Prentice Hall Literature World Masterpieces

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780134146249
• ISBN10: 0134146247
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: SCHOLG

Table of Contents

PART 1 Beginnings in the East (3000 B.C.-A.D. 1400)
Sumerian, Egyptian, and Hebrew Literature (3000 B.C.-C. 100 B.C.)
Introduction	4	(10)
Timeline	6	(8)
Reading Critically	14
Model
Background: The Gilgamesh Epic	12	(3)
from The Epic of gilgamesh
Prologue	15	(1)
The Battle with Humbaba	16	(3)
Enkidu's Dream of the Underworld	19	(4)
The Story of the Flood	23	(3)
The Return	26	(6)
Egyptian Poetry
Your Love, Dear Man, Is as Lovely to Me	32	(1)
I Think I'll Go Home and Lie Very Still	33	(1)
The Voice of the Swallow	34	(2)
Ideas and Insights
Egyptian Book of the Dead	36	(4)
Hebrew Literature
Genesis
1--3 The Creation and the Fall	40	(7)
6--9 The Story of the Flood	47	(5)
Ideas and Insights
Archeological Discoveries	52	(20)
The Book of Ruth	55	(6)
1 Samuel 17 (David and Goliath)	61	(6)
Psalms 8, 19, 23, 137	67	(5)
Themes in World Literature: The Quest for Immortality	72	(1)
Cross Currents: George Lucas	73	(1)
Writing About Literature: Autobiographical Incident	74	(4)
Persian and Arabic Literature (C. A.D. 600-A.D. 1400)
Introduction	78	(10)
Timeline	80	(8)
Reading Critically	88
Model
Firdawsi
Background: The Shah-nama	86	(3)
from the Shah-nama	89	(9)
Omar Khayyam	98	(6)
from The Rubaiyat	100	(4)
Ideas and Insights
Translators: The Unsung Heroes	104	(6)
from the Koran	106	(2)
The Opening	108	(1)
Power	108	(1)
Daybreak	109	(1)
Sa'di	110	(1)
from the Gulistan
from The Manners of Kings 1, 6, 7, 35	112	(3)
from On the Excellence of Contentment 2, 3, 11, 17	115
Hafiz	110	(10)
from the Divan
Alive from the Dead	118	(2)
Rumi	120	(16)
from the Masnavi
The Marks of the Wise Man, of the Half Wise, and of the Fool	122	(2)
The Counsels of the Bird	124	(2)
from The Thousand and One Nights	126	(2)
The Fisherman and the Jinnee	128	(8)
Themes in World Literature: The Individual and Society	136	(1)
Cross Currents: Scheherazade	137	(1)
Writing About Literature: Analytical Essay	138	(6)
PART 2 The Rise of Asia (C. 1400 B.C.-A.D. 1890)
Indian Literature (C. 1400 B.C.-C. A.D. 500)
Introduction	144	(10)
Timeline	146	(8)
Reading Critically	154
Model
Background: The Rig Veda	152	(3)
from the Rig Veda
Creation Hymn	155	(4)
Night	159	(1)
from the Taittiriya Upanishad	160	(2)
The Mystery of Brahman	162	(2)
Ideas and Insights
Religion in India	164	(24)
from the Mahabharata	166	(2)
Sibi	168	(6)
from the Bhagavad-Gita	174	(2)
The Yoga of Knowledge	176	(6)
from the Panchatantra	182	(2)
Numskull and the Rabbit	184	(4)
Themes in World Literature: Conduct in Life	188	(1)
Cross Currents: The Beatles	189	(1)
Writing About Literature: Logical Argument	190	(4)
Chinese Literature (1000 B.C.-A.D. 1890)
Introduction	194	(8)
Timeline	196	(6)
Reading Critically	202	(20)
Model
T'ao Ch'ien	222
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit	203	(5)
Philosophy
