edition.

Table of Contents

asterisks indicate selections new to this edition

Introduction

Experience, Experiment, Expand: Three Reasons to Study Literature

Fiction

Introduction to Fiction

The Telling of the Tale

The Short Story Genre

Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction

Nathanel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

The Minister's Black Veil

Ligeia

A White Heron

Mother Savage

The Story of an Hour

The Yellow Wallpaper

Roman Fever

Paul's Case

Araby

Sweat

A Rose for Emily

Up in Michigan

The Chrysanthemums

The Man Who Was Almost a Man

Reunion

A Party Down at the Square

The Lottery

Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)

Seventeen Syllables

Everything That Rises Must Converge

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Dead Men's Path

The Bear Came Over the Mountain

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Cathedral

Happy Endings

Shiloh

Everyday Use

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

Died and Gone to Vegas

Woman Hollering Creek

The Red Convertible

In the American Society

Orientation

Sherman AlexieThis Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, ArizonaPoetry

Introduction to Poetry

An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts

Speaker, Listener, and Context

"The Star-Spangled Banner"

Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic

The Language of Poetry

Figurative Language

Allegory and Symbol

Tone of Voice

Repetition: Sounds and Schemes

Meter and Rhythm

Free Verse and Open Form

Stanza Forms

Fixed Forms

Literary History and Poetic Conventions

Anonymous

Western Wind

Sir Patrick Spens

They Flee from MeWhoso List to Hunt

Amoretti: Sonnet 75

Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1

The Burning Babe

Idea: Sonnet 61

Sonnet 18Sonnet 20Sonnet 29Sonnet 73Sonnet 116Sonnet 130

When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)

There Is a Garden in Her Face

The FleaHoly Sonnet 10

Holy Sonnet 14

The Sun RisingA Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

On My First SonSlow, Slow, Fresh Fount

In this Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn

To the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeGeorg"

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