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COMPACT Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, 2022 MLA Update, 9th Edition

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Combining the broadest option of readings available with time-proven, class-tested instruction, Meaty LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, 9E is a groundbreaking Introduction to Literature text. The 9th edition features new stories, new poems, and new plays, along with a comprehensive guide to writing near literature and full coverage of critical thinking and argument. Authors Kirszner and Mandell take students through each… More

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Part one: A GUIDE TO WRITING About LITERATURE.
1. Understanding Literature.
Luisa Valenzuela, "All about Suicide." Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
two. Reading and Writing about Literature.
Julia Alvarez'southward "Dusting."
3. Budgeted Assignments in Literature.
iv. Thinking Critically about Your Writing.
5. Writing Literary Arguments.
half-dozen. Using Sources in Your Writing.
7. Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism.
eight. Writing Essay Exams about Literature.
PART Ii: FICTION.
nine. Understanding Fiction.
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants."
10. Fiction Sampler: The Brusk-Brusk Story.
Julia Alvarez, "Snow." Amanda Brownish, "Honey and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape." Sandra Cisneros, "Pilón." Lydia Davis, "Television." Dave Eggers, "Blow." Bret Anthony Johnston, "Encounters with Unexpected Animals." Stephen Graham Jones, "Discovering America." Jamaica Kincaid, "Daughter." Ed Park, "Slide to Unlock." George Saunders, "Sticks."
11. Fiction Sampler: Graphic Fiction.
Max Brooks, from The Harlem Hellfighters. R. Crumb, "A Hunger Artist." Marjane Satrapi, from Persepolis. Fine art Spiegleman, from Maus. Craig Thompson, from Blankets. Factor Luen Yang, from American Born Chinese.
12. Reading and Writing about Fiction.
Alberto Álvaro Ríos, "The Underground Lion."
13. Plot.
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour." Orhan Pamuk, "Distant Relations." Neil Gaiman, "How to Talk to Girls at Parties." William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily."
xiv. Grapheme.
John Updike, "A&P". Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill." Charles Baxter, "Gryphon." Zadie Smith, "The Girl with Bangs."
15. Setting.
Kate Chopin, "The Storm." Sherman J. Alexie, "This Is What Information technology Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona." Ralph Ellison, "Battle Majestic." Tillie Olson, "I Stand Here Ironing."
16. Point of View.
Richard Wright, "Big Black Good Human." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado." William Faulkner, "Barn Called-for." Edwidge Danticat, "New York Day Women."
17. Style, Tone, and Language.
James Joyce, "Araby." (Mary) Flannery O'Connor, "A Skilful Human being Is Hard to Observe." Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellowish Wallpaper." Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried."
18. Symbol, Apologue, and Myth.
M. K. Hobson, "Oaks Park." Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery." Alice Walker, "Everyday Utilize." Raymond Carver, "Cathedral." Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brownish."
19. Theme.
Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path." David Michael Kaplan, "Doe Season." D(gorging) H(erbert) Lawrence, "The Rocking-Equus caballus Winner." Tobias Wolff, "Bullet in the Brain."
20. Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You lot Going, Where Have You Been?": A Casebook for Reading, Inquiry, and Writing. Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are Yous Going, Where Have Yous Been?" Joyce Carol Oates, "When Characters from the Page Are Made Flesh on the Screen." Bob Dylan, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." "The Pied Piper of Tucson" (photo essay). Anonymous, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." Charles Perrault, "Lilliputian Red Riding Hood." A. R. Coulthard, "Joyce Carol Oates'due south 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' as Pure Realism." Laura Kalpakian, from a review of Where Are Y'all Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories. Larry Rubin, "Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Accept You Been?'" Peter Dickinson, from "Riding in Cars with Boys: Reconsidering Smoothen Talk."
21. Fiction for Farther Reading.
Chinua Achebe, "Expressionless Man's Path." Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings." James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues." T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Greasy Lake." Junot Díaz, "No Face." James Franco, "Halloween." Gabriel García Márquez, "A Very Old Homo with Enormous Wings." Ha Jin, "The Bane of the Cyberspace." Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Artist." Lorrie Moore, "Referential." Joyce Carol Oates, "Rut." Flannery O'Connor, "Everything That Rises Must Converge." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart." Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums." Amy Tan, "Two Kinds."
PART III: Verse.
22. Understanding Verse.
Marianne Moore, "Poetry." Pamela Spiro Wagner, "How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual." William Shakespeare, "That time of year thou mayst in me behold." E. E. Cummings, "l(a."
23. Reading and Writing about Poetry.
Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays." Seamus Heaney, "Earthworks."
