Compact Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, 2016 Mla

COMPACT Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, 2016 MLA Update, 9th Edition

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Combining the broadest choice of readings available with time-proven, course-tested pedagogy, Meaty LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, 9E is a groundbreaking Introduction to Literature text. The ninth edition features new stories, new poems, and new plays, along with a comprehensive guide to writing most literature and full coverage of critical thinking and argument. Authors Kirszner and Mandell take students through each… More

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Part 1: A GUIDE TO WRITING Nigh LITERATURE.
i. Agreement Literature.
Luisa Valenzuela, "All about Suicide." Robert Frost, "Stopping past Wood on a Snowy Evening."
ii. Reading and Writing well-nigh Literature.
Julia Alvarez's "Dusting."
3. Approaching Assignments in Literature.
iv. Thinking Critically about Your Writing.
5. Writing Literary Arguments.
half-dozen. Using Sources in Your Writing.
7. Documenting Sources and Fugitive Plagiarism.
eight. Writing Essay Exams well-nigh Literature.
PART II: FICTION.
9. Understanding Fiction.
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Similar White Elephants."
x. Fiction Sampler: The Short-Short Story.
Julia Alvarez, "Snowfall." Amanda Dark-brown, "Beloved and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape." Sandra Cisneros, "Pilón." Lydia Davis, "Television." Dave Eggers, "Accident." Bret Anthony Johnston, "Encounters with Unexpected Animals." Stephen Graham Jones, "Discovering America." Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl." Ed Park, "Slide to Unlock." George Saunders, "Sticks."
xi. Fiction Sampler: Graphic Fiction.
Max Brooks, from The Harlem Hellfighters. R. Crumb, "A Hunger Artist." Marjane Satrapi, from Persepolis. Art Spiegleman, from Maus. Craig Thompson, from Blankets. Gene Luen Yang, from American Born Chinese.
12. Reading and Writing about Fiction.
Alberto Álvaro Ríos, "The Surreptitious Lion."
13. Plot.
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour." Orhan Pamuk, "Distant Relations." Neil Gaiman, "How to Talk to Girls at Parties." William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily."
xiv. Character.
John Updike, "A&P". Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill." Charles Baxter, "Gryphon." Zadie Smith, "The Girl with Bangs."
15. Setting.
Kate Chopin, "The Tempest." Sherman J. Alexie, "This Is What Information technology Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona." Ralph Ellison, "Boxing Regal." Tillie Olson, "I Stand Here Ironing."
sixteen. Point of View.
Richard Wright, "Large Black Good Man." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado." William Faulkner, "Barn Burning." Edwidge Danticat, "New York Day Women."
17. Manner, Tone, and Linguistic communication.
James Joyce, "Araby." (Mary) Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellowish Wallpaper." Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried."
18. Symbol, Apologue, and Myth.
M. Thou. Hobson, "Oaks Park." Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery." Alice Walker, "Everyday Use." Raymond Carver, "Cathedral." Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown."
19. Theme.
Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path." David Michael Kaplan, "Doe Season." D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence, "The Rocking-Equus caballus Winner." Tobias Wolff, "Bullet in the Brain."
xx. Joyce Carol Oates'south "Where Are You Going, Where Accept You lot Been?": A Casebook for Reading, Enquiry, and Writing. Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are Y'all Going, Where Have You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates, "When Characters from the Page Are Made Flesh on the Screen." Bob Dylan, "Information technology's All Over Now, Baby Blueish." "The Pied Piper of Tucson" (photo essay). Anonymous, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." Charles Perrault, "Little Cerise Riding Hood." A. R. Coulthard, "Joyce Ballad Oates's 'Where Are You lot Going, Where Have Y'all Been?' as Pure Realism." Laura Kalpakian, from a review of Where Are You Going, Where Have Yous Been?: Selected Early on Stories. Larry Rubin, "Oates'due south 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You lot Been?'" Peter Dickinson, from "Riding in Cars with Boys: Reconsidering Smoothen Talk."
21. Fiction for Further Reading.
Chinua Achebe, "Expressionless Human being's Path." Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings." James Baldwin, "Sonny'southward Blues." T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Greasy Lake." Junot Díaz, "No Confront." James Franco, "Halloween." Gabriel García Márquez, "A Very One-time Man with Enormous Wings." Ha Jin, "The Bane of the Internet." Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Creative person." Lorrie Moore, "Referential." Joyce Carol Oates, "Heat." Flannery O'Connor, "Everything That Rises Must Converge." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart." Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums." Amy Tan, "2 Kinds."
PART Iii: POETRY.
