- ISBN: 9780312653545 | 0312653549
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- Copyright: 8/25/2011
Students respond powerfully to literature when it explores issues that matter to them, such as how love can be compromised by the demands of tradition, how authoritarian injustice can be resisted, and how popular culture influences behavior. And when students learn to analyze and argue for how literature engages such issues and exerts such power, they develop and hone their critical thinking and writing skills. In its fifth edition Making Literature Mattercontinues to deliver on the promise of its title. Its thematic anthology gathers memorable stories, poems, plays, and essays into unique literary clusters addressing issues that rouse passionate responses in students. At the same time, its comprehensive rhetoric shows students how to harness those responses into thoughtful arguments about the issues raised by the clusters and the literature.
John Schilb (Ph.D., State University of New York — Binghamton) is a professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he holds the Culbertson Chair in Writing. Currently the editor of College English, he has co-edited Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age and, with John Clifford, Writing Theory and Critical Theory. He is author of Between the Lines: Relating Composition Theory and Literary Theory and Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audiences’ Expectations. John Clifford (Ph.D., New York University) is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Editor of The Experience of Reading: Louis Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory, he has published numerous scholarly articles on pedagogy, critical theory and composition theory, most recently in College English, in Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers and in The Norton Book of Composition Studies.
PART ONE: Working with Literature 1. What Is Literature? How and Why Does It Matter?
James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (poem)
How Have People Defined Literature?
* What Makes Literature “Literature”? Comparing a News Story and a Poem
* Joyce Wadler, “Peter Rabbit Must Die” (news story)
Maxine Kumin, “Woodchucks” (poem)
Why Study Literature in a College Writing Course?
What Can You Do to Make Literature Matter to Others? 2. How to Read Closely
Basic Strategies for Close Reading
Close Readings of a Poem
Sharon Olds, “Summer Solstice, New York City” (poem)
* Reading Closely by Annotating
X. J. Kennedy, Death of a Window Washer (poem)
* Further Strategies for Close Reading
* Identify Characters’ Emotions
* Edward Hirsch, Execution (poem)
* Identify Speech Acts
* Paul Lisicky, What Will Life Be Like in the Twenty-First Century? (story)
Using Topics of Literary Studies to Get Ideas
Lynda Hull, Night Waitress (poem) 3. How to Make Arguments about Literature
Daniel Orozco, Orientation (story)
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl (story)
Strategies for Making Arguments about Literature
Looking at Literature as Argument
John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (poem)
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen (poem)
Robert Frost, Mending Wall (poem) 4. The Writing Process
William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper (poem)
Strategies for Exploring
Strategies for Planning
Strategies for Composing
First Draft of a Student Paper
Abby Hazelton, The Passage of Time in “The Solitary Reaper”
Strategies for Revising
Revised Draft of a Student Paper
Abby Hazelton, The Passage of Time in “The Solitary Reaper”
Strategies for Writing a Comparative Paper
* Don Paterson, Two Trees (poem)
* Luisa A. Igloria, Regarding History (poem)
* Jeremy Cooper, Don Paterson’s Criticism of Nature’s Owners 5. How to Write about Stories
Eudora Welty, A Visit of Charity
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
* Ira Sher, The Man in the Well
Students’ Personal Responses to the Stories
The Elements of Short Fiction
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Alison Caldwell, Forms of Blindness in “The Use of Force” 6. How to Write about Poems
Charles Fort, We Did Not Fear the Father
Philip Levine, What Work Is
Mary Oliver, Singapore
Yusef Komunyakaa, Blackberries
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Mill
Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs Away from Americans
Louise Erdrich, The Lady in the Pink Mustang
Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant
* James Tate, The Restaurant Business
A Student’s Personal Responses to the Poems
Michaela Fiorruci, Boundaries in Robinson, Komunyakaa, and Oliver
The Elements of Poetry
Revised Draft of a Student Paper
Michaela Fiorruci, Negotiating Boundaries 7. How to Write about Plays
Tennessee Williams, From The Glass Menagerie (scene)
Marsha Norman, from ‘night Mother (scene)
The Elements of Drama
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Tim Kerwin, The Significance of What Jessie “Thinks” 8. How to Write about Essays