24. Voice.
Emily Dickinson, "I'grand nobody! Who are you lot?" Louise Glück, "Gretel in Darkness." Langston Hughes, "Negro." Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess." Leslie Marmon Silko, "Where Mountain Lion Lay Downwards with Deer." Janice Mirikitani, "Suicide Note." Rafael Campo, "My Voice." Robert Frost, "Burn and Ice." Thomas Hardy, "The Homo He Killed." Amy Lowell, "Patterns." William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much with Us." Sylvia Plath, "Morning Song." Claude McKay, "The White City." Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Brand Much of Fourth dimension." Robert Browning, "Porphyria'south Lover." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias." Sherman Alexie, "Evolution." Anne Sexton, "Cinderella." Sandra K. Castillo, "Castro Moves into the Havana Hilton." Agha Shahid Ali, "The Wolf'due south Postscript to 'Piffling Cherry Riding Hood'." Dudley Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham." Wislawa Szymborska, "Hitler's Start Photo."
25. Word Option, Discussion Social club.
Bob Holman, "Beautiful." Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Rhina Espaillat, "Bilingual/Bilingue." Adrienne Rich, "Living in Sin." Eastward. Eastward. Cummings, "in Simply-."
Francisco X. Alarcón, "Mexican' Is Not a Substantive." Margaret Atwood, "The City Planners." Jim Sagel, "Baca Grande." Adrienne Su, "The English Canon." Marking Halliday, "The Value of Educational activity." Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wearable the Mask." Mary Karr, "A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Nosotros Real Cool." Gwendolyn Brooks, "What Shall I Requite My Children?" Edmund Spenser, "One solar day I wrote her proper noun upon the strand." E. East. Cummings, "anyone lived in a pretty how town." A. E. Housman, "To an Athlete Dying Young." Charles Jensen, "Poem in Which Words Have Been Left Out."
26. Imagery.
Jane Flanders, "Cloud Painter." William Carlos Williams, "Red Wheelbarrow." Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro." Gary Snyder, "Some Good Things to Be Said for the Iron Age." William Carlos Williams, "The Great Figure." David Trinidad, "9773 Comanche Ave." Fernando Pessoa, "Solemnly Over the Fertile State." F. J. Bergmann, "An Amends." Hart Crane, "Echoes." Lola Ridge, "Wall Street at Night." Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay." Jean Toomer, "Reapers." Kobayashi Issa, "Haiku." N. Scott Momaday, "Long Shadows at Dulce." Frederick Morgan, "The Busses." William Shakespeare, "My mistress' eyes are aught similar the sun." Octavio Paz, "Daybreak." Octavio Paz, "Nightfall."
27. Figures of Speech.
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Langston Hughes, Harlem. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity. Audre Lorde, Rooming houses are erstwhile women. Robert Burns, Oh, my dearest is similar a ruby, carmine rose. N. Scott Momaday, Simile. Sylvia Plath, Metaphors. John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player. Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Brawl Turret Gunner. Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant. John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Martín Espada, My Male parent as a Guitar. Sylvia Plath, Daddy. Edna St. Vincent Millay, If I should learn, in some quite casual way. Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Married man. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress. Robert Frost, Out, Out—. Countee Cullen, Incident. Margaret Atwood, You fit into me. Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Going to the Wars. Dylan Thomas, The Hand That Signed the Paper. Nancy Mercado, Going to Work. John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale. Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California.
28. Sound.
Walt Whitman, "Had I the Choice." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Sadie and Maud." Emily Dickinson, "I like to meet information technology lap the Miles—." Adrienne Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers." Thomas Lux, "A Little Tooth." Lewis Carroll, "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky." N. Scott Momaday, "Comparatives." Robert Herrick, "Delight in Disorder." Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty." Shel Silverstein, "Where the Sidewalk Ends." Jacob Saenz, "Development of My Block." Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky."
29. Form.
John Keats, "On the Sonnet." William Shakespeare, "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes." John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Love is not all." Lynn Aarti Chandhok, "The Carpet Mill." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Outset Fight, Then Fiddle." Rhina Espaillat, "Notice Work." Alberto Álvaro Ríos, "Nani." Elizabeth Bishop, "Sestina." Patricia Smith, "Ethel's Sestina." Theodore Roethke, "The Waking." Deborah Paredez, "Wife's Disaster Manual." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What Is an Epigram?" Dorothy Parker, "News Detail." Carol Ann Duffy, "Mrs. Darwin." Martín Espada, "Why I Went to Higher." A. R. Ammons, "Both Ways." Matsuo Bashō, "Four Haiku." Jack Kerouac, "American Haiku." Carl Sandburg, "Chicago." Due east. E. Cummings, "the sky was tin can dy." Walt Whitman, from "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." William Carlos Williams, "Spring and All." Richard Blanco, "Mexican Almuerzo in New England." Claire Lee, "Living in Numbers." May Swenson, "Women." George Herbert, "Easter Wings." John Hollander, "Skeleton Key." May Swenson, "Women Should Be Pedestals."
30. Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth.
William Blake, "The Ill Rose." Robert Frost, "For Once, Then, Something." Emily Dickinson, "Volcanoes be in Sicily." Langston Hughes, "Island." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven." Virgil Suárez, "Isla." Christina Rossetti, "Uphill." Carl Dennis, "At the Border." William Meredith, "Dreams of Suicide." Billy Collins, "Aristotle." R. S. Gwynn, "Shakespearean Sonnet." Countee Cullen, "Withal Do I Marvel." May Swenson, "The Centaur." William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan." Seamus Heaney, "Annihilation Can Happen." W. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts." T. Southward. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi."