22. Understanding Poetry.
Marianne Moore, "Poetry." Pamela Spiro Wagner, "How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Transmission." William Shakespeare, "That time of yr thou mayst in me behold." E. Due east. Cummings, "l(a."
23. Reading and Writing about Poesy.
Robert Hayden, "Those Wintertime Sundays." Seamus Heaney, "Digging."
24. Phonation.
Emily Dickinson, "I'm nobody! Who are you?" Louise Glück, "Gretel in Darkness." Langston Hughes, "Negro." Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess." Leslie Marmon Silko, "Where Mount Lion Lay Downwardly with Deer." Janice Mirikitani, "Suicide Notation." Rafael Campo, "My Vocalisation." Robert Frost, "Fire and Water ice." Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed." Amy Lowell, "Patterns." William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much with Us." Sylvia Plath, "Morning Song." Claude McKay, "The White City." Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Robert Browning, "Porphyria's Lover." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias." Sherman Alexie, "Evolution." Anne Sexton, "Cinderella." Sandra M. Castillo, "Castro Moves into the Havana Hilton." Agha Shahid Ali, "The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'." Dudley Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham." Wislawa Szymborska, "Hitler's First Photo."
25. Word Choice, Discussion Order.
Bob Holman, "Beautiful." Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Rhina Espaillat, "Bilingual/Bilingue." Adrienne Rich, "Living in Sin." Eastward. E. Cummings, "in Just-."
Francisco X. Alarcón, "Mexican' Is Not a Noun." Margaret Atwood, "The City Planners." Jim Sagel, "Baca Grande." Adrienne Su, "The English language Canon." Marking Halliday, "The Value of Pedagogy." Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask." Mary Karr, "A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son." Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Real Cool." Gwendolyn Brooks, "What Shall I Give My Children?" Edmund Spenser, "One day I wrote her proper noun upon the strand." E. E. Cummings, "anyone lived in a pretty how town." A. E. Housman, "To an Athlete Dying Immature." Charles Jensen, "Verse form in Which Words Take Been Left Out."
26. Imagery.
Jane Flemish region, "Cloud Painter." William Carlos Williams, "Ruddy Wheelbarrow." Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro." Gary Snyder, "Some Good Things to Be Said for the Iron Historic period." William Carlos Williams, "The Great Effigy." David Trinidad, "9773 Comanche Ave." Fernando Pessoa, "Solemnly Over the Fertile Land." F. J. Bergmann, "An Apology." Hart Crane, "Echoes." Lola Ridge, "Wall Street at Night." Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Jean Toomer, "Reapers." Kobayashi Issa, "Haiku." Due north. Scott Momaday, "Long Shadows at Dulce." Frederick Morgan, "The Busses." William Shakespeare, "My mistress' eyes are nothing similar the sun." Octavio Paz, "Daybreak." Octavio Paz, "Nightfall."
27. Figures of Voice communication.
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer'southward day? Langston Hughes, Harlem. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity. Audre Lorde, Rooming houses are sometime women. Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, cherry-red rose. Due north. Scott Momaday, Simile. Sylvia Plath, Metaphors. John Updike, Ex-Basketball Role player. Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant. John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Martín Espada, My Father as a Guitar. Sylvia Plath, Daddy. Edna St. Vincent Millay, If I should acquire, in some quite casual way. Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Married man. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress. Robert Frost, Out, Out—. Countee Cullen, Incident. Margaret Atwood, Yous fit into me. Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Going to the Wars. Dylan Thomas, The Hand That Signed the Newspaper. Nancy Mercado, Going to Piece of work. John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale. Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California.
28. Sound.
Walt Whitman, "Had I the Pick." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Sadie and Maud." Emily Dickinson, "I similar to run into it lap the Miles—." Adrienne Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers." Thomas Lux, "A Little Tooth." Lewis Carroll, "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Heaven." N. Scott Momaday, "Comparatives." Robert Herrick, "Please in Disorder." Robert Frost, "The Route Not Taken." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty." Shel Silverstein, "Where the Sidewalk Ends." Jacob Saenz, "Evolution of My Block." Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky."
29. Grade.
John Keats, "On the Sonnet." William Shakespeare, "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes." John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Dearest is not all." Lynn Aarti Chandhok, "The Carpet Mill." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Get-go Fight, And so Fiddle." Rhina Espaillat, "Find Work." Alberto Álvaro Ríos, "Nani." Elizabeth Bishop, "Sestina." Patricia Smith, "Ethel'due south Sestina." Theodore Roethke, "The Waking." Deborah Paredez, "Wife's Disaster Manual." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What Is an Epigram?" Dorothy Parker, "News Detail." Carol Ann Duffy, "Mrs. Darwin." Martín Espada, "Why I Went to College." A. R. Ammons, "Both Means." Matsuo Bashō, "4 Haiku." Jack Kerouac, "American Haiku." Carl Sandburg, "Chicago." E. E. Cummings, "the sky was tin can dy." Walt Whitman, from "Out of the Cradle Incessantly Rocking." William Carlos Williams, "Jump and All." Richard Blanco, "Mexican Almuerzo in New England." Claire Lee, "Living in Numbers." May Swenson, "Women." George Herbert, "Easter Wings." John Hollander, "Skeleton Key." May Swenson, "Women Should Be Pedestals."
30. Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth.
William Blake, "The Ill Rose." Robert Frost, "For Once, Then, Something." Emily Dickinson, "Volcanoes exist in Sicily." Langston Hughes, "Island." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven." Virgil Suárez, "Isla." Christina Rossetti, "Uphill." Carl Dennis, "At the Edge." William Meredith, "Dreams of Suicide." Billy Collins, "Aristotle." R. S. Gwynn, "Shakespearean Sonnet." Countee Cullen, "However Practise I Marvel." May Swenson, "The Centaur." William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan." Seamus Heaney, "Anything Tin Happen." W. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts." T. Southward. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi."
31. Discovering Themes in Poetry.
Robert Herrick, "The Argument of His Volume." Theodore Roethke, "My Papa'southward Waltz." Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sund.ays" Julia Alvarez, "Dusting." Seamus Heaney, "Digging." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Retentivity." Mitsuye Yamada, "The Nighttime Before Goodbye." Richard Blanco, "Papa'south Bridge." Andrew Hudgins, "Elegy for My Begetter, Who Is Not Dead." Adrienne Rich, "A Woman Mourned by Daughters." Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that expert dark." William Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely as a deject." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover." A. Eastward. Housman, "Loveliest of Trees." Carl Sandburg, "Fog." Robert Frost, "Birches." Denise Levertov, "Living." Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things." Carl Sandburg, "Fall Motility." Robert Browning, "Coming together at Night." Robert Browning, "Parting at Morning." Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Practice I Dear Thee?" Edna St. Vincent Millay, "What lips my lips have kissed." Jehanne Dubrow, "Earlier the Deployment." Leigh Hunt, "Jenny Kissed Me." Dorothy Parker, "General Review of the Sexual practice Situation." Tupac Shakur, "Dearest is But Complicated." Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et decorum Est." Siegfried Sassoon, "Atrocities." Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier." John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields." Radiohead, "Harry Patch (in Retentivity of)." Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts." W. H. Auden, from "In Time of War." Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It." David Hernandez, "Mosul." Richard Wilbur, "Terza Rima." Wislawa Szymborska, "The End and the Get-go."
32. The Verse of Langston Hughes: A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing.
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Langston Hughes, "Dream Variations." Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues." Langston Hughes, "I, Too." Langston Hughes, "Vocal for a Dark Girl." Langston Hughes, "Carol of the Landlord." Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B." Langston Hughes, "Dream Boogie." Langston Hughes, "Birmingham Lord's day (September 15, 1963)." Langston Hughes, "Sometime Walt." Langston Hughes, "Lenox Artery: Midnight." Langston Hughes, "United nations-American Investigators." Langston Hughes, "Dinner Guest: Me." Langston Hughes, "Ballad of Booker T." Langston Hughes, from "The Negro Creative person and the Racial Mountain." Langston Hughes, "To Negro Writers." Langston Hughes, from "My Adventures equally a Social Poet." Arnold Rampersad, from "The Origins of Poetry in Langston Hughes." Poetry Foundation, from "Langston Hughes." Rick Brown, "Bitter Jazz in Langston Hughes's 'Dream Boogie'." Karen Jackson Ford, from "Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes'southward Aesthetics of Simplicity." George B. Hutchinson, from "Langston Hughes and the 'Other' Whitman." Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Langston Hughes + Poetry = The Blues."
