- ISBN: 9781111348830 | 1111348839
- Cover: Package w/AccessCard
- Copyright: 1/14/2011
Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process, LIT includes a wide selection of essential classic and contemporary readings, along with brief introductions to the literary genres, useful writing suggestions, and a down-to-earth, accessible guide to writing about literature.
| Preface | |
| A Guide To Writing About Literature | |
| Understanding Literature | |
| Understand Imaginative Literature | |
| Recognize Conventional Themes | |
| Understand the Literary Canon | |
| Luisa Valenzuela, All about Suicide | |
| Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation | |
| Interpret Literature | |
| Evaluate Literature | |
| Understand the Function of Literary Criticism | |
| Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism | |
| Reading and Writing about Literature | |
| Read Literature | |
| Previewing | |
| Highlighting | |
| Maya Angelou, My Arkansas | |
| Annotating | |
| Write about Literature | |
| Planning an Essay | |
| Drafting an Essay | |
| Revising and Editing an Essay | |
| Exercise: Two Student Papers | |
| Student Paper: Initiation into Adulthood | |
| Student Paper: Hard Choices | |
| Checklist: Using Highlighting Symbols | |
| Checklist: Using Sources | |
| Checklist: Conventions of Writing about Literature | |
| Writing Special Kinds of Papers | |
| Write a Response Paper | |
| Responding to a Short Story | |
| Student Paper: Response to Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" | |
| Responding to a Poem | |
| Write a Comparison-ContraSt. Comparing a Short Story and a Film | |
| Student Paper: Two Cathedrals | |
| Write an Explication | |
| Explicating a Poem | |
| Student Paper: A Lingering Doubt | |
| Write a Character Analysis | |
| Analyzing a Character in a Play | |
| Student Paper: Linda Loman: Breaking the Mold | |
| Write about a Work's Cultural Context | |
| Writing about a Poem's Cultural Context | |
| Student Paper: Dreaming of Home | |
| Checklist: Writing a Response Paper | |
| Checklist: Writing a Comparison-ContraSt | |
| Checklist: Writing an Explication | |
| Checklist: Writing a Character Analysis | |
| Checklist: Writing about a Work's Cultural Context | |
| Thinking Critically about Your Writing | |
| Distinguish Fact from Opinion | |
| Evaluate Supporting Evidence | |
| Detect Bias in Your Writing | |
| Understand Logic | |
| Inductive Reasoning | |
| Deductive Reasoning | |
| Toulmin Logic | |
| Recognizing Logical Fallacies | |
| Checklist: Detecting Bias | |
| Writing Literary Arguments | |
| Plan a Literary Argument | |
| Choosing a Debatable Topic | |
| Developing an Argumentative Thesis | |
| Defining Your Terms | |
| Considering Your Audience | |
| Refuting Opposing Arguments | |
| Use Evidence Effectively | |
| Supporting Your Literary Argument | |
| Establishing Credibility | |
| Being Fair | |
| Using Visuals as Evidence | |
| Organize a Literary Argument | |
| Writing a Literary Argument | |
| Student Paper: The Politics of "Everyday Use" | |
| Checklist: Developing an Argumentative Thesis | |
| Checklist: Being Fair | |
| Using Sources in Your Writing | |
| Choose a Topic | |
| Do Exploratory Research | |
| Narrow Your Topic | |
| Do Focused Research | |
| Library Research | |
| Internet Research | |
| Take Notes | |
| Integrate Sources | |
| Exercise: Integrating Quotations | |
| Draft a Thesis Statement | |
| Make a Formal Outline | |
| Draft Your Paper | |
| Evaluate a Model Literature Paper with MLA Documentation | |
| Student Paper: And Again She Makes the Journey | |
| Character and Act in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" | |
| Checklist: Evaluating Library Sources | |
| Checklist: Evaluating Web Sites | |
| Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
| Avoid Plagiarism | |
| Document All Material That Requires Documentation | |
| Enclose Borrowed Words in Quotation Marks | |
| Do Not Imitate a Source's Syntax and Phrasing | |
| Differentiate Your Words from Those of Your Source | |
| Document Sources | |
| Parenthetical References in the Text | |
| The Works-Cited LiSt. Content Notes | |
| Checklist: Plagiarism and Internet Sources | |
| Checklist: Guidelines for Punctuating Parenthetical References | |
| Writing Essay Exams about Literature | |
| Plan an Essay Exam Answer | |
| Review Your Material | |
| Consider Your Audience and Purpose | |