31. Discovering Themes in Poesy.
Robert Herrick, "The Statement of His Book." Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz." Robert Hayden, "Those Wintertime Sund.ays" Julia Alvarez, "Dusting." Seamus Heaney, "Digging." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "My Begetter in the Navy: A Childhood Memory." Mitsuye Yamada, "The Nighttime Earlier Goodbye." Richard Blanco, "Papa's Bridge." Andrew Hudgins, "Elegy for My Male parent, Who Is Not Dead." Adrienne Rich, "A Woman Mourned by Daughters." Dylan Thomas, "Do not get gentle into that good night." William Wordsworth, "I wandered solitary every bit a cloud." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover." A. E. Housman, "Loveliest of Copse." Carl Sandburg, "Fog." Robert Frost, "Birches." Denise Levertov, "Living." Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things." Carl Sandburg, "Autumn Motion." Robert Browning, "Coming together at Night." Robert Browning, "Parting at Morning." Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Do I Love Thee?" Edna St. Vincent Millay, "What lips my lips have kissed." Jehanne Dubrow, "Before the Deployment." Leigh Hunt, "Jenny Kissed Me." Dorothy Parker, "General Review of the Sex activity Situation." Tupac Shakur, "Love is Just Complicated." Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et decorum Est." Siegfried Sassoon, "Atrocities." Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier." John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields." Radiohead, "Harry Patch (in Memory of)." Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts." W. H. Auden, from "In Time of State of war." Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It." David Hernandez, "Mosul." Richard Wilbur, "Terza Rima." Wislawa Szymborska, "The Cease and the Start."
32. The Poetry of Langston Hughes: A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing.
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Langston Hughes, "Dream Variations." Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues." Langston Hughes, "I, As well." Langston Hughes, "Song for a Dark Girl." Langston Hughes, "Ballad of the Landlord." Langston Hughes, "Theme for English language B." Langston Hughes, "Dream Boogie." Langston Hughes, "Birmingham Sun (September xv, 1963)." Langston Hughes, "Old Walt." Langston Hughes, "Lenox Artery: Midnight." Langston Hughes, "Un-American Investigators." Langston Hughes, "Dinner Guest: Me." Langston Hughes, "Ballad of Booker T." Langston Hughes, from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." Langston Hughes, "To Negro Writers." Langston Hughes, from "My Adventures every bit a Social Poet." Arnold Rampersad, from "The Origins of Poetry in Langston Hughes." Poetry Foundation, from "Langston Hughes." Rick Brown, "Bitter Jazz in Langston Hughes's 'Dream Boogie'." Karen Jackson Ford, from "Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes'due south Aesthetics of Simplicity." George B. Hutchinson, from "Langston Hughes and the 'Other' Whitman." Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Langston Hughes + Poetry = The Blues."
33. Poetry for Further Reading.
Sherman J. Alexie, "Defending Walt Whitman." Bearding, "Bonny Barbara Allan." Anonymous, "Go Down, Moses." Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach." Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish." William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper." William Blake, "The Lamb." William Blake, "London." William Blake, "To see a World in a Grain of Sand." William Blake, "The Tyger." Elizabeth Bradfield, "Why They Went." Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Volume." Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Chicago Defender Sends a Human to Little Rock." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Medgar Evers." Charles Bukowski, "so y'all want to exist a author?" George Gordon, Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Lessons of the By." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan." Baton Collins, "Introduction to Poetry." Bill Coyle, "Aubade." East. E. Cummings, "Buffalo Bill'due south." E. E. Cummings, "next to of course god america i." Jim Daniels, "Short-Order Cook." Emily Dickinson, "After great pain, a formal feeling comes—." Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for Expiry—." Emily Dickinson, "'Faith' is a fine invention." Emily Dickinson, "'Promise' is the thing with feathers—." Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in Possibility—." Emily Dickinson, "I heard a Fly fizz—when I died—." Emily Dickinson, "I never saw a Moor—." Emily Dickinson, "I taste a liquor never brewed—." Emily Dickinson, "Much Madness is divinest Sense—." Emily Dickinson, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun." Emily Dickinson, "The Soul selects her own Society—." Emily Dickinson, "Success is counted sweetest." Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the Truth but tell information technology camber—." Emily Dickinson, "In that location is no Frigate like a Book." Emily Dickinson, "At that place's a certain Slant of light." Emily Dickinson, "This is my letter to the World." Emily Dickinson, "Wild Nights—Wild Nights!" John Donne, "Concoction My Heart, Three-Personed God." John Donne, "Decease Be Non Proud." John Donne, "The Flea." Denise Duhamel, "Buddhist Barbie." T. Southward. Eliot, "The Dearest Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." James A. Emanuel, "Emmett Till." Louise Erdrich, "Indian Boarding Schoolhouse: The Runaways." Martín Espada, "The Community College Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics." Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Dark." Robert Frost, "Pattern." Robert Frost, "Mending Wall." Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain." Seamus Heaney, "Mid-Term Break." William Ernest Henley, "Invictus." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God'due south Grandeur." A. E. Housman, "When I Was Ane-and-20." Donald Justice, "Men at Forty." John Keats, "La Belle Matriarch sans Merci: A Ballad." John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats, "When I Have Fears." David Keplinger, "Wave." Steve Kowit, "The Grammar Lesson." Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ, "Bomb Crater Sky." Philip Larkin, "The Explosion." Li-Young Lee, "From Blossoms." Robert Lowell, "Skunk Hour." Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica." Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Beloved." Claude McKay, "If We Must Die." John Milton, "When I consider how my calorie-free is spent." Pat Mora, "La Migra." Pablo Neruda, "This evening I Can Write." Pablo Neruda, "The United Fruit Co." Linda Pastan, "Ideals." Linda Pastan, "Marks." Leroy Five. Quintana, "Poem for Salt." Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph'southward Reply to the Shepherd." Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy." Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Richard Cory." Cynthia Rylant, "God Went to Beauty School." William Shakespeare, "Allow me not to the marriage of true minds." William Shakespeare, "Non marble, nor the gilded monuments." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind." Stevie Smith, "Not Waving just Drowning." Wole Soyinka, "Village." Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar." Wallace Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses." Dylan Thomas, "Fern Hill." Ko Un, "In the erstwhile days a poet once said." Charles Webb, "The Expiry of Santa Claus." Phillis Wheatley, "On Beingness Brought from Africa to America." Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing." Walt Whitman, "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself." William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802." William Wordsworth, "London, 1802." William Wordsworth, "My heart leaps up when I behold." William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper." William Butler Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Decease." William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium." William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming." Kevin Young, "Vocal of Fume."
Poetry Sampler: Poesy and Art.
Rita Dove, "Sonnet in Master Colors." Jane Flanders, "Van Gogh''s Bed." Allen Ginsberg, "Cézanne'southward Ports." Robert Hayden, "Monet's 'Waterlilies." Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night." Cathy Song, "Girl Powdering Her Neck."
Office 4: DRAMA.
34. Agreement Drama.
Anton Chekhov, The Brute.
35. Drama Sampler: Ten-Minute Plays.
Steven Korbar, "What Are You Going to Be?" Jane Martin, Beauty. Kimberly Pau, Magic eight Ball. Harold Pinter, Applicant. Earl T. Roske, Zombie Love.
37. Plot.
David Ives, The Blizzard. Warren Leight, Ix 10. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll Firm.
38. Grapheme.
Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman, Post-its. David Auburn, Proof. Arthur Miller, Decease of a Salesman. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
39. Staging.
Michael Salomon, The Appointment. Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer. Sophocles, Oedipus the King.
xl. Theme.
Jeni Mahoney, Come Rain or Come Shine. Sophocles, Antigone. John Patrick Shanley, Dubiousness: A Parable. August Wilson, Fences.
41. Susan Glaspell's Trifles: A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing.
Susan Glaspell, Trifles. Linda Ben-Zvi, from "Murder, She Wrote: The Genesis of Susan Glaspell's Trifles." Susan Glaspell, "Surrounded by Mystery: Murder of John Hossack Was Not for Money." Anonymous, "Married woman Charged with Murder." Susan Glaspell, "Surprise Is Expected: Rumored Developments in Hossack Murder Instance." Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers." Suzy Clarkson Holstein, from "Silent Justice in a Different Key: Glaspell'due south Trifles." Leonard Mustazza, "Generic Translation and Thematic Shift in Susan Glaspell's Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers." Lillian Schanfield, from "The Example of the Battered Married woman: Susan Glaspell's Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers." Judith Kay Russell, "Glaspell'southward Trifles."

• The MLA documentation reflects significant changes in the new MLA HANDBOOK Eighth Edition, published in April 2016.
• This edition provides a high concentration of various contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama selections while besides including canonical pieces ignored in previous editions.
• About 30% of the stories are new to this edition.
• Nigh xx% of the poems are new to this edition.
• More than 30% of the plays are new to this edition.
• A new Chapter 41 features Susan Glaspell's "Trifles: A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing," as well every bit updated fiction and poetry Casebooks.

• Every story, poem, and play is carefully called for its appeal to a range of instructors and students.
• Arable disquisitional, cultural, and contextual material demystifies literature past helping students understand the world in which it was created.
• Consistently praised for its clarity and educatee-friendliness, the book brings the authors' educatee-centered approach to discussions of literary elements using examples of relevant, interesting stories, poems, and plays.
• A downwardly-to-world guide to writing about literature at the offset of the book helps students build a solid foundation they can utilise to approach readings, assignments, and discussions.
• The authors' historic writing checklists, as well as useful questions and writing suggestions throughout, help students improve writing and assay skills.
