Literature: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series)

by Gwynn, R. S.

• ISBN13: 9780321366290
• ISBN10: 0321366298
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

A refreshing alternative to voluminous literature anthologies, this compact, inexpensive, and diverse collection of fiction, poetry, and drama provides a concise yet complete introduction to the study of literature.Organized chronologically within each genre, the wide range of selections features both classic and contemporary authors, presenting a diversity of forms and voices. Individual Fiction, Poetry, and Drama introductions provide an overview for reading and analyzing each genre, defining key terms in context. Biographical headnotes highlight common themes and ideas in the authorrs"s body of work. Individuals who want a brief overview of the 3 literary genres.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxvii
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE	1	(6)
Experience, Experiment, Expand: Three Reasons to Study Literature	1	(6)
Experience	2	(1)
Experiment	3	(1)
Expand	3	(4)
Fiction
INTRODUCTION TO FICTION	7	(19)
The Telling of the Tale	7	(2)
The Short Story Genre	9	(3)
Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction	12	(14)
Plot	12	(5)
Characterization	17	(2)
Point of View	19	(2)
Theme	21	(1)
Setting	22	(1)
Style, Tone, and Symbolism	23	(3)
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864)
Young Goodman Brown	26	(12)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
The Tell-Tale Heart	38	(5)
SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909)
A White Heron	43	(9)
GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-1893)
Mother Savage	52	(7)
KATE CHOPIN (1851-1904)
The Story of an Hour	59	(3)
ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904)
The Lady with the Pet Dog	62	(15)
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILIVIAN (1860-1935)
The Yellow Wallpaper	77	(15)
EDITH WHARTON (1862-1937)
Roman Fever	92	(12)
WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)
Paul's Case	104	(19)
JAMES JOYCE (1882-1941)
Araby	123	(6)
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall	129	(9)
ZORA NEALE HURSTON (1891-1960)
Sweat	138	(11)
WILLIAM FAULKNER (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emily	149	(9)
JORGE LUIS BORGES (1899-1986)
The Secret Miracle	158	(7)
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899-1961)
Hills Like White Elephants	165	(5)
JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968)
The Chrysanthemums	170	(10)
RICHARD WRIGHT (1908-1960)
The Man Who Was Almost a Man	180	(11)
JOHN CHEEVER (1912-1982)
Reunion	191	(4)
ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960)
The Guest	195	(12)
RALPH ELLISON (1914-1995)
A Party Down at the Square	207	(6)
SHIRLEY JACKSON (1919-1965)
The Lottery	213	(9)
FLANNERY O'CONNOR (1925-1964)
Good Country People	222	(18)
GABRIEL GARCIA MÁRQUEZ (b. 1928)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	240	(7)
CHINUA ACHEBE (b. 1930)
Dead Men's Path	247	(3)
ALICE MUNRO (b. 1931)
How I Met My Husband	250	(16)
JOHN UPDIKE (b. 1932)
A&P	266	(6)
RAYMOND CARVER (1938-1988)
Cathedral	272	(14)
JOYCE CAROL OATES (b. 1938)
Where Are You Going,Where Have You Been?	286	(16)
MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939)
Happy Endings	302	(4)
BOBBIE ANN MASON (b. 1940)
Shiloh	306	(13)
ALICE WALKER (b. 1944)
Everyday Use	319	(8)
TIM GAUTREAUX (b. 1947)
Died and Gone to Vegas	327	(16)
SANDRA CISNEROS (b. 1954)
Woman Hollering Creek	343	(11)
LOUISE ERDRICH (b. 1954)
The Red Convertible	354	(9)
GISH JEN (b. 1955)
In the American Society	363	(14)
DANIEL OROZCO (b. 1957)
Orientation	377	(8)
Poetry
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY	385	(41)
An Anecdote: Where Poetry Starts	385	(1)
Speaker, Listener, and Context	386	(2)
The Star-Spangled Banner	388	(4)
Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic	392	(3)
The Language of Poetry	395	(6)
Figurative Language	401	(4)
Allegory and Symbol	405	(3)
Tone of Voice	408	(2)
Repetition: Sounds and Schemes	410	(2)
Meter and Rhythm	412	(5)
Free Verse, Open Form, and Closed Form	417	(2)
Stanza Forms	419	(1)
Fixed Forms	420	(2)
Literary History and Poetic Conventions	422	(4)
ANONYMOUS
Western Wind	426	(1)
Bonny Barbara Allan	426	(1)
Sir Patrick Spens	427	(2)
SIR THOMAS WYATT (1503?-1542)
They Flee from Me	429	(1)
Whoso List to Hunt	430	(1)
EDMUND SPENSER (1552-1599)
Amoretti: Sonnet 75	430	(1)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (1554-1586)
Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet 1	431	(1)
ROBERT SOUTHWELL (1561?-1595)
The Burning Babe	432	(1)
MICHAEL DRAYTON (1563-1631)
Idea: Sonnet 61	433	(1)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
Sonnet 18	434	(1)
Sonnet 20	435	(1)
Sonnet 29	435	(1)
Sonnet 73	436	(1)
Sonnet 116	436	(1)
Sonnet 130	437	(1)
When Daisies Pied (Spring and Winter)	437	(2)
THOMAS CAMPION (1567-1620)
There Is a Garden in Her Face	439	(1)
JOHN DONNE (1572-1631)
The Flea	440	(1)
Holy Sonnet 10	441	(1)
Holy Sonnet 14	441	(1)
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	442	(1)
BEN JONSON (1573-1637)
On My First Son	443	(1)
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount	444	(1)
MARY WROTH (1587?-1651?)