| Read Through the Entire Exam | |
| Read Each Question Carefully | |
| Brainstorm to Find Ideas | |
| Shape an Essay Exam Answer | |
| State Your Thesis | |
| Make a Scratch Outline | |
| Draft and Revise an Essay Exam Answer | |
| Model Student Essay Exam Answer | |
| Fiction | |
| Understanding Fiction | |
| Identify the Origins of Modern Fiction | |
| The History of the Novel | |
| The History of the Short Story | |
| Define the Short Story | |
| Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants | |
| Understand the Boundaries of Fiction | |
| Fiction Sampler: The Short-Short | |
| Define the Short-Short Story | |
| Snow | |
| The Plot | |
| Accident | |
| Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape | |
| Girl | |
| Buffalo Soldiers | |
| 55 Miles to the Gas Pump | |
| Plot | |
| Recognize Conflict | |
| Recognize Stages of Plot | |
| Recognize Order and Sequence | |
| Graphic Story: Ben Katchor, Goner Pillow Company | |
| The Story of an Hour | |
| Kansas | |
| A Rose for Emily | |
| Writing Suggestions: Plot | |
| Checklist: Writing about Plot | |
| Character | |
| Recognize Round and Flat Characters | |
| Recognize Dynamic and Static Characters | |
| Understand Motivation | |
| Graphic Story: Art Spiegelman, Eye Ball | |
| A&P. | |
| Miss Brill | |
| Gryphon | |
| Writing Suggestions: Character | |
| Checklist: Writing about Character | |
| Setting | |
| Understand Historical Setting | |
| Understand Geographical Setting | |
| Understand Physical Setting | |
| Graphic Story | |
| From Persepolis | |
| The Storm | |
| This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona | |
| I Stand Here Ironing | |
| Writing Suggestions: Setting | |
| Checklist: Writing about Setting | |
| Point of View | |
| Recognize First-Person Narrators | |
| Unreliable Narrators | |
| Recognize Third-Person Narrators | |
| Omniscient Narrators | |
| Limited Omniscient Narrators | |
| Objective Narrators | |
| Understand the Uses of Point of View | |
| Graphic Story | |
| From The Arrival | |
| Big Black Good Man | |
| The Cask of Amontillado | |
| Barn Burning | |
| Writing Suggestions: Point of View | |
| Checklist: Selecting an Appropriate Point of View: Review | |
| Checklist: Writing about Point of View | |
| Style, Tone, and Language | |
| Understand Style and Tone | |
| Understand the Uses of Language | |
| Recognize Formal and Informal Diction | |
| Recognize Imagery | |
| Recognize Figures of Speech | |
| Graphic Story | |
| A Hunger ArtiSt | |
| Araby | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
| The Things They Carried | |
| Writing Suggestions: Style, Tone, and Language | |
| Checklist: Writing about Style, Tone, and Language | |
| Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
| Recognize Symbols | |
| Literary Symbols | |
| Recognizing Symbols | |
| Recognize Allegory | |
| Recognize Myth | |
| Graphic Story | |
| From Fun Home | |
| The Lottery | |
| Everyday Use | |
| Cathedral | |
| Young Goodman Brown | |
| Writing Suggestions: Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
| Checklist: Writing about Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
| Theme | |
| Understand Theme | |
| Discover a Story's Theme | |
| Graphic Story | |
| Two Questions | |
| A Worn Path | |
| Doe Season | |
| The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
| Writing Suggestions: Theme | |
| Checklist: Writing about Theme | |
| Fiction for Further Reading | |
| Appreciate Different Kinds of Fiction | |
| Greasy Lake | |
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | |
| The Secret Lion | |
| Two Kinds | |
| Poetry | |
| Understanding Poetry | |
| Poetry | |
| Poetry | |
| Identify the Origins of Modern Poetry | |
| Define Poetry | |
| That time of year thou mayst in me behold | |
| la | |
| Recognize Kinds of Poetry | |
| Narrative Poetry | |
| Lyric Poetry | |
| Poetry Sampler: Poetry and Art | |
| Appreciate Poems about Art | |
| Sonnet in Primary Colors | |
| C?zanne's Ports | |
| Monet's "Waterlilies" | |
| Girl Powdering Her Neck | |
| The Tall Figures of Giacometti | |
| The Fun Gallery | |
| Writing Suggestions: Poetry and Art | |
| Voice | |
| I'm nobody! Who are you? | |
| Identify the Speaker in the Poem | |
| Gretel in Darkness | |
| My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly and Hum | |
| Negro | |
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