June Jordan, Many Rivers to Cross
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
A Student’s Personal Response
The Elements of Essays
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Isla Bravo, Resisting Women’s Roles
9. How to Write a Research Paper
Strategies for Identifying an Issue and a Tentative Claim
Strategies for Finding and Using Secondary Sources
Strategies for Working with Sources
Strategies for Integrating Sources
Strategies for Documenting Sources (MLA Format)
Four Annotated Student Research Papers
A Paper that Deals with Existing Interpretations of a Literary Work
Katie Johnson, The Meaning of the Husband’s Fainting in “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
A Paper that Places Literature in Historical and Cultural Context
Brittany Thomas, The Relative Absence of the Human Touch in “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
*A Paper that Analyzes a Literary Work through the Framework of a Particular Theorist
* Jacob Grobowicz, Using Foucault to Understand Disciplinary Power in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
A Paper that Uses a Literary Work to Examine Social Issues
* Sarah Michaels, “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a Guide to Social Factors in Postpartum Depression
*Poems and Pictures: A Portfolio for Writers PART TWO: Literature and Its Issues 10. Families
Memories of Family: Essays
Brent Staples, The Runaway Son
Rick Moody, Demonology
* bell hooks, from Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Reconciling with Fathers: Poems
Lucille Clifton, forgiving my father
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
Li-Young Lee, My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
* Molly Peacock, Say You Love Me
Exorcising the Dead: Critical Commentaries on a Poem
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
Critical Commentaries:
Mary Lynn Broe, From Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Lynda K. Bundtzen, From Plath's Incarnations
Steven Gould Axelrod, From Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words
Tim Kendall, from Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study
Mothers and Daughters: Stories
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Siblings in Conflict: Stories
Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues Family Dramas: Re-Visions of a Play
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Christopher Durang, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
Grandparents and Legacies: Poems
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Grandfather at the Indian Health Clinic
Nikki Giovanni, Legacies
Linda Hogan, Heritage
Gary Soto, Behind Grandma's House
Alberto Ríos, Mi Abuelo
* Lorna Dee Cervantes, Refugee Ship
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Claims
*Poetic Visions of Family: A Collection of Poems by Sharon Olds
* Sharon Olds, I Go Back to May 1937
* Sharon Olds, His Stillness
* Sharon Olds, My Son the Man
* Sharon Olds, First Thanksgiving
A Family’s Dreams: Cultural Contexts for a Play
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Cultural Contexts:
The Crisis, The Hansberrys of Chicago: They Join Business Acumen with Social Vision
Lorraine Hansberry, April 23, 1964, Letter to the New York Times
Alan Ehrenhalt, From The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s
Sidney Poitier, from The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
*A Conflict in Values: A Story in the News
Hanif Kureishi, My Son, the Fanatic
In the News:
* Haroon Siddiqui, American anti-Muslim prejudice goes mainstream
* The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Attacks on Mosque Site Pervert Values
* Andrew Norfolk, Muslim group behind “mega-mosque” seeks to convert all Britain
* Barbara Bradley Hagerty, New College Teaches Young American Muslims
Fateful Decisions about Parenthood: Stories
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Love of My Life
* John Edgar Wideman, newborn thrown in trash and dies
Gays and Lesbians in Families: Poems
Essex Hemphill, Commitments
* Audre Lorde, Who Said It Was Simple
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Two Small-Sized Girls
Rane Arroyo, My Transvestite Uncle Is Missing
11. Love
True Love: Poems
William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds
* John Keats, Bright Star
Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights--Wild Nights!
* Edna St. Vincent Millay, What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
e. e. cummings, somewhere i have never travelled
Wislawa Szymborska, True Love
Michael S. Harper, Discovery
Wendy Rose, Julia
Romantic Dreams: Stories
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
James Joyce, Araby
John Updike, A & P
*The Pull of Tradition: Cultural Contexts for a Story
* Jhumpa Lahiri, Going Ashore
Cultural Contexts:
* Jhumpa Lahiri My Two Lives
* Anita Jain, Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse than Craigslist?