33. Poetry for Further Reading.
Sherman J. Alexie, "Defending Walt Whitman." Anonymous, "Bonny Barbara Allan." Bearding, "Get Down, Moses." Matthew Arnold, "Dover Embankment." Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish." William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper." William Blake, "The Lamb." William Blake, "London." William Blake, "To see a World in a Grain of Sand." William Blake, "The Tyger." Elizabeth Bradfield, "Why They Went." Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book." Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Chicago Defender Sends a Homo to Little Rock." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Medgar Evers." Charles Bukowski, "then y'all want to be a author?" George Gordon, Lord Byron, "She Walks in Dazzler." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Lessons of the Past." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan." Baton Collins, "Introduction to Poesy." Bill Coyle, "Aubade." E. E. Cummings, "Buffalo Beak's." East. E. Cummings, "side by side to of course god america i." Jim Daniels, "Short-Order Melt." Emily Dickinson, "After great pain, a formal feeling comes—." Emily Dickinson, "Considering I could not stop for Death—." Emily Dickinson, "'Faith' is a fine invention." Emily Dickinson, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers—." Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in Possibility—." Emily Dickinson, "I heard a Wing buzz—when I died—." Emily Dickinson, "I never saw a Moor—." Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed—." Emily Dickinson, "Much Madness is divinest Sense—." Emily Dickinson, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun." Emily Dickinson, "The Soul selects her own Society—." Emily Dickinson, "Success is counted sweetest." Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant—." Emily Dickinson, "At that place is no Frigate like a Book." Emily Dickinson, "In that location's a sure Camber of lite." Emily Dickinson, "This is my letter to the World." Emily Dickinson, "Wild Nights—Wild Nights!" John Donne, "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God." John Donne, "Death Be Not Proud." John Donne, "The Flea." Denise Duhamel, "Buddhist Barbie." T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." James A. Emanuel, "Emmett Till." Louise Erdrich, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways." Martín Espada, "The Community Higher Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics." Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night." Robert Frost, "Design." Robert Frost, "Mending Wall." Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain." Seamus Heaney, "Mid-Term Break." William Ernest Henley, "Invictus." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God'southward Grandeur." A. E. Housman, "When I Was One-and-20." Donald Justice, "Men at Twoscore." John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad." John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats, "When I Have Fears." David Keplinger, "Moving ridge." Steve Kowit, "The Grammer Lesson." Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ, "Bomb Crater Sky." Philip Larkin, "The Explosion." Li-Young Lee, "From Blossoms." Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour." Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica." Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." Claude McKay, "If We Must Die." John Milton, "When I consider how my light is spent." Pat Mora, "La Migra." Pablo Neruda, "Tonight I Tin can Write." Pablo Neruda, "The United Fruit Co." Linda Pastan, "Ethics." Linda Pastan, "Marks." Leroy Five. Quintana, "Verse form for Salt." Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd." Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy." Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Richard Cory." Cynthia Rylant, "God Went to Beauty School." William Shakespeare, "Allow me not to the wedlock of true minds." William Shakespeare, "Not marble, nor the golden monuments." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind." Stevie Smith, "Not Waving but Drowning." Wole Soyinka, "Hamlet." Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar." Wallace Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice-Foam." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses." Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill." Ko United nations, "In the one-time days a poet once said." Charles Webb, "The Death of Santa Claus." Phillis Wheatley, "On Beingness Brought from Africa to America." Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing." Walt Whitman, "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Walt Whitman, from "Vocal of Myself." William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802." William Wordsworth, "London, 1802." William Wordsworth, "My heart leaps upward when I behold." William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper." William Butler Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death." William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium." William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming." Kevin Young, "Song of Smoke."
Poetry Sampler: Poetry and Art.
Rita Dove, "Sonnet in Chief Colors." Jane Flanders, "Van Gogh''s Bed." Allen Ginsberg, "Cézanne's Ports." Robert Hayden, "Monet's 'Waterlilies." Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night." Cathy Song, "Girl Powdering Her Neck."
PART Four: DRAMA.
34. Understanding Drama.
Anton Chekhov, The Beast.
35. Drama Sampler: Ten-Minute Plays.
Steven Korbar, "What Are You lot Going to Be?" Jane Martin, Beauty. Kimberly Pau, Magic 8 Ball. Harold Pinter, Bidder. Earl T. Roske, Zombie Love.
37. Plot.
David Ives, The Blizzard. Warren Leight, Nine X. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House.
38. Character.
Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman, Postal service-its. David Auburn, Proof. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
39. Staging.
Michael Salomon, The Engagement. Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer. Sophocles, Oedipus the King.
40. Theme.
Jeni Mahoney, Come Rain or Come Shine. Sophocles, Antigone. John Patrick Shanley, Doubtfulness: A Parable. Baronial Wilson, Fences.
41. Susan Glaspell'southward Trifles: A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing.
Susan Glaspell, Trifles. Linda Ben-Zvi, from "Murder, She Wrote: The Genesis of Susan Glaspell's Trifles." Susan Glaspell, "Surrounded by Mystery: Murder of John Hossack Was Non for Money." Bearding, "Wife Charged with Murder." Susan Glaspell, "Surprise Is Expected: Rumored Developments in Hossack Murder Case." Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers." Suzy Clarkson Holstein, from "Silent Justice in a Dissimilar Cardinal: Glaspell's Trifles." Leonard Mustazza, "Generic Translation and Thematic Shift in Susan Glaspell's Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers." Lillian Schanfield, from "The Example of the Battered Wife: Susan Glaspell'southward Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers." Judith Kay Russell, "Glaspell'southward Trifles."

