- ISBN: 9781457699931 | 1457699931
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- Copyright: 10/9/2015
Now in its twelfth edition, Literature: The Human Experience provides a broad range of compelling fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction that explore the intersections and contradictions of human nature. Timeless themes such as innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, and life and death are presented through the context of connections and experiences that are enduringly human. By presenting diverse selections from contemporary and classic authors across time and cultures, students are certain to discover literature in this anthology with which they can connect.
Literature: The Human Experience is also designed to make teaching literature convenient for instructors and to make reading and writing about literature appealing for students.. A flexible arrangement of literature within each theme allows instructors to teach the text however best suits their classrooms, and the expert instruction and exciting selections will help to guide and entice even the most reluctant readers. Enhancements to the twelfth edition include four new casebooks—one per genre—that help students to see how literature can make arguments as well as new reading questions that ask students to make arguments about the selections. To top it off, Literature: The Human Experience costs about $10 to $30 less than comparable anthologies, providing a wealth of material for an affordable price.
Richard Abcarian (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for thirty-seven years. During his teaching career, he won two Fulbright professorships. In addition to editing Literature: The Human Experience and its compact edition, he is the editor of a critical edition of Richard Wright's A Native Son, as well as several other literature textbooks.
Marvin Klotz (PhD, New York University) was a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for thirty-three years and won Northridge's distinguished teaching award in 1983. He was also the winner of two Fulbright professorships (in Vietnam and Iran) and was a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Fellow twice. In addition to editing Literature: The Human Experience and several other textbooks, he coauthored a guide and index to the characters in Faulkner's fiction.
Samuel Cohen (PhD, City University of New York) is Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (University of Iowa Press, 2009), coeditor (with Lee Konstantinou) of The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (University of Iowa Press, 2012), Series Editor of The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture, and coeditor of JMMLA. He has also been published in such journals as Novel, Clio, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of Basic Writing, and Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is author of 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology and coauthor of Literature: The Human Experience.
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Preface for Instructors
INTRODUCTION
Responding to Literature
Emily Dickinson, There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Why We Read Literature
Reading Actively and Critically
Reading Fiction
The Methods of Fiction
Tone
Plot
Characterization
Setting
Point of View
Irony
Theme
Questions for Exploring Fiction
Reading Poetry
Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Word Choice
Figurative Language
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Allusion
Symbols
The Music of Poetry
Questions for Exploring Poetry
Reading Drama
Stages and Staging
The Elements of Drama
Characters
Dramatic Irony
Plot and Conflict
Questions for Exploring Drama
Reading Nonfiction
Types of Nonfiction
Narrative Nonfiction
Descriptive Nonfiction
Expository Nonfiction
Argumentative Nonfiction
Analyzing Nonfiction
The Thesis
Structure and Detail
Style and Tone
Questions for Exploring Nonfiction
Writing about Literature
Responding to Your Reading
Annotating While You Read
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
Freewriting
Keeping a Journal
Exploring and Planning
Asking Good Questions
Establishing a Working Thesis
Gathering Information
Organizing Information
Drafting the Essay
Refining Your Opening
Supporting Your Thesis
Revising the Essay
Editing Your Draft
Selecting Strong Verbs
Eliminating Unnecessary Modifiers
Grammatical Connections
Proofreading Your Draft
Some Common Writing Assignments
Explication
Analysis
Comparison and Contrast
The Research Paper
An Annotated Student Research Paper
Some Matters of Form and Documentation
Titles
Quotations
Brackets and Ellipses
Quotation Marks and Other Punctuation
Documentation
Documenting Online Sources
A Checklist for Writing about Literature
INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
Questions for Thinking and Writing
Fiction
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
*Naguib Mahfouz, Half a Day
John Updike, A & P
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl
Daniel Orozco, Orientation
*Camden Joy, Dum Dum Boys
CONNECTING STORIES: Crushes
James Joyce, Araby
