Backpack Literature : An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

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The newest, smallest, and most economical member of the Kennedy/Gioia family, Backpack Literature is a brief paperback version of the discipline's most popular introduction to literature anthology. Like its bigger, bestselling predecessors, Backpack Literature features the authors' collective poetic voice which brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature, adding to students' interest in the readings.

Preface

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FICTION

(304)

1 Reading a Story

(20)

FABLE, PARABLE, AND TALE

(7)

W. Somerset Maugham, THE APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA

(1)

Aesop, THE FOX AND THE GRAPES

(1)

Chuang Tzu, INDEPENDENCE

(2)

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, GODFATHER DEATH

(3)

PLOT

(2)

THE SHORT STORY

(8)

John Updike, A & P

(6)

WRITING CRITICALLY

What's The Plot?

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

(1)

2 Point of View

(23)

William Faulkner, A ROSE FOR EMILY

(9)

Edgar Allan Poe, THE TELL-TALE HEART

(5)

WRITING CRITICALLY

How Point of View Shapes a Story

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

(1)

3 Character

(38)

Katherine Anne Porter, THE JILTING OF GRANNY WEATHERALL

(9)

Alice Walker, EVERYDAY USE

(9)

Raymond Carver, CATHEDRAL

(14)

WRITING CRITICALLY

How Character Creates Action

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

(2)

4 Setting

(38)

Kate Chopin, THE STORM

(5)

T. Coraghessan Boyle, GREASY LAKE

(10)

Amy Tan, A PAIR OF TICKETS

102

(18)

WRITING CRITICALLY

How Time and Place Set a Story

120

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

120

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

121

(1)

5 Tone and Style

122

(40)

Ernest Hemingway, A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE

127

(5)

William Faulkner, BARN BURNING

132

(15)

IRONY

147

(12)

Ha Jin, SABOTEUR

149

(10)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Be Style-Conscious

159

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

160

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

160

(2)

6 Theme

162

(24)

Chinua Achebe, DEAD MEN'S PATH

165

(3)

Luke 15: 11-32, THE PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON

168

(2)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER

170

(14)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Stating the Theme

184

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

185

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

185

(1)

7 Symbol

186

(30)

John Steinbeck, THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS

189

(10)

Shirley Jackson, THE LOTTERY

199

(8)

Ursula K. Le Quin, THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS

207

(7)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Recognizing Symbols

214

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

215

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

215

(1)

8 Stories for Further Reading

216

(89)

Margaret Atwood, HAPPY ENDINGS

216

(4)

Kate Chopin, THE STORY OF AN HOUR

220

(3)

Sandra Cisneros, HOUSE ON MANGO STREET

223

(2)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

225

(12)

Zora Neale Hurston, SWEAT

237

(12)

James Joyce, ARABY

249

(6)

Franz Kafka, BEFORE THE LAW

255

(2)

Jamaica Kincaid, GIRL

257

(2)

Joyce Carol Oates, WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

259

(15)

Tim O'Brien, THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

274

(16)

Flannery O'Connor, A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND

290

(15)

POETRY

305

(260)

9 Reading a Poem

308

(16)

William Butler Yeats, THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

310

(3)

LYRIC POETRY

313

(2)

D.H. Lawrence, PIANO

314

(1)

Adrienne Rich, AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS

314

(1)

NARRATIVE POETRY

315

(3)

Anonymous, SIR PATRICK SPENCE

315

(2)

Robert Frost, "OUT, OUT-"

317

(1)

DRAMATIC POETRY

318

(3)

Robert Browning, MY LAST DUCHESS

319

(2)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Can a Poem Be Paraphrased?