In This Strange Labyrinth How Shall I Turn	445	(1)
ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674)
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	446	(1)
GEORGE HERBERT (1593-1633)
Easter Wings	447	(1)
Love (III)	448	(1)
The Pulley	448	(1)
Redemption	449	(1)
EDMUND WALLER (1606-1687)
Song	450	(1)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
How Soon Hath Time	451	(1)
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont	451	(1)
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	452	(1)
ANNE BRADSTREET (1612-1672)
The Author to Her Book	453	(1)
RICHARD LOVELACE (1618-1658)
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars	454	(1)
ANDREW MARVELL (1621-1678)
To His Coy Mistress	455	(2)
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham	457	(1)
EDWARD TAYLOR (1642-1729)
Huswifery	458	(1)
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)
A Description of a City Shower	459	(2)
ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
from An Essay on Criticism	461	(2)
Ode on Solitude	463	(1)
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	464	(4)
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper	468	(1)
The Little Black Boy	469	(1)
A Poison Tree	470	(1)
The Tyger	470	(1)
ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)
A Red, Red Rose	471	(1)
John Barleycorn	472	(2)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud	474	(1)
It Is a Beauteous Erening	475	(1)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality	475	(7)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
Frost at Midnight	482	(2)
Kubla Khan	484	(2)
Work Wlthout Hope	486	(1)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty	486	(1)
Stanzas	487	(1)
When We Two Parted	487	(2)
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
Ode to the West Wind	489	(2)
Ozymandias	491	(1)
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878)
To the Fringed Gentian	492	(1)
JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
La Belle Dame sans Merci	493	(2)
Ode to a Nightingale	495	(2)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	497	(1)
When I Have Fears	498	(1)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
Sonnets from the Portuguese, 18	499	(1)
Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43	499	(1)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
The Arsenal at Springfield	500	(2)
The Cross of Snow	502	(1)
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
The Haunted Palace	502	(2)
The Raven	504	(3)
To Helen	507	(1)
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892)
The Eagle	508	(1)
The Lady of Shalott	509	(4)
Tears, Idle Tears	513	(1)
Ulysses	514	(2)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess	516	(2)
Porphyria's Lover	518	(2)
WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892)
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	520	(6)
A Noiseless Patient Spider	526	(1)
O Captain! My Captain!	526	(1)
Song of Myself 6	527	(1)
Song of Myself 11	528	(1)
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	529	(1)
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)
Dover Beach	530	(1)
EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes	531	(1)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death	532	(1)
The Brain Is Wider than the Sky	533	(1)
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass	533	(1)
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church	534	(1)
The Soul Selects Her Own Society	535	(1)
Tell All the Truth, but Tell It Slant	535	(1)
Wild Nights-Wild Nights!	536	(1)
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
Up-Hill	536	(1)
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?	537	(1)
Neutral Tones	538	(1)
The Ruined Maid	539	(1)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
God's Grandeur	540	(1)
Pied Beauty	540	(1)
Spring and Fall: To a Young Child	541	(1)
EMMA LAZARUS (1849-1887)
The New Colossus	542	(1)
A.E. HOUSMAN (1859-1936)
Eight O'Clock	543	(1)
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now	543	(1)
Stars, I Have Seen Them Fall	544	(1)
"Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff..."	544	(3)
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	547	(1)