Rivka Galchen, Wild Berry Blue
CASE STUDY IN ARGUMENT: Finding Grace in Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O'Connor, from Mystery & Manners
*Bob Dowell, from The Moment of Grace in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor
Hallman B. Bryant, Reading the Map in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
*Michael Clark, Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”: The Moment of Grace
Poetry
*Jonathan Swift, Stella’s Birth-Day. 1724-5
William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence)
*William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Experience)
William Blake, The Lamb
*William Blake, The Shepherd
William Blake, The Garden of Love
William Blake, London
William Blake, The Tyger
Robert Browning, My Last Duchess
Emily Dickinson, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
*Thomas Hardy, The Men Who March Away
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall
A.E. Housman, When I Was One-and-Twenty
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, Birches
Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning
Stevie Smith, To Carry the Child
Countee Cullen, Incident
Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity
Philip Larkin, A Study of Reading Habits
Philip Larkin, This Be the Verse
Anthony Hecht, After the Rain
Audre Lorde, Hanging Fire
*Alicia Ostriker, The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
Jean Nordhaus, A Dandelion for My Mother
*Louise Glück, The Myth of Innocence
Louise Glück, The School Children
Alan Feldman, My Century
Sandra Cisneros, My Wicked Wicked Ways
Sandra Castillo, Christmas, 1970
Spencer Reece, The Manhattan Project
Evelyn Lau, Solipsism
CONNECTING POEMS: Voices of Experience
Langston Hughes, Mother to Son
Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son
Robert Mezey, My Mother
Gary Soto, Behind Grandma's House
CONNECTING POEMS: Happy Holidays
W. S. Merwin, Thanks
Carl Dennis, Thanksgiving Letter from Harry
Sheila Ortiz Taylor, The Way Back
James Welch, Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat
Maggie Nelson, Thanksgiving
Drama
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Suzan-Lori Parks, Father Comes Home from the Wars
Nonfiction
Langston Hughes, Salvation
Judith Ortiz Cofer, American History
Brian Doyle, Pop Art
*Allie Brosh, This Is Why I’ll Never Be an Adult
CONNECTING NONFICTION: Graduating
David Sedaris, What I Learned, And What I Said at Princeton
David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech, Kenyon College
Further Questions for Thinking and Writing
CONFORMITY AND REBELLION
Questions for Thinking and Writing
Fiction
Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener
Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal
Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
Amy Tan, Two Kinds
*Jennifer Egan, Safari
CONNECTING STORIES: Rebellious Imaginations
*James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
*George Saunders, The End of FIRPO in the World
Poetry
John Donne, Holy Sonnets: "If poisonous minerals, and if that tree"
Richard Crashaw, But Men Loved Darkness rather than Light
William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much with Us
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense
Emily Dickinson, She rose to His Requirement
William Butler Yeats, Easter 1916
William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Carl Sandburg, I Am the People, the Mob
*Wallace Stevens, Peter Quince at the Clavier
Claude McKay, If We Must Die
Langston Hughes, Harlem
W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen
Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
Donald Davie, The Nonconformist
Philip Levine, What Work Is
Marge Piercy, The Market Economy
Carolyn Forche, The Colonel
Natasha Trethewey, Flounder
CONNECTING POEMS: Revolutionary Thinking
William Butler Yeats, The Great Day
Robert Frost, A Semi-Revolution
Nikki Giovanni, Dreams
CONNECTING POEMS: Revising America
Walt Whitman, One Song, America, Before I Go
Langston Hughes, I, Too
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Learning to Love America
CONNECTING POEMS: Soldiers' Protests
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
Hanan Mikha'il 'Ashrawi, Night Patrol
Kevin C. Powers, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Drama
Sophocles, Antigonê
Nonfiction
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time
CONNECTING NONFICTION: Weighing Belief
E.L. Doctorow, Why We Are Infidels
Salman Rushdie, "Imagine There's No Heaven"
CASE STUDY IN ARGUMENT: Making Change
*Bill McKibben, A Call to Arms: An Invitation to Demand Action on Climate Change
*Rebecca Solnit, Revolutions Per Minute
*Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
*Clay Shirky, The Political Power of Social Media
Further Questions for Thinking and Writing
CULTURE AND IDENTITY
Questions for Thinking and Writing
Fiction
*Lu Xun, Diary of a Madman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
Alice Walker, Everyday Use
Sherman Alexie, War Dances
*Edwidge Danticat, The Book of the Dead
CONNECTING STORIES: Insiders and Outcasts
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
Ha Jin, The Bridegroom
