An introduction to literature : fiction, poetry, drama / 13th ed.

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I Reading, Thinking, and Writing Critically About Literature
1 Reading and Responding to Literature
What Is Literature?
Looking at an Example: Robert Frost, Immigrants
Looking at a Second Example: Pat Mora, Immigrants
Thinking About a Story: Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Stories True and False: Grace Paley, Samuel
What's Past Is Prologue
Sunday in the Park Bel Kaufman
Christmas Tree James Merrill
Might We Too? W. F. Bolton
2 Writing About Literature: From Idea to Essay
Why Write?
Getting Ideas: Pre-Writing
Annotating a Text
Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing
The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin
Focused Free Writing
Listing and Clustering
Developing an Awareness of the Writer's Use of Language
Asking Questions
Keeping a Journal
Arriving at a Thesis
Writing a Draft
Sample Draft of an Essay on Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour
Revising a Draft
Peer Review
The Final Version (Sample Student Essay): Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin's "The Story an Hour."
A Brief Overview of the Final Version
Explication
A Sample Explication
The Balloon of the Mind William Butler Yeats
Comparison and Contrast
Review: How to Write an Effective Essay
Additional Reading
Ripe Figs Kate Chopin
For the Felling of an Elm in the Harvard Yard Adrienne Rich
Refugee Ship Lorna Dee Cervantes
El Tonto del Barrio Jos Armas
II Fiction
3 Approaching Fiction: Responding in Writing
Ernest Hemingway, Cat in the Rain
Responses, Annotations, and Journal Entries
A Sample Essay by a Student: "Hemingway's American Wife."
4 Stories and Meanings: Plot, Character, Theme
Aesop, The Vixen and the Lioness
The Appointment in Samara W. Somerset Maugham
Anonymous, Muddy Road
Misery Anton Chekhov
Desiree's Baby Kate Chopin
Butterflies Patricia Grace
Flies Patricia Grace
5 Narrative Point of View
Participant (or First-Person) Points of View
Nonparticipant (or Third-Person) Points of View
The Point of a Point of View
A & P John Updike
In the Gloaming Alice Elliot Dark
The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book V. S. Naipaul
6 Allegory and Symbol
Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Worn Path Eudora Welty
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel Garciacute;a Maacute;rquez
7 In Brief: Writing About Fiction
Character
Point of View
Setting
Symbolism
Style
Theme
A Story, Notes, and an Essay
The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe
A Student's Written Response to a Story
Notes
A Sample Response Essay: Revenge, Noble, and Ignoble
8 A Fiction Writer at Work
Mine Raymond Carver
Little Things Raymond Carver
Cathedral Raymond Carver
Talking About Stories Raymond Carver
On Rewriting Raymond Carver
On "Cathedral." Raymond Carver
9 Thinking Critically about a Short Story
A Note on Interpretation
A Casebook on Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal."
Battle Royal Ralph Ellison
Atlanta Exposition Address Booker T. Washington
Of Our Spiritual Strivings W. E. B. Du Bois
Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others W. E. B. Du Bois
ILLUSTRATION: Charles Keck, The Booker T. Washington Memorial
On Social Equality Gunnar Myrdal
On Negro Folkore Ralph Ellison
Life in Oklahoma City." Ralph Ellison