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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 | |