Poetry
*Jonathan Swift, Market Women’s Cries
Emily Dickinson, I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
James Weldon Johnson, A Poet to His Baby Son
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask
Georgia Douglas Johnson, Old Black Men
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
e. e. cummings, the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
*Pablo Neruda, The Men
*Howard Nemerov, Money
Etheridge Knight, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll
Kay Ryan, All Shall Be Restored
Juan Felipe Herrera, 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border (remix)
Maggie Anderson, Long Story
*Gregory Djanikian, Sailing to America
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Latin Women Pray
Louise Erdrich, Dear John Wayne
Marilyn Chin, How I Got That Name
Joshua Clover, The Nevada Glassworks
Taslima Nasrin, Things Cheaply Had
*Omar Pérez, Contributions to a Rudimentary Concept of Nation
*Chris Abani, Blue
Kevin Young, Negative
Terrance Hayes, Root
Alexandra Teague, Adjectives of Order
*Tishahi Doshi, The Immigrant’s Song
*Tishani Doshi, Lament I
CONNECTING POEMS: Poetic Identities
Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself
Frank O'Hara, My Heart
Billy Collins, Monday
Carl Phillips, Blue
Timothy Yu, Chinese Silence No. 22
CONNECTING POEMS: Working Mothers
Tess Gallagher, I Stop Writing the Poem
Julia Alvarez, Woman's Work
Rita Dove, My Mother Enters the Work Force
Deborah Garrison, Sestina for the Working Mother
CONNECTING POEMS: America through Immigrants’ Eyes
Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America
*Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
*Léopold Sédar Senghor, To New York
*Kofi Awoonor, America
*Richard Blanco, América
Drama
CASE STUDY IN ARGUMENT: Reviewing an American Classic
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
*Lloyd W. Brown, Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Reappraisal of A Raisin in the Sun (1974)
*Margaret Wilkerson, A Raisin in the Sun: Anniversary of an American Classic (1986)
*Robin Bernstein, Inventing a Fishbowl: White Supremacy and the Critical Reception of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1999)
*Marilyn Stasio, Variety Review of A Raisin in the Sun (2014)
David Henry Hwang, Trying to Find Chinatown
Nonfiction
Virginia Woolf, What If Shakespeare Had Had a Sister?
George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
*Sabrina Jones, Little House in the Big City
*Eula Biss, Time and Distance Overcome
CONNECTING NONFICTION: Fitting In
Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America
Lacy M. Johnson, White Trash Primer
Further Questions for Thinking and Writing
LOVE AND HATE
Questions for Thinking and Writing
Fiction
Kate Chopin, The Storm
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
*Lydia Millet, Love in Infant Monkeys
*Junot Díaz, Drown
*Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, My American Jon
CONNECTING STORIES: Having It All
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants
David Foster Wallace, Good People
Poetry
Sappho, With His Venom
Catullus, 85
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29 "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 64 "When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced"
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
John Donne, The Flea
John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Ben Jonson, Song, to Celia
Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
William Blake, A Poison Tree
Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice
Dorothy Parker, One Perfect Rose
Theodore Roethke, I Knew a Woman
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
John Frederick Nims, Love Poem
Wislawa Szymborska, A Happy Love
Lisel Mueller, Happy and Unhappy Families I
Carolyn Kizer, Bitch
*Carolyn Kizer, Afternoon Happiness
Galway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin
Sylvia Plath, Daddy
Lucille Clifton, There Is a Girl Inside
Seamus Heaney, Valediction
Billy Collins, Sonnet
Sharon Olds, Sex without Love
Wyatt Prunty, Learning the Bicycle
Adrian Blevins, The Case Against April
Daisy Fried, Econo Motel, Ocean City
CONNECTING POEMS: Looking Back on Love
Sir Thomas Wyatt, They Flee from Me
Lady Mary Wroth, "Come darkest night, becoming sorrow best"
Sharon Olds, My Father's Diary
Dean Young, Winged Purposes
CONNECTING POEMS: Remembering Fathers
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz
Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Li-Young Lee, Eating Alone
CONNECTING POEMS: Love Stinks
*Catullus, 70
*Aphra Behn, Love in Fantastique Triumph satt
*Edna St. Vincent Millay, I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII)
*Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Be Near Me
*Andrea Hollander, Betrayal
CASE STUDY IN ARGUMENT: Seductive Reasoning
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
*A.D. Hope, His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell
*Peter DeVries, To His Importunate Mistress (Andrew Marvell Updated)
Annie Finch, Coy Mistress
Drama
William Shakespeare, Othello
Susan Glaspell, Trifles
Lynn Nottage, Poof!