* Miguel Helft, A Decent Proposal
*Mourning Loved Ones: Poems in the News
* W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues
* Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane
* Anne Sexton, Sylvia’s Death
In the News:
* Adam Cohen, A New Kind of Memorial for the Internet Age
* Lisa Miller, R.I.P. on Facebook
* Scott Duke Harris, Online Memorials: Internet ads new dimension to grieving process
*Places in the Heart: Essays
M. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
* Barry Lopez, Emancipation
* Ken Burns, Our Best Selves
A Seductive Argument: Re-Visions of a Poem
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Peter De Vries, To His Importunate Mistress
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Appearance of Love: A Collection of Stories by Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin, Désirée's Baby
Is This Love?: Stories
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
* Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
*Jealous Love: Critical Commentaries on a Play
William Shakespeare, Othello
* Critical Commentaries:
* A.C. Bradley, The Noble Othello
* Millicent Bell, Othello’s Jealousy
* Jeffrie G. Murphy, Jealousy, Shame, and Rival
Love as a Haven? Poems
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
Susan Minot, My Husband’s Back 12. Freedom and Confinement
Freedom for Animals: Poems
* William Blake, The Tyger
D. H. Lawrence, Snake
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
Thomas Lux, To Help the Monkey Cross the River
* Dean Young, Clam Ode
Can Tradition Be a Trap?: Critical Commentaries on a Story
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Critical Commentaries
* Shirley Jackson, The Morning of June 28, 1948, and “The Lottery”
Nick Crawford, Learning from “The Lottery”: How Jackson’s Story Might Help Us Rethink Tradition
Jon Schneiderman, Tradition, Justice, and Bloodlust in American Society
Aimee Wilson, Under the Guise of Tradition: “The Lottery” and Female Circumcision
The Marriage Trap: Plays
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Confined for Her Own Good: Cultural Contexts for a Story
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Cultural Contexts
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
S. Weir Mitchell, From The Evolution of the Rest Treatment
John Harvey Kellogg, From The Ladies’ Guide in Health and Disease
Hobbled by Language: Essays
Richard Rodriguez, Aria
Tomás Rivera, On Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory
Victor Villaneuva, Jr., Reflecting on Richard Rodriguez
Trapped in Stereotypes: Poems
Chrystos, Today Was a Bad Day Like TB
Louise Erdrich, Dear John Wayne
Dwight Okita, In Response to Executive Order 9066
David Hernandez, Pigeons
Pat Mora, Legal Alien
* Toi Derricotte, Black Boys Play the Classics
Naomi Shihab Nye, Blood
Remembering the Death Camps: Poems
Martin Niemoller, First They Came for the Jews
* Nelly Sachs, Chorus of the Rescued
* Marianne Cohn, I Shall Betray Tomorrow
Karen Gershon, Race
Anne Sexton, After Auschwitz
Prisoners of Masculinity: Stories
* Ann Beattie, The Four-Night Fight
* Olaf Olafsson, On the Lake
Haruki Murakami, Another Way to Die
A Dream of Freedom: A Collection of Poems by Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes, Open Letter to the South
Langston Hughes, Theme for English B
Langston Hughes, Harlem
*Vampires Unleashed: A Story in the News
* Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
In the News:
* Jason Zinoman, “Necking: True Blood Reinvents Vampire Sex”
* Kim Hone McMahan, “Vampire Fad Really Bites When Teens Leave Marks”
* The Dominion Post, “Vampire Victim in Hospital for a Week”
Variations on a Stereotype: Re-Visions of a Story
Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Cap
Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves 13. Doing Justice
*Civil Disobedience: Essays
* Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
* Rebecca Solnit, The Thoreau Problem
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Discovering Injustice: Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
* Alice Walker, The Flowers
Punishments: Poems
Seamus Heaney, Punishment
Carolyn Forché, The Colonel
* C.K. Williams, The Nail
Sherman Alexie, Capital Punishment
Critiquing a Justice System: Essays
Scott Russell Sanders, Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
* Atul Gawande, Hellhole
He Said/She Said: Re-Visions of a Poem
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Gabriel Spera, My Ex-Husband
Taking Revenge: Stories
Andre Dubus, Killings
* Ha Jin, Saboteur
Issues of Guilt: A Collection of Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe, Hop-Frog
Eyewitness Testimony: Cultural Contexts for a Play
Ida Fink, The Table
Cultural Contexts
Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Umschleagplatz
Dori Laub and Shoshana Felman, Bearing Witness
Misfit Justice: Critical Commentaries on a Story
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Critical Commentaries
Flannery O’Connor, from Mystery and Manners
Martha Stephens, from The Question of Flannery O’Connor
Stephen Bandy, from “’One of My Babies’: The Misfit and the Grandmother”
* John Desmond, from “Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit and the Mystery of Evil”
*Women Resisting Injustice: A Play in the News
Sophocles, Antigone
In the News:
* Peter Beaumont and Saeed Kamali Deghan, Iran: Women on the frontline of the fight for rights
* Isabel Hilton, A Triumph for Moral Authority
Racial Injustice: Poems
Countee Cullen, Incident
Natasha Trethewey, Incident
*What Is a Criminal? Stories
* Sherwood Anderson, Hands
* Rebecca Makkai, The Briefcase
* Linh Dinh, “!”
