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Exploring Literature: Writing and Thinking About Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, 2/E
ISBN-10: 0321162080
ISBN-13: 9780321162083
Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 1408 pp
Published: 07/15/2003
Exploring Literature invites students to connect with works of literature in light of their own experiences and, ultimately, put those connections into writing.
With engaging selections, provocative themes, and comprehensive coverage of the writing process, Madden's anthology is sure to capture the reader's imagination. Exploring Literature opens with five chapters dedicated to reading and writing about literature. An anthology follows, organized around five themes. Each thematic unit includes a rich diversity of short stories, poems, plays, and essays, as well as a case study to help students explore literature from various perspectives.
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Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, 3/E
- Reader-response techniques engage students in the process of writing critical essays; “First Responses” questions prompt students to reflect upon and gain insights from their initial reactions to literature; and “Making Connections” questions encourage students to juxtapose and connect works in their thinking and writing.
- Practical tools assist students in the writing process: checklists and diagrams; sample student essays; an Appendix on MLA Documentation; and case studies that serve as springboards for research and writing projects.
- Students discover how literature can enrich their lives with: “Connecting Through Collaboration” exercises designed for small group discussion;student journal responses used as a starting point for critical writing; selections organized by thematic issues that students can identify with; and an appendix on Writing about Film.
- A rich selection of literature, from classical to contemporary, covering all four genres (poetry, fiction, drama, essay), represents diversity in voice and ethnicity, and illustrates a variety of styles and forms.
- “Making Connections” discussion and writing questions, following each selection, encourage students to relate works in their thinking and writing.
- “Connecting Through Collaboration” activities, integrated throughout the book, help students feel more comfortable sharing their ideas with peers.
- Each Case Study now includes an introduction previewing its distinctions and potential benefits/uses. A new case study, on the Writers of Harlem Renaissance, includes works by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Claude McKay.
- A new Appendix on Writing about Film discusses the medium of film and the relationships between the elements of literature and the elements of film.
- Nine new stories, 27 new poems, two new plays, and 13 new essays have been included.
* indicates new to this edition.
Alternate Contents by Genre.
Preface to Instructors.
I. MAKING CONNECTIONS.
1. Participation: Personal Response and Critical Thinking.
The Personal Dimension of Reading Literature.
Personal Response and Critical Thinking.
Writing to Learn.
Keeping a Journal or Reading Log.
Double-Entry Journals and Logs.
The Social Nature of Learning: Collaboration.
Personal, Not Private.
Ourselves as Readers.
Different Kinds of Reading.
First Responses.
PETER MEINKE, Advice to My Son.
Making Connections with Literature.
Images of Ourselves.
Connecting Through Experience-Zimmer in Grade School.
PAUL ZIMMER, Zimmer in Grade School.
Connecting Through Experience-Not Waving, but Drowning.
STEVIE SMITH, Not Waving, but Drowning.
Making Connections.
Culture, Experience, and Values.
Connecting Through Experience-Those Winter Sundays.
ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays.
Connecting Through Experience-Barbie Doll.
MARGE PIERCY, Barbie Doll.
Being in the Moment.
NEW YORK TIMES, “Birmingham Bomb Kills 4.”
DUDLEY RANDALL, Ballad of Birmingham.
Participating, Not Solving.
Using Our Imaginations.
The Whole and Its Parts.
2. Communication: Writing About Literature.
The Response Essay.
Voice and Writing.
Voice and Response to Literature.
Connecting Through Experience-Incident.
Writing to Describe.
Choosing Details.
Choosing Details from Literature.
Connecting Through Experience-Eleven.
SANDRA CISNEROS, Eleven.
Writing to Compare.
Comparing and Contrasting Using a Venn Diagram.
Connecting Through Experience-Mothers.
ANNA QUINDLEN, Mothers.
Connecting Through Experience-Salvation.
LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation.
Possible Worlds.
From First Response to Final Draft.
The Importance of Revision.
Using First Responses.
Choosing a Topic.
Extending Your Ideas.
Semantic Mapping, or Clustering.
Mix and Match.
Generating Ideas Through Collaboration.
The Response Essay: Composing a Draft.
Diedre's Draft: “Twice on Sunday.”
Revision.
Organization and Unity.
Showing Support.
Clarity.
Voice.
Dierdre's Revised Essay:“Twice on Sunday.”
II. ANALYSIS, ARGUMENTATION, AND RESEARCH.
3. Exploration and Analysis: Genre and the Elements of Literature.
Close Reading.
Annotating the Text.
First Annotation: Exploration.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ozymandias.
Second Annotation: Analysis.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ozymandias.
Literature in Its Many Contexts.
Your Critical Approach.
Reading and Analyzing Fiction.