Nonfiction
Paul, 1 Corinthians 13
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
Grace Talusan, My Father's Noose
*Sonya Chung, Getting It Right
CONNECTING NONFICTION: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
*Dagoberto Gilb, I Knew She Was Beautiful
*Pablo Piñero Stillmann, Life, Love, Happiness: A Found Essay from the Twitterverse
Further Questions for Thinking and Writing
LIFE AND DEATH
Questions for Thinking and Writing
Fiction
Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Helena María Viramontes, The Moths
*Sam Lipsyte, The Naturals
CONNECTING STORIES: Mourning Rituals
Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds
*Allegra Goodman, Apple Cake
CONNECTING STORIES: Between Life and Death
Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain
Poetry
Anonymous, Edward
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
William Shakespeare, Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
John Donne, Death, Be Not Proud
*Jonathan Swift, A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
Emily Dickinson, After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
Emily Dickinson, Apparently with no surprise
Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death
Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory
Robert Frost, After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost, "Out, Out—"
Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost, Design
Pablo Neruda, The Dead Woman
*Czeslaw Milosz, A Song on the End of the World
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Donald Hall, Affirmation
*Marvin Klotz, Requiem
Mary Oliver, When Death Comes
Alicia Ostriker, Daffodils
Seamus Heaney, Mid-term Break
Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come
Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It
Victor Hernández Cruz, Problems with Hurricanes
Mark Halliday, Chicken Salad
Marie Howe, What The Living Do
Mark Turpin, The Man Who Built This House
*Dilruba Ahmed, Snake Oil, Snake Bite
CONNECTING POEMS: Animal Fates
Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark
William Greenway, Pit Pony
*Pablo Neruda, A Dog Has Died
*John Updike, Dog’s Death
CONNECTING POEMS: Seizing the Day
Rainer Maria Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo
James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
Billy Collins, Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska
Barbara Ras, You Can't Have It All
Tony Hoagland, I Have News for You
CASE STUDY IN WORDS AND IMAGES: Poems about Paintings
W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts
Pieter Brueghal the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus [Image]
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, In Goya's Greatest Scenes
Francisco de Goya, The Third of May, 1808, Madrid [Image]
Anne Sexton, The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night [Image]
Donald Finkel, The Great Wave: Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave of Kanagawa [Image]
Drama
*Edward Albee, The Sandbox
Woody Allen, Death Knocks
Nonfiction
John Donne, Meditation XIV, from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
E. B. White, Once More to the Lake
Jill Christman, The Sloth
*John Jeremiah Sullivan, Feet in Smoke
CONNECTING NONFICTION: Rituals of Mourning
*Jonathan Lethem, 13,1977, 21
*Ruth Margalit, The Unmothered
Further Questions for Thinking and Writing
Appendices
Glossary of Critical Approaches
Introduction
Deconstruction
Ethical Criticism
Feminist Criticism
Formalist Criticism
Marxist Criticism
Historical Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Postcolonial Criticism
Reader-Response Criticism
Biographical Notes on the Authors
Glossary of Literary Terms
Index of Authors and Titles
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