Leda and the Swan	547	(1)
Sailing to Byzantium	548	(1)
The Second Coming	549	(1)
The Song of Wandering Aengus	550	(1)
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
Firelight	551	(1)
The Mill	551	(1)
Richard Cory	552	(1)
STEPHEN CRANE (1871-1900)
The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers	553	(1)
The Wayfarer	554	(1)
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask	555	(1)
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
Acquainted with the Night	556	(1)
After Apple-Picking	557	(1)
Design	558	(1)
Home Burial	558	(4)
The Road Not Taken	562	(1)
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	562	(1)
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (1878-1914) Amaze	563	(1)
Languor after Pain 563 Trapped	564	(1)
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
Anecdote of the Jar	564	(1)
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock	565	(1)
The Emperor of Ice-Cream	565	(1)
The Snow Man	566	(1)
Sunday Morning	566	(4)
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
The Last Words of My English Grandmother	570	(2)
The Red Wheelbarrow	572	(1)
Spring and All	572	(1)
This Is Just to Say	573	(1)
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro	574	(1)
Portrait d'une Femme	574	(1)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	575	(1)
ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)
Let No Charitable Hope	576	(1)
Ophelia	577	(1)
H.D. (HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886-1961)
Pear Tree	578	(1)
Sea Rose	578	(1)
SIEGFRIED SASSOON (1886-1967)
Dreamers	579	(1)
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
The Purse-Seine	580	(2)
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
The Fish	582	(1)
Silence	583	(1)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
Journey of the Magi	584	(1)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	585	(5)
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
Piazza Piece	590	(1)
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
If I Should Learn, in Some Quite Casual Way	591	(1)
Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for that Word	591	(1)
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why	592	(1)
WILFRED OWEN (1893-1918)
Dulce et Decorum Est	593	(1)
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
nobody loses all the time	594	(1)
pity this busy monstermanunkind	595	(1)
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	596	(1)
JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)
Georgia Dusk	597	(1)
LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)
Women	598	(1)
HART CRANE (1899-1933)
Chaplinesque	599	(1)
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
Dream Boogie	600	(1)
Theme for English B	601	(1)
The Weary Blues	602	(1)
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
Incident	603	(1)
Yet Do I Marvel	604	(1)
A.D. HOPE (1907-2000)
Imperial Adam	604	(2)
W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
As I Walked Out One Evening	606	(2)
Musée des Beaux Arts	608	(1)
The Unknown Citizen	609	(1)
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
Dolor	610	(1)
My Papa's Waltz	610	(1)
Root Cellar	611	(1)
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
The Fish	611	(3)
One Art	614	(1)
Sestina	614	(2)
ROBERT HAYDEN (1913-1980)
Those Winter Sundays	616	(1)
DUDLEY RANDALL (1914-2000)
Ballad of Birmingham	617	(1)
WILLIAM STAFFORD (1914-1993)
Traveling Through the Dark	618	(1)
DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953)
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	619	(1)
Poem in October	620	(2)
WELDON KEES (1914-1955)
For My Daughter	622	(1)
RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)
90 North	623	(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	624	(1)
MARGARET WALKER (1915-1998)
For Malcolm X	625	(1)
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)
the ballad of chocolate Mabbie	626	(1)
the mother	627	(1)
We Real Cool	628	(1)
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
For the Union Dead	629	(2)
LAWRENCE FERLINGHEM (b. 1919)
A Coney Island of the Mind, #15	631	(2)
MAY SWENSON (1919-1989)
How Everything Happens	633	(1)
