Thinking and Writing about Literature : A Text and Anthology

by Meyer, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780312248741
• ISBN10: 0312248741
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-26
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

Thinking and Writing about Literaturecombines three books in one a writing about literature text, an introduction to literature, and a thematic anthology all working together to help students become better academic writers and better literary readers.

Author Biography

MICHAEL MEYER (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) has taught introductory writing and literature courses for almost 30 years -- since 1981 at the University of Connecticut and earlier at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and The College of William and Mary. Meyer's scholarly articles have appeared in American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, and Virginia Quarterly Review. An internationally recognized authority on Henry David Thoreau, he is a former president of the Thoreau Society and the co-author (with Walter Harding) of The New Thoreau Handbook, a standard reference source. His first book, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau's Political Reputation in America, was awarded the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize by the American Studies Association. In addition to several introductory literature texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, Meyer is also editor of Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings and the author of The Little, Brown Guide to Writing Research Papers.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	vii
Introduction: Reading Literature	1	(1)
The Nature of Literature	1	(2)
A narrow Fellow in the Grass	2	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Value of Literature	3	(2)
The Changing Literary Canon	5	(4)
PART ONE LITERATURE AND THE WRITING PROCESS	9	(126)
Reading and Responding	11	(18)
The Purpose and Value of Writing about Literature	11	(1)
Reading the Work Responsively	12	(1)
Reading the Work Closely	13	(1)
Annotating the Text and Journal Note Taking	14	(15)
Annotated Text	15	(1)
Journal Note	15	(2)
Reading and First Response	17	(1)
The Story of an Hour	18	(1)
Kate Chopin
Photo	18	(3)
Kate Chopin
Questions for Responsive Reading and Writing: Getting Started	21	(1)
A Sample Annotation	22	(1)
A Sample First Response	23	(2)
A Sample Student Response Paper: Wally Villa, Differences in Responses to Kate Chopin's ``The Story of an Hour''	25	(4)
Writing and Revising	29	(27)
From Reading to Writing	29	(1)
Choosing a Topic	30	(1)
Brainstorming	30	(1)
Developing a Thesis	31	(3)
Freewriting	32	(2)
Arguing about Literature	34	(1)
Organizing a Paper	34	(2)
Using the Thesis as an Organizing Principle	34	(2)
Writing a Draft	36	(3)
Using a Word Processor	36	(1)
Writing the Introduction and Conclusion	37	(1)
Using Quotations	37	(2)
Revising and Editing	39	(2)
Questions for Writing: Revising	40	(1)
Proofreading	40	(1)
Manuscript Form	41	(1)
Types of Writing Assignments	42	(5)
Personal Response	42	(1)
Explication	42	(1)
Analysis	43	(1)
Comparison and Contrast	43	(2)
Applying a Critical Strategy	45	(1)
Writing from Sources	45	(2)
The Thesis Statement	47	(9)
Summer	47	(5)
David Updike
Questions for Writing: Developing a Topic into a Revised Thesis	52	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	53	(1)
A Sample First Thesis	54	(1)
A Sample Revised Thesis	54	(2)
Applying a Critical Strategy	56	(48)
Critical Thinking	56	(2)
The Literary Canon: Diversity and Controversy	58	(2)
Formalist Strategies	60	(2)
Biographical Strategies	62	(2)
Psychological Strategies	64	(2)
Historical Strategies	66	(4)
Literary History Criticsm	67	(1)
Marxist Criticism	68	(1)
