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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Responding to Literature | |
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| There Is No Frigate Like A Book | |
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| Why We Read Literature | |
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| Reading Actively | |
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| Reading and Thinking Critically | |
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| Reading Fiction | |
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| The Methods of Fiction | |
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| Tone | |
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| Plot | |
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| Characterization | |
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| Setting | |
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| Point of View | |
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| Irony | |
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| Theme | |
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| Exploring Fiction | |
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| Reading Poetry | |
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| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer | |
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| Word Choice | |
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| Figurative Language | |
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| The Music of Poetry | |
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| Exploring Poetry | |
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| Annotating While You Read | |
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| Sonnet 29 | |
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| How Annandale Went Out | |
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| Reading Drama | |
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| Stages and Staging | |
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| The Elements of Drama | |
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| Characters | |
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| Dramatic Irony | |
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| Plot and Conflict | |
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| Exploring Drama | |
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| Reading Essays | |
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| Types of Essays | |
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| Narrative Essays | |
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| Descriptive Essays | |
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| Expository Essays | |
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| Argumentative Essays | |
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| Analyzing the Essay | |
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| The Thesis | |
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| Structure and Detail | |
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| Style and Tone | |
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| Exploring Essays | |
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| Writing about Literature | |
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| Responding to Your Reading | |
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| Keeping a Journal | |
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| Exploring and Planning | |
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| Asking Good Questions | |
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| Establishing a Working Thesis | |
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| Gathering Information | |
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| Organizing Information | |
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| Drafting the Essay | |
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| Refining Your Opening | |
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| Supporting Your Thesis | |
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| Revising the Essay | |
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| Editing Your Draft | |
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| Selecting Strong Verbs | |
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| Eliminating Unnecessary Modifiers | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Proofreading Your Draft | |
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| Some Common Writing Assignments | |
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| Explication | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Comparison and Contrast | |
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| The Research Paper | |
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| An Annotated Student Research Paper | |
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| Some Matters of Form and Documentation | |
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| Titles | |
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| Quotations | |
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| Brackets and Ellipses | |
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| Quotation Marks and Other Punctuation | |
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| Documentation | |
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| Documenting Internet Sources | |
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| A Checklist for Writing about Literature | |
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| Innocence and Experience | |
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| Looking Ahead: Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Young Goodman Brown | |
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| Araby | |
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| A Clean, Well-Lighted Place | |
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| Good Country People | |
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| The Lesson | |
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| On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning | |
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| The House on Mango Street | |
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| Poetry | |
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| The Chimney Sweeper | |
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| The Tyger | |
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| The Garden of Love | |
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| On First Looking into Chapman's Homer | |
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| My Last Duchess | |
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| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | |
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| The Ruined Maid | |
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| Spring and Fall | |
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| When I Was One-and-Twenty | |
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| Leda and the Swan | |
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| Birches | |
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| The Road Not Taken | |
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| Not Waving but Drowning | |
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| Incident | |
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| Constantly Risking Absurdity | |
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| This Be the Verse | |
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| A Study of Reading Habits | |
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| Advice to My Son | |
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| My Mother | |
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| Memo: | |
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| David Talamantez on the Last Day of Second Grade | |
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| Diary of an Almost-Four-Year-Old | |
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| Our Room | |
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| Plus C'est la M�me Chose | |
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| Unsaid | |
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| Hazel Tells LaVerne | |
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| My Wicked Wicked Ways | |
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| At the Poetry Reading | |
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| Euphoria | |
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| Solipsism | |
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| Drama | |
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| Oedipus Rex | |
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| Death of a Salesman | |
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| Essays | |
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| Salvation | |
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| A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood | |
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| American History | |
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| Casebook Looking Farther: Children and Parents | |
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| Appendix (Fiction) | |
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| The Hut on the Mountain (Fiction) | |
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| Father from Asia (Poem) | |
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| Looking Back: Further Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Conformity and Rebellion | |
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| Fiction | |
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| Bartleby the Scrivener | |
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| A Hunger Artist | |
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| The Lottery | |
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| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
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| "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman | |
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| The Sparkling Bitch | |
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| Two Kinds | |
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| Poetry | |
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| On Being Brought from Africa to America | |
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| The World Is Too Much with Us | |
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| Ulysses | |
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| Much Madness is divinest Sense | |
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| She rose to His Requirement | |
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| Easter 1916 | |
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| The Second Coming | |
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| The Great Day | |
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| Miniver Cheevy | |
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| Sunday Morning | |
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| If We Must Die | |
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| Harlem | |
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| The Unknown Citizen | |
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| From a Correct Address in a Suburb of a Major City | |
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| Myth | |
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| Ballad of Birmingham | |
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| From The Children of the Poor | |
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| Warning | |
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| Here We Shall Stay | |
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| The Market Economy | |
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| My Weariness of Epic Proportions | |
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| Dreams | |
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| Jihad | |
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| Night Patrol | |
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| The Colonel | |
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| Rich Man's War | |
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| Drama | |
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| A Doll's House | |
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| Essays | |
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| A Modest Proposal | |
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| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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| Casebook Looking Deeper: Literature and History | |
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| From the U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 2 | |
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| From Dred Scott v. Sandford | |
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| U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV | |
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| Jim Crow Laws | |
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| A Call for Unity from Alabama Clergymen | |
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| The Birmingham Truce Agreement | |
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| From Reporting the Universe: Why we are infidels | |
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| Imagine There's No Heaven | |
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| Looking Back: Further Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Culture and Identity | |
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| Looking Ahead: Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Fiction | |
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| A Rose for Emily | |
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| Sonny's Blues | |
