*New to the 13th Edition Resources for Reading and Writing about Literature Preface for Instructors Introduction: Reading Imaginative Literature The Nature of Literature *Danusha Laméris, Feeding the Worms The Value of Literature The Changing Literary Canon *Approaching Sensitive Subjects FICTION The Elements of Fiction 1. Reading Fiction Reading Fiction Responsively Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Section of The Story of an Hour A SAMPLE PAPER: Differences in Responses to Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour Explorations and Formulas Ann Beattie, Janus 2. Plot T.C. Boyle, The Hit Man *Joy Harjo, The Reckoning William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily PERSPECTIVE: William Faulkner, On A Rose for Emily A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Section of A Rose for Emily A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Conflict in the Plot of William Faulkners A Rose for Emily Andre Dubus, Killings 3. Character Tobias Wolff, Powder *Zadie Smith, Martha, Martha James Baldwin, Sonnys Blues 4. Setting Ernest Hemingway, Soldiers Home Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper 5.
Point of View Third-Person Narrator (Nonparticipant) First-Person Narrator (Participant) John Updike, A & P Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Manuel Muñoz,Zigzagger *Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer 6. Symbolism Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible Ralph Ellison, King of the Bingo Game Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Layers of Symbol in Cynthia Ozicks The Shawl 7. Theme *Adrian Tomine, Intruders (graphic short story) *A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Danger among Us: Distilling the Theme in Intruders Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Ministers Black Veil *Carmen Maria Machado, Eight Bites 8. Style, Tone, and Irony Style Tone Irony Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Mark Twain, The Story of the Good Little Boy *Virginia Woolf, The Man Who Loved His Kind PERSPECTIVE: Virginia Woolf, On Conventions in Writing Approaches to Fiction Thematic Approaches 9. A Thematic Case Study: War and Its Aftermath Tim OBrien, How to Tell a True War Story Kurt Vonnegut, Happy Birthday, 1951 Edwidge Danticat, The Missing Peace 10. A Thematic Case Study: Privacy Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx without a Secret: An Etching David Long, Morphine ZZ Packer, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere John Cheever, The Enormous Radio Genre Studies 11. A Genre Case Study: Speculative Fiction *Peter Ho Davies, Minotaur *N. K.
Jemisin, Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters *Mariana Enriquez, Back When We Talked to the Dead *Philip K. Dick, To Serve the Master Authors in Depth 12. *A Study of Alice Munro An Introduction A Brief Biography Alice Munro: *Walker Brothers Cowboy *The Moons of Jupiter *Silence PERSPECTIVES *Alice Munro, In Her Own Words *Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro: An Appreciation *Beverly Rasporich, Alice: The Woman Behind the Art *W.R. Martin and Warren U. Ober, Alice Munro as Small-Town Historian: Spaceships Have Landed SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR LONGER PAPERS 13. A Study of Flannery OConnor A Brief Biography and Introduction Flannery OConnor: A Good Man is Hard to Find Good Country People *The Life You Save May Be Your Own PERSPECTIVES Flannery OConnor, On the Use of Exaggeration and Distortion Josephine Hendin, On OConnors Refusal to Do Pretty Claire Katz, The Function of Violence in OConnors Fiction Edward Kessler, On OConnors Use of History TIME Magazine, On A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories 14. A Study of Dagoberto Gilb: The Author Reflects on Three Stories An Introduction A Brief Biography Dagoberto Gilb: How Books Bounce (INTRODUCTION) Love in L.