• 2 chapters on using and documenting sources and avoiding plagiarism complement the book'south innovative Casebooks for Reading, Inquiry, and Writing, which provide deeper contexts for popular stories, poems, and plays and help to jumpstart students' own papers.

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Table of Contents

PART one: A GUIDE TO WRITING Nigh LITERATURE.
one. Understanding Literature.
Luisa Valenzuela, "All nigh Suicide." Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
ii. Reading and Writing almost Literature.
Julia Alvarez'south "Dusting."
iii. Approaching Assignments in Literature.
4. Thinking Critically about Your Writing.
5. Writing Literary Arguments.
half-dozen. Using Sources in Your Writing.
7. Documenting Sources and Fugitive Plagiarism.
8. Writing Essay Exams about Literature.
PART II: FICTION.
ix. Agreement Fiction.
Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants."
10. Fiction Sampler: The Short-Short Story.
Julia Alvarez, "Snow." Amanda Brown, "Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape." Sandra Cisneros, "Pilón." Lydia Davis, "Television." Dave Eggers, "Accident." Bret Anthony Johnston, "Encounters with Unexpected Animals." Stephen Graham Jones, "Discovering America." Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl." Ed Park, "Slide to Unlock." George Saunders, "Sticks."
11. Fiction Sampler: Graphic Fiction.
Max Brooks, from The Harlem Hellfighters. R. Crumb, "A Hunger Artist." Marjane Satrapi, from Persepolis. Art Spiegleman, from Maus. Craig Thompson, from Blankets. Factor Luen Yang, from American Born Chinese.
12. Reading and Writing about Fiction.
Alberto Álvaro Ríos, "The Hugger-mugger Lion."
13. Plot.
Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour." Orhan Pamuk, "Distant Relations." Neil Gaiman, "How to Talk to Girls at Parties." William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily."
fourteen. Character.
John Updike, "A&P". Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill." Charles Baxter, "Gryphon." Zadie Smith, "The Girl with Bangs."
fifteen. Setting.
Kate Chopin, "The Storm." Sherman J. Alexie, "This Is What Information technology Ways to Say Phoenix, Arizona." Ralph Ellison, "Battle Regal." Tillie Olson, "I Stand Here Ironing."
xvi. Point of View.
Richard Wright, "Big Black Adept Man." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado." William Faulkner, "Befouled Burning." Edwidge Danticat, "New York Day Women."
17. Fashion, Tone, and Linguistic communication.
James Joyce, "Araby." (Mary) Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Difficult to Find." Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper." Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried."
eighteen. Symbol, Allegory, and Myth.
Thousand. 1000. Hobson, "Oaks Park." Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery." Alice Walker, "Everyday Utilise." Raymond Carver, "Cathedral." Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brownish."
19. Theme.
Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path." David Michael Kaplan, "Doe Flavor." D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence, "The Rocking-Equus caballus Winner." Tobias Wolff, "Bullet in the Brain."
20. Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You lot Going, Where Have You Been?": A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing. Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Accept You Been?" Joyce Carol Oates, "When Characters from the Page Are Fabricated Mankind on the Screen." Bob Dylan, "It's All Over Now, Infant Blue." "The Pied Piper of Tucson" (photo essay). Anonymous, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin." Charles Perrault, "Little Crimson Riding Hood." A. R. Coulthard, "Joyce Ballad Oates's 'Where Are You Going, Where Have Y'all Been?' as Pure Realism." Laura Kalpakian, from a review of Where Are Yous Going, Where Have You lot Been?: Selected Early Stories. Larry Rubin, "Oates's 'Where Are Y'all Going, Where Have You Been?'" Peter Dickinson, from "Riding in Cars with Boys: Reconsidering Smooth Talk."
21. Fiction for Further Reading.
Chinua Achebe, "Dead Man'south Path." Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings." James Baldwin, "Sonny's Dejection." T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Greasy Lake." Junot Díaz, "No Confront." James Franco, "Halloween." Gabriel García Márquez, "A Very Sometime Human with Enormous Wings." Ha Jin, "The Bane of the Net." Franz Kafka, "A Hunger Creative person." Lorrie Moore, "Referential." Joyce Carol Oates, "Rut." Flannery O'Connor, "Everything That Rises Must Converge." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart." Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall." John Steinbeck, "The Chrysanthemums." Amy Tan, "Two Kinds."
Office 3: Poesy.
22. Understanding Poetry.
Marianne Moore, "Poetry." Pamela Spiro Wagner, "How to Read a Poem: Beginner'south Manual." William Shakespeare, "That time of year grand mayst in me behold." Eastward. E. Cummings, "l(a."
23. Reading and Writing most Poetry.
Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays." Seamus Heaney, "Excavation."