Envisioning a More Just World: Poems
* William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper
* Martin Espada, Imagine the Angels of Bread
* Mark Jarman, If I Were Paul 14. Journeys
An Errand of Love? Critical Commentaries on a Story
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Critical Commentaries:
Roland Bartel, Life and Death in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”
Neil Isaacs, Life for Phoenix
Eudora Welty, Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead?
Going on Uncertain Journeys: Stories
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
* Jill McCorkle, Magic Words
Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Roads Taken: A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
*Journeys to Addiction: Nonfiction
* Richard Wright, Craving
* Caroline Knapp, Love
* Susan Cheever, Drinking with Daddy
*A Journey to War: In the News
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
In the News
* Valerie Seiling Jacobs, Packing for the Ineffable
Keep This Boy Running: Cultural Contexts for a Story
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
Cultural Contexts:
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address
W.E. B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington
Gunnar Myrdal, Social Equality
Journeys to a Dark Future: Stories
* Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven!
* Octavia Butler, Bloodchild
Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron
Travels Through the Dark: Re-Visions of a Poem
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
John Burnside, Penitence
Robert Wrigley, Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho
Loren Goodman, Traveling Through the Dark (2005)
End of a Journey: Plays
Marsha Norman, ’night, Mother
* Terence McNally, Andre’s Mother
A Journey to Death: Poems
Mary Oliver, When Death Comes
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Wislawa Szymborska, On Death, without Exaggeration
* Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
Crossing the Waters: Poems
Katia Kapovich, The Ferry
Linda Pastan, Leaving the Island
Mark Doty, Night Ferry Appendix: Critical Approaches to Literature
Contemporary Schools of Criticism
Working with the Critical Approaches
James Joyce, Counterparts (story)
* James Joyce, Eveline (story)
James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (poem)
How Have People Defined Literature?
* What Makes Literature “Literature”? Comparing a News Story and a Poem
* Joyce Wadler, “Peter Rabbit Must Die” (news story)
Maxine Kumin, “Woodchucks” (poem)
Why Study Literature in a College Writing Course?
What Can You Do to Make Literature Matter to Others? 2. How to Read Closely
Basic Strategies for Close Reading
Close Readings of a Poem
Sharon Olds, “Summer Solstice, New York City” (poem)
* Reading Closely by Annotating
X. J. Kennedy, Death of a Window Washer (poem)
* Further Strategies for Close Reading
* Identify Characters’ Emotions
* Edward Hirsch, Execution (poem)
* Identify Speech Acts
* Paul Lisicky, What Will Life Be Like in the Twenty-First Century? (story)
Using Topics of Literary Studies to Get Ideas
Lynda Hull, Night Waitress (poem) 3. How to Make Arguments about Literature
Daniel Orozco, Orientation (story)
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl (story)
Strategies for Making Arguments about Literature
Looking at Literature as Argument
John Milton, When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (poem)
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen (poem)
Robert Frost, Mending Wall (poem) 4. The Writing Process
William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper (poem)
Strategies for Exploring
Strategies for Planning
Strategies for Composing
First Draft of a Student Paper
Abby Hazelton, The Passage of Time in “The Solitary Reaper”
Strategies for Revising
Revised Draft of a Student Paper
Abby Hazelton, The Passage of Time in “The Solitary Reaper”
Strategies for Writing a Comparative Paper
* Don Paterson, Two Trees (poem)
* Luisa A. Igloria, Regarding History (poem)
* Jeremy Cooper, Don Paterson’s Criticism of Nature’s Owners 5. How to Write about Stories
Eudora Welty, A Visit of Charity
William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force
* Ira Sher, The Man in the Well
Students’ Personal Responses to the Stories
The Elements of Short Fiction
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Alison Caldwell, Forms of Blindness in “The Use of Force” 6. How to Write about Poems
Charles Fort, We Did Not Fear the Father
Philip Levine, What Work Is
Mary Oliver, Singapore
Yusef Komunyakaa, Blackberries
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Mill
Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs Away from Americans
Louise Erdrich, The Lady in the Pink Mustang
Marge Piercy, The Secretary Chant
* James Tate, The Restaurant Business
A Student’s Personal Responses to the Poems
