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| Reading, Writing, and Argument | |
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| Reading Literature Thinking Critically about Human Nature Animal Nature | |
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| Reading Allegories Mark Twain, "A Fable" The Nature of Reading Nikki Giovanni, "Woman" | |
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| Writing about Literature Why Write? | |
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| What Do I Know? | |
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| Audience Getting Started The Reading Journal Outlining, Brainstorming, and Freewriting Annotating and Questioning a Text Illustration of Prewriting | |
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| Collette's "The Other Wife" Colette, "The Other Wife" (Translated by Matthew Ward) The Drafting Process The First Rough Draft The Next Drafts Evidence Elements of the Final Draft | |
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| A Checklist | |
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| Constructing an Argument Matters of Opinion Evidence | |
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| The Burden of Proof Audience Interpretation Organization and Coherence Persuasion Tone | |
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| Reading and Writing about Literary Genres | |
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| Reading and Writing about Fiction Elements of Fiction Point of View Plot Character Setting Theme Student Essay on Jhumpa Lahiri's | |
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| "This Blessed House" | |
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| "This Blessed House" | |
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| "An Ironic Blessing" | |
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| Reading and Writing about Poetry What Is a Poem? | |
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| Words into Lines Ezra Pound | |
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| "In a Station of the Metro" | |
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| "The Altar" Verse, Rhyme, Assonance, and Alliteration Meter Form | |
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| "Farewell, Love" | |
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| "Yet I Do Marvel" Lyric, Epic, and Other Types | |
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| "Ballad of Birmingham" | |
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| "Ode on Solitude" Figurative Language Student Essay | |
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| "The Weary Blues" | |
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| "The Weary Blues" | |
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| "Movement and Change in 'The Weary Blues'" | |
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| Reading and Writing about Drama | |
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| A Brief History of Drama Elements of Drama Tragedy, Comedy, and Other Distinctions Student Essay | |
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| "Trifles" | |
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| "Trifles: Susan Glaspell's Social Theater" | |
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| Reading and Writing about Essays | |
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| Types of Essays Analyzing Essays Student Essay on Sir Henry Taylor's | |
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| "On Secrecy" | |
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| "On Secrecy" | |
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| "Secrecy in the Information Age" | |
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| Reading and Writing about Film Characters Point of View and the Camera Mise-en-Sc?ne Editing Sound Films Adapted from Books Be Specific Student Essay | |
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| "Classic Casablanca" | |
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| Critical Strategies for Research | |
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| Critical Approaches to Literature | |
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| "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | |
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| A Formalist Approach to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | |
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| Historical Approaches to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | |
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| A Gender-Based Approach to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | |
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| A Psychological Approach to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | |
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| A Reader-Response Approach to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" | |
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| Writing the Literary Research Paper | |
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| Getting Started What Is a Source? | |
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| Library Research Internet Sources Avoiding Plagiarism Citing Sources The Works Cited Page | |
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| A Step-by-Step Example of the Research Process Research Log and Prewriting Sources: Selected Criticism | |
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| "Life in the Iron-Mills" | |
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| Literary Contexts of "Life in the Iron-Mills" | |
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| The Censored and Uncensored Literary Lives of "Life in the Iron-Mills" | |
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| "Unnatural Unions": Picturesque Travel, Sexual Politics, and Working-Class Representation in "A Night under Ground" and "Life in the Iron-Mills" | |
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| Between Bodies of Knowledge There Is a Great Gulf Fixed: A Liberationalist Reading of Class and Gender in "Life in the Iron-Mills" Notes and Quotations Final Draft | |
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| Literary Explorations of Human Nature | |
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| Obedience and Rebellion Fiction | |
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| "Editha" | |
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| "The Lottery" | |
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| "The Guest" (Translated by Justin O'Brien) | |
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| "A & P" | |
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| "Girl" | |
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| "Rules of the Game" | |
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| "Stop That Girl" Poetry | |
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| "Casabianca" | |
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| "Goblin Market" | |
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| "The Charge of the Light Brigade" | |
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| "Much Madness is divinest Sense--" (435) | |
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| "Dulce et Decorum Est" | |
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| "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | |
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| "The Unknown Citizen" | |
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| "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" | |
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| "Marriage" Drama | |
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| Death and the King's Horseman Essays | |
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| "Civil Disobedience" | |
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| "Shooting an Elephant" | |
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| "Take the Cannoli" | |
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| CONSIDERING Art: Obedience and Rebellion | |
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| COMMON Characters: Icarus Robert Graves | |
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| The Greek Myths Ovid, from Metamorphoses | |
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| "A Great Adventure" | |
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| "Mus?e Des Beaux Arts" | |
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| "Amelia" (song lyric from Hejira) | |
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| "Icarus on Fire Island" | |
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| "Failing and Flying" Considering Art: Icarus | |
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| Love and Lust Fiction | |
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| "The Dead" | |
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| "Kesa and Morito" | |
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| "Wife-Wooing" | |
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| "The Tenant" | |
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| "Lust" Poetry | |
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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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| "My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun" (Sonnet 130) | |
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| "My love is a fever longing still" (Sonnet 147) | |
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| "A Rapture" | |
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| "To His Coy Mistress" | |
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| "The Disappointment" | |
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| "And what is Love? | |
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| It is a doll dressed up" | |
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| "How do I Love Thee? | |
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| Let Me Count the Ways" | |
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| "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" (249) | |
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| "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" | |
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| "Two Bodies" | |
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| "Sex without Love" | |
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| "Courtship" Drama | |
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| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Essays | |
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| "The Birth of Love" | |
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| "On Marriage" | |
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| Considering Art: Love and Lust | |
