Description: * signifies new work or section INTRODUCTION READING (AND WRITING ABOUT) LITERATURE Reading Literature The Pleasures of Fiction The Dog and the Shadow Learning to Be Silent *Reading the Parable in Context The Pleasures of Poetry Robert Frost, Dust of Snow *Reading Frost''s Poem in Context The Pleasures of Drama *Reading a Play in Context Understanding Literature: *Experience *Interpretation *Evaluation *Reading in Context Writing About Literature Reasons for Writing About Literature Ways of Writing About Literature Writing the Paper Stephen Crane, War Is Kind PART ONE: FICTION CHAPTER 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 Novel CHAPTER 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 Annotation Katherine Anne Porter, Magic Freewriting Formal Ways of Writing About Fiction Student Papers on Fiction Questions for Writing about Fiction Suggestions for Writing CHAPTER 5: THREE FICTION WRITERS IN CONTEXT Reading Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O''Connor Questions 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: Stories The 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 Irony Flannery O''Connor: Stories Good Country People A Good Man Is Hard to Find Everything That Rises Must Converge The Life You Save May Be Your Own *Writer Inspired by Flannery O''Connor Mary Hood, How Far She Went Flannery O''Connor: Essays and Letters Critics 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, Gryphon Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths TRANSLATED BY DONALD YATES Raymond Carver, Cathedral Anton Chekhov, The Kiss TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal *F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings TRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSA Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown *Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants *Ha Jin, Taking a Husband James Joyce, The Boarding House Jamaica 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 Complex Tilie Olson, I Stand Here Ironing *Carol Shields, Dressing for the Carnival Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman Amy Tan, Rules of the Game Alice Walker, Everyday Use Eudora Welty, Why I live at the P.O. *New Voices Maile Meloy, Ranch Girl Timothy 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 World PART TWO: POETRY CHAPTER 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 Portrait Diction 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, Rape Imagery 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 Battle Judith Wright, Woman to Child Symbolism and Allegory Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son Christina Rossetti, Up-Hill William 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 does Stevie Smith, Mother Among the Dustbins Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance Gerard Manley Hopkins, In the Valley of the Elwy Thomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain Alexander Pope, Sound and Sense Bob McKenty, Adam''s Song May Swenson, The Universe Helen Chasin, The Word Plum Rhythm 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 astronomer E. E. Cummings, el(a E. E. Cummings, [Buffalo Bill''s] William Carlos Williams, The Dance Denise Levertov, O Taste and See Theodore Roethke, The Waking C. P. Cavafy, The City TRANSLATED BY EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD Theme Emily Dickinson, Crumbling is not an instant''s Act CHAPTER 10: TRANSFORMATIONS Revisions William Blake, London William Butler Yeats, A Dream of Death Emily Dickinson, The Wind begun to knead (rock) theGrass D. H. Lawrence, Piano Parodies William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Kenneth

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