New Historicist Criticism	68	(1)
Cultural Criticism	69	(1)
Gender Strategies	70	(2)
Feminist Criticism	71	(1)
Gay and Lesbian Criticsm	72	(1)
Mythological Strategies	72	(2)
Reader-Response Strategies	74	(2)
Deconstructionist Strategies	76	(2)
Selected Bibliography	78	(26)
Canonical Issues	78	(1)
Formalist Strategies	79	(1)
Biographical and Psychological Strategies	79	(1)
Historical Strategies, Including Marxist, New Historicist, and Cultural Strategies	80	(1)
Gender Strategies, Including Feminist and Gay and Lesbian Strategies	80	(1)
Mythological Strategies	81	(1)
Reader-Response Strategies	81	(1)
Deconstructionist and Other Poststructuralist Strategies	82	(1)
Critical Analysis	83	(1)
Barn Burning	84	(1)
William Faulkner
Photo	84	(13)
William Faulkner
Questions for Writing: Applying a Critical Strategy	97	(1)
Formalist Questions	97	(1)
Biographical Questions	97	(1)
Psychological Questions	97	(1)
Historical Questions	97	(1)
Marxist Questions	98	(1)
New Historicist Questions	98	(1)
Cultural Studies Questions	98	(1)
Gender Studies Questions	98	(1)
Mythological Questions	98	(1)
Reader-Response Questions	99	(1)
Deconstructionist Questions	99	(1)
A Sample First Response	99	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	99	(2)
A Sample Student Marxist Analysis: Peter Campion, Class Issues in ``Barn Burning''	101	(3)
Writing from Sources	104	(31)
Choosing a Topic	105	(1)
Finding Sources	105	(3)
Annotated List of References	105	(2)
Electronic Sources	107	(1)
Online Resources for Research and Writing	108	(1)
Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes	108	(3)
Developing a Thesis and Organizing the Paper	111	(1)
Revising	111	(1)
Documenting Sources	111	(24)
The List of Works Cited	113	(4)
Parenthetical References	117	(1)
The Research Paper	118	(1)
Photo	119	(2)
Robert Frost
Mowing	121	(1)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall	121	(2)
Robert Frost
Questions for Writing: Incorporating Secondary Sources	123	(2)
A Sample First Response	125	(1)
A Sample of Notetaking	125	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming after Research	126	(2)
A Sample Student Research Paper: Stephanie Tobin, Individuality and Community in Frost's ``Mowing'' and ``Mending Wall''	128	(7)
PART TWO LITERATURE AND ITS ELEMENTS	135	(424)
Reading and Writing about Fiction	137	(76)
The Elements	137	(76)
Plot	137	(2)
From Tarzan of the Apes	139	(5)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Rose for Emily	144	(7)
William Faulkner
Character	151	(1)
From Hard Times	152	(3)
Charles Dickens
Setting	155	(2)
Point of View	157	(3)
Symbolism	160	(3)
Colette [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette], The Hand	163	(2)
Style	165	(2)
Tone	167	(1)
Irony	168	(1)
Popular Mechanics	169	(2)
Raymond Carver
Theme	171	(4)
Comparison and Contrast	175	(1)
Photo	176	(1)
Romance Novel Cover
A Composite of a Romance Tip Sheet	177	(4)
Formal Fiction
From A Secret Sorrow	181	(8)
Karen Van Zee
A Sorrowful Woman	189	(5)
Gail Godwin
Questions for Writing about Fiction	194	(2)
A Sample First Response	196	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	197	(1)
A Sample Revision: First and Second Drafts	198	(10)
A Sample Student Comparison and Contrast Paper: Maya Leigh, Fulfillment or Failure? Marriage in A Secret Sorrow and ``A Sorrowful Woman''	208	(5)
Reading and Writing about Poetry	213	(69)
Reading Poetry Responsively	213	(3)
The Secretary Chant	213	(1)
Marge Piercy
Those Winter Sundays	214	(1)
Robert Hayden
Dog's Death	215	(1)
John Updike
The Pleasure of Words	216	(7)
Oh, Oh	217	(1)
William Hathaway
Catch	218	(1)
Robert Francis
Telephone Conversation	219	(1)
Wole Soyinka
A Study of Reading Habits	220	(1)
Philip Larkin
Mountain Graveyard	221	(1)
Robert Morgan