Narration.
Point of View.
Setting.
Conflict.
Plot.
Character.
Language and Style.
Diction.
Symbol.
Irony.
Theme.
Getting Ideas for Writing about Fiction.
KATE CHOPIN, The Story of an Hour.
Reading and Analyzing Poetry.
Language and Style.
Denotation and Connotation.
Voice.
Tone.
Irony.
STEPHEN CRANE, War Is Kind.
Imagery.
HELEN CHASSIN, The Word “Plum”.
ROBERT BROWNING, Meeting at Night.
ROBERT BROWNING, Parting at Morning*.
Figurative Language: Everyday Poetry.
LANGSTON HUGHES, A Dream Deferred.
N. SCOTT MOMADAY, Simile.
CARL SANDBURG, Fog.
JAMES STEPHENS, The Wind.
Symbol.
ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken.
Sound and Structure.
Rhyme, Alliteration, and Assonance.
Finding the Beat: Limericks.
Meter.
Formal Verse: The Sonnet.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet #29.
Blank Verse.
Free or Open Form Verse.
WALT WHITMAN, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer*.
Making Connections.
Interpretation: What Does the Poem Mean?
Explication.
Types of Poetry.
Lyric Poetry.
Narrative Poetry.
Getting Ideas for Writing about Poetry.
MAY SWENSON, Pigeon Woman.
Reading and Analyzing Drama.
Reading a Play.
Point of View.
Set and Setting.
Conflict.
Plot.
The Poetics.
Tragedy.
Comedy.
Characterization.
Language and Style.
Diction.
Symbol.
Irony.
Theme.
Periods of Drama: A Brief Background.
Greek Drama.
Shakespearian Drama.
Modern Drama.
Getting Ideas for Writing about Drama.
Tips on Reading Antigone.
SOHPOCLES, Antigone.
Reading and Analyzing Essays.
Types of Essays.
Narrative.
Expository.
Argumentative.
Language, Style, and Structure.
Formal or Informal.
Voice.
Word Choice and Style.
Theme or Thesis: What's the Point?
The Aims of an Essay: Inform, Preach, or Reveal.
Getting Ideas for Writing about Essays.
AMY TAN, Mother Tongue.
4. Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay.
The Critical Essay.
Interpretation and Evaluation.
Interpretation: What Does it Mean?
Evaluation: How Well Does it Work?
Options for a Critical Essay: Process and Product.
An Analytical Essay.
A Comparative Essay.
A Thematic Essay.
An Essay About the Beliefs or Actions of the Narrator or Characters.
A Contextual Essay.
Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay.
Planning Your Argument.
Supporting Your Argument: Induction and Substantiation.
Opening, Closing, and Revising Your Argument.
From First Response to Critical Essay.
The Development of a Critical Essay.
Planning an Argument.
Supporting an Argument.
Suzanne's Draft.
Revising the Essay.
Suzanne's Revised Essay.
5. Research: Writing with Secondary Sources.
Creating, Expanding, and Joining Interpretative Communities.
It Is Your Interpretation.
Integrating Sources into Your Writing.
Getting Started.
Use Journal Entries, Notes, and Consult Your Classmates.
Some Popular Areas of Literary Research.
Your Search.
People.
The Library.
Reference Works.
Finding Sources on the Internet.
Evaluating Internet Sources.
Taking Notes.
What Must Be Documented.
Where and How.
Paraphrasing and Summarizing.
Quoting.
Avoiding Plagiarism.
From First Response to Research Essay.
Case Study in Research: Thinking about Interpretation, Culture, and Research.
James Joyce and Eveline.
JAMES JOYCE, Eveline.
Making Connections.
Prof. Devenish's Commentary.
A Student Research Essay, “Leaving Home.”
III. A THEMATIC ANTHOLOGY.
Family and Friends.
Dialogue Across History.
Family and Friends: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs.
Reading and Writing about Family and Friends.
Fiction.
Chinua Achebe, Marriage Is a Private Affair.
James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues.
John Cheever, Reunion*.
Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible.
D.H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer's Daughter.
Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing.
Linda Ching Sledge, The Road*.
Two Readers/Two Choices: John Updike, A&P.
Two Sample Student Essays.
Eudora Welty, A Worn Path.
Poetry.
Connecting Through Comparison: Things Past.
Elizabeth Gaffney, Losses that Turn Up in Dreams.
William Shakespeare, When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet #30).*
Julia Alvarez, Dusting.
Robert Frost, Mending Wall.
Seamus Heaney, Digging.
Mid-Term Break.
Philip Larkin, This Be the Verse.
Michael Lassell, How To Watch Your Brother Die.
Li-Young Lee, The Gift.
Janice Mirikatani, For My Father.