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| Everyday Use | |
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| Girl | |
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| Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter | |
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| This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona | |
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| Poetry | |
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| What Soft-Cherubic Creatures- | |
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| We Wear the Mask | |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls | |
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| Naming of Parts | |
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| Mr. Z | |
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| Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane | |
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| The Telephone Conversation | |
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| Latin Women Pray | |
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| Daystar | |
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| Stamp Collecting | |
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| Things Cheaply Had | |
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| Drama | |
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| A Raisin in the Sun | |
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| Essays | |
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| What If Shakespeare Had Had a Sister? | |
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| Shooting an Elephant | |
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| Graduation in Stamps | |
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| Casebook Looking Farther: Western Education and Traditional Culture | |
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| Ironed Blue Sky, 88 (Essay) | |
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| The Stranglehold of English Lit (Poem) | |
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| African Literature: What Tradition? (Essay) | |
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| Looking Back: Further Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Love and Hate | |
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| Looking Ahead: Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Fiction | |
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| The Storm | |
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| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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| What We Talk about When We Talk about Love | |
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| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? | |
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| Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot (1996) | |
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| Poetry | |
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| With His Venom | |
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| Golden Bells (c. 810?) | |
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| Remembering Golden Bells (c. 810?) | |
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| Bonny Barbara Allan | |
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| Casebook Looking Deeper: From Poetry to Song | |
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| The Passionate Shepherd to his Love | |
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| The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | |
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| Song | |
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| It Was a Lover and his Lass | |
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| Song, To Celia | |
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| To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
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| Song | |
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| To Phoebe | |
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| Save Me | |
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| Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" | |
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| Sonnet 29 "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes" | |
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| Sonnet 129 "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" | |
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| Sonnet 130 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" | |
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| The Flea | |
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| Song | |
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| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
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| Go, Lovely Rose! | |
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| To His Coy Mistress | |
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| Song | |
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| A Poison Tree | |
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| A Red, Red Rose | |
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| From Song of Myself | |
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| Dover Beach | |
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| Pied Beauty | |
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| Politics | |
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| Fire and Ice | |
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| Love Is Not All | |
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| One Perfect Rose | |
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| My Papa's Waltz | |
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| I Knew a Woman | |
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| One Art | |
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| Those Winter Sundays | |
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| The Dover Bitch | |
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| First Love | |
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| Bitch | |
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| Jack | |
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| Living in Sin | |
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| Daddy | |
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| Power | |
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| There Is a Girl Inside | |
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| Valediction | |
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| Sonnet | |
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| Sex without Love | |
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| Surprise | |
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| Say You Love Me | |
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| Learning the Bicycle | |
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| Right Through the Heart | |
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| Oranges | |
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| Salt Heart | |
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| Revenge of the Ex-Mistress | |
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| Infidelities | |
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| Drama | |
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| Othello | |
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| Trifles | |
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| Essays | |
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| 1 Corinthians 13 | |
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| Is Love an Art? | |
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| No Name Woman | |
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| Casebook Looking Farther: Forbidden Love | |
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| Marriage is a Private Affair (Fiction) | |
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| Departures (Fiction) | |
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| Our Story (Poem) | |
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| Looking Back: Further Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| The Presence of Death | |
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| Looking Ahead: Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Fiction | |
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| The Cask of Amontillado | |
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| The Death of Iv�n Ilych | |
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| The Rocking Horse Winner | |
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| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
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| The Things They Carried | |
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| The Man to Send Rain Clouds | |
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| Poetry | |
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| Edward | |
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| Sonnet 73 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold" | |
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| Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun | |
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| From Richard II | |
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| From Macbeth | |
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| From Hamlet | |
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| Death, Be Not Proud | |
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| Ozymandias | |
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| Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
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| After great pain, a formal feeling comes | |
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| I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died | |
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| Apparently with no surprise | |
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| To an Athlete Dying Young | |
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| Sailing to Byzantium | |
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| Richard Cory | |
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| After Apple-Picking | |
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| Nothing Gold Can Stay | |
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| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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| Design | |
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| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
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| O sweet spontaneous | |
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| The Dead Woman | |
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| Casebook Looking Deeper: From Art to Literature | |
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| Musee des Beaux Arts | |
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| Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
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| In Goya's Greatest Scenes | |
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| The Third of May, 1808, Madrid | |
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| The Starry Night | |
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| The Starry Night | |
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| The Great Wave: Hokusai | |
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| The Great Wave Off Kanagawa | |
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| Elegy for Jane | |
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| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | |
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| After a Time | |
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| People | |
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| When Death Comes | |
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| Mid-term Break | |
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| Suicide Note | |
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| End Prayer for Mogie | |
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| Problems with Hurricanes | |
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| God, a Poem | |
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| Morning Ritual | |
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| Drama | |
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| Death Knocks | |
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| The Cuban Swimmer | |
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| Essays | |
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| Meditation XVII, from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions | |
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| Little Bessie Would Assist Providence | |
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| The American Way of Death | |
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| Looking Back: Further Questions for Thinking and Writing | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Glossary of Critical Approaches | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Deconstruction | |
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| Ethical Criticism | |
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| Feminist Criticism | |
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| Formalist Criticism | |
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| Marxist Criticism | |
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| Historical Criticism | |
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| Postcolonial Criticism | |
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| Psychoanalytic Criticism | |
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| Reader-Response Criticism | |
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| Biographical Notes on the Authors | |