HOWARD NEMEROV (1920-1991)
A Primer of the Daily Round	634	(1)
RICHARD WILBUR (b. 1921)
Playboy	635	(1)
The Writer	636	(1)
Year's End	637	(1)
PHILIP LARKIN (1922-1985)
Next, Please	638	(1)
Aubade	639	(1)
This Be the Verse	640	(1)
JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)
The Heaven of Animals	641	(2)
ALAN DUGAN (1923-2003)
Love Song: I and Thou	643	(1)
ANTHONY HECHT (1923-2004)
The Book of Yolek	644	(1)
Third Avenue in Sunlight	645	(1)
DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)
The Ache of Marriage	646	(1)
LOUIS SIMPSON (b. 1923)
American Classic	647	(1)
My Father in the Night Commanding No	648	(2)
VASSAR MILLER (1924-1997)
Subterfuge	650	(1)
DONALD JUSTICE (1925-2004)
Counting the Mad	651	(1)
CAROLYN KIZER (b. 1925)
The Ungrateful Garden	652	(1)
MAXINE KUMIN (b. 1925)
Noted in the New York Times	653	(1)
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
A Supermarket in California	654	(1)
JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)
Casual Wear	655	(1)
W.D. SNODGRASS (b. 1926)
Mementos, I	656	(1)
FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)
The Day Lady Died	657	(1)
JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape	658	(2)
Paradoxes and Oxymorons	660	(1)
W.S. MERWIN (b. 1927)
For the Anniversary of My Death	661	(1)
The Last One	661	(2)
JAMES WRIGHT (1927-1980)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio	663	(1)
Saint Judas	664	(1)
PHILIP LEVINE (b. 1928)
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives	665	(1)
You Can Have It	666	(1)
ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)
Cinderella	667	(3)
The Truth the Dead Know	670	(1)
THOM GUNN (1929-2004)
From the Wave	671	(1)
Terminal	672	(1)
X.J. KENNEDY (b. 1929)
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day	673	(1)
September Twelfth, 2001	674	(1)
ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	675	(3)
Diving into the Wreck 675 Rape	678	(1)
TED HUGHES (1930-1998)
Pike	679	(2)
GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)
A Walk	681	(1)
DEREK WALcorr (b. 1930)
Central America	682	(1)
MILLER WILLIAMS (b. 1930)
The Book	683	(1)
LINDA PASTAN (b. 1932)
Ethics	684	(1)
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
Daddy	685	(2)
Edge	687	(1)
Metaphors	688	(1)
GERALD BARRAX (b. 1933)
Strangers Like Us: Pittsburgh, Raleigh, 1945-1985	689	(1)
MARK STRAND (b. 1934)
The Tunnel	690	(1)
RUSSELL EDSON (b. 1935)
Ape	691	(2)
MARY OLIVER (b. 1935)
The Black Walnut Tree	693	(1)
FRED CHAPPELL (b. 1936)
Narcissus and Echo	694	(1)
LUCILLE CLIFTON (b. 1936)
homage to my hips	695	(1)
wishes for sons	695	(1)
MARGE PIERCY (b. 1936)
What's That Smell in the Kitchen?	696	(1)
BETTY ADCOCK (b. 1938)
Voyages	697	(2)
GARY GILDNER (b. 1938)
First Practice	699	(1)
ROBERT PHILLIPS (b. 1938)
Compartments	700	(2)
DABNEY STUART (b. 1938)
Discovering My Daughter	702	(1)
MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939)
Siren Song	703	(1)
STEPHEN DUNN (b. 1939)
The Sacred	704	(1)
SEAMUS HEANEY (b. 1939)
Punishment	705	(2)
TED KOOSER (b. 1939)
Abandoned Farmhouse	707	(1)
TOM DISCH (b. 1940)
Ballade of the New God	708	(1)
FLORENCE CASSEN MAYERS (b. 1940)
All-American Sestina	709	(1)
PATTIANN ROGERS (b. 1940)
Foreplay	710	(2)
BILLY COLLINS (b. 1941)
Litany	712	(1)
ROBERT HASS (B. 1941)
Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan	713	(1)
SIMON J. ORTIZ (3. 1941)
The Serenity in Stones	714	(1)
GIBBONS MARK (b. 1941)
The Visitor	715	(1)
GLADYS CARDIFF (b. 1942)
Combing	716	(1)
B.H. FAIRCHILD (b. 1942)
Body and Soul	717	(4)
CHARLES MARTIN (b. 1942)
E.S.L.	721	(2)
SHARON OLDS (b. 1942)
The One Girl at the Boys Party	723	(1)
DIANE LOCKWARD (b. 1943)
My Husband Discovers Poetry	724	(2)
ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT (b. 1943)
Daughter	726	(1)
ROBERT MORGAN (b. 1944)
Mountain Bride	727	(1)
CRAIG RAINE (b. 1944)
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home	728	(2)
ENID SHOMER (b. 1944)
Women Bathing at Bergen-Belsen	730	(1)
WENDY COPE (b. 1945)
Rondeau Redouble	731	(1)
DICK DAVIS (b. 1945)
A Monorhyme for the Shower	732	(1)
KAY RYAN (b. 1945)
Bestiary	733	(1)
LEON STOKESBIIRY (b. 1945)
The Day Kennedy Died	734	(2)
MARILYN NELSON (b. 1946)
