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This thematically organized anthology has been updated to reflect the changes in the MLA Guidelines and treats literature as a continually expanding commentary on our infinitely varied lives, helping students make the connection between literature and their own unique life stories.
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ContentsIntroductionPart One: Reading LiteratureCritical Reading: Engagement, Response, and AnalysisEngaging with a Text: AnnotationSpecial Feature: Sample Student Annotation of Sandra Cisneros's "Bread"Responding to a Text: The Reader's JournalThe Reader's BoxSample Student Reader's JournalFreewritingAnalyzing a TextApproachesAuthor-Oriented ApproachesReader-Oriented ApproachesText-Oriented ApproachesThe Elements of the EssayStyleToneThemeThe Reader's BoxQuestions for Engagement, Response, and Analysis Essay The Elements of FictionPoint of ViewSettingStyleCharacterPlotThemeThe Reader's BoxQuestions for Engagement, Response and AnalysisShort Stories The Elements of PoetrySituation and SpeakerStructure and SoundStyleThemeThe Reader's BoxQuestions for Engagement, Response, and Analysis PoetryThe Elements of DramaDialogue and Stage DirectionsSettingStyleCharacterPlotThemeThe Reader's BoxQuestions for Engagement Response, and Analysis DramaPart Two: Writing About LiteratureCritical Writing: ArgumentSteps for Writing Arguments about LiteratureStep One: Establishing Purpose and AudienceModesDebatable TopicsAudienceStep Two: Generating a Working ThesisRe-readingPre-Writing StrategiesThe Writer's BoxSample Student BrainstormingClustering and Listing Honing the ThesisStep Three: Gathering EvidencePrimary Source EvidenceSecondary Source EvidenceStep Four: Drafting, Revising, and EditingWriting the IntroductionCrafting Body Paragraphs and Making TransitionsConcluding WellIntegrating Source EvidenceThe Writer's BoxAvoiding Common Pitfalls at the Drafting StageRevising and EditingThe Writer's BoxAvoiding Common Pitfalls in the Editing StageSample Student PaperThematic AnthologyFamily Writing about Family EssaysJoan Didion, On Going Home Bill Cosby, from Fatherhood**Frances Mayes, Bramare:(Archaic) To Yearn ForFictionCarsonMcCullers, A Domestic Dilemma James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?** ShermanAlexie, Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play TheStar-Spangled Bannerat Woodstock PoetryWilliam Butler Yeats, A Prayer for My Daughter Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother Sylvia Plath, Daddy** Luis Omar Salinas, My Father Is a Simple Man Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-RosaLi-Young Lee, The Gift Edward J. Whitelock, Future Connected By DramaCasebook on August WilsonAugust Wilson Fences Sandra Shannon, The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson Alan Nadel, Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in Fencesand Joe Turner's Come and Gone John Timpane, Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson Harry Elam Jr., August Wilson's Women Bonnie Lyons, An Interview with August Wilson A Student Essay Family: Suggestions for Writing Family: Writing about Film Men and Women Writing about Men and Women EssaysVirginia Woolf, Professions for Women Max Shulman, Love Is a Fallacy David Osborne, Beyond the Cult of Fatherhood FictionNathaniel Hawthorne, The Birth-Mark Kate Chopin, Desiree's Baby Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants Jhumpa Lahiri, A Temporary Matter PoetryWilliam Shakespeare, Sonnet 138 Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43 Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll Janice Mirikitani, Breaking Tradition Julia Alvarez, Abbot Academy**Judith Ortiz Cofer, Anniversary Rita Dove, Courtship from Beulah and Thomas, Courtship, Diligence DramaHenrik Ibsen, A Doll's House Casebook on Robert Frost **Robert Frost The PastureThe Silken TentNever Again Would Birds' Song Be the SameMeeting and PassingPutting in the SeedThe Subverted FlowerHome Burial The Death of the Hired Man BereftJudith Oster, Frost's Poetry of MetaphorKatherine Kearns, "The Place Is the Asylum": Women and Nature in Robert Frost's PoetryRobert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, The Craft of Poetry: Interview with Robert FrostA Student Essay Men and Women: Suggestions for Writing Men and Women: Writing about Film vulnerability Writing about VulnerabilityEssaysBlack Elk Speaks **Elie Wiesel, Yom Kippur: The Day Without Forgiveness Bill McKibben, Happiness Is **Barbara Kingsolver, A Pure, High Note of Anguish **Stephen Sloan, The Meaning of Terrorism from Terrorism: The Present Threat in Context **Leonard Weinberg, Why Do People Become Terrorists fromGlobal Terrorism: A