l(a	222	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Western Wind	223	(1)
Anonymous
Suggestions for Approaching Poetry	223	(2)
The Elements	225	(40)
Diction	225	(2)
Denotations and Connotations	227	(1)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	227	(2)
Randall Jarrell
Word Order	229	(1)
Tone	229	(1)
Latin Night at the Pawnshop	230	(1)
Martin Espada
To His Coy Mistress	230	(2)
Andrew Marvell
Word Choice and Translations	232	(1)
Two Translations of Neruda's ``Juventud''	233	(1)
Juventud	233	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Youth (Translated by Robert Bly)	233	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Youth (Translated by Jack Schmitt)	233	(1)
Pablo Neruda
Images	234	(1)
Poem	235	(1)
Willam Carlos Williams
Dover Beach	235	(2)
Matthew Arnold
London	237	(1)
William Blake
Figures of Speech	238	(1)
From Macbeth (Act V, Scene v)	239	(1)
William Shakespeare
Simile and Metaphor	239	(1)
Presentiment---is that long Shadow --- on the lawn ---	240	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Other Figures	240	(1)
The Hand That Signed the Paper	241	(2)
Dylan Thomas
To a Wasp	243	(1)
Janice Townley Moore
The Unkindest Cut	244	(1)
J. Patrick Lewis
Symbol	244	(1)
Acquainted with the Night	245	(1)
Robert Frost
Allegory	246	(1)
The Haunted Palace	247	(2)
Edgar Allan Poe
Irony	249	(1)
Richard Cory	249	(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Ad	250	(1)
Kenneth Fearing
Sounds: Listening to Poetry	251	(1)
Player Piano	252	(1)
John Updike
A Bird came down the Walk	252	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Rhyme	254	(1)
From ``The Cataract of Lodore''	255	(3)
Robert Southey
Sound and Meaning	258	(1)
God's Grandeur	258	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Rhythm and Meter	259	(4)
My Heart Leaps Up	263	(1)
William Wordsworth
Suggestions for Scanning a Poem	264	(1)
Waiting for the Storm	264	(1)
Timothy Steele
Some Common Poetic Forms	265	(17)
Sonnet	267	(1)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	267	(1)
John Keats
Villanelle	268	(1)
Do not go gentle into that good night	268	(1)
Dylan Thomas
Open Form	269	(1)
in Just	269	(1)
E. E. Cummings
From ``I Sing the Body Electric''	270	(2)
Walt Whitman
Explication	272	(1)
Portrait	272	(1)
John Donne
Death Be Not Proud	273	(1)
John Donne
Questions for Writing about Poetry	274	(1)
A Sample First Response	275	(1)
A Sample Informal Outline	276	(2)
A Sample Student Explication: Rose Bostwick, The Use of Conventional Metaphors for Death in John Donne's ``Death Be Not Proud''	278	(4)
Reading and Writing about Drama	282	(229)
Reading Drama Responsively	282	(2)
The Elements	284	(2)
Setting	284	(1)
Characterization	284	(1)
Plot	285	(1)
Theme	286	(1)
Sophocles and Greek Drama	286	(49)
Portrait: Sophocles	286	(1)
Theatrical Conventions of Greek Drama	287	(2)
Photo: Drawing of a classical Greek theater	289	(1)
Tragedy	290	(3)
Oedipus the King (Translated by Robert Fagles)	293	(42)
Sophocles
William Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama	335	(108)
Portrait	335	(2)
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Theater	337	(2)
Photo: Drawing of the Globe Theatre	339	(1)
The Range of Shakespeare's Drama: History, Comedy, and Tragedy	340	(3)
A Note on Reading Shakespeare	343	(2)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark	345	(98)
William Shakespeare
Tennessee Williams and Modern Drama	443	(68)
Realism	444	(2)
Naturalism	446	(1)
Theatrical Conventions of Modern Drama	446	(2)
The Glass Menagerie	448	(46)
Tennessee Williams
Character Analysis	494	(1)
Photo	495	(1)
Susan Glaspell
Trifles	496	(10)
Susan Glaspell
Questions for Writing about Drama	506	(1)
A Sample First Response	507	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	508	(1)
A Sample Student Character Analysis: William Dean, The Centrality of Mrs. Hale to Trifles	509	(2)