The Ballad of Aunt Geneva	736	(1)
AI (b. 1947)
Child Beater	737	(1)
JIM HALL (b. 1947)
Maybe Dats Your Pwoblein Too	738	(2)
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b.1947)
Facing It	740	(1)
TIMOTHY STEELE (b. 1948)
Sapphics Against Anger	741	(1)
JAMES FENTON (b. 1949)
God, a Poem	742	(1)
SARAH CORTEZ (b. 1950)
Tu Negrito	743	(1)
CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950)
The Colonel	744	(1)
DANA GIOIA (b. 1950)
Planting a Sequoia	745	(2)
RODNEY JONES (b. 1950)
Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.	747	(2)
TIMOTHY MURPHY (b. 1951)
Case Notes	749	(1)
JOY HARJO (b. 1951)
She Had Some Horses	750	(2)
ANDREW HUDGINS (b. 1951)
Air View of an Industrial Scene	752	(1)
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (b. 1952)
The Latin Deli:An Ars Poetica	753	(1)
RITA DOVE (b. 1952)
Adolescence—III	754	(1)
MARK JARMAN (b. 1952)
After Disappointment	755	(1)
JULIE KANE (b. 1952)
Alan Doll Rap	756	(2)
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE (b. 1952)
The Traveling Onion	758	(1)
ALBERTO RIOS (b. 1952)
The Purpose of Altar Boys	759	(2)
JULIA ALVAREZ (b. 1953)
Bilingual Sestina	761	(1)
HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953)
Dim Lady	762	(1)
MICHAEL DONAGHY (1954-2004)
The River in Spate	763	(1)
KIM ADDONIZIO (b. 1954)
First Poem for You	764	(1)
DAVID MASON (b. 1954)
Song of the Powers	765	(1)
MARY JO SALTER (b. 1954)
Welcome to Hiroshima	766	(2)
CATHY SONG (b. 1955)
Stamp Collecting	768	(1)
GINGER ANDREWS (b. 1956)
Primping in the Rearview Mirror	769	(1)
CATHERINE TUFARIELLO (b. 1963)
Useful Advice	770	(1)
SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)
The Exaggeration of Despair	771	(2)
NATASHA TRETHEWEY (b. 1966)
Domestic Work, 1937	773	(1)
SUJI KWOCK KIM (b. 1968)
Occupation	774	(1)
A.E. STALLINGS (b. 1968)
Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther	775	(1)
BETH ANN FENNELLY (b. 1971)
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field	776	(3)
Drama
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA	779	(23)
The Play's the Thing	779	(2)
Origins of Drama	781	(2)
Aristotle on Tragedy	783	(12)
Plot	784	(3)
Characterization	787	(3)
Theme	790	(1)
Diction	791	(1)
Melody	792	(2)
Spectacle	794	(1)
Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions	795	(7)
Greek Tragedy	795	(1)
Medieval Drama	796	(1)
Elizabethan Drama	797	(1)
The Comic Genres	798	(2)
Realistic Drama, the Modern Stage, and Beyond	800
SOPHOCLES (496?-406 BC)
Oedipus the King	802	(47)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice	849	(112)
HENRIK IBSEN (1828-1906)
A Doll's House	961	(70)
SUSAN GLASPELL (1882-1948)
Trifles	1031	(14)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS (1911-1983)
The Glass Menagerie	1045	(60)
ATHOL FUGARD (b. 1932)
"Master Harold"...and the boys	1105	(42)
AUGUST WILSON (1945-2005)
The Piano Lesson	1147	(79)
DAVID IVES (b. 1950)
Time Flies	1226	(12)
PAULA VOGEL (b. 1951)
How I Learned to Drive	1238	(51)
CATHERINE CELESIA ALLEN (b. ?)
Anything for You	1289	(6)
Appendix A: Writing About Literature	1295	(32)
First Considerations	1295	(1)
Topic into Thesis	1296	(3)
Explication, Analysis, Reviewing	1299	(2)
Critical Approaches	1301	(1)
Style and Content	1301	(1)
Writing About Fiction	1302	(2)
Writing About Poetry	1304	(6)
Form	1305	(1)
Content	1306	(4)
Writing About Drama	1310	(3)
The Process of Research: The Library and the Internet	1313	(3)
Plagiarism: Proper Quotation and Citation of Sources	1316	(4)
Sample Works Cited Entries	1320	(4)
The Annotated Bibliography	1324	(1)
Final Considerations	1325	(2)
Appendix B: Literature on Film, Video, and Audio	1327	(4)
Drama	1327	(3)
Fiction	1330	(1)
Poetry	1330	(1)
Appendix C: Thematic Approaches to Literature	1331	(16)
Appendix D: Critical Approaches to Literature	1347	(6)
Formalism	1347	(1)
Biographical Criticism	1348	(1)
Historical and Sociological Criticism	1348	(1)
Feminist and Gender Criticism	1349	(1)
Structuralism: Mythological and Psychological Approaches	1350	(1)
Poststructuralism: Reader-Response Theory and Deconstruction	1351	(2)
Acknowledgments	1353	(10)
Index of Critical Terms	1363	(4)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems	1367