Lao Tzu	208	(4)
from the Tao Te Ching
The Way That Can Be Spoken Of	210	(1)
Not to Honor Men of Worth	210	(1)
Rather Than Fill It to the Brim	211	(1)
The Most Submissive Thing in the World	211	(1)
Confucius	212	(5)
from The Analects	214	(3)
Ideas and Insights
The Three Schools of Thought	217	(3)
Poetry
from The Book of Songs
I Beg of You, Chung Tzu	220	(1)
Thick Grow the Rush Leaves	221	(1)
T'ao Ch'ien	222	(6)
Poem on Returning to Dwell in the Country	225	(1)
I Built My House Near Where Others Dwell	226	(2)
Wang Wei	228	(4)
To the Assistant Prefect Chang	230	(1)
The Hill	230	(1)
On an Autumn Evening in the Mountains	231	(1)
Li Po	232	(6)
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	234	(2)
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	236	(1)
Addressed Humorously to Tu Fu	236	(1)
The Moon at the Fortified Pass	237	(1)
Tu Fu	238	(6)
Jade Flower Palace	240	(1)
Sent to Li Po as a Gift	241	(1)
The Return of the Wanderers	242	(1)
Loneliness	242	(2)
Po Chu-i	244	(6)
Sick Leave	246	(1)
At the End of Spring	246	(1)
To Li Ch'ien	247	(1)
Last Poem	248	(2)
Ideas and Insights
I Ching (The Book of Change)	250	(2)
Themes in World Literature: The Journey Inward	252	(1)
Cross Currents: Bertolt Brecht	253	(1)
Writing About Literature: Personal Narrative Essay	254	(4)
Japanese Literature (500 B.C.-A.D. 1890)
Introduction	258	(8)
Timeline	260	(6)
Reading Critically	266	(5)
Model
Yoshida Kenko	271	(3)
from Essays in Idleness	267	(7)
Poetry
Kakinomoto Hitomaro	274	(6)
In the Sea of Iwami	276	(2)
I Loved Her Like the Leaves	278	(2)
Ideas and Insights
Women Writers in Japan	280	(2)
Tanka
Ki no Tsurayuki	282	(1)
When I Went to Visit	284
Ono Komachi	282	(1)
Was It That I Went to Sleep	284
Priest Jakuren	282	(1)
One Cannot Ask Loneliness	284
Minamoto no Toshiyori	282	(4)
The Clustering Clouds	284	(2)
Haiku
Matsuo Basho	286	(1)
The Sun's Way	288	(1)
Poverty's Child	288	(1)
Clouds Come from Time to Time	288	(1)
The Cuckoo	288	(1)
Seven Sights Were Veiled	288	(1)
Summer Grasses	288
Yosa Buson	286	(1)
Scampering over Saucers	290	(1)
Four Views of Spring Rain	290	(1)
Fuji Alone	290
Kobayashi Issa	286	(8)
Melting Snow	292	(1)
Beautiful, Seen Through Holes	292	(1)
Far-off Mountain Peaks	292	(1)
A World of Dew	292	(1)
Viewing the Cherry-Blossom	292	(1)
With Bland Serenity	292	(2)
Prose
Sei Shonagon	294	(8)
from The Pillow Book
In Spring It Is the Dawn	296	(1)
The Cat Who Lived in the Palace	296	(2)
Oxen Should Have Very Small Foreheads	298	(1)
Nothing Can Be Worse	298	(1)
Hateful Things	299	(1)
Things That Make One's Heart Beat Faster	300	(1)
Things That Arouse a Fond Memory of the Past	300	(1)
I Remember a Clear Morning	300	(2)
Zeami	302	(12)
Background: The No Theater	303	(3)
The Deserted Crone	306	(8)
Themes in World Literature: The Natural World	314	(1)
Cross Currents: Frank Lloyd Wright	315	(1)
Writing About Literature: The Interpretive Essay	316	(6)
PART 3 The Rise of Classical Civilizations (800 B.C.-A.D. 500)
Ancient Greece (C. 800 B.C.-323 B.C.)
