Preface for Instructors | p. iii |
Contents by Genre | p. xxiii |
Working with Literature | |
What Is Literature? How and Why Does It Matter? | p. 3 |
How Have People Defined Literature? | p. 4 |
What about Literature Has Mattered to People? | p. 7 |
What Can You Do to Make Literature Matter to Others? | p. 8 |
Summing Up | p. 13 |
Thinking and Reading Critically | p. 14 |
Approaching Literature | p. 15 |
Thinking Critically: The Value of Argument | p. 16 |
Responding to Two Stories about Work | p. 18 |
Reading Critically | p. 37 |
Investigating Topics of Literary Criticism | p. 49 |
Summing Up | p. 55 |
The Writing Process | p. 57 |
Exploring | p. 58 |
Planning | p. 64 |
Composing | p. 68 |
Further Suggestions for Developing an Argument about a Work of Literature | p. 74 |
Sample Student Paper: First Draft | p. 75 |
Revising | p. 78 |
Recognizing and Avoiding Fallacies | p. 81 |
Sample Student Paper: Revised Draft | p. 84 |
Writing a Comparative Paper | p. 87 |
Sample Comparative Paper | p. 90 |
Summing Up | p. 94 |
Writing about Stories | p. 96 |
Students' Personal Responses to the Stories | p. 107 |
The Elements of Short Fiction | p. 110 |
Sample Student Paper: Final Draft | p. 126 |
Summing Up | p. 130 |
Writing about Poems | p. 131 |
A Student's Personal Responses to the Poems | p. 140 |
Sample Student Paper: First Draft | p. 143 |
The Elements of Poetry | p. 146 |
Sample Student Paper: Revised Draft | p. 152 |
Summing Up | p. 155 |
Writing about Plays | p. 157 |
The Elements of Drama | p. 165 |
Sample Student Paper: Final Draft | p. 172 |
Summing Up | p. 176 |
Writing about Essays | p. 177 |
A Student's Personal Response | p. 191 |
The Elements of Essays | p. 192 |
Sample Student Paper | p. 196 |
Summing Up | p. 199 |
Working with a Collection of Writings | p. 201 |
Women's Work: A Collection of Poems by Marge Piercy | p. 201 |
Working with Critical Commentaries | p. 210 |
Work as Metaphor: Critical Commentaries on a Poem | p. 210 |
Working with Cultural Contexts | p. 221 |
Fightng for Respect: Cultural Contexts for a Story | p. 222 |
Working with Re-Visions | p. 246 |
A Disgruntled Worker: Re-Visions of a Raymond Carver Story | p. 247 |
Working with Texts and Images | p. 272 |
Portraits of Sweepers: Poems and Images | p. 272 |
Literature and Its Issues | |
Living in Families | p. 283 |
Memories of Family: Essays | p. 284 |
Reconciling with Fathers: Poems | p. 313 |
Exorcising the Dead: Critical Commentaries on a Poem | p. 321 |
Mothers and Daughters: Stories | p. 339 |
Siblings in Conflict: Stories | p. 363 |
Family Dramas: Re-Visions of a Play | p. 400 |
Grandparents and Legacies: Poems | p. 460 |
Family Bonds and Bondage: A Collection of Essays by bell hooks | p. 471 |
A Family's Dreams: Cultural Contexts for a Play | p. 484 |
Parental Crisis: Stories | p. 571 |
Gays and Lesbians in Families: Poems | p. 599 |
Family Albums: A Story and Images | p. 606 |
Loving | p. 617 |
True Love: Poems | p. 618 |
Romantic Dreams: Stories | p. 628 |
Love and Myth: Essays | p. 646 |
A Seductive Argument: Re-Visions of a Poem | p. 657 |
To Love or not to Love: Critical Commentaries on a Poem | p. 662 |
The Appearance of Love: A Collection of Writings by Kate Chopin | p. 682 |
Is This Love?: Stories | p. 695 |
Jealous Love: A Play and Images | p. 722 |
Romantic Illusions: Cultural Contexts for a Play | p. 814 |
Looking Back on Past Love: Stories | p. 875 |
Love as a Haven?: Poems | p. 898 |
Freedom and Confinement | p. 905 |
Freedom for Animals: Poems | p. 906 |
Confined for Her Own Good: Cultural Contexts for a Story | p. 916 |
The Marriage Trap: Plays | p. 941 |
Hobbled by Language: Critical Commentaries on an Essay | p. 1007 |
Trapped in Stereotypes: Poems | p. 1023 |
The Cage of Civilization: Re-Visions of a Story | p. 1033 |
Remembering the Death Camps: Poems | p. 1046 |
Prisoners of War: Stories | p. 1055 |
A Letter from Jail: An Essay and Images | p. 1078 |
A Dream of Freedom: A Collection of Poems by Langston Hughes | p. 1094 |
Doing Justice | p. 1105 |
Learning about Injustice: Stories | p. 1106 |
Community Justice: Essays | p. 1129 |
Punishments: Poems | p. 1164 |
He Said / She Said: Re-Visions of a Poem | p. 1177 |
Fighting Evil: Stories | p. 1182 |
Avenging a Killing: Stories | p. 1202 |
A Guilty Conscience? A Collection of Stories by Edgar Allan Poe | p. 1226 |
Charging a Teacher with Sexual Harassment: Cultural Contexts for a Play | p. 1247 |
Misfit Justice: Critical Commentaries on a Story | p. 1304 |
Conscience on Trial: A Play and Images | p. 1328 |
Unjust Cities: Poems | p. 1371 |
Confronting Mortality | p. 1378 |
Relating Birth and Death: Poems | p. 1380 |
Facing Childhood Fears: Re-Visions of a Story | p. 1386 |
The Passage of Time: Poems | p. 1402 |
Memorials: Poems | p. 1408 |
Fighting for Survival: Stories | p. 1414 |
Learning from Personal Encounters with Mortality: Essays | p. 1438 |
Imagining the End: A Collection of Poems by Emily Dickinson | p. 1446 |
Disrespecting Death: Poems | p. 1452 |
Escaping Life: Critical Commentaries on a Play | p. 1458 |
Reviewing Your Own Life: Poems | p. 1497 |
When Disaster Strikes: Cultural Contexts for a Story | p. 1502 |
In the Shadow of 9/11: A Story and Images | p. 1534 |
Critical Approaches to Literature | p. 1544 |
Contemporary Schools of Criticism | p. 1545 |
Working with the Critical Approaches | p. 1549 |
Counterparts (story) | p. 1549 |
Sample Student Essay | p. 1561 |
A Refugee at Home | p. 1562 |
Like a Winding Sheet (story) | p. 1565 |
Writing a Research Paper | p. 1573 |
Identifying an Issue and a Tentative Claim | p. 1573 |
Finding and Using Secondary Sources | p. 1574 |
Taking Notes: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Avoiding Plagiarism | p. 1578 |
Writing the Paper: Integrating Sources | p. 1579 |
Documenting Sources: MLA Format | p. 1581 |
MLA In-Text Citation | p. 1582 |
MLA Works Cited | p. 1583 |
Sample Student Research Paper | p. 1588 |
Racial Disharmony and "Desiree's Baby" | p. 1589 |
Using a Literary Work as a Springboard for Examining Social Issues | p. 1599 |
Sample Student Research Paper | p. 1599 |
Effectively Managing Grief | p. 1599 |
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