Sharon Olds, 35/10.
Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz.
Cathy Song, The Youngest Daughter.
Drama.
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie.
Essays.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, From Father with Love.
Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman.
Mark Twain, Advice to Youth.
Case Study in Composition: Thinking about Interpretation and Biography.
Lorraine Hansberry and A Raisin in the Sun.
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun.
Lorraine Hansberry-In Her Own Words.
In Other's Words: James Baldwin, Sweet Lorraine (1969).
Julius Lester, The Heroic Dimension in A Raisin in the Sun (1972).
Anne Cheney, The African Heritage in A Raisin in the Sun (1984).
Steven R. Carter, Hansberry's Artistic Misstep (1991).
Margaret B. Wilkerson, Hansberry's Awareness of Culture and Gender (1994).
Michael Anderson, Raisin in the Sun: A Landmark Lesson in Being Black (1999).
A Student Essay.
Exploring the Literature of Family and Friends: Options for Writing and Research.
Women and Men.
A Dialogue Across History.
Women and Men: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs.
Reading and Writing about Women and Men.
Fiction.
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog.
William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper.
Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants.
James Joyce, Araby.
Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh.
Rosario Morales, The Day It Happened.
Poetry.
Connecting Through Comparison: Be My Love.
Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd To his Love.
Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd.
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress.
Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman.
Margaret Atwood, You Fit into Me.
Siren Song. *
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? *
Robert Browning, Porphyria's Lover.
Nikki Giovanni, Woman. *
Judy Grahn, Ella, In a Square Apron, Along Highway 80.
A.E. Housman, When I was One-and-twenty.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, What Lips My Lips have Kissed and Where and Why.
Love Is Not All. *
Sharon Olds, Sex Without Love.
Sylvia Plath, Mirror.
Alberto Rios, The Purpose of Altar Boys.
Connecting through Comparison: Shall I Compare Thee?
William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnet 18).
Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day. *
William Shakespeare, My Mistress's Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet 130).
Drama.
Anton Chekhov, The Proposal. *
Connecting and Comparing Across Genres: Cinderella.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Cinderella.
Anne Sexton, Cinderella.
Bruno Bettleheim, Cinderella.
Essays.
Bruno Bettleheim, Cinderella.
Sei Shonogan, A Lover's Departure.
Virginia Woolf, If Shakespeare Had a Sister.
Case Study in Composition: Thinking about Interpretation in Context.
Women in Cultural and Historical Context.
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House.
From the Adams Letters (1776).
A Husband's Letter to His Wife (1844).
Sojourner Truth, “Ain't I a Woman” (1851).
Henrik Ibsen, Notes (1878), The Changed Ending of A Doll's House for a German Production (1880), Speech at the Banquet of Norwegian League for Women's Rights (1892).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Excerpt from The Solitude of Self.
Wilbur Fisk Tillett, Excerpt from Southern Womanhood (1891).
Dorothy Dix, The American Wife (1898) and Women and Suicide (1899).
Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman), From Women and Economics (1899).
Natalie Zemon Davis and Jill Ker Conway, The Rest of the Story (1999).
A Student Essay.
Exploring the Literature of Women and Men: Options for Writing and Research.
Heritage and Identity.
A Dialogue Across History.
Heritage and Identity: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs.
Reading and Writing about Heritage and Identity.
Fiction.
Julia Alvarez, Snow.
Willa Cather, Paul's Case.
Jamaica Kincaid, Girl.
Tahira Naqvi, Brave We Are. *
Frank O'Connor, My Oedipus Complex.
Amy Tan, Two Kinds.
Two Readers/Two Choices: Alice Walker, Everyday Use.
Two Sample Student Essays.
Poetry.
Connecting through Comparison: The Mask We Wear.
W.H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask.
T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Sherman Alexie, On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City.
Gloria Anzaldua, To Live in the Borderlands Means You.
Elizabeth Bishop, In the Waiting Room.
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool.
e.e. cummings, anyone lives in a pretty how town.
Martin Espada, Latin Night at the Pawn Shop.
Pat Mora, Immigrants.
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
Drama.
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex.
Essays.
Maya Angelou, Graduation.
Joan Didion, Why I Write.
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream.
Neil Miller, In Search of Gay America.
Charles Fruehling Springwood and C. Richard King, Playing Indian: Why Native American Mascots Must End. *
Case Studies in Composition: Thinking about Interpretation and Performance.
Interpretation and Performance.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
Desperately Seeking Hamlet: Four Interpretations.
Olivier's Hamlet.
Jacobi's Hamlet.
Gibson's Hamlet.
Branagh's Hamlet.
From Part to Whole, from Whole to Part.
A Student Essay-Explication and Analysis.