321

(1)

William Stafford, ASK ME

322

(1)

William Stafford, A PARAPHRASE OF "ASK ME"

322

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

323

(1)

10 Listening to a Voice

324

(25)

TONE

324

(6)

Theodore Roethke, MY PAPA'S WALTZ

324

(2)

Countee Cullen, FOR A LADY I KNOW

326

(1)

Anne Bradstreet, THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK

326

(1)

Walt Whitman, TO A LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER

327

(1)

Emily Dickinson, I LIKE TO SEE IT LAP THE MILES

328

(1)

Benjamin Mire Saenz, TO THE DESERT

329

(1)

THE PERSON IN THE POEM

330

(9)

Natasha Trethewey, WHITE LIES

330

(2)

Edwin Arlington Robinson, LUKE HAVERGAL

332

(1)

Ted Hughes, HAWK ROOSTING

333

(1)

William Wordsworth, I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD

334

(1)

Dorothy Wordsworth, JOURNAL ENTRY

335

(1)

Langston Hughes, THEME FOR ENGLISH B

336

(1)

Anne Stevenson, SOUS-ENTENDU

337

(1)

Francisco X. Alarcon, THE X IN MY NAME

338

(1)

William Carlos Williams, THE RED WHEELBARROW

339

(1)

IRONY

339

(8)

Robert Creeley, OH NO

340

(1)

W.H. Auden, THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN

341

(1)

Sharon Olds, RITES OF PASSAGE

342

(1)

Sarah N. Cleghorn, THE GOLF LINKS

343

(1)

Wilfred Owen, DULCE ET DECORUM EST

344

(1)

Rhina Espaillat, BILINGUAL/BILINGUE

345

(1)

Thomas Hardy, THE WORKBOX

346

(1)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Paying Attention to the Obvious

347

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

347

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

348

(1)

11 Words

349

(19)

LITERAL MEANING: WHAT A POEM SAYS FIRST

349

(4)

William Carlos Williams, THIS IS JUST TO SAY

350

(1)

Robert Graves, DOWN, WANTON, DOWN!

351

(1)

John Donne, BATTER MY HEART, THREE-PERSONED GOD, FOR YOU

352

(1)

THE VALUE OF A DICTIONARY

353

(3)

J.V. Cunningham, FRIEND, ON THIS SCAFFOLD THOMAS MORE LIES DEAD

355

(1)

Carl Sandburg, GRASS

355

(1)

WORD CHOICE AND WORD ORDER

356

(8)

Robert Herrick, UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES

358

(2)

Kay Ryan, BLANDEUR

360

(1)

Thomas Hardy, THE RUINED MAID

361

(1)

Richard Eberhart, THE FURY OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENT

362

(1)

Wendy Cope, LONELY HEARTS

363

(1)

FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY

E.E. Cummings, ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN

364

(1)

Anonymous, CARNATION MILK

365

(1)

Lewis Carroll, JABBERWOCKY

365

(2)

WRITING CRITICALLY

How Much Difference Does a Word Make?

367

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

367

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

367

(1)

12 Saying and Suggesting

368

(9)

John Masefield, CARGOES

369

(1)

William Blake, LONDON

370

(2)

Wallace Stevens, DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK

372

(1)

Timothy Steele, EPITAPH

373

(1)

Robert Frost, FIRE AND ICE

373

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, TEARS, IDLE TEARS

374

(1)

Emily Dickinson, WILD NIGHTS - WILD NIGHTS!

374

(1)

WRITING CRITICALLY

The Ways a Poem Suggests

375

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

376

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

376

(1)

13 Imagery

377

(12)

Ezra Pound, IN A STATION OF THE METRO

377

(1)

Taniguchi Buson, THE PIERCING CHILL I FEEL

377

(2)

T.S. Eliot, THE WINTER EVENING SETTLES DOWN

379

(1)

Theodore Roethke, ROOT CELLAR

379

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop, THE FISH

380

(2)

Charles Simic, FORK

382

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, PIED BEAUTY

383

(1)

ABOUT HAIKU

383

(3)

Arakida Moritake, THE FALLING FLOWER

383

(1)