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Table of Contents

PART 1: A GUIDE TO WRITING Nigh LITERATURE.
1. Understanding Literature.
Luisa Valenzuela, "All most Suicide." Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
two. Reading and Writing about Literature.
Julia Alvarez's "Dusting."
three. Approaching Assignments in Literature.
4. Thinking Critically about Your Writing.
5. Writing Literary Arguments.
6. Using Sources in Your Writing.
7. Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism.
8. Writing Essay Exams about Literature.
Office 2: FICTION.
nine. Understanding Fiction.
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants."
10. Fiction Sampler: The Short-Short Story.
Julia Alvarez, "Snowfall." Amanda Brown, "Dearest and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape." Sandra Cisneros, "Pilón." Lydia Davis, "Television." Dave Eggers, "Blow." Bret Anthony Johnston, "Encounters with Unexpected Animals." Stephen Graham Jones, "Discovering America." Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl." Ed Park, "Slide to Unlock." George Saunders, "Sticks."
11. Fiction Sampler: Graphic Fiction.
Max Brooks, from The Harlem Hellfighters. R. Crumb, "A Hunger Artist." Marjane Satrapi, from Persepolis. Art Spiegleman, from Maus. Craig Thompson, from Blankets. Gene Luen Yang, from American Born Chinese.
12. Reading and Writing nigh Fiction.
Alberto Álvaro Ríos, "The Hole-and-corner Lion."
thirteen. Plot.
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour." Orhan Pamuk, "Distant Relations." Neil Gaiman, "How to Talk to Girls at Parties." William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily."
14. Grapheme.
John Updike, "A&P". Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill." Charles Baxter, "Gryphon." Zadie Smith, "The Girl with Bangs."
fifteen. Setting.
Kate Chopin, "The Storm." Sherman J. Alexie, "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona." Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal." Tillie Olson, "I Stand Here Ironing."
sixteen. Betoken of View.
Richard Wright, "Large Black Proficient Man." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado." William Faulkner, "Barn Burning." Edwidge Danticat, "New York 24-hour interval Women."
17. Style, Tone, and Language.
James Joyce, "Araby." (Mary) Flannery O'Connor, "A Practiced Human Is Hard to Find." Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Xanthous Wallpaper." Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried."
eighteen. Symbol, Allegory, and Myth.
M. One thousand. Hobson, "Oaks Park." Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery." Alice Walker, "Everyday Use." Raymond Carver, "Cathedral." Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brownish."
19. Theme.
Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path." David Michael Kaplan, "Doe Season." D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence, "The Rocking-Equus caballus Winner." Tobias Wolff, "Bullet in the Encephalon."
xx. Joyce Carol Oates'southward "Where Are You Going, Where Have Yous Been?": A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing. Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates, "When Characters from the Page Are Made Flesh on the Screen." Bob Dylan, "Information technology's All Over Now, Baby Blueish." "The Pied Piper of Tucson" (photo essay). Anonymous, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." Charles Perrault, "Piffling Red Riding Hood." A. R. Coulthard, "Joyce Carol Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Take You Been?' as Pure Realism." Laura Kalpakian, from a review of Where Are You lot Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories. Larry Rubin, "Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Take You Been?'" Peter Dickinson, from "Riding in Cars with Boys: Reconsidering Polish Talk."
21. Fiction for Farther Reading.
Chinua Achebe, "Dead Human being'south Path." Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings." James Baldwin, "Sonny's Dejection." T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Greasy Lake." Junot Díaz, "No Face." James Franco, "Halloween." Gabriel García Márquez, "A Very Sometime Man with Enormous Wings." Ha Jin, "The Bane of the Cyberspace." Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Creative person." Lorrie Moore, "Referential." Joyce Carol Oates, "Heat." Flannery O'Connor, "Everything That Rises Must Converge." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Centre." Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums." Amy Tan, "Ii Kinds."
PART III: Poetry.
22. Understanding Poesy.
Marianne Moore, "Poetry." Pamela Spiro Wagner, "How to Read a Verse form: Beginner's Manual." William Shakespeare, "That time of yr g mayst in me behold." East. E. Cummings, "l(a."
23. Reading and Writing virtually Verse.
Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays." Seamus Heaney, "Digging."