24. Voice.
Emily Dickinson, "I'm nobody! Who are you?" Louise Glück, "Gretel in Darkness." Langston Hughes, "Negro." Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess." Leslie Marmon Silko, "Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer." Janice Mirikitani, "Suicide Note." Rafael Campo, "My Vocalism." Robert Frost, "Burn down and Water ice." Thomas Hardy, "The Human being He Killed." Amy Lowell, "Patterns." William Wordsworth, "The World Is As well Much with The states." Sylvia Plath, "Morning Song." Claude McKay, "The White Urban center." Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Robert Browning, "Porphyria'due south Lover." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias." Sherman Alexie, "Evolution." Anne Sexton, "Cinderella." Sandra M. Castillo, "Castro Moves into the Havana Hilton." Agha Shahid Ali, "The Wolf'due south Postscript to 'Niggling Red Riding Hood'." Dudley Randall, "Carol of Birmingham." Wislawa Szymborska, "Hitler's Starting time Photograph."
25. Word Choice, Word Club.
Bob Holman, "Beautiful." Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." Rhina Espaillat, "Bilingual/Bilingue." Adrienne Rich, "Living in Sin." Due east. E. Cummings, "in Just-."
Francisco X. Alarcón, "Mexican' Is Not a Noun." Margaret Atwood, "The Urban center Planners." Jim Sagel, "Baca Grande." Adrienne Su, "The English Canon." Marking Halliday, "The Value of Education." Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Habiliment the Mask." Mary Karr, "A Blessing from My Sixteen Years' Son." Gwendolyn Brooks, "We Existent Cool." Gwendolyn Brooks, "What Shall I Requite My Children?" Edmund Spenser, "Ane twenty-four hour period I wrote her name upon the strand." E. E. Cummings, "anyone lived in a pretty how town." A. E. Housman, "To an Athlete Dying Young." Charles Jensen, "Verse form in Which Words Take Been Left Out."
26. Imagery.
Jane Flemish region, "Cloud Painter." William Carlos Williams, "Crimson Wheelbarrow." Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro." Gary Snyder, "Some Practiced Things to Be Said for the Fe Age." William Carlos Williams, "The Smashing Figure." David Trinidad, "9773 Comanche Ave." Fernando Pessoa, "Solemnly Over the Fertile Land." F. J. Bergmann, "An Amends." Hart Crane, "Echoes." Lola Ridge, "Wall Street at Night." Robert Frost, "Nothing Gilded Tin Stay." Jean Toomer, "Reapers." Kobayashi Issa, "Haiku." N. Scott Momaday, "Long Shadows at Dulce." Frederick Morgan, "The Busses." William Shakespeare, "My mistress' optics are cypher like the sunday." Octavio Paz, "Daybreak." Octavio Paz, "Nightfall."
27. Figures of Oral communication.
William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer'south day? Langston Hughes, Harlem. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity. Audre Lorde, Rooming houses are old women. Robert Burns, Oh, my love is similar a red, red rose. North. Scott Momaday, Simile. Sylvia Plath, Metaphors. John Updike, Ex-Basketball Role player. Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Marge Piercy, The Secretary Dirge. John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Martín Espada, My Male parent as a Guitar. Sylvia Plath, Daddy. Edna St. Vincent Millay, If I should learn, in some quite casual way. Anne Bradstreet, To My Honey and Loving Husband. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress. Robert Frost, Out, Out—. Countee Cullen, Incident. Margaret Atwood, Yous fit into me. Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta Going to the Wars. Dylan Thomas, The Hand That Signed the Paper. Nancy Mercado, Going to Work. John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale. Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California.
28. Sound.
Walt Whitman, "Had I the Choice." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Sadie and Maud." Emily Dickinson, "I like to see it lap the Miles—." Adrienne Rich, "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers." Thomas Lux, "A Little Molar." Lewis Carroll, "A Gunkhole Below a Sunny Sky." N. Scott Momaday, "Comparatives." Robert Herrick, "Please in Disorder." Robert Frost, "The Road Non Taken." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty." Shel Silverstein, "Where the Sidewalk Ends." Jacob Saenz, "Evolution of My Block." Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky."
29. Form.
John Keats, "On the Sonnet." William Shakespeare, "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's optics." John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Beloved is not all." Lynn Aarti Chandhok, "The Carpet Manufactory." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Kickoff Fight, Then Fiddle." Rhina Espaillat, "Discover Work." Alberto Álvaro Ríos, "Nani." Elizabeth Bishop, "Sestina." Patricia Smith, "Ethel's Sestina." Theodore Roethke, "The Waking." Deborah Paredez, "Wife's Disaster Manual." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "What Is an Epigram?" Dorothy Parker, "News Particular." Carol Ann Duffy, "Mrs. Darwin." Martín Espada, "Why I Went to College." A. R. Ammons, "Both Ways." Matsuo Bashō, "Four Haiku." Jack Kerouac, "American Haiku." Carl Sandburg, "Chicago." E. Due east. Cummings, "the sky was can dy." Walt Whitman, from "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking." William Carlos Williams, "Spring and All." Richard Blanco, "Mexican Almuerzo in New England." Claire Lee, "Living in Numbers." May Swenson, "Women." George Herbert, "Easter Wings." John Hollander, "Skeleton Cardinal." May Swenson, "Women Should Be Pedestals."