Michaela Fiorruci, Boundaries in Robinson, Komunyakaa, and Oliver
The Elements of Poetry
Revised Draft of a Student Paper
Michaela Fiorruci, Negotiating Boundaries 7. How to Write about Plays
Tennessee Williams, From The Glass Menagerie (scene)
Marsha Norman, from ‘night Mother (scene)
The Elements of Drama
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Tim Kerwin, The Significance of What Jessie “Thinks” 8. How to Write about Essays
June Jordan, Many Rivers to Cross
Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
A Student’s Personal Response
The Elements of Essays
Final Draft of a Student Paper
Isla Bravo, Resisting Women’s Roles
9. How to Write a Research Paper
Strategies for Identifying an Issue and a Tentative Claim
Strategies for Finding and Using Secondary Sources
Strategies for Working with Sources
Strategies for Integrating Sources
Strategies for Documenting Sources (MLA Format)
Four Annotated Student Research Papers
A Paper that Deals with Existing Interpretations of a Literary Work
Katie Johnson, The Meaning of the Husband’s Fainting in “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
A Paper that Places Literature in Historical and Cultural Context
Brittany Thomas, The Relative Absence of the Human Touch in “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
*A Paper that Analyzes a Literary Work through the Framework of a Particular Theorist
* Jacob Grobowicz, Using Foucault to Understand Disciplinary Power in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
A Paper that Uses a Literary Work to Examine Social Issues
* Sarah Michaels, “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a Guide to Social Factors in Postpartum Depression
*Poems and Pictures: A Portfolio for Writers PART TWO: Literature and Its Issues 10. Families
Memories of Family: Essays
Brent Staples, The Runaway Son
Rick Moody, Demonology
* bell hooks, from Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Reconciling with Fathers: Poems
Lucille Clifton, forgiving my father
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
Li-Young Lee, My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
* Molly Peacock, Say You Love Me
Exorcising the Dead: Critical Commentaries on a Poem
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
Critical Commentaries:
Mary Lynn Broe, From Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Lynda K. Bundtzen, From Plath's Incarnations
Steven Gould Axelrod, From Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words
Tim Kendall, from Sylvia Plath: A Critical Study
Mothers and Daughters: Stories
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Siblings in Conflict: Stories
Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother
James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues Family Dramas: Re-Visions of a Play
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Christopher Durang, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
Grandparents and Legacies: Poems
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Grandfather at the Indian Health Clinic
Nikki Giovanni, Legacies
Linda Hogan, Heritage
Gary Soto, Behind Grandma's House
Alberto Ríos, Mi Abuelo
* Lorna Dee Cervantes, Refugee Ship
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Claims
*Poetic Visions of Family: A Collection of Poems by Sharon Olds
* Sharon Olds, I Go Back to May 1937
* Sharon Olds, His Stillness
* Sharon Olds, My Son the Man
* Sharon Olds, First Thanksgiving
A Family’s Dreams: Cultural Contexts for a Play
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
Cultural Contexts:
The Crisis, The Hansberrys of Chicago: They Join Business Acumen with Social Vision
Lorraine Hansberry, April 23, 1964, Letter to the New York Times
Alan Ehrenhalt, From The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950s
Sidney Poitier, from The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
*A Conflict in Values: A Story in the News
Hanif Kureishi, My Son, the Fanatic
In the News:
* Haroon Siddiqui, American anti-Muslim prejudice goes mainstream
* The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Attacks on Mosque Site Pervert Values
* Andrew Norfolk, Muslim group behind “mega-mosque” seeks to convert all Britain
* Barbara Bradley Hagerty, New College Teaches Young American Muslims
Fateful Decisions about Parenthood: Stories
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Love of My Life
* John Edgar Wideman, newborn thrown in trash and dies
Gays and Lesbians in Families: Poems
Essex Hemphill, Commitments
* Audre Lorde, Who Said It Was Simple
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Two Small-Sized Girls
Rane Arroyo, My Transvestite Uncle Is Missing
11. Love
True Love: Poems
William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds
* John Keats, Bright Star
Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights--Wild Nights!