24. Voice.
Emily Dickinson, "I'g nobody! Who are you?" Louise Glück, "Gretel in Darkness." Langston Hughes, "Negro." Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess." Leslie Marmon Silko, "Where Mountain King of beasts Lay Down with Deer." Janice Mirikitani, "Suicide Note." Rafael Campo, "My Vocalisation." Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice." Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed." Amy Lowell, "Patterns." William Wordsworth, "The Earth Is Too Much with Us." Sylvia Plath, "Morning Vocal." Claude McKay, "The White City." Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Fourth dimension." Robert Browning, "Porphyria's Lover." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias." Sherman Alexie, "Evolution." Anne Sexton, "Cinderella." Sandra M. Castillo, "Castro Moves into the Havana Hilton." Agha Shahid Ali, "The Wolf's Postscript to 'Lilliputian Red Riding Hood'." Dudley Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham." Wislawa Szymborska, "Hitler'southward Showtime Photograph."
25. Word Choice, Word Order.
Bob Holman, "Beautiful." Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Rhina Espaillat, "Bilingual/Bilingue." Adrienne Rich, "Living in Sin." Due east. Eastward. Cummings, "in Only-."
Francisco Ten. Alarcón, "Mexican' Is Not a Noun." Margaret Atwood, "The Urban center Planners." Jim Sagel, "Baca Grande." Adrienne Su, "The English Catechism." Mark Halliday, "The Value of Education." Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Vesture the Mask." Mary Karr, "A Blessing from My Xvi Years' Son." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Nosotros Real Cool." Gwendolyn Brooks, "What Shall I Give My Children?" Edmund Spenser, "Ane day I wrote her name upon the strand." E. East. Cummings, "anyone lived in a pretty how boondocks." A. E. Housman, "To an Athlete Dying Young." Charles Jensen, "Poem in Which Words Take Been Left Out."
26. Imagery.
Jane Flanders, "Cloud Painter." William Carlos Williams, "Scarlet Wheelbarrow." Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro." Gary Snyder, "Some Good Things to Be Said for the Fe Age." William Carlos Williams, "The Great Figure." David Trinidad, "9773 Comanche Ave." Fernando Pessoa, "Solemnly Over the Fertile Land." F. J. Bergmann, "An Apology." Hart Crane, "Echoes." Lola Ridge, "Wall Street at Dark." Robert Frost, "Goose egg Gilt Can Stay." Jean Toomer, "Reapers." Kobayashi Issa, "Haiku." N. Scott Momaday, "Long Shadows at Dulce." Frederick Morgan, "The Busses." William Shakespeare, "My mistress' eyes are naught like the sun." Octavio Paz, "Daybreak." Octavio Paz, "Nightfall."
27. Figures of Voice communication.
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer'due south day? Langston Hughes, Harlem. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity. Audre Lorde, Rooming houses are former women. Robert Burns, Oh, my love is like a red, red rose. N. Scott Momaday, Simile. Sylvia Plath, Metaphors. John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player. Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant. John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Martín Espada, My Father as a Guitar. Sylvia Plath, Daddy. Edna St. Vincent Millay, If I should learn, in some quite casual style. Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress. Robert Frost, Out, Out—. Countee Cullen, Incident. Margaret Atwood, Yous fit into me. Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Going to the Wars. Dylan Thomas, The Paw That Signed the Paper. Nancy Mercado, Going to Piece of work. John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale. Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California.
28. Sound.
Walt Whitman, "Had I the Choice." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Sadie and Maud." Emily Dickinson, "I like to come across it lap the Miles—." Adrienne Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers." Thomas Lux, "A Lilliputian Tooth." Lewis Carroll, "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky." Northward. Scott Momaday, "Comparatives." Robert Herrick, "Please in Disorder." Robert Frost, "The Route Not Taken." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty." Shel Silverstein, "Where the Sidewalk Ends." Jacob Saenz, "Evolution of My Cake." Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky."
29. Form.
John Keats, "On the Sonnet." William Shakespeare, "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes." John Keats, "On Kickoff Looking into Chapman'due south Homer." Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Love is not all." Lynn Aarti Chandhok, "The Carpet Factory." Gwendolyn Brooks, "First Fight, So Fiddle." Rhina Espaillat, "Find Piece of work." Alberto Álvaro Ríos, "Nani." Elizabeth Bishop, "Sestina." Patricia Smith, "Ethel's Sestina." Theodore Roethke, "The Waking." Deborah Paredez, "Wife'south Disaster Manual." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What Is an Epigram?" Dorothy Parker, "News Particular." Carol Ann Duffy, "Mrs. Darwin." Martín Espada, "Why I Went to College." A. R. Ammons, "Both Means." Matsuo Bashō, "Iv Haiku." Jack Kerouac, "American Haiku." Carl Sandburg, "Chicago." E. East. Cummings, "the sky was can dy." Walt Whitman, from "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." William Carlos Williams, "Spring and All." Richard Blanco, "Mexican Almuerzo in New England." Claire Lee, "Living in Numbers." May Swenson, "Women." George Herbert, "Easter Wings." John Hollander, "Skeleton Key." May Swenson, "Women Should Be Pedestals."
30. Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth.
William Blake, "The Sick Rose." Robert Frost, "For In one case, Then, Something." Emily Dickinson, "Volcanoes be in Sicily." Langston Hughes, "Island." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven." Virgil Suárez, "Isla." Christina Rossetti, "Uphill." Carl Dennis, "At the Border." William Meredith, "Dreams of Suicide." Billy Collins, "Aristotle." R. Southward. Gwynn, "Shakespearean Sonnet." Countee Cullen, "Still Practice I Marvel." May Swenson, "The Centaur." William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan." Seamus Heaney, "Annihilation Can Happen." Due west. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts." T. S. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi."
31. Discovering Themes in Poetry.
Robert Herrick, "The Argument of His Book." Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz." Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sund.ays" Julia Alvarez, "Dusting." Seamus Heaney, "Digging." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Retentivity." Mitsuye Yamada, "The Dark Before Goodbye." Richard Blanco, "Papa's Span." Andrew Hudgins, "Elegy for My Father, Who Is Non Dead." Adrienne Rich, "A Woman Mourned by Daughters." Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that expert night." William Wordsworth, "I wandered solitary equally a cloud." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover." A. E. Housman, "Loveliest of Trees." Carl Sandburg, "Fog." Robert Frost, "Birches." Denise Levertov, "Living." Wendell Drupe, "The Peace of Wild Things." Carl Sandburg, "Autumn Movement." Robert Browning, "Meeting at Nighttime." Robert Browning, "Parting at Morning." Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee?" Edna St. Vincent Millay, "What lips my lips have kissed." Jehanne Dubrow, "Before the Deployment." Leigh Hunt, "Jenny Kissed Me." Dorothy Parker, "General Review of the Sex Situation." Tupac Shakur, "Dearest is Merely Complicated." Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et decorum Est." Siegfried Sassoon, "Atrocities." Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier." John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields." Radiohead, "Harry Patch (in Retention of)." Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts." W. H. Auden, from "In Time of War." Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It." David Hernandez, "Mosul." Richard Wilbur, "Terza Rima." Wislawa Szymborska, "The End and the Starting time."
32. The Poetry of Langston Hughes: A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing.
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Langston Hughes, "Dream Variations." Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues." Langston Hughes, "I, Too." Langston Hughes, "Song for a Dark Daughter." Langston Hughes, "Ballad of the Landlord." Langston Hughes, "Theme for English language B." Langston Hughes, "Dream Boogie." Langston Hughes, "Birmingham Sunday (September 15, 1963)." Langston Hughes, "Old Walt." Langston Hughes, "Lenox Artery: Midnight." Langston Hughes, "Un-American Investigators." Langston Hughes, "Dinner Guest: Me." Langston Hughes, "Carol of Booker T." Langston Hughes, from "The Negro Creative person and the Racial Mountain." Langston Hughes, "To Negro Writers." Langston Hughes, from "My Adventures as a Social Poet." Arnold Rampersad, from "The Origins of Poetry in Langston Hughes." Poetry Foundation, from "Langston Hughes." Rick Brown, "Bitter Jazz in Langston Hughes's 'Dream Boogie'." Karen Jackson Ford, from "Do Right to Write Correct: Langston Hughes'due south Aesthetics of Simplicity." George B. Hutchinson, from "Langston Hughes and the 'Other' Whitman." Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Langston Hughes + Verse = The Blues."