Introduction	322	(12)
Timeline	324	(10)
Reading Critically	334
Model
Homer	330	(60)
Background: The Iliad	331	(4)
from the Iliad
from Book I. The Quarrel	335	(12)
from Book VI. The Meeting of Hektor and Andromache	347	(8)
from Book XVIII. The Arming of Achilleus	355	(11)
from Book XXII. The Death of Hektor	366	(13)
from Book XXIV. Achilleus and Priam	379	(11)
Ideas and Insights
The Discovery of Troy	390	(2)
Poetry
Archilochus	392	(1)
Some Barbarian Is Waving My Shield	394	(1)
To the Gods All Things Are Easy	394
Callinus	392	(4)
A Call to Arms	395	(1)
Sappho	396	(1)
Awed by Her Splendor	398	(1)
Although They Are	398	(1)
And Their Feet Move	398	(1)
You Know the Place: Then	399	(1)
You May Forget But	400	(1)
He Is More Than a Hero	401	(1)
Invocation to Aphrdite	402
Pindar	396	(10)
Olympia 11	404	(2)
Prose
Thucydides	406	(8)
from History of the Peloponnesian War Pericles' Funeral Oration	408	(6)
Plato	414	(15)
from the Apology	416	(13)
Drama
Sophocles	429	(25)
Background: Oedipus the King	430	(3)
Oedipus the King	433	(21)
Ideas and Insights
The Delphic Oracle	454	(18)
Ideas and Insights
Aristotle on Tragedy	472	(2)
Themes in World Literature: The Hero	474	(1)
Cross Currents: Nikos Kazatzakis	475	(1)
Writing About Literature: The Reflective Essay	476	(4)
Roman Literature (c. 300 B.C.-A.D. 500)
Introduction	480	(12)
Timeline	482	(10)
Reading Critically	492
Model
Virgil	488	(16)
Background: The Aeneid	489	(4)
from the Aeneid
Book II. How They Took the City	493	(11)
Ideas and Insights
Tracing Aeneas' Journey	504	(22)
Book IV. The Passion of the Queen	507	(19)
Poetry
Catullus	526	(6)
My Woman Says There's Nobody She'd Rather Marry	528	(1)
I Hate Her and I Love Her	528	(1)
I Crossed Many Lands and a Lot of Ocean	528	(1)
My Mind's Sunk So Low, Lesbia, Because of You	529	(3)
Ovid
from the Metamorphoses
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe	532	(4)
Prose
Tacitus	536	(8)
from the Annals
from The Burning of Rome	538	(6)
Pliny	544	(6)
from Letters The Eruption of Vesuvius	546	(4)
Themes in World Literature: Journeys to the Underworld	550	(1)
Cross Currents: The Planning of Washington, D.C.	551	(1)
Writing About Literature: Firsthand Biography	552	(6)
PART 4 Europe in Transition (450--1890)
The Middle Ages (A.D. 450--1300)
Introduction	558	(10)
Timeline	560	(8)
Reading Critically	568
Model
Background: Song of Roland	566	(3)
from the Song of Roland
Cantos 1--68	569	(12)
Cantos 80--289	581	(9)
from the Nibelungelied	590	(2)
How Siegfried Was Slain	592	(6)
Ideas and Insights
The Code of Chivalry	598	(2)
Chretien de Troyes	600	(10)
from Perceval The Grail	602	(8)
Marie de France	610	(8)
The Lay of the Werewolf	612	(6)
Dante Alighieri	618	(28)
Background: The Divine Comedy	619	(3)
from the Divine Comedy
from the Inferno
Canto I: The Dark Wood of Error	622	(7)
Canto III: The Vestibule of Hell The Opportunists	629	(6)
Canto V: Circle Two: The Carnal	635	(6)
Canto XXXIV: Circle Nine: Cocytus	641	(5)
Ideas and Insights
The Poet as Outlaw	646	(2)
Francois Villon	648	(4)
Ballade	650	(2)
Themes in World Literature: Types of Love	652	(1)
Cross Currents: The Operas of Richard Wagner	653	(1)
Writing About Literature: Evaluation	654	(4)
The Renaissance (1300--1650)
Introduction	658	(10)
Timeline	660	(8)
Reading Critically	668
Model
Niccolo Machiavelli	666	(8)
Background: The Prince	667	(2)
from The Prince
Chapter XV: Of the Things for Which Men, and Especially Princes, Are Praised or Blamed	669	(1)
Chapter XVI: Of Liberality and Niggardliness	670	(4)
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)	674	(6)
from Canzoniere
Laura	676	(2)
The White Doe	678	(1)
Spring	678	(2)
Ideas and Insights The Black Plague	680	(2)
Giovanni Baccaccio	682	(8)
from the Decameron Federigo's Falcon	684	(6)
Pierre de Ronsard	690	(4)
Roses	692	(1)
When You Are Old	693	(1)
Great Works
The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	694	(4)
Christopher Marlowe	698	(6)