* Edna St. Vincent Millay, What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
e. e. cummings, somewhere i have never travelled
Wislawa Szymborska, True Love
Michael S. Harper, Discovery
Wendy Rose, Julia
Romantic Dreams: Stories
Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman
James Joyce, Araby
John Updike, A & P
*The Pull of Tradition: Cultural Contexts for a Story
* Jhumpa Lahiri, Going Ashore
Cultural Contexts:
* Jhumpa Lahiri My Two Lives
* Anita Jain, Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse than Craigslist?
* Miguel Helft, A Decent Proposal
*Mourning Loved Ones: Poems in the News
* W.H. Auden, Funeral Blues
* Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane
* Anne Sexton, Sylvia’s Death
In the News:
* Adam Cohen, A New Kind of Memorial for the Internet Age
* Lisa Miller, R.I.P. on Facebook
* Scott Duke Harris, Online Memorials: Internet ads new dimension to grieving process
*Places in the Heart: Essays
M. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
* Barry Lopez, Emancipation
* Ken Burns, Our Best Selves
A Seductive Argument: Re-Visions of a Poem
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
Peter De Vries, To His Importunate Mistress
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Appearance of Love: A Collection of Stories by Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin, Désirée's Baby
Is This Love?: Stories
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
* Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
*Jealous Love: Critical Commentaries on a Play
William Shakespeare, Othello
* Critical Commentaries:
* A.C. Bradley, The Noble Othello
* Millicent Bell, Othello’s Jealousy
* Jeffrie G. Murphy, Jealousy, Shame, and Rival
Love as a Haven? Poems
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
Susan Minot, My Husband’s Back 12. Freedom and Confinement
Freedom for Animals: Poems
* William Blake, The Tyger
D. H. Lawrence, Snake
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
Thomas Lux, To Help the Monkey Cross the River
* Dean Young, Clam Ode
Can Tradition Be a Trap?: Critical Commentaries on a Story
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Critical Commentaries
* Shirley Jackson, The Morning of June 28, 1948, and “The Lottery”
Nick Crawford, Learning from “The Lottery”: How Jackson’s Story Might Help Us Rethink Tradition
Jon Schneiderman, Tradition, Justice, and Bloodlust in American Society
Aimee Wilson, Under the Guise of Tradition: “The Lottery” and Female Circumcision
The Marriage Trap: Plays
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Confined for Her Own Good: Cultural Contexts for a Story
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Cultural Contexts
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”
S. Weir Mitchell, From The Evolution of the Rest Treatment
John Harvey Kellogg, From The Ladies’ Guide in Health and Disease
Hobbled by Language: Essays
Richard Rodriguez, Aria
Tomás Rivera, On Richard Rodriguez’s Hunger of Memory
Victor Villaneuva, Jr., Reflecting on Richard Rodriguez
Trapped in Stereotypes: Poems
Chrystos, Today Was a Bad Day Like TB
Louise Erdrich, Dear John Wayne
Dwight Okita, In Response to Executive Order 9066
David Hernandez, Pigeons
Pat Mora, Legal Alien
* Toi Derricotte, Black Boys Play the Classics
Naomi Shihab Nye, Blood
Remembering the Death Camps: Poems
Martin Niemoller, First They Came for the Jews
* Nelly Sachs, Chorus of the Rescued
* Marianne Cohn, I Shall Betray Tomorrow
Karen Gershon, Race
Anne Sexton, After Auschwitz
Prisoners of Masculinity: Stories
* Ann Beattie, The Four-Night Fight
* Olaf Olafsson, On the Lake
Haruki Murakami, Another Way to Die
A Dream of Freedom: A Collection of Poems by Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes, Open Letter to the South
Langston Hughes, Theme for English B
Langston Hughes, Harlem
*Vampires Unleashed: A Story in the News
* Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
In the News:
* Jason Zinoman, “Necking: True Blood Reinvents Vampire Sex”
* Kim Hone McMahan, “Vampire Fad Really Bites When Teens Leave Marks”
* The Dominion Post, “Vampire Victim in Hospital for a Week”
Variations on a Stereotype: Re-Visions of a Story
Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Cap
Angela Carter, The Company of Wolves 13. Doing Justice