30. Symbol, Allegory, Allusion, Myth.
William Blake, "The Sick Rose." Robert Frost, "For Once, And so, Something." Emily Dickinson, "Volcanoes be in Sicily." Langston Hughes, "Island." Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven." Virgil Suárez, "Isla." Christina Rossetti, "Uphill." Carl Dennis, "At the Border." William Meredith, "Dreams of Suicide." Billy Collins, "Aristotle." R. Southward. Gwynn, "Shakespearean Sonnet." Countee Cullen, "However Do I Marvel." May Swenson, "The Centaur." William Butler Yeats, "Leda and the Swan." Seamus Heaney, "Anything Can Happen." W. H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts." T. South. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi."
31. Discovering Themes in Poetry.
Robert Herrick, "The Statement of His Book." Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz." Robert Hayden, "Those Wintertime Sund.ays" Julia Alvarez, "Dusting." Seamus Heaney, "Excavation." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory." Mitsuye Yamada, "The Nighttime Earlier Farewell." Richard Blanco, "Papa'due south Bridge." Andrew Hudgins, "Elegy for My Begetter, Who Is Not Dead." Adrienne Rich, "A Woman Mourned by Daughters." Dylan Thomas, "Do not get gentle into that good night." William Wordsworth, "I wandered lonely as a cloud." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover." A. East. Housman, "Loveliest of Trees." Carl Sandburg, "Fog." Robert Frost, "Birches." Denise Levertov, "Living." Wendell Drupe, "The Peace of Wild Things." Carl Sandburg, "Autumn Movement." Robert Browning, "Meeting at Night." Robert Browning, "Parting at Morning." Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How Practise I Love Thee?" Edna St. Vincent Millay, "What lips my lips accept kissed." Jehanne Dubrow, "Before the Deployment." Leigh Hunt, "Jenny Kissed Me." Dorothy Parker, "General Review of the Sex State of affairs." Tupac Shakur, "Honey is Just Complicated." Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et decorum Est." Siegfried Sassoon, "Atrocities." Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier." John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields." Radiohead, "Harry Patch (in Retentivity of)." Henry Reed, "Naming of Parts." W. H. Auden, from "In Fourth dimension of War." Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing Information technology." David Hernandez, "Mosul." Richard Wilbur, "Terza Rima." Wislawa Szymborska, "The Finish and the Showtime."
32. The Poetry of Langston Hughes: A Casebook for Reading, Enquiry, and Writing.
Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Langston Hughes, "Dream Variations." Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues." Langston Hughes, "I, Too." Langston Hughes, "Vocal for a Dark Girl." Langston Hughes, "Ballad of the Landlord." Langston Hughes, "Theme for English language B." Langston Hughes, "Dream Boogie." Langston Hughes, "Birmingham Sunday (September fifteen, 1963)." Langston Hughes, "Old Walt." Langston Hughes, "Lenox Avenue: Midnight." Langston Hughes, "Un-American Investigators." Langston Hughes, "Dinner Guest: Me." Langston Hughes, "Carol of Booker T." Langston Hughes, from "The Negro Creative person and the Racial Mount." Langston Hughes, "To Negro Writers." Langston Hughes, from "My Adventures as a Social Poet." Arnold Rampersad, from "The Origins of Poetry in Langston Hughes." Poetry Foundation, from "Langston Hughes." Rick Brown, "Bitter Jazz in Langston Hughes's 'Dream Boogie'." Karen Jackson Ford, from "Exercise Right to Write Correct: Langston Hughes's Aesthetics of Simplicity." George B. Hutchinson, from "Langston Hughes and the 'Other' Whitman." Yusef Komunyakaa, from "Langston Hughes + Verse = The Dejection."