A. (STORY) On Writing Love in L.A. (ESSAY) Shout (Story) On Writing Shout (ESSAY) Uncle Rock (Story) On Writing Uncle Rock (ESSAY) PERSPECTIVES Dagoberto Gilb: On Physical Labor On Distortions of Mexican American Culture Michael Meyer Interviews Dagoberto Gilb FACSIMILES: Dagoberto Gilb, Two Draft Manuscript Pages Further Reading 15. Stories for Further Reading Judith Ortiz Cofer, Volar Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat James Joyce, Eveline *Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Lets Tell This Story Properly Joyce Carol Oates, Tick Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado George Saunders, I Can Speak Alice Walker, The Flowers John Edgar Wideman, All Stories are True POETRY The Elements of Poetry 16. Reading Poetry Reading Poetry Responsively Lisa Parker, Snapping Beans *Linda Pastan, Jump Cabling John Updike, Dogs Death The Pleasure of Words Gregory Corso: I am 25 A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Explication of I am 25 Robert Francis, Catch Robert Morgan, Mountain Graveyard E. E. Cummings, l(a Anonymous, Western Wind Regina Barreca, Nighttime Fires Suggestions for Approaching Poetry Poetic Definitions of Poetry Marianne Moore, Poetry Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry Ruth Forman, Poetry Should Ride the Bus Charles Bukowski, a poem is a city *Ada Limón, The End of Poetry Recurrent Poetic Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Roses Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose William Blake, The Sick Rose Dorothy Parker, One Perfect Rose H.
D. (Hilda Doolittle), Sea Rose Poems for Further Study Mary Oliver, The Poet with His Face in His Hands Jim Tilley, The Big Questions Alberto Ríos, Seniors Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Eagle Edgar Allan Poe, Sonnet To Science Cornelius Eady, The Supremes 17. Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone Word Choice Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Allusion Word Order Tone Marilyn Nelson, How I Discovered Poetry Katharyn Howd Machan, Hazel Tells LaVerne A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Tone in Katharyn Howd Machans Hazel Tells LaVerne Martín Espada, Latin Night at the Pawnshop *Joy Harjo, Granddaughters Diction and Tone in Four Love Poems *Shamim Azad, First Love *Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet XLIII *John Frederick Nims, Love Poem *Pablo Neruda, Drunk as drunk on turpentine Poems for Further Study Walt Whitman, The Dalliance of the Eagles Kwame Dawes, History Lesson at Eight a.m. Cathy Song, The Youngest Daughter John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn Alice Jones, The Lungs Louis Simpson, In the Suburbs A Note on Reading Translations Sappho, Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne (trans. Henry T. Wharton) Sappho, Beautiful-throned, immortal Aphrodite (trans. Thomas Wentworth Higginson) Sappho, Prayer to my lady of Paphos (trans.
Mary Barnard) 18. Images Poetrys Appeal to the Senses William Carlos Williams, Poem Walt Whitman, Cavalry Crossing a Ford *Suji Kwock Kim, The Korean Community Garden in Queens David Solway, Windsurfing Poems for Further Study Adelaide Crapsey, November Night Ruth Fainlight, Crocuses Mary Robinson, Londons Summer Morning William Blake, London A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Imagery in William Blakes London and Mary Robinsons Londons Summer Morning Kwame Dawes, The Habits of Love *Charles Simic, House of Cards Sally Croft, Home-Baked Bread John Keats, To Autumn PERSPECTIVE: T. E. Hulme, On the Differences between Poetry and Prose 19. Figures of Speech William Shakespeare, from Macbeth Simile and Metaphor Langston Hughes, Harlem Jane Kenyon, The Socks Anne Bradstreet, The Author to Her Book Other Figures Edmund Conti, Pragmatist Dylan Thomas, The Hand That Signed the Paper Janice Townley Moore, To a Wasp Tajana Kovics, Text Message Poems for Further Study William Carlos Williams, To Waken an Old Lady Ernest Slyman, Lightning Bugs Martín Espada, The Mexican Cabdrivers Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him Judy Page Heitzman, The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill Robert Pinsky, Icicles Jim Stevens, Schizophrenia Kay Ryan, Learning Ronald Wallace, Building an Outhouse Elaine Magarrell, The Joy of Cooking PERSPECTIVE: John R. Searle, Figuring Out Metaphors 20. Symbol, Allegory, and Irony Symbol Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night Allegory James Baldwin, Guilt, Desire and Love Irony Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Irony in Edwin Arlington Robinsons Richard Cory *Gwendolyn Brooks, Sadie and Maud.