from The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus Act 1, Scene 3	700	(4)
William Shakespeare	704	(80)
Background: Shakespearean Drama	705	(4)
The Tempest	709	(75)
Ideas and Insights
Bridges to the Americas	784	(2)
Themes in World Literature: Knowledge and Power	786	(1)
Cross Currents: Modern Love Poetry	787	(1)
Writing About Literature: Cause and Effect	788	(4)
The Age of Rationalism (1650--1800)
Introduction	792	(8)
Timeline	794	(6)
Reading Critically	800	(10)
Model
Jonathan Swift	810	(2)
A Modest Proposal	801	(11)
John Milton	812	(12)
from Paradise Lost
from Book IX	814	(10)
Great Works
Tartuffe by Moliere	824	(6)
Blaise Pascal
from Thoughts
Man and the Universe	830	(4)
Jean de La Fontaine	834	(8)
The Boy and the Schoolmaster	836	(2)
The Wolf and the Lamb	838	(2)
The Council Held by the Rats	840	(2)
Great Works
Candide by Voltaire	842	(4)
Themes in World Literature: Eldorado and the Longing for Paradise	846	(1)
Cross Currents: Bruce Chatwin	847	(1)
Writing About Literature: Problem Solution	848	(4)
Romanticism and Realism (1800--1890)
Introduction	852	(10)
Timeline	854	(8)
Reading Critically	862
Model
Background: The Faust Legend	860	(1)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	861	(17)
from Faust
Prologue in Heaven	863	(6)
from The First Part of the Tragedy	869	(9)
Poetry
Alexander Pushkin	878	(6)
The Bridegroom	880	(4)
Heinrich Heine	884	(3)
The Lorelei	886	(1)
The Lotus Flower	887	(3)
Victor Hugo	888	(2)
from The Expiation Russia 1812	890	(4)
William Wordsworth	894	(8)
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	896	(6)
Charles Baudelaire	902	(4)
Invitation to the Voyage	904	(1)
The Albatross	905	(1)
Arthur Rimbaud	906	(6)
Ophelia	908	(2)
Eternity	910	(2)
Prose
Guy de Maupassant	912	(8)
Two Friends	914	(6)
Nikolai Gogal	920	(22)
The Overcoat	922	(20)
Leo Tolstoy	942	(12)
How Much Land Does a Man Need?	944	(10)
Great Works The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky	954	(4)
Anton Chekhov	958	(9)
The Bet	960	(7)
The New Age of Drama
Henrik Ibsen	967	(53)
A Doll's House	969	(51)
Ideas and Insights
The Slamming of the Door in A Doll's House	1020	(2)
Themes in World Literature: The Artist and Society	1022	(1)
Cross Currents: Simone de Beauvoir	1023	(1)
Writing About Literature: Controversial Issue	1024	(6)
PART 5 The Twentieth Century (1890--Present)
The Modern World (1890--1945)
Introduction	1030	(8)
Timeline	1032	(6)
Reading Critically	1038	(10)
Model
Thomas Mann (Germany)	1048	(4)
The Infant Prodigy	1039	(11)
Background: Mann's Stand against the Nazis	1050	(2)
Europe
Rainer Maria Rilke (Germany)	1052	(6)
The Grownup	1055	(1)
Interior of the Rose	1056	(1)
Archaic Torso of Apollo	1057	(1)
Ideas and Insights
Comparing Translations	1058	(2)
Great Works
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse	1060	(4)
Isak Dinesen (Denmark)	1064	(12)
The Pearls	1066	(10)
Par Lagerkvist (Sweden)	1076	(5)
The Princess and All the Kingdom	1078	(3)
Ideas and Insights
The Nobel Prize	1081	(1)
Franz Kafka (Czechoslovakia)	1082	(30)
The Metamorphosis	1084	(28)
Anna Akhmatova (Russia)	1112	(4)
Everything Is Plundered	1114	(1)
I Am Not One of Those Who Left the Land	1115	(1)
Boris Pasternak (Russia)	1116	(4)
The Drowsy Garden	1118	(1)
The Weeping Garden	1118	(2)
Colette (France)	1120	(6)
The Bracelet	1122	(4)
Paul Valery (France)	1126	(6)
Caesar	1128	(1)
The Friendly Wood	1129	(1)
Palm	1130	(2)
Luigi Pirandello (Italy)	1132	(8)
A Breath of Air	1134	(6)
Federico Garcia Lorca (Spain)	1140	(6)
The Guitar	1143	(1)
My Child Went to Sea	1144	(1)
Rider's Song	1145	(1)
Constantine Cavafy (Greece)	1146	(6)
Waiting for the Barbarians	1148	(2)
Artifical Flowers	1150	(2)
The Americas
Manuel Rojas (Chile)	1152	(8)
The Glass of Milk	1154	(6)
Ruben Dario (Nicaragua)	1160	(4)
Sonatina	1162	(2)
Gabriela Mistral (Chile)	1164	(8)
Bread	1166	(2)
The Prayer	1168	(2)
Fear	1170	(2)
Asia
Mori Ogai (Japan)	1172	(8)