33. Poetry for Further Reading.
Sherman J. Alexie, "Defending Walt Whitman." Anonymous, "Bonny Barbara Allan." Anonymous, "Go Down, Moses." Matthew Arnold, "Dover Embankment." Elizabeth Bishop, "The Fish." William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper." William Blake, "The Lamb." William Blake, "London." William Blake, "To run across a World in a Grain of Sand." William Blake, "The Tyger." Elizabeth Bradfield, "Why They Went." Anne Bradstreet, "The Writer to Her Volume." Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Chicago Defender Sends a Human to Lilliputian Stone." Gwendolyn Brooks, "Medgar Evers." Charles Bukowski, "so yous want to exist a writer?" George Gordon, Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty." Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Lessons of the Past." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan." Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry." Bill Coyle, "Aubade." E. E. Cummings, "Buffalo Bill's." East. East. Cummings, "adjacent to of course god america i." Jim Daniels, "Brusque-Order Cook." Emily Dickinson, "After dandy pain, a formal feeling comes—." Emily Dickinson, "Considering I could not stop for Decease—." Emily Dickinson, "'Faith' is a fine invention." Emily Dickinson, "'Promise' is the thing with feathers—." Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in Possibility—." Emily Dickinson, "I heard a Fly fizz—when I died—." Emily Dickinson, "I never saw a Moor—." Emily Dickinson, "I gustatory modality a liquor never brewed—." Emily Dickinson, "Much Madness is divinest Sense—." Emily Dickinson, "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun." Emily Dickinson, "The Soul selects her own Guild—." Emily Dickinson, "Success is counted sweetest." Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the Truth but tell information technology slant—." Emily Dickinson, "There is no Frigate similar a Book." Emily Dickinson, "At that place's a sure Camber of light." Emily Dickinson, "This is my letter of the alphabet to the World." Emily Dickinson, "Wild Nights—Wild Nights!" John Donne, "Batter My Middle, Three-Personed God." John Donne, "Death Exist Not Proud." John Donne, "The Flea." Denise Duhamel, "Buddhist Barbie." T. S. Eliot, "The Honey Vocal of J. Alfred Prufrock." James A. Emanuel, "Emmett Till." Louise Erdrich, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways." Martín Espada, "The Customs Higher Revises Its Curriculum in Response to Changing Demographics." Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night." Robert Frost, "Design." Robert Frost, "Mending Wall." Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain." Seamus Heaney, "Mid-Term Suspension." William Ernest Henley, "Invictus." Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur." A. E. Housman, "When I Was One-and-20." Donald Justice, "Men at Xl." John Keats, "La Belle Matriarch sans Merci: A Ballad." John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats, "When I Have Fears." David Keplinger, "Wave." Steve Kowit, "The Grammer Lesson." Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ, "Bomb Crater Sky." Philip Larkin, "The Explosion." Li-Young Lee, "From Blossoms." Robert Lowell, "Skunk 60 minutes." Archibald MacLeish, "Ars Poetica." Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Beloved." Claude McKay, "If We Must Die." John Milton, "When I consider how my calorie-free is spent." Pat Mora, "La Migra." Pablo Neruda, "This evening I Tin Write." Pablo Neruda, "The United Fruit Co." Linda Pastan, "Ethics." Linda Pastan, "Marks." Leroy Five. Quintana, "Poem for Salt." Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd." Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy." Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Richard Cory." Cynthia Rylant, "God Went to Beauty School." William Shakespeare, "Let me not to the spousal relationship of true minds." William Shakespeare, "Not marble, nor the gilt monuments." Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Current of air." Stevie Smith, "Non Waving simply Drowning." Wole Soyinka, "Hamlet." Wallace Stevens, "Anecdote of the Jar." Wallace Stevens, "The Emperor of Ice-Cream." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Hawkeye." Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses." Dylan Thomas, "Fern Colina." Ko Un, "In the old days a poet once said." Charles Webb, "The Death of Santa Claus." Phillis Wheatley, "On Beingness Brought from Africa to America." Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing." Walt Whitman, "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself." William Wordsworth, "Equanimous upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802." William Wordsworth, "London, 1802." William Wordsworth, "My heart leaps upwards when I behold." William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper." William Butler Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death." William Butler Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." William Butler Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium." William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming." Kevin Immature, "Song of Smoke."
Poetry Sampler: Poetry and Art.
Rita Dove, "Sonnet in Primary Colors." Jane Flanders, "Van Gogh''s Bed." Allen Ginsberg, "Cézanne's Ports." Robert Hayden, "Monet'due south 'Waterlilies." Anne Sexton, "The Starry Night." Cathy Song, "Girl Powdering Her Neck."
Role Four: DRAMA.
34. Agreement Drama.
Anton Chekhov, The Brute.
35. Drama Sampler: Ten-Minute Plays.
Steven Korbar, "What Are You Going to Be?" Jane Martin, Beauty. Kimberly Pau, Magic viii Brawl. Harold Pinter, Bidder. Earl T. Roske, Zombie Love.
37. Plot.
David Ives, The Blizzard. Warren Leight, Ix Ten. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House.
38. Character.
Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman, Postal service-its. David Auburn, Proof. Arthur Miller, Decease of a Salesman. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
39. Staging.
Michael Salomon, The Date. Milcha Sanchez-Scott, The Cuban Swimmer. Sophocles, Oedipus the King.
forty. Theme.
Jeni Mahoney, Come Pelting or Come up Smooth. Sophocles, Antigone. John Patrick Shanley, Doubt: A Parable. August Wilson, Fences.
41. Susan Glaspell'due south Trifles: A Casebook for Reading, Research, and Writing.
Susan Glaspell, Trifles. Linda Ben-Zvi, from "Murder, She Wrote: The Genesis of Susan Glaspell'southward Trifles." Susan Glaspell, "Surrounded past Mystery: Murder of John Hossack Was Not for Money." Anonymous, "Wife Charged with Murder." Susan Glaspell, "Surprise Is Expected: Rumored Developments in Hossack Murder Case." Susan Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers." Suzy Clarkson Holstein, from "Silent Justice in a Dissimilar Key: Glaspell'southward Trifles." Leonard Mustazza, "Generic Translation and Thematic Shift in Susan Glaspell's Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers." Lillian Schanfield, from "The Example of the Battered Wife: Susan Glaspell's Trifles and 'A Jury of Her Peers." Judith Kay Russell, "Glaspell'south Trifles."

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