Description: * Denote selections that are new to this edition. Most chapters conclude with "Writing Assignment" and "Further Suggestions for Writing." FICTION 1. Reading a Story Fable, Parable, and Tales W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra *Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes *Bidpai, The Camel and His Friends Chuang Tzu, Independence Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death Plot The Short Story John Updike A & P Writer''s Perspective John Updike on Writing, Why Write? Writing Critically What''s The Plot? 2. Point of View William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily *Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies James Baldwin, Sonny''s Blues Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O Writer''s Perspective James Baldwin on Writing, Race and the African-American Writer Writing Critically How Point of View Shapes a Story 3. Character Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall Alice Walker, Everyday Use Raymond Carver, Cathedral Writer''s Perspective Raymond Carver on Writing, Commonplace but Precise Language Writing Critically How Character Creates Action 4. Setting Kate Chopin, The Storm Jack London, To Build a Fire T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets Writer''s Perspective. Amy Tan on Writing, Setting the Voice Writing Critically How Time and Place Set a Story 5. Tone and Style Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place William Faulkner, Barn Burning Irony Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace Ha Jin, Saboteur Writer''s Perspective Ernest Hemingway on Writing, The Direct Style Writing Critically Be Style Conscious 6. Theme Stephen Crane, The Open Boat *Alice Munro, Day of the Butterfly Luke 15: 11-32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron Writer''s Perspective Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. on Writing, The Themes of Science Fiction Writing Critically Stating the Theme 7. Symbol John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemum Shirley Jackson, The Lottery *Elizabeth Tallent, No One''s a Mystery Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Writer''s Perspective Ursula K. Le Guin on Writing, On "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Writing Critically Recognizing Symbols Writing Assignment Student Essay, An Analysis of the Symbolism In Steinbeck''s "The Chrysanthemums" 8. Evaluating a Story Writing Critically Know What You''re Judging 9. Reading Long Stories and Novels Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Writer''s Perspective Franz Kafka on Writing, Discussing The Metamorphosis Writing Critically Leaving Things Out Writing Assignment: Student Essay, Kafka''s Greatness 10. Two Critical Casebooks: Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O''Connor *Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart *Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher *Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe on Edgar Allan Poe *Edgar Allan Poe, The Tale and Its Effect *Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition *Edgar Allan Poe, On Imagination Critics on Edgar Allan Poe Daniel Hoffman, The Father-Figure in "The Tell-Tale Heart" Marie Bonaparte, A Psychoanalytic Reading of "The Masque of the Red. Death" *Charles Baudelaire, On Poe''s Genius *James W. Tuttleton, Poe''s Quest for Supernal Beauty Flannery O''Connor Flannery O''Connor, Good Country People Flannery O''Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O''Connor, Revelation Flannery O''Connor on Flannery O''Connor Flannery O''Connor, Excerpt from "On Her Own Work": The Element of Suspense in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Flannery O''Connor, On Her Catholic Faith Flannery O''Connor, Excerpt from "The Grotesque in Southern Fiction": The Serious Writer and the Tired Reader Flannery O''Connor, Yearbook Cartoons Critics on Flannery O''Connor Robert Brinkmeyer Jr., Flannery O''Connor and Her Readers J. O. Tate, A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit Mary Jane Schenck, Deconstructing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" Kathleen Feeley, Comic Perversion in "Good Country People" Writing Critically How One Story Illuminates Another 11. Stories for Further Reading Chinua Achebe, Dead Men''s Path *Isabel Allende, The Judge''s Wife Anjana Appachana, The Prophecy Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark Willa Cather, Paul''s Case John Cheever, The Five-Forty-Eight Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour *Sandra Cisneros, House on Mango Street Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal *Gabriel Garca Mrquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper James Joyce, Araby Jamaica Kincaid, Girl D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner Bernard Malamud, Angel Levine Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Tim O''Brien, The Things They Carried Frank O''Connor, First Confession Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds POETRY 12. Reading a Poem William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree Lyric Poetry D. H. Lawrence, Piano Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer''s Tigers Narrative Poetry Anonymous, Sir Patrick Spence Robert Frost, "Out, Out " Dramatic Poetry Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Writer''s Perspective Adrienne Rich on Writing, Recalling "Aunt Jennifer''s Tigers" Writing Critically Can a Poem be Paraphrased? William Stafford, Ask Me William Stafford, A Paraphrase of "Ask Me" 13. Listening to a Voice Tone Theodore Roethke, My Papa''s Waltz Countee Cullen, For a Lady I Know Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the Miles Benjamin Alire Senz, To the Desert Weldon Kees, For My Daughter The Person in the Poem *Natasha Trethewey, White Lies Edwin Arlington Robinson, Luke Havergal Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Dorothy Wordsworth, Journal Entry James Stephens, A Glass of Beer Anne Sexton, Her Kind William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow Irony Robert Creeley, Oh No W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Sharon Olds, Rites of Passage John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey Sarah N. Cleghorn, The Golf Links *Josephine Miles, Civilian *Connie Bensley, The Covetous Cat Thomas Hardy, The Workbox For Review and Further Study William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper *Robert McDowell, At Home with Dollface William Stafford, At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border H. L. Hix, I Love the World, As Does Any Dancer Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Writer''s Perspective Wilfred Owen on Writing, War Poetry Writing Critically Paying Attention to the Obvious Writing Assignment: Student Essay, Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke''s "My Papa''s Waltz. 14. Words Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Marianne Moore, Silence Robert Graves, Down, Wanton, Down John Donne, Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You The Value of a Dictionary Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath John Clare, Mouse''s Nest J. V. Cunningham, Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead Kelly Cherry, Advice to a Friend Who Paints Carl Sandburg, Grass Word Choice and Word Order Robert Herrick, Upon Julia''s Clothes Kay Ryan, Blandeur Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment Wendy Cope, Lonely Hearts For Review and Further Study E. E. Cummings, anyone lived in a pretty how town *Billy Collins, The Names Anonymous, Carnation Milk William Wordsworth, My heart leaps up when I behold William Wordsworth, Mutability Anonymous, Scottsboro Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Writer''s Perspective Lewis Carroll on Writing, Humpty Dumpty Explicates "Jabberwocky" Writing Critically How Much Difference Does a Word Make 15. Saying and Suggesting John Masefield, Cargoes William Blake, London Wallace Stevens, Disillusionment of Ten O''Clock *Gwendolyn Brooks, The Independent Man Timothy Steele, Epitaph Geoffrey Hill, Merlin Walter de la Mare, The Listeners Robert Frost, Fire and Ice Clare Rossini, Final Love Note Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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