Description: * signifies new work or sectionINTRODUCTIONREADING (AND WRITING ABOUT) LITERATUREReading LiteratureThe Pleasures of FictionThe Dog and the ShadowLearning to Be Silent*Reading the Parable in ContextThe Pleasures of PoetryRobert 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 LiteratureReasons for Writing About LiteratureWays of Writing About LiteratureThe Writing ProcessStephen Crane, War Is KindPART ONE: FICTIONCHAPTER 1: READING STORIESLuke: The Prodigal SonThe Experience of FictionThe Interpretation of FictionReading in ContextThe Evaluation of FictionJohn Updike A&PThe Act of Reading FictionKate Chopin, The Story of an HourCHAPTER 2: TYPES OF SHORT FICTIONEarly Forms: Parable, Fable, and TaleAesop, The Wolf and the MastiffPetronius, The Widow of EphesusThe Short StoryThe Nonrealistic StoryThe Short NovelCHAPTER 3: THE ELEMENTS OF FICTIONPlot and StructureFrank O''Connor, Guests of the NationCharacterKay Boyle, Astronomer''s WifeSettingBobbie Ann Mason, ShilohPoint of ViewWilliam Faulkner, A Rose for EmilyLanguage and StyleJames Joyce, ArabyThemeEudora Welty, A Worn PathIrony and SymbolD.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse WinnerCHAPTER 4: WRITING ABOUT FICTIONReasons for Writing About FictionInformal Ways of Writing About FictionAnnotationKatherine Anne Porter, MagicFreewritingFormal Ways of Writing About FictionStudent Papers on FictionQuestions for Writing about FictionSuggestions for WritingCHAPTER 5: THREE FICTION WRITERS IN CONTEXTReading 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''ConnorCHAPTER 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 YATESRaymond Carver, CathedralAnton Chekhov, The KissTRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETTRalph 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 HouseFranz Kafka, The MetamorphosisTRANSLATED BY ALEXIS WALKERJamaica 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 POEMSThe Experience of PoetryRobert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays*Reading in ContextThe Interpretation of PoetryRobert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening*Reading in ContextThe Evaluation of PoetryAdrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer''s TigersThe Act of Reading PoetryTheodore Roethke, My Papa''s WaltzCHAPTER 8: TYPES OF POETRYNarrative Poetr

Please Wait