Exploring the Literature of Heritage and Identity: Options for Writing and Research .
Culture and Class.
A Dialogue Across History.
Culture and Class: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs.
Reading and Writing about Culture and Class.
Fiction.
Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson.
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake. *
Kate Chopin, Desiree's Baby. *
Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal.
Liliana Heker, The Stolen Party.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings. *
Flannery O'Connor, Everything that Rises Must Converge.
Poetry.
Connecting through Comparison: The City.
William Blake, London.
William Wordsworth, Composed on Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1862.
Robert Francis, Pitcher.
Marge Piercy, To Be of Use.
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory.
Mr. Flood's Party.
John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player.
William Carlos Williams, At the Ball Game.
Connecting through Comparison: Poetry.
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Constantly Risking Absurdity.
Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry*.
Drama.
Susan Glaspell, Trifles.
Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos.
Essays.
Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write.
Richard Rodriguez, Workers.
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal.
Mark Twain, Corn-pone Opinions. *
Case Studies in Composition: Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Alaine Locke, The New Negro.*
Langston Hughes, From The Big Sea.*
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.*
The Negro Speaks of Rivers.*
I, Too.
The Weary Blues. *
One Friday Morning.
Theme for English B.
Claude McKay, America.
Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Heritage.*
Jean Toomer, Reapers.
Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel.*
From the Dark Tower.*
Anne Spencer, Lady, Lady.*
Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat.*
Georgia Douglas Johnson, I Want To Die While You Love Me.*
Commentary.
On The Negro Speaks of Rivers.*
Langston Hughes.
Jessie Fauset.
Onwuchekwa Jemie.
R. Baxter Miller.
Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View.*
A Sample Student Essay.
Exploring the Literature of Culture and Class: Options for Writing and Research.
Faith and Doubt.
A Dialogue Across History.
Faith and Doubt: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs.
Reading and Writing about Faith and Doubt.
Fiction.
Thomas Bulfinch, The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus.
Raymond Carver, Cathedral. *
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown.
Pam Houston, A Blizzard under Blue Sky. *
Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been.
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried.
Luigi Pirandello, War.
John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums.
Poetry.
Connecting through Comparison: September 11, 2001.
Deborah Garrison, I Saw You Walking. *
Billy Collins, The Names. *
Brian Doyle, Leap*.
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach.
William Blake, The Lamb.
The Tyger.*
Robert Bridges, London Snow. *
Stephen Crane, A Man Said to the Universe.
Emily Dickinson, Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
Much madness is divinest sense.
There is a certain slant of light.
She sweeps with many-colored Brooms.
Success is counted sweetest. *
I heard a fly buzz-when I died-.*
John Donne, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. *
Death, Be Not Proud. *
Mark Doty, Brilliance. *
Robert Frost, Fire and Ice.
“Out, Out...”.
Tess Gallagher, The Hug.
A.E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young .
John Keats, When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be. *
Galway Kinnell, Saint Francis and the Sow. *
William Stafford, Traveling Through the Dark.*
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night.
Walt Whitman, From Song of Myself. *
Connecting through Comparison: The Impact of War.
Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed .
Amy Lowell, Patterns.
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est.
Carl Sandburg, Grass.
Yusef Komunyakka, Facing It.
Drama.
Two Readers/Two Choices: William Shakespeare, Othello.
Two Sample Student Essays.
Essays.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus. *
Brian Doyle, Leap. *
Plato, The Allegory of the Cave. *
Philip Simmons, Learning to Fall. *
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience.*
Case Studies in Composition: Connecting through Comparison--Poetry and Painting.
Peter Brueghel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus / W.H. Auden, “Musee des Beaux Arts” and Alan Devenish, “Icarus Again”.
Jacopo Tintoretto, Crucifixion / N. Scott Momaday “Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion”.
Edward Hopper, Nighthawks / Samuel Yellen, “Nighthawks”.
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night / Anne Sexton, “The Starry Night”.
Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist / Wallace Stevens, “The Man with the Blue Guitar”.
Jean Francois Millet, The Gleaners / Mary Ellen LeClair, “The Clark Institute: Labor Day, 1999”.
Edwin Romanzo Elmer, Mourning Picture / Adrienne Rich, “Mourning Picture”.
Jan Vermeer, The Loveletter / Sandra Nelson, “When a Woman Holds a Letter”.
A Student's Comparison and Contrast Essay-Process and Product.
Exploring Painting and Poetry: Options for Writing and Research.
Appendix A: Critical Approaches to Literature.
Appendix B: Writing About Film*.
Appendix C: Documentation.
Glossary of Literary Terms.
Literary and Photo Credits.
Index of Author Names, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry.
Index of Literary Terms.
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Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, 4/E
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