*Civil Disobedience: Essays
* Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
* Rebecca Solnit, The Thoreau Problem
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Discovering Injustice: Stories
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
* Alice Walker, The Flowers
Punishments: Poems
Seamus Heaney, Punishment
Carolyn Forché, The Colonel
* C.K. Williams, The Nail
Sherman Alexie, Capital Punishment
Critiquing a Justice System: Essays
Scott Russell Sanders, Doing Time in the Thirteenth Chair
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
* Atul Gawande, Hellhole
He Said/She Said: Re-Visions of a Poem
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Gabriel Spera, My Ex-Husband
Taking Revenge: Stories
Andre Dubus, Killings
* Ha Jin, Saboteur
Issues of Guilt: A Collection of Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe, Hop-Frog
Eyewitness Testimony: Cultural Contexts for a Play
Ida Fink, The Table
Cultural Contexts
Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Umschleagplatz
Dori Laub and Shoshana Felman, Bearing Witness
Misfit Justice: Critical Commentaries on a Story
Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Critical Commentaries
Flannery O’Connor, from Mystery and Manners
Martha Stephens, from The Question of Flannery O’Connor
Stephen Bandy, from “’One of My Babies’: The Misfit and the Grandmother”
* John Desmond, from “Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit and the Mystery of Evil”
*Women Resisting Injustice: A Play in the News
Sophocles, Antigone
In the News:
* Peter Beaumont and Saeed Kamali Deghan, Iran: Women on the frontline of the fight for rights
* Isabel Hilton, A Triumph for Moral Authority
Racial Injustice: Poems
Countee Cullen, Incident
Natasha Trethewey, Incident
*What Is a Criminal? Stories
* Sherwood Anderson, Hands
* Rebecca Makkai, The Briefcase
* Linh Dinh, “!”
Envisioning a More Just World: Poems
* William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper
* Martin Espada, Imagine the Angels of Bread
* Mark Jarman, If I Were Paul 14. Journeys
An Errand of Love? Critical Commentaries on a Story
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path
Critical Commentaries:
Roland Bartel, Life and Death in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”
Neil Isaacs, Life for Phoenix
Eudora Welty, Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead?
Going on Uncertain Journeys: Stories
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
* Jill McCorkle, Magic Words
Sherman Alexie, What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Roads Taken: A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night
*Journeys to Addiction: Nonfiction
* Richard Wright, Craving
* Caroline Knapp, Love
* Susan Cheever, Drinking with Daddy
*A Journey to War: In the News
Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
In the News
* Valerie Seiling Jacobs, Packing for the Ineffable
Keep This Boy Running: Cultural Contexts for a Story
Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”
Cultural Contexts:
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address
W.E. B. DuBois, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington
Gunnar Myrdal, Social Equality
Journeys to a Dark Future: Stories
* Ray Bradbury, Mars Is Heaven!
* Octavia Butler, Bloodchild
Ursula Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron
Travels Through the Dark: Re-Visions of a Poem
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
John Burnside, Penitence
Robert Wrigley, Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho
Loren Goodman, Traveling Through the Dark (2005)
End of a Journey: Plays
Marsha Norman, ’night, Mother
* Terence McNally, Andre’s Mother
A Journey to Death: Poems
Mary Oliver, When Death Comes
John Donne, Death Be Not Proud
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Wislawa Szymborska, On Death, without Exaggeration
* Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
Crossing the Waters: Poems
Katia Kapovich, The Ferry
Linda Pastan, Leaving the Island
Mark Doty, Night Ferry Appendix: Critical Approaches to Literature
Contemporary Schools of Criticism
Working with the Critical Approaches
James Joyce, Counterparts (story)
* James Joyce, Eveline (story)
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