Matsuo Basho, HEAT-LIGHTNING STREAK

384

(1)

Matsuo Basho, IN THE OLD STONE POOL

384

(1)

Taniguchi Buson, ON THE ONE-TON TEMPLE BELL

385

(1)

Taniguchi Buson, I GO

385

(1)

Kobayashi Issa, ONLY ONE GUY

385

(1)

Kobayashi Issa, CRICKET

385

(1)

Etheridge Knight, Lee Gurga, Penny Harter, Jennifer Brutschy, A SELECTION OF HAIKU

385

(1)

FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY

John Keats, BRIGHT STAR! WOULD I WERE STEADFAST AS THOU ART

386

(1)

T.E. Hulme, IMAGE

386

(1)

Robert Bly, DRIVING TO TOWN LATE TO MAIL A LETTER

387

(1)

Stevie Smith, NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING

387

(1)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Analyzing Images

387

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

388

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

388

(1)

14 Figures of Speech

389

(14)

WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY?

389

(3)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, THE EAGLE

390

(1)

William Shakespeare, SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?

390

(1)

Howard Moss, SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY?

391

(1)

METAPHOR AND SIMILE

392

(4)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL

393

(1)

William Blake, To SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND

394

(1)

Sylvia Plath, METAPHORS

394

(1)

N. Scott Momaday, SIMILE

395

(1)

OTHER FIGURES

396

(3)

James Stephens, THE WIND

397

(2)

Margaret Atwood, YOU FIT INTO ME

399

(1)

John Ashbery, THE CATHEDRAL IS

399

(1)

FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY

Denise Levertov, LEAVING FOREVER

399

(1)

Jane Kenyon, THE SUITOR

400

(1)

Robert Frost, THE SECRET SITS

401

(1)

A.R. Ammons, COWARD

401

(1)

WRITING CRITICALLY

How Metaphors Enlarge a Poem's Meaning

401

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

402

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

402

(1)

15 Sound

403

(15)

SOUND AS MEANING

403

(4)

Alexander Pope, TRUE EASE IN WRITING COMES FROM ART, NOT CHANCE

404

(2)

William Butler Yeats, WHO GOES WITH FERGUS?

406

(1)

John Updike, RECITAL

407

(1)

ALLITERATION AND ASSONANCE

407

(3)

A.E. Housman, EIGHT O'CLOCK

408

(1)

Robert Herrick, UPON JULIA'S VOICE

409

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, THE SPLENDOR FALLS ON CASTLE WALLS

409

(1)

RIME

410

(5)

William Cole, ON MY BOAT ON LAKE CAYUGA

411

(2)

Hilaire Belloc, THE HIPPOPOTAMUS

413

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, GOD'S GRANDEUR

414

(1)

READING AND HEARING POEMS ALOUD

415

(2)

Michael Stillman, IN MEMORIAM JOHN COLTRANE

416

(1)

William Shakespeare, FULL FATHOM FIVE THY FATHER LIES

416

(1)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Is It Possible to Write About Sound?

417

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

417

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

417

(1)

16 Rhythm

418

(17)

STRESSES AND PAUSES

418

(6)

Gwendolyn Brooks, WE REAL COOL

423

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, BREAK, BREAK, BREAK

423

(1)

METER

424

(9)

Max Beerbohm, ON THE IMPRINT OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION OF THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM

424

(6)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, COUNTING-OUT RHYME

430

(1)

A.E. Housman, WHEN I WAS ONE-AND-TWENTY

430

(1)

Walt Whitman, BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!

