Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers

by Schilb, John; Clifford, John; Schilb, John; Clifford, John

• ISBN13: 9780312097264
• ISBN10: 0312097263
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins

Summary

"Making Literature Matter" combines an innovative writing text with a uniquely organized anthology for introductory literature courses that emphasize critical thinking and writing. The third edition addresses new trends in literature and composition, with more instruction on writing arguments and unique clusters that pair literary and visual texts for analysis.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	p. iii
Contents by Genre	p. xxiii
Working with Literature
What Is Literature? How and Why Does It Matter?	p. 3
How Have People Defined Literature?	p. 4
What about Literature Has Mattered to People?	p. 7
What Can You Do to Make Literature Matter to Others?	p. 8
Summing Up	p. 13
Thinking and Reading Critically	p. 14
Approaching Literature	p. 15
Thinking Critically: The Value of Argument	p. 16
Responding to Two Stories about Work	p. 18
Reading Critically	p. 37
Investigating Topics of Literary Criticism	p. 49
Summing Up	p. 55
The Writing Process	p. 57
Exploring	p. 58
Planning	p. 64
Composing	p. 68
Further Suggestions for Developing an Argument about a Work of Literature	p. 74
Sample Student Paper: First Draft	p. 75
Revising	p. 78
Recognizing and Avoiding Fallacies	p. 81
Sample Student Paper: Revised Draft	p. 84
Writing a Comparative Paper	p. 87
Sample Comparative Paper	p. 90
Summing Up	p. 94
Writing about Stories	p. 96
Students' Personal Responses to the Stories	p. 107
The Elements of Short Fiction	p. 110
Sample Student Paper: Final Draft	p. 126
Summing Up	p. 130
Writing about Poems	p. 131
A Student's Personal Responses to the Poems	p. 140
Sample Student Paper: First Draft	p. 143
The Elements of Poetry	p. 146
Sample Student Paper: Revised Draft	p. 152
Summing Up	p. 155
Writing about Plays	p. 157
The Elements of Drama	p. 165
Sample Student Paper: Final Draft	p. 172
Summing Up	p. 176
Writing about Essays	p. 177
A Student's Personal Response	p. 191
The Elements of Essays	p. 192
Sample Student Paper	p. 196
Summing Up	p. 199
Working with a Collection of Writings	p. 201
Women's Work: A Collection of Poems by Marge Piercy	p. 201
Working with Critical Commentaries	p. 210
Work as Metaphor: Critical Commentaries on a Poem	p. 210
Working with Cultural Contexts	p. 221
Fightng for Respect: Cultural Contexts for a Story	p. 222
Working with Re-Visions	p. 246
A Disgruntled Worker: Re-Visions of a Raymond Carver Story	p. 247
Working with Texts and Images	p. 272
Portraits of Sweepers: Poems and Images	p. 272
Literature and Its Issues
Living in Families	p. 283
Memories of Family: Essays	p. 284
Reconciling with Fathers: Poems	p. 313
Exorcising the Dead: Critical Commentaries on a Poem	p. 321
Mothers and Daughters: Stories	p. 339
Siblings in Conflict: Stories	p. 363
Family Dramas: Re-Visions of a Play	p. 400
Grandparents and Legacies: Poems	p. 460
Family Bonds and Bondage: A Collection of Essays by bell hooks	p. 471
A Family's Dreams: Cultural Contexts for a Play	p. 484
Parental Crisis: Stories	p. 571
Gays and Lesbians in Families: Poems	p. 599
Family Albums: A Story and Images	p. 606
Loving	p. 617
True Love: Poems	p. 618
Romantic Dreams: Stories	p. 628
Love and Myth: Essays	p. 646
A Seductive Argument: Re-Visions of a Poem	p. 657
To Love or not to Love: Critical Commentaries on a Poem	p. 662
The Appearance of Love: A Collection of Writings by Kate Chopin	p. 682
Is This Love?: Stories	p. 695
Jealous Love: A Play and Images	p. 722
Romantic Illusions: Cultural Contexts for a Play	p. 814
Looking Back on Past Love: Stories	p. 875
Love as a Haven?: Poems	p. 898
Freedom and Confinement	p. 905
Freedom for Animals: Poems	p. 906
Confined for Her Own Good: Cultural Contexts for a Story	p. 916
The Marriage Trap: Plays	p. 941
Hobbled by Language: Critical Commentaries on an Essay	p. 1007
Trapped in Stereotypes: Poems	p. 1023
The Cage of Civilization: Re-Visions of a Story	p. 1033
Remembering the Death Camps: Poems	p. 1046
Prisoners of War: Stories	p. 1055
A Letter from Jail: An Essay and Images	p. 1078
A Dream of Freedom: A Collection of Poems by Langston Hughes	p. 1094
Doing Justice	p. 1105
Learning about Injustice: Stories	p. 1106
Community Justice: Essays	p. 1129
Punishments: Poems	p. 1164
He Said / She Said: Re-Visions of a Poem	p. 1177
Fighting Evil: Stories	p. 1182
Avenging a Killing: Stories	p. 1202
A Guilty Conscience? A Collection of Stories by Edgar Allan Poe	p. 1226
Charging a Teacher with Sexual Harassment: Cultural Contexts for a Play	p. 1247
Misfit Justice: Critical Commentaries on a Story	p. 1304
Conscience on Trial: A Play and Images	p. 1328
Unjust Cities: Poems	p. 1371
Confronting Mortality	p. 1378
Relating Birth and Death: Poems	p. 1380
Facing Childhood Fears: Re-Visions of a Story	p. 1386
The Passage of Time: Poems	p. 1402
Memorials: Poems	p. 1408
Fighting for Survival: Stories	p. 1414
Learning from Personal Encounters with Mortality: Essays	p. 1438
Imagining the End: A Collection of Poems by Emily Dickinson	p. 1446
Disrespecting Death: Poems	p. 1452
Escaping Life: Critical Commentaries on a Play	p. 1458
Reviewing Your Own Life: Poems	p. 1497
When Disaster Strikes: Cultural Contexts for a Story	p. 1502
In the Shadow of 9/11: A Story and Images	p. 1534
Critical Approaches to Literature	p. 1544
Contemporary Schools of Criticism	p. 1545
Working with the Critical Approaches	p. 1549
Counterparts (story)	p. 1549
Sample Student Essay	p. 1561
A Refugee at Home	p. 1562
Like a Winding Sheet (story)	p. 1565
Writing a Research Paper	p. 1573
Identifying an Issue and a Tentative Claim	p. 1573
Finding and Using Secondary Sources	p. 1574
Taking Notes: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism	p. 1578
Writing the Paper: Integrating Sources	p. 1579
Documenting Sources: MLA Format	p. 1581
MLA In-Text Citation	p. 1582
MLA Works Cited	p. 1583
Sample Student Research Paper	p. 1588
Racial Disharmony and "Desiree's Baby"	p. 1589
Using a Literary Work as a Springboard for Examining Social Issues	p. 1599
Sample Student Research Paper	p. 1599
Effectively Managing Grief	p. 1599
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