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* signifies new work or sectionINTRODUCTION READING (AND WRITING ABOUT) LITERATURE Reading Literature The Pleasures of Fiction The Dog and the ShadowLearning to Be Silent*Reading the Parable in ContextThe Pleasures of Poetry Robert Frost, Dust of Snow*Reading Frost's Poem in ContextThe Pleasures of Drama *Reading a Play in ContextUnderstanding Literature: *Experience*Interpretation*Evaluation*Reading in ContextWriting About Literature Reasons for Writing About Literature Ways of Writing About Literature Writing the Paper Stephen Crane, War Is KindPART ONE: FICTIONCHAPTER 1: READING STORIES Luke: The Prodigal Son The Experience of Fiction The Interpretation of Fiction The Evaluation of Fiction*Reading in Context John Updike A&P The Act of Reading Fiction Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour CHAPTER 2: TYPES OF SHORT FICTION Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale Aesop, The Wolf and the Mastiff Petronius, The Widow of Ephesus The Short Story The Nonrealistic Story The Short NovelCHAPTER 3: THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION Plot and Structure Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation Character Kay Boyle, Astronomer's Wife Setting Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh Point of View William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Language and Style James Joyce, Araby Theme Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Irony and Symbol D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner CHAPTER 4: WRITING ABOUT FICTION Reasons for Writing About Fiction Informal Ways of Writing About Fiction AnnotationKatherine Anne Porter, MagicFreewriting Formal Ways of Writing About Fiction Student Papers on Fiction Questions for Writing about FictionSuggestions for Writing CHAPTER 5: THREE FICTION WRITERS IN CONTEXT Reading Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'ConnorQuestions for In-Depth Reading *Edgar Allan Poe in Context*Poe and Journalism*Poe and the Horror Story*Poe and the Detective Story*The Dimension of Style*Edgar Allan Poe: StoriesThe Black Cat*The Cask of Amontillado*The Fall of the House of Usher*The Purloined Letter*Writer Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe*Joyce Carol Oates, Artist*Edgar Allan Poe: Essays*Critics on Poe*Flannery O'Connor in Context*Southern Gothics*The Catholic Dimension*O'Connor's IronyFlannery O'Connor: StoriesGood Country PeopleA Good Man Is Hard to FindEverything That Rises Must ConvergeThe Life You Save May Be Your Own*Writer Inspired by Flannery O'ConnorMary Hood, How Far She WentFlannery O'Connor: Essays and LettersCritics on O'Connor CHAPTER 6: A COLLECTION OF SHORT FICTION *Sherman Alexis, Indian Education*Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings*Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson*Charles Baxter, GryphonJorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking PathsTRANSLATED BY DONALD YATES Raymond Carver, CathedralAnton Chekhov, The Kiss TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal*F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter DreamsGabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous WingsTRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSACharlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow WallpaperNathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown*Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants*Ha Jin, Taking a HusbandJames Joyce, The Boarding HouseJamaica Kincaid, Girl*Alistair MacLeod, There is a Season*Lorrie Moore, Community Life*Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth*Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried*Frank O'Connor, My Oedipus ComplexTilie Olson, I Stand Here Ironing *Carol Shields, Dressing for the CarnivalLeslie Marmon Silko, Yellow WomanAmy Tan, Rules of the GameAlice Walker, Everyday UseEudora Welty, Why I live at the P.O.*New VoicesMaile Meloy, Ranch GirlTimothy A. Westmoreland, Darkening of the World*Literature in the News*Catcher in the Rye*Bad Writing*Oprah's Book Club*The Best Book in the WorldPART TWO: POETRYCHAPTER 7: READING POEMS The Experience of Poetry Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays*Reading in Context The Interpretation of Poetry Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening*Reading in Context The Evaluation of Poetry Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers The Act of Reading Poetry Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz CHAPTER 8: TYPES OF POETRY Narrative Poetry Lyric Poetry CHAPTER 9: ELEMENTS OF POETRY Voice: Speaker and Tone Stephen Crane, War Is Kind Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Muriel Stuart, In the Orchard Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thou art indeed just, Lord Anonymous, Western Wind Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Jacques Prevert, Family PortraitDiction William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy William Wordsworth, It is a beauteous evening Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder Adrienne Rich, RapeImagery Elizabeth Bishop, First Death in Nova Scotia William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree Robert Browning, Meeting at Night H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Heat Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor William Shakespeare, That time of year thou may'st in me behold John Donne, Hymn to God the Father Robert Wallace, The Double-Play Louis Simpson, The BattleJudith Wright, Woman to ChildSymbolism and Allegory Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son Christina Rossetti, Up-HillWilliam Blake, A Poison Tree Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken George Herbert, Virtue Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death Syntax John Donne, The Sun Rising Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Robert Frost, The Silken Tent E. E. Cummings, Me up at doesStevie Smith, Mother Among the Dustbins Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance Gerard Manley Hopkins, In the Valley of the ElwyThomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain Alexander Pope, Sound and Sense Bob McKenty, Adam's Song May Swenson, The Universe Helen Chasin, The Word PlumRhythm and Meter Robert Frost, The Span of Life George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib Anne Sexton, Her Kind William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow Structure: Closed Form and Open Form John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Walt Whitman, When I heard the learn'd astronomerE. E. Cummings, el(aE. E. Cummings, [Buffalo Bill's] William Carlos Williams, The Dance Denise Levertov, O Taste and See Theodore Roethke, The Waking C. P. Cavafy, The CityTRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD ThemeEmily Dickinson, Crumbling is not an instant's ActCHAPTER 10: TRANSFORMATIONS Revisions William Blake, London William Butler Yeats, A Dream of Death Emily Dickinson, The Wind begun to knead (rock) theGrassD. H. Lawrence, Piano Parodies William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Kenneth Koch, Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carrion Comfort Gary Layne Hatch, Terrier Torment; or, Mr.Hopkins and His Dog William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day Robert Frost, Dust of Snow Bob McKenty, Snow on Frost Poems and Paintings Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night Anne Sexton, The Starry Night Francesco de Goya, The Third of May, 1808David Gewanter Goya's The Third of May, 1808 Pieter Breughel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux ArtsWilliam Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of IcarusPieter Breughel the Elder, Hunters in the SnowJoseph Langland, Hunters in the SnowWilliam Blake, The Sick Rose (watercolor) William Blake, The Sick Rose (poem) *Cathy Song, Girl Powdering Her Neck *Kitagawa Utamaro, Girl Powdering Her NeckHenri Matisse, Dance Natalie Safir, Matisse's Dance*Johannes Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Jug*Stephen Mitchell, Vermeer*Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase*X.J. Kennedy, Nude Descending a StaircaseGustav Klimt, The KissLawrence Ferlinghetti, Short Story on a Painting of Gustav Klimt*Romare Bearden,