431

(1)

David Mason, SONG OF THE POWERS

432

(1)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Freeze-Framing the Sound

433

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

433

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

434

(1)

17 Closed Form

435

(18)

FORMAL PATTERNS

436

(4)

John Keats, THIS LIVING HAND, NOW WARM AND CAPABLE

437

(2)

Robert Graves, COUNTING THE BEATS

439

(1)

BALLADS

440

(4)

Anonymous, BONNY BARBARA ALLAN

440

(3)

Dudley Randall, BALLAD OF BIRMINGHAM

443

(1)

THE SONNET

444

(4)

William Shakespeare, LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS

445

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, WHAT LIPS MY LIPS HAVE KISSED, AND WHERE, AND WHY

445

(1)

Robert Frost, ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT

446

(1)

Claude McKay, AMERICA

447

(1)

Kim Addonizio, FIRST POEM FOR YOU

447

(1)

R.S. Gwynn, SCENES FROM THE PLAYROOM

448

(1)

OTHER FORMS

448

(4)

Dylan Thomas, DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

449

(1)

Robert Bridges, TRIOLET

450

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop, SESTINA

450

(2)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Turning Points

452

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

452

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

452

(1)

18 Open Form

453

(14)

Denise Levertov, ANCIENT STAIRWAY

453

(4)

E.E. Cummings, BUFFALO BILL'S

457

(1)

W.S. Merwin, FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY DEATH

457

(1)

Stephen Crane, THE HEART

458

(1)

Walt Whitman, CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD

458

(1)

Ezra Pound, THE GARRET

459

(1)

Wallace Stevens, THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD

459

(3)

SEEING THE LOGIC OF OPEN FORM VERSE

462

(3)

E.E. Cummings, IN JUST-

462

(1)

Carole Satyamurti, I SHALL PAINT MY NAILS RED

463

(1)

Lorine Niedecker, POPCORN-CAN COVER

463

(1)

Yusef Komunyakaa, FACING IT

464

(1)

Langston Hughes, I, TOO

465

(1)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Lining Up for Free Verse

465

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

466

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

466

(1)

19 Symbol

467

(12)

T.S. Eliot, THE Boston Evening Transcript

468

(1)

Emily Dickinson, THE LIGHTNING IS A YELLOW FORK

469

(2)

Thomas Hardy, NEUTRAL TONES

471

(1)

Matthew 13:24-30, THE PARABLE OF THE GOOD SEED

472

(1)

George Herbert, THE WORLD

473

(1)

Robert Frost, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN

474

(1)

FOR REVIEW AND FURTHER STUDY

Robinson Jeffers, THE BEAKS OF EAGLES

475

(1)

Sara Teasdale, THE FLIGHT

476

(1)

Ted Koosor, CARRIE

476

(1)

Wallace Stevens, ANECDOTE OF THE JAR

477

(1)

WRITING CRITICALLY

How to Read a Symbol

477

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

478

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

478

(1)

20 Myth and Narrative

479

(15)

Robert Frost, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

481

(1)

Thomas Hardy, THE OXEN

481

(1)

William Wordsworth, THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US

482

(1)

H.D., HELEN

483

(1)

ARCHETYPE

483

(2)

Louise Bogan, MEDUSA

484

(1)

MYTH AND POPULAR CULTURE

485

(7)

Anne Sexton, CINDERELLA

486

(3)

Sylvia Plath, LADY LAZARUS

489

(3)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Demystifying Myth

492

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

493

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

493

(1)

21 Poems for Further Reading

494

(71)

Sherman Alexie, INDIAN BOY LOVE SONG

494

(1)

Anonymous, LORD RANDALL

495

(1)

Matthew Arnold, DOVER BEACH

496

(1)

W.H. Auden, MUSE DES BEAUX ARTS

497

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop, ONE ART

498

(1)

William Blake, THE TYGER

499

(1)

Gwendolyn Brooks, THE PREACHER RUMINATES: BEHIND THE SERMON

500

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, HOW DO I LOVE THEE? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

501

(1)

Judith Ortiz Cofer, QUINCEANERA

501

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, KUBLA KHAN

502

(2)

Billy Collins, CARE AND FEEDING

504

(1)