Reading and Writing about the Essay	511	(48)
Reading Essays Responsively	511	(1)
Types of Essays	512	(2)
The Elements	514	(45)
Voice and Tone	514	(2)
A Modest Proposal	516	(6)
Jonathan Swift
Style	522	(1)
A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood	523	(7)
Bernard Cooper
Structure	530	(2)
Once More to the Lake	532	(4)
E. B. White
Theme	536	(2)
Calculated Risks	538	(7)
K. C. Cole
Argument	545	(1)
Demystifying Multiculturalism	546	(1)
Linda Chavez
Photo	546	(5)
Linda Chavez
Questions for Writing about the Essay	551	(1)
A Sample First Response	552	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	553	(2)
A Sample Student Argument: April Bovet, Embrace Multiculturalism or Assimilate: A Fair Distinction?	555	(4)
PART THREE LITERATURE AND LIFE	559	(822)
Home and Family	561	(214)
The Themes of Literature	561	(1)
Home and Family	562	(1)
Fiction	562	(50)
Reunion	563	(3)
John Cheever
Killings	566	(13)
Andre Dubus
Soldier's Home	579	(6)
Ernest Hemingway
A Father	585	(8)
Bharati Mukherjee
An Ounce of Cure	593	(8)
Alice Munro
A Red Sweater	601	(8)
Fae Myenne Ng
Powder	609	(3)
Tobias Wolff
Poetry	612	(23)
Harlem Birthday Party	612	(1)
Elizabeth Alexander
Bored	613	(1)
Margaret Atwood
Nighttime Fires	614	(1)
Regina Barreca
The Man Who Didn't Know What Was His	615	(1)
Robert Bly
The Mother	616	(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bustle in a House	617	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Home Burial	617	(3)
Robert Frost
The Red Hat	620	(1)
Rachel Hadas
Letter with No Address	621	(3)
Donald Hall
Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead	624	(1)
Andrew Hudgins
doorknobs	625	(1)
Langston Hughes
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	625	(1)
Galway Kinnell
This Be the Verse	626	(1)
Philip Larkin
Rite of Passage	627	(1)
Sharon Olds
Daddy	628	(2)
Sylvia Plath
My Papa's Waltz	630	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Household Fires	631	(1)
Indira Sant
The Youngest Daughter	632	(1)
Cathy Song
Behind Grandma's House	633	(1)
Gary Soto
A Bedtime Story	634	(1)
Mitsuye Yamada
Drama	635	(113)
A Raisin in the Sun	635	(65)
Lorraine Hansberry
A Doll House	700	(48)
Henrik Ibsen
Essays	748	(27)
A Slave's Family Life	749	(3)
Frederick Douglass
Stone Soup	752	(7)
Barbara Kingsolver
Feminist Analysis	759	(1)
Photo	759	(1)
Henrik Ibsen
Historical Document, A Nineteenth-Century Husband's Letter to His Wife	759	(3)
A Marxist Approach to A Doll House	762	(2)
Barry Witham
John Lutterbie
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Nora	764	(3)
Carolyn Strongin Tufts
Is A Doll House a Feminist Text?	767	(1)
Joan Templeton
A Sample First Response	768	(1)
A Sample Student Historical Feminist Analysis: Kathy Atner, On the Other Side of the Slammed Door in A Doll House	769	(6)
Love and Its Complications	775	(149)
Fiction	775	(48)
The Lady with the Pet Dog	776	(12)
Anton Chekhov
I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy	788	(5)
Louise Erdrich
Love in L.A.	793	(3)
Dagoberto Gilb
Lust	796	(7)
Susan Minot
Good Country People	803	(14)
Flannery O'Connor
or Out of Love in Sarajevo	817	(6)
Fay Weldon
Poetry	823	(21)
A Fine, a Private Place	823	(3)
Diane Ackerman
Jealousy	826	(1)
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
My Last Duchess	827	(2)
Robert Browning
Home-Baked Bread	829	(1)
Sally Croft
since feeling in first	830	(1)
E. E. Cummings
Wild Nights---Wild Nights!	830	(1)
Emily DIckinson
The Flea	831	(1)
John Donne
A Story about the Body	832	(1)
Robert Hass
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	832	(1)
Robert Herrick
Rent-Party Shout: For a Lady Dancer	833	(1)
Langston Hughes
La Belle Dame sans Merci	834	(1)
John Keats
Surprise	835	(1)
John Kenyon
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	836	(1)
