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| Preface | |
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| Writing About Literature | |
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| Why Write about Literature? | |
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| For Whom Do You Write? | |
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| Two Basic Approaches | |
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| Explication | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Choosing a Topic | |
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| Papers That Focus on a Single Literary Work | |
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| Paper of Comparison and Contrast | |
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| Papers on a Number of Works by a Single Author | |
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| Papers on a Number of Works with Some Feature Other Than Authorship in Common | |
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| Proving Your Point | |
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| Writing the Paper | |
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| Writing In-Class Essays or Essays Tests | |
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| Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q11) | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Textual Documentation (TD1-TD5) | |
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| Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6) | |
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| List of Works Cited | |
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| Documentation of Electronic Sources | |
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| Stance and Style (S1-S6) | |
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| Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | |
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| Grammar (G1-G2) | |
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| Punctuation (P1-P5) | |
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| Usage (U1-U2) | |
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| Writing Samples | |
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| Fiction Explication: "Darkness" in the Conclusion of "The Child by Tiger" | |
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| Fiction Analysis: The Function of the Frame Story in "Once Upon a Time." | |
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| Poetry Explication: "A Study of Reading Habits." | |
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| Poetry Analysis: Diction in "Pathedy of Manners." | |
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| Drama Explication: Iago''s First Soliloquy | |
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| Drama Analysis: Othello''s Race | |
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| Fiction: The Elements of Fiction | |
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| Reading the Story | |
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| Reviewing Chapter One | |
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| "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell | |
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| "Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff | |
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| Understanding and Evaluating Fiction | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Plot and Structure | |
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| Reviewing Chapter Two | |
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| "The Destructors" by Graham Greene | |
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| "How I Met My Husband" by Alice Munro | |
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| "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Characterization | |
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| Reviewing Chapter Three | |
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| "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker | |
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| "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield | |
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| "How Far She Went" by Mary Hood | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Theme | |
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| Reviewing Chapter Four | |
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| "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara | |
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| "Gooseberries" by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett | |
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| "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty | |
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| "Once Upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Reviewing Chapter Five | |
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| "Paul''s Case" by Willa Cather | |
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| "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson | |
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| "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter | |
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| "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy | |
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| Reviewing Chapter Six | |
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| "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D.H Lawrence | |
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| "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
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| "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates | |
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| "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Humor and Irony | |
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| Reviewing Chapter Seven | |
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| "The Drunkard" by Frank O''Connor | |
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| "The Kugelmass Episode" by Woody Allen | |
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| "The Guest" by Albert Camus, translated by Justin O''Brien | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Evaluating Fiction | |
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| Reviewing Chapter Eight | |
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| Exercise | |
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| "A Municipal Report" by O. Henry | |
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| "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell | |
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| Exercise | |
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| "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton | |
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| "A New Leaf" by F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Two Feature Writers: James Joyce and Flannery O''Connor | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "Araby", "Eveline", and "The Boarding House" by James Joyce | |
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| "A Good Man is Hard to Find" , "Good Country People", and "Greenleaf" by Flannery O''Connor | |
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| Suggestions for Writing | |
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| Stories for Further Reading | |
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| "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe | |
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| "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver | |
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| "The Swimmer" by John Cheever | |
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| "American History" by Judith Ortiz Cofer | |
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| "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane | |
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| "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner | |
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| "The Gilded Six-Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston | |
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| "A Contract" by Ha Jin | |
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| "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville | |
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| "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe | |
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| "No One''s a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent | |
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| "A&P" by John Updike | |
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| "The Child by Tiger" by Thomas Wolfe | |
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| Poetry the Elements of Poetry | |
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| What is Poetry? "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | |
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| "Winter" by William Shakespeare | |
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| "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen | |
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| Reviewing Chapter One | |
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| Understanding and Evaluating Poetry | |
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| "Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?" by William | |