Beginner's Guide **FictionAnton Chekhov, The Lottery Ticket **William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Chinua Achebe, Dead Men's Path Bharati Mukherjee, The Management of Grief Todd James Pierce, Newsworld II **PoetryPercy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask John McCrae, In Flanders Fields Claude McKay, If We Must Die Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est e. e. cummings, BuffaloBill's Defunct Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Billy Collins, Forgetfulness Sharon Olds, On the Subway Ron Rash, Last Service **Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World DramaWilliam Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice Casebook on Amy TanAmy TanYoung Girl's Wish Heart E. D. Huntley, Amy Tan: A Critical Companion Victoria Chen, Chinese American Women, Language, and Moving Subjectivity The Salon Interview: Amy Tan, The Spirit Within A Student Essay Vulnerability: Suggestions for Writing Vulnerability: Writing about Film Freedom and Responsibility Writing about Freedom and ResponsibilityEssaysJonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail FictionLuke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son ** Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harrison Bergeron Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas John Updike, A & P Madison Smartt Bell, Customs of the Country **PoetryWilliam Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us Walt Whitman, For You O Democarcy **Rudyard Kipling, If W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Karl Shapiro, The Conscientious Objector Anne Sexton, Ringing the Bells Pat Mora, Immigrants Dwight Okita, In Response to Executive Order 9066: All Americans of Japanese Descent Must Report to Relocation Centers DramaSusan Glaspell, Trifles Casebook on Tim O'BrienTim O'BrienOn the Rainy River How to Tell a True War StoryThe Man I Killed Steven Kaplan, The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Catherine Calloway, "How to Tell a True War Story": Metafiction in The Things They Carried Daniel Robinson, Getting It Right: The Short Fiction of Tim O'Brien A Student Essay Freedom and Responsibility: Suggestions for Writing Freedom and Responsibility: Writing about Film CREATIVITY Writing about Creativity EssaysGenesisI **Ursula K. LeGuin, The Child and the Shadow David Mamet, Girl Copy **bell hooks, Beauty Laid Bare: Aesthetics in the Ordinary **FictionMark Twain, A Fable James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty **Ray Bradbury, There Will Come Soft Rains Woody Allen, The Kugelmass Episode Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings **PoetryJohn Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn Emily Dickinson I cannot dance upon my Toes 326 **They shut me up in Prose 613**I dwell in Possibility 657 **There is no Frigate like a Book 1263 **Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking AbsurditySylvia Plath, Metaphors **Seamus Heaney, Digging Billy Collins, Marginalia **Alberto Rios, The Vietnam Wall DramaWendy Wasserstein, Tender Offer **Casebook on Alice Walker**Alice Walker Everyday UseNineteen Fifty-fiveIn Search of Our Mothers' GardensThe Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: EpilogueDonna Hairsty Winchell, from Alice WalkerHouston A Baker Jr. And Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Patches: Quilts and Community in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"David Cowart, Heritage and Deracination in Walker's "Everyday Use"A Student Essay Creativity: Suggestions for Writing Creativity: Writing about Film Quest Writing about Quest EssaysPlato, Allegory of the Cave Matthew, BeatitudesWilliam Golding, Thinking As a Hobby FictionJames Joyce, Araby Arthur C. Clarke, The Star Toni Cade Bambara, Raymond's Run Isabel Allende, And of Clay Are We Created Louise Erdrich, Naked Woman Playing Chopin: A Fargo Romance **PoetryJohn Donne, Holy Sonnet 14 John Milton, Sonnet 16 William Blake, The Lamb **The Tyger Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Langston Hughes, HarlemJohn Ciardi, In Place of a Curse ** N. Scott Momaday, Carriers of the Dream Wheel DramaSophocles, Oedipus Rex Casebook on Flannery O'ConnorFlannery O'ConnorA Good Man Is Hard to Find Greenleaf The Fiction Writer and His Country Frederick J. Hoffman, The Search for Redemption: Flannery O'Connor's Fiction Gilbert H. Muller, Violence and the Grotesque Margaret Earley Whitt, Understanding Flannery O'Connor: Greenleaf A Student Essay Quest: Suggestions for Writing Quest: Writing about Film Appendix A: Critical Approaches to Literature Appendix B: Writing about FilmA Student Essay Appendix C: Documenting a Research Paper: MLA FormatGlossary Acknowledgments Index