Christopher Marlowe
Play-by-Play	837	(1)
Joan Murray
Sex without Love	838	(1)
Sharon Olds
Junior Year Abroad	839	(1)
Barbara Rebecca
Seniors	840	(1)
Albert Rios
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun	841	(1)
William Shakespeare
The White Porch	841	(2)
Cathy Song
A Late Aubade	843	(1)
Richard Wilbur
Drama	844	(63)
Sure Thing	844	(8)
David Ives
A Midsummer Night's Dream	852	(55)
William Shakespeare
Essays	907	(17)
The Independent Woman (and Other Lies)	907	(1)
Katie Roiphe
Photo	908	(5)
Katie Roiphe
Sex, Lies, and Conversation	913	(4)
Deborah Tannen
Personal Response	917	(1)
A Sample First Response	917	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	918	(2)
A Sample Student Response Paper: Eric Hoffbauer, Love Today: What's Cash Got to Do with It?	920	(4)
Life and Its Lessons	924	(170)
Fiction	924	(62)
The Lesson	925	(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
Battle Royal	931	(11)
Ralph Ellison
Young Man on Sixth Avenue	942	(2)
Mark Halliday
Bartleby, the Scrivener	944	(25)
Herman Melville
The Night Nurse	969	(12)
Joyce Carol Oates
A & P	981	(1)
John Updike
Photo	981	(5)
John Updike
Poetry	986	(18)
Woman's Work	986	(1)
Julia Alverez
The Chimney Sweeper	987	(1)
William Blake
The Shower	988	(1)
Ann Choi
Common Ground	989	(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Short-order Cook	989	(1)
Jim Daniels
From all the Jails the Boys and Girls	990	(1)
Emily Dickinson
After Apple-Picking	991	(1)
Robert Frost
``Out, Out---''	992	(1)
Robert Frost
Clouds	993	(1)
Nikki Giovanni
Groves of Academe	993	(1)
Marilyn Hacker
Graded Paper	994	(1)
Mark Halliday
The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill	995	(1)
Judy Page Heitzman
Mr. Z	996	(1)
M. Carl Holman
Seventeen	997	(1)
Andrew Hudgins
Johannesburg Mines	998	(1)
Langston Hughes
Theme for English B	998	(1)
Langston Hughes
Restaurant	999	(1)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Hazel Tells LaVerne	1000	(1)
Katharyn Howd Machan
It's the Law: A Rap Poem	1001	(2)
Saundra Sharp
What It's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)	1003	(1)
Patricia Smith
Reapers	1003	(1)
Jean Toomer
Drama	1004	(69)
Rodeo	1004	(3)
Jane Martin
Death of a Salesman	1007	(66)
Arthur Miller
Essays	1073	(21)
Envy	1073	(4)
Regina Barreca
Taking Possession of a Word	1077	(2)
Gloria Naylor
The Childhood Worries, or Why I Became a Writer	1079	(9)
Gary Soto
Critical Analysis	1088	(1)
A Sample First Response	1088	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	1089	(2)
A Sample Student Analysis: Nancy Lager, The A & P as a State of Mind	1091	(3)
The Natural and Unnatural	1094	(131)
Fiction	1094	(64)
Death by Landscape	1095	(12)
Margaret Atwood
Carnal Knowledge	1107	(15)
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	1122	(8)
Stephen Crane
The Birthmark	1130	(11)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A White Heron	1141	(8)
Sarah Orne Jewett
How to Tell a True War Story	1149	(9)
Tim O'Brien
Poetry	1158	(19)
The Fish	1158	(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Lamb	1160	(1)
William Blake
The Tyger	1161	(1)
William Blake
Deer among Cattle	1162	(1)
James Dickey
A Light Exists in Spring	1163	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Design	1163	(1)
Robert Frost
The Convergence of the Twain	1164	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Peepers	1165	(2)
Margaret Holley
Pied Beauty	1167	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Foot	1167	(1)
Alice Jones
To Autumn	1168	(1)
John Keats
Blackberry Eating	1169	(1)
Galway Kinnell
The Maldive Shark	1170	(1)
Herman Melville
The Bear	1171	(1)
N. Scott Momaday
The Black Snake	1171	(1)
Mary Oliver
Dulce et Decorum Est	1172	(1)
Wilfred Owen
The Bull Moose	1173	(1)
Alden Nowlan
A Work of Artifice	1174	(1)
Marge Piercy