33. Verse for Farther Reading.
Sherman J. Alexie, "Defending Walt Whitman." Anonymous, "Bonny Barbara Allan." Bearding, "Go Down, Moses." Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach." Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish." William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper." William Blake, "The Lamb." William Blake, "London." William Blake, "To see a World in a Grain of Sand." William Blake, "The Tyger." Elizabeth Bradfield, "Why They Went." Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Volume." Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Medgar Evers." Charles Bukowski, "so you want to be a writer?" George Gordon, Lord Byron, "She Walks in Dazzler." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Lessons of the Past." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan." Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry." Nib Coyle, "Aubade." E. Eastward. Cummings, "Buffalo Nib'southward." Due east. E. Cummings, "adjacent to of course god america i." Jim Daniels, "Short-Order Cook." Emily Dickinson, "After great pain, a formal feeling comes—." Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for Death—." Emily Dickinson, "'Faith' is a fine invention." Emily Dickinson, "'Hope' is the matter with feathers—." Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in Possibility—." Emily Dickinson, "I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—." Emily Dickinson, "I never saw a Moor—." Emily Dickinson, "I sense of taste a liquor never brewed—." Emily Dickinson, "Much Madness is divinest Sense—." Emily Dickinson, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun." Emily Dickinson, "The Soul selects her own Lodge—." Emily Dickinson, "Success is counted sweetest." Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the Truth only tell it slant—." Emily Dickinson, "In that location is no Frigate similar a Book." Emily Dickinson, "At that place'south a sure Slant of light." Emily Dickinson, "This is my letter to the Earth." Emily Dickinson, "Wild Nights—Wild Nights!" John Donne, "Batter My Center, Three-Personed God." John Donne, "Death Be Not Proud." John Donne, "The Flea." Denise Duhamel, "Buddhist Barbie." T. S. Eliot, "The Dear Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." James A. Emanuel, "Emmett Till." Louise Erdrich, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways." Martín Espada, "The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics." Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night." Robert Frost, "Pattern." Robert Frost, "Mending Wall." Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain." Seamus Heaney, "Mid-Term Break." William Ernest Henley, "Invictus." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur." A. E. Housman, "When I Was One-and-Twenty." Donald Justice, "Men at Xl." John Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad." John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats, "When I Accept Fears." David Keplinger, "Wave." Steve Kowit, "The Grammar Lesson." Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ, "Flop Crater Sky." Philip Larkin, "The Explosion." Li-Young Lee, "From Blossoms." Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour." Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica." Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Dearest." Claude McKay, "If Nosotros Must Die." John Milton, "When I consider how my low-cal is spent." Pat Mora, "La Migra." Pablo Neruda, "This night I Can Write." Pablo Neruda, "The United Fruit Co." Linda Pastan, "Ethics." Linda Pastan, "Marks." Leroy V. Quintana, "Poem for Table salt." Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd." Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy." Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Richard Cory." Cynthia Rylant, "God Went to Beauty Schoolhouse." William Shakespeare, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds." William Shakespeare, "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind." Stevie Smith, "Not Waving only Drowning." Wole Soyinka, "Hamlet." Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar." Wallace Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses." Dylan Thomas, "Fern Loma." Ko Un, "In the one-time days a poet in one case said." Charles Webb, "The Death of Santa Claus." Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America." Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing." Walt Whitman, "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself." William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802." William Wordsworth, "London, 1802." William Wordsworth, "My center leaps up when I behold." William Wordsworth, "The Alone Reaper." William Butler Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death." William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Island of Innisfree." William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium." William Butler Yeats, "The 2nd Coming." Kevin Immature, "Vocal of Fume."
Poetry Sampler: Poetry and Art.
Rita Dove, "Sonnet in Primary Colors." Jane Flanders, "Van Gogh''s Bed." Allen Ginsberg, "Cézanne'southward Ports." Robert Hayden, "Monet'due south 'Waterlilies." Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night." Cathy Song, "Daughter Powdering Her Neck."
PART IV: DRAMA.
34. Agreement Drama.
Anton Chekhov, The Beast.
35. Drama Sampler: X-Minute Plays.
Steven Korbar, "What Are You lot Going to Be?" Jane Martin, Beauty. Kimberly Pau, Magic 8 Ball. Harold Pinter, Applicant. Earl T. Roske, Zombie Love.
37. Plot.
David Ives, The Blizzard. Warren Leight, Nine X. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House.
38. Grapheme.
Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman, Post-its. David Auburn, Proof. Arthur Miller, Expiry of a Salesman. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
39. Staging.
Michael Salomon, The Date. Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer. Sophocles, Oedipus the Male monarch.
40. Theme.
Jeni Mahoney, Come up Rain or Come Smoothen. Sophocles, Antigone. John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable. August Wilson, Fences.
41. Susan Glaspell's Trifles: A Casebook for Reading, Enquiry, and Writing.
Susan Glaspell, Trifles. Linda Ben-Zvi, from "Murder, She Wrote: The Genesis of Susan Glaspell'due south Trifles." Susan Glaspell, "Surrounded past Mystery: Murder of John Hossack Was Not for Money." Anonymous, "Wife Charged with Murder." Susan Glaspell, "Surprise Is Expected: Rumored Developments in Hossack Murder Example." Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers." Suzy Clarkson Holstein, from "Silent Justice in a Different Primal: Glaspell's Trifles." Leonard Mustazza, "Generic Translation and Thematic Shift in Susan Glaspell's Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers." Lillian Schanfield, from "The Example of the Battered Married woman: Susan Glaspell's Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers." Judith Kay Russell, "Glaspell's Trifles."

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