E.E. Cummings, SOMEWHERE I HAVE NEVER TRAVELLED, GLADLY BEYOND

504

(1)

Emily Dickinson, THE SOUL SELECTS HER OWN SOCIETY

505

(1)

Emily Dickinson, I HEARD A FLY BUZZ - WHEN I DIED

506

(1)

Emily Dickinson, BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH

506

(1)

John Donne, DEATH BE NOT PROUD

507

(1)

Rita Dove, SUMMIT BEACH, 1921

508

(1)

T.S. Eliot, THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK

509

(4)

Robert Frost, MENDING WALL

513

(1)

Robert Frost, STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING

514

(1)

Allen Ginsberg, A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA

515

(1)

Dana Gioia, CALIFORNIA HILLS IN AUGUST

516

(1)

Thomas Hardy, THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN

516

(2)

Robert Hayden, THOSE WINTER SUNDAYS

518

(1)

Seamus Heaney, DIGGING

519

(1)

George Herbert, EASTER WINGS

520

(1)

Robert Herrick, To THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME

520

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, SPRING AND FALL

521

(1)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, THE WINDHOVER

521

(1)

A.E. Housman, TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG

522

(1)

Langston Hughes, THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS

523

(1)

Langston Hughes, HARLEM [DREAM DEFERRED

524

(1)

Randall Jarrell, THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER

524

(1)

Robinson Jeffers, TO THE STONE-CUTTERS

524

(1)

Ben Jonson, ON MY FIRST SON

525

(1)

John Keats, ODE ON A GRECIAN URN

525

(2)

John Keats, ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER

527

(1)

Philip Larkin, HOME IS SO SAD

528

(1)

Shirley Geok-lin Lim, LEARNING TO LOVE AMERICA

528

(1)

Robert Lowell, SKUNK HOUR

529

(2)

Andrew Marvell, TO HIS COY MISTRESS

531

(1)

John Milton, WHEN I CONSIDER HOW MY LIGHT IS SPENT

532

(1)

Marianne Moore, POETRY

533

(1)

Marilyn Nelson, A STRANGE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN

534

(1)

Lorine Niedecker, SORROW MOVES IN WIDE WAVES

535

(1)

Sharon Olds, THE ONE GIRL AT THE BOYS' PARTY

535

(1)

Wilfred Owen, ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

536

(1)

Linda Pastan, ETHICS

537

(1)

Octavio Paz, CON LOS OJOS CERRADOS

538

(1)

Octavio Paz, Translated by Eliot Weinberger, WITH EYES CLOSED

538

(1)

Sylvia Plath, DADDY

538

(3)

Henry Reed, NAMING OF PARTS

541

(1)

Adrienne Rich, LIVING IN SIN

542

(1)

Edwin Arlington Robinson, MINIVER CHEEVY

543

(1)

Theodore Roethke, ELEGY FOR JANE

544

(1)

William Shakespeare, THAT TIME OF YEAR THOU MAYST IN ME BEHOLD

545

(1)

William Shakespeare, MY MISTRESS' EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN

546

(1)

Percy Bysshe Shelley, OZYMANDIAS

546

(1)

Cathy Song, STAMP COLLECTING

547

(1)

William Stafford, THE FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS

548

(1)

Wallace Stevens, THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM

549

(1)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ULYSSES

550

(2)

Dylan Thomas, FERN HILL

552

(1)

John Updike, EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER

553

(1)

Amy Uyematsu, THE TEN MILLION FLAMES OF LOS ANGELES

554

(2)

Derek Walcott, THE VIRGINS

556

(1)

Walt Whitman, I HEAR AMERICA SINGING

557

(1)

Richard Wilbur, THE WRITER

558

(1)

William Carlos Williams, SPRING AND ALL

559

(1)

William Wordsworth, COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE

560

(1)

James Wright, AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO

561

(1)

William Butler Yeats, SAILING TO BYZANTIUM

561

(2)