Traveling through the Dark	1175	(1)
William Stafford
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer	1176	(1)
Walt Whitman
Spring and All	1176	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Drama	1177	(13)
The Original Last Wish Baby	1178	(12)
William Seebring
Essays	1190	(35)
Life without Principle	1190	(13)
Henry David Thoreau
The Courage of Turtles	1203	(6)
Edward Hoagland
An Author in Depth	1209	(1)
Photo	1209	(2)
Emily Dickinson
Manuscript page from ``What Soft---Cherubic Creatures---''	1211	(6)
If I can stop one Heart from breaking	1217
Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one Heart from breaking	1213	(1)
Emily Dickinson
The Thought beneath so slight a film	1214	(1)
Emily Dickinson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee	1215	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Questions for Writing about an Author in Depth	1216	(1)
``Faith'' is a fine invention	1217	(1)
Emily Dickinson
I know that He exists	1218	(1)
Emily Dickinson
I never saw a Moor---	1218	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Apparently with no surprise	1218	(1)
Emily Dickinson
A Sample First Response	1219	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	1219	(2)
A Sample Student In-Depth Analysis: Michael Weitz, Religious Faith in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson	1221	(4)
Culture and Identity	1225	(156)
Fiction	1225	(49)
The Judge's Wife	1226	(6)
Isabel Allende
Better Be Ready 'Bout Half Past Eight	1232	(14)
Alison Baker
Young Goodman Brown	1246	(10)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Englishman	1256	(9)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Exchange Value	1265	(5)
Charles Johnson
Miss Brill	1270	(4)
Katherine Mansfield
Poetry	1274	(20)
Green Chile	1274	(1)
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question	1275	(1)
Diane Burns
Much Madness is divinest Sense	1276	(1)
Emily Dickinson
Indian Movie, New Jersey	1277	(1)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
When I First Saw Snow	1278	(1)
Gregory Djanikian
We Wear the Mask	1279	(1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In a London Drawingroom	1280	(1)
George Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	1280	(4)
T.S. Eliot
Coca-Cola and Coco Frio	1284	(1)
Martin Espada
Flower Feet	1285	(1)
Ruth Fainlight
The Colonel	1285	(1)
Carolyn Forche
Dinner Guest: Me	1286	(1)
Langston Hughes
Ethnic Poetry	1287	(1)
Julio Marzan
Recipe	1288	(1)
Janice Mirikitani
Sweetness, Always	1288	(2)
Pablo Neruda
The Street	1290	(1)
Octavio Paz
Elderly Lady Crossing on Green	1290	(1)
Wyatt Prunty
Welcome to Hiroshima	1291	(2)
Mary Jo Salter
Mexicans Begin Jogging	1293	(1)
Gary Soto
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	1293	(1)
William Butler Yeats
Drama	1294	(48)
Photo	1294	(2)
David Hwang
M. Butterfly	1296	(46)
David Henry Hwang
Essays	1342	(39)
How I Learned to Speak Italian	1342	(9)
Helen Barolini
Advanced Biology	1351	(7)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Shooting an Elephant	1358	(5)
George Orwell
Cultural Analysis	1363	(1)
Photo	1363	(2)
Julia Alvarez
``Queens, 1963''	1365	(2)
Julia Alvarez
Cultural and Historical Documents	1367	(1)
From an Interview with Julia Alvarez	1367	(2)
Marny Requa
Photo: An Advertisement for Tudor Row Houses	1369	(1)
Queens: ``The `Fair' Borough''	1370	(1)
``Talkin' about Prejudice'' in Queens	1371	(1)
Meet the Bunkers	1371	(3)
Norman Lear
Photo: A Civil Rights Demonstration	1374	(1)
A Sample First Response	1374	(1)
A Sample of Brainstorming	1375	(2)
A Sample Student Cultural Analysis: Holly Furdyna, Beneath the Surface of Conformity: Julia Alvarez's ``Queens, 1963''	1377	(4)
Glossary of Literary Terms	1381	(32)
Index of First Lines	1413	(4)
Index of Authors and Titles	1417
Index of Terms Inside back cover