Under Reconstruction	1174	(6)
Lu Hsun (China)	1180	(10)
My Old Home	1182	(8)
Rabindranath Tagore (India)	1190	(8)
The Artist	1192	(6)
Themes In World Literature: Alienation and Despair	1198	(1)
Cross Currents: Isadora Duncan	1199	(1)
Writing About Literature: Reporting Information	1200	(4)
The Contemporary World (1946--Present)
Introduction	1204	(8)
Timeline	1206	(6)
Reading Critically	1212	(7)
Model
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)	1219	(5)
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World	1213	(8)
Background: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Nobel Address	1221	(3)
The Americas
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)	1224	(10)
The Garden of Forking Paths	1226	(8)
Ideas and Insights
Labyrinths	1234	(2)
Julio Cortazar (Argentina)	1236	(8)
House Taken Over	1238	(6)
Octavio Paz (Mexico)	1244	(4)
Poet's Epitaph	1246	(1)
Concord	1246	(1)
Fable	1246	(2)
Pablo Neruda (Chile)	1248	(4)
Ode to My Socks	1250	(2)
Derek Walcott (St. Lucia)	1252	(10)
Sea Grapes	1254	(3)
from Omeros	1257	(5)
Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua)	1262	(8)
from Annie John	1264	(6)
Ideas and Insights
Calypso and Dub Poetry	1270	(2)
Western Europe
Albert Camus (France)	1272	(6)
The Myth of Sisyphus	1274	(4)
Gunter Grass (Germany)	1278	(4)
Folding Chairs	1280	(1)
Food for Prophets	1281	(1)
Italo Calvino (Italy)	1282	(10)
The Garden of Stubborn Cats	1284	(8)
Primo Levi (Italy)	1292	(8)
from Survival in Auschwitz	1294	(6)
Ideas and Insights
Elie Wiesel: Survivor and Witness	1300	(2)
Eastern Europe
Czeslaw Milosz (Poland)	1302	(4)
A Song on the End of the World	1304	(2)
Stanislaw Lem (Poland)	1306	(10)
The First Sally (A) or Trurl's Electronic Bard	1308	(8)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russia)	1316	(6)
The One Great Heart	1318	(4)
Andrei Voznesensky (Russia)	1322	(4)
I Am Goya	1325	(1)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russia)	1326	(6)
Visit	1328	(1)
Weddings	1329	(3)
The Middle East
Najib Mahfouz (Egypt)	1332	(8)
The Happy Man	1334	(6)
Yehuda Amichai (Israel)	1340	(6)
The Diameter of the Bomb	1342	(1)
From the Book of Esther I Filtered the Sediment	1343	(3)
Africa
Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal)	1346	(6)
Prayer to Masks	1348	(2)
Night of Sine	1350	(2)
Ideas and Insights
The Nubian Excavations	1352	(2)
Okot p'Bitek (Uganda)	1354	(6)
from Song of Lawino	1356	(4)
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)	1360	(4)
Season	1362	(1)
Civilian and Soldier	1363	(1)
Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)	1364	(10)
The Ultimate Safari	1366	(8)
Bessie Head (South Africa)	1374	(6)
Snapshots of a Wedding	1376	(4)
Barbara Kimenye (Uganda)	1380	(10)
The Winner	1382	(8)
Ousmane Sembene (Senegal)	1390	(12)
Tribal Scars or The Voltaique	1392	(10)
Ideas and Insights
Ousmane Sembene: Father of African Cinema	1402	(2)
Great Works
Things Fall Aprt by Chinue Achebe	1404	(4)
Asia
R. K. Narayan (India)	1408	(6)
An Astrologer's Day	1410	(4)
Anita Desai (India)	1414	(10)
Studies in the Park	1416	(8)
Pak Tu-jin (South Korea)	1424	(4)
High Mountain Plant	1426	(1)
August River	1426	(2)
Kawabata Yasunari (Japan)	1428	(6)
The Jay	1430	(4)
Nguyen Thi Vinh (Vietnam)	1434	(4)
Thoughts of Hanoi	1436	(2)
The Misty Poets (China)
Bei Dao	1438	(1)
Answer	1440	(1)
Testament	1441	(1)
All	1441
Gu Cheng	1438	(1)
When Hope Comes Back	1442
Shu Ting	1438	(10)
Assembly Line	1444	(1)
Also All	1445	(1)
Fairy Tales	1446	(2)
Themes in World Literature: Justice and Injustice	1448	(1)
Cross Currents: Black Women Writers and Magical Realism	1449	(1)
Writing About Literature: Generalization	1450	(2)
Handbook of Grammer and Revising Strategies	1452	(20)
Handbook of Literary Terms and Techniques	1472	(11)
Glossary	1483	(11)
Index of Fine Art	1494	(6)
Index of Skills	1500	(4)
Index of Titles by Themes	1504	(3)
Index of Authors and Titles	1507	(4)
Acknowledgments	1511