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Tables of Contents for Reading and Writing About Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
22
``Babylon Revisited''
6
17
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reader-Response Criticism
23
24
``Indian Camp''
28
9
Ernest Hemingway
``Araby''
37
10
James Joyce
Formalist Criticism
47
26
``Because I Could Not Stop for Death''
52
7
Emily Dickenson
``The Fish''
59
6
Elizabeth Bishop
``The Necklace''
65
8
Guy de Maupassant
Ethical Criticism
73
47
``Sonny's Blues''
79
26
James Baldwin
``Cathedral''
105
15
Raymond Carver
Civic Criticism
120
24
``The Lottery''
124
11
Shirley Jackson
``Harrison Bergeron''
135
7
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
``The X in My Name''
142
2
Francisco X. Alarcon
Cultural Criticism
144
39
``To Build a Fire''
149
17
Jack London
``The Horse Dealer's Daughter''
166
14
D. H. Lawrence
``Helen''
180
3
Hilda Doolittle
Feminist Criticism
183
23
Joyce Y. Karpay
``Yellow Woman''
187
12
Leslie Marmon Silko
``The Story of an Hour''
199
7
Kate Chopin
Psychological Criticism
206
43
``Bartleby, the Scrivener''
211
29
Herman Melville
``The Cask of Amontillado''
240
9
Edgar Allan Poe
Deconstructive Criticism
249
42
``The Blue Hotel''
255
26
Stephen Crane
``Don't Delve Too Deeply''
281
7
Alberto Moravia
``Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?''
288
3
William Shakespeare
The Research Essay
291
46
``The Dead''
297
25
James Joyce
Resources
322
7
Greald R. Lucas
Sample Essay on ``The Dead''
329
8
Gerald R. Lucas
Index
337