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| Common Characters: Don Juan George Gordon | |
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| "Passion and Virtue: A Philosophical Tale" | |
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| "The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk" | |
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| "A Story of Don Juan" | |
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| Considering Art: Don Juan | |
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| Honesty and Deception | |
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| Fiction | |
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| "The Wife of His Youth" | |
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| "The Prophet's Hair" | |
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| "Morphine" | |
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| "Another Evening at the Club" | |
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| "Weekend" | |
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| "Jerry and Molly and Sam" | |
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| "Spring Storm" | |
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| Poetry | |
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| "The Lie" | |
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| "When my love swears that she is made of truth" (Sonnet 138) | |
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| "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" (1129) | |
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| "We Wear the Mask" | |
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| "At Tea" | |
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| "Theme for English B" | |
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| "The Mountain" | |
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| "Lying" | |
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| "The Escape" | |
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| "Sonnets for the Autobiographical Urban Dweller" | |
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| "Deception" | |
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| "Letter Home" Drama | |
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| The Importance of Being Earnest Essays Maxine Hong Kingston | |
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| "No Name Woman" | |
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| Considering Art: Honesty and Deception | |
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| Common Characters: The Trickster Figure Algonquin Folk Tale | |
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| "Manabozho, The Great Hare" | |
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| "Molly Whuppie" | |
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| "Little Girl and Buh Rabby" | |
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| "Brer Rabbit Meets a Tar Baby" | |
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| "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" | |
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| from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | |
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| Considering Art: The Trickster Figure | |
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| Vengeance and Forgiveness | |
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| Fiction | |
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| "The Cask of Amontillado" | |
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| "Roman Fever" | |
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| "Sweat" | |
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| "Babylon Revisited" | |
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| "Her Three Days" | |
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| "On the Antler" | |
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| "Killings" | |
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| "Inspector Remorse" | |
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| Poetry | |
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| "The Mower's Song" | |
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| "The Bubble: A Song" | |
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| "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" | |
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| "Mine Enemy is growing old" (1509) | |
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| "Fire and Ice" | |
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| "Since 1619" | |
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| "Harlem" | |
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| "Mama Come Back" | |
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| "Minor Miracle" | |
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| "It All Comes Back" | |
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| Drama Euripedes, Medea | |
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| Essays | |
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| "On Revenge" | |
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| "Letter from Birmingham Jail" | |
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| Considering Art: Vengeance and Forgiveness | |
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| Common Characters: The Prodigal Son Luke | |
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| The Parable of the Lost Son James Baldwin | |
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| "Sonny's Blues" | |
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| "Everyday Use" | |
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| Considering Art: The Prodigal Son | |
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| Industry and Idleness | |
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| Fiction Washington Irving | |
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| "Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker" | |
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| "Life in the Iron-Mills" | |
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| "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall-street" | |
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| "The Interview" | |
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| "Where I Work" | |
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| Poetry | |
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| "The Thresher's Labour" | |
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| "The Woman's Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck" | |
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| "Hay Making" | |
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| "The Solitary Reaper" | |
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| "Sparkles from the Wheel" | |
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| "Ulysses" | |
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| "The Tuft of Flowers" | |
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| "Toads" and "Toads Revisited" | |
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| "Dolor" | |
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| "The Secretary Chant" | |
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| "What Work Is" | |
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| "Digging" | |
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| "Blues" | |
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| Drama Shakespeare | |
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| The First Part of Henry the Fourth Essays Virginia Woolf | |
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| "Professions for Women" | |
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| "Work and Its Contents" | |
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| Considering Art: Industry and Idleness | |
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| Common Characters: The Rags-to-Riches Figure | |
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| "Richard Cory" | |
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| "The Ruined Maid" | |
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| "Cinderella" | |
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| "Success Story" | |
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| Considering Art: The Rags-to-Riches Figure | |
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| Greed, Gluttony, and Generosity | |
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| Fiction | |
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| "The Monkey's Paw" | |
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| "The Gift of the Magi" | |
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| "The Rocking Horse Winner" | |
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| "The Rich Brother" | |
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| "In the American Society" | |
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| Poetry | |
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| "The World Is Too Much with Us" | |
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| "Le D?ner" | |
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| "This Is Just to Say" | |
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| "Our Daily Bread" | |
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| "The Beggars" | |
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| "The Greed That Is Not Greed" | |
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| "You Can't Have It All" | |
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| "C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease" | |
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| "Greed" | |
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| "The Bear at the Dump" | |
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| Drama Moli?re | |
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| The Miser | |
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| Essays | |
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| "Of Avarice" | |
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| "Young Hunger" | |
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| "The Little Virtues" | |
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| Considering Art: Greed, Gluttony, and Generosity | |
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| Common Characters: The Gambler Charles Baudelaire | |
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| "The Gamblers" | |
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| "Days of Me" | |
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| "Raspberry Sun (Fleur)" | |
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| Considering Art: The Gambler | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index of Terms | |
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| Index of Authors, and Titles | |