William Butler Yeats, WHEN YOU ARE OLD

563

(2)

DRAMA

565

(502)

22 Reading a Play

567

(31)

A PLAY IN ITS ELEMENTS

569

(18)

Susan Glaspell, TRIFLES

570

(17)

TRAGEDY AND COMEDY

587

(10)

Jane Martin, BEAUTY

591

(6)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Conflict Resolution

597

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

597

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

597

(1)

23 The Theater of Sophocles

598

(60)

THE THEATER OF SOPHOCLES

598

(1)

STAGING

598

(2)

THE CIVIC ROLE OF GREEK DRAMA

600

(1)

ARISTOTLE'S CONCEPT OF TRAGEDY

601

(3)

SOPHOCLES

604

(1)

THE ORIGINS OF OEDIPUS THE KING

604

(52)

Sophocles, OEDIPUS THE KING (Translated by Robert Fagles)

605

(51)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Some Things Change. Some Things Don't

656

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

656

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

657

(1)

24 The Theater of Shakespeare

658

(117)

THE THEATER OF SHAKESPEARE

658

(2)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

660

(1)

A NOTE ON OTHELLO

660

(113)

William Shakespeare, OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE

661

(112)

WRITING CRITICALLY

Breaking the Language Barrier

773

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

773

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

774

(1)

25 The Modern Theater

775

(90)

REALISM AND NATURALISM

775

(69)

Henrik Ibsen, A DOLL's HOUSE (Translated by James McFarlane)

778

(66)

TRAGICOMEDY AND THE ABSURD

844

(19)

Milcha Sanchez-Scott, THE CUBAN SWIMMER

847

(16)

WRITING CRITICALLY

What's So Realistic About Realism?

863

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

863

(1)

FURTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

864

(1)

26 Plays for Further Reading

865

(202)

Terrence McNally, ANDRE'S MOTHER

865

(4)

Arthur Miller, DEATH OF A SALESMAN

869

(82)

Tennessee Williams, THE GLASS MENAGERIE

951

(57)

August Wilson, JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE

1008

(59)

WRITING

1067

27 Writing About Literature

1069

(25)

BEGINNING

1069

(1)

USING CRITICAL SOURCES

1070

(1)

GUARDING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

1071

(1)

DISCOVERING ESSAY IDEAS

1072

(3)

DRAFTING AND REVISING, OR CREATIVITY VS. ANALYSIS

1075

(2)

THE FORM OF YOUR FINISHED PAPER

1077

(1)

ACKNOWLEDGING AND DOCUMENTING SOURCES

1078

(7)

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

1085

(1)

REFERENCE GUIDE FOR CITATIONS

1086

(8)

28 Writing About a Story

1094

(13)

EXPLICATING

1094

(5)

Sample Student Essay (Explication)

1095

(4)

ANALYZING

1099

(4)

Sample Student Essay (Analysis)

1100

(3)

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING

1103

(1)

SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

1104

(3)

29 Writing About a Poem

1107

(20)

EXPLICATING

1108

(6)

Robert Frost, DESIGN

1109

(1)

Sample Student Essay (Explication)

1109

(5)

ANALYZING

1114

(3)

Sample Student Essay (Analysis)

1115

(2)

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING

1117

(4)

Abbie Huston Evans, WING-SPREAD

1118

(1)

Sample Student Essay (Comparison)

1119

(2)

How TO QUOTE A POEM

1121

(3)

SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

1124

(3)

30 Writing About a Play

1127

METHODS

1127

(3)

HOW TO QUOTE A PLAY

1129

(1)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT

1130

(6)

Sample Student Essay, Othello: Tragedy or Soap Opera?

1131

(5)

SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING

1136

Literary Acknowledgments

Photo Acknowledgments

Index of First Lines of Poetry

Index of Authors and Titles

Index of Literary Terms

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List of Authors

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Backpack Literature : An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

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