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Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, 4/E
Frank Madden

ISBN-10: 0205640184
ISBN-13: 9780205640188

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 1376 pp
Published: 10/29/2008

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Featuring culturally rich and diverse literature, this anthology weaves critical thinking into every facet of its writing apparatus and guides students through the process of crafting their personal responses into persuasive arguments. 

 

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 writing and arguing about literature. An anthology follows, organized around five themes. Each thematic unit includes an ethnically diverse collection of short stories, poems, plays, and essays, as well as a case study to help students explore literature from various perspectives. 

  • Practical discussions of the writing process and ideas for connecting with the literature are introduced in Part I, "Making Connections."  Practical tools for writing appear throughout the text, including handy checklists; diagrams; sample student essays; a chapter on research; and an Appendix on MLA Documentation.
  • Strong coverage of argument in Part II, "Analysis, Argumentation, and Research" helps students approach literature with a critical eye and outlines a strategy for planning and developing a critical essay or research paper.    
  • Reader-response techniques engage students in the process of writing thoughtful essays; “First Responses” questions prompt students to gain insights from their initial reactions to literature; “Making Connections” questions encourage students to personalize, compare, and connect works in their thinking and writing; and new “Making an Argument” questions ask students to craft cohesive critical essays about single and multiple works. 
  • A rich selection of literature, from classic to contemporary, covering all four genres—poetry, fiction, drama, the essay—represents diversity in voice and ethnicity and illustrates a variety of styles and forms. 
  • A "Case Study in Context" at the end of every thematic section serves as a springboard for research and writing projects by exploring the work of significant writers and their life and times.  "Thinking about Interpretation and Biography" examines Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun, and "Interpretation in Context" looks at Ibsen's A Doll's House and the role of women in artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries.  
  • "Connecting Through Comparison" mini-themes in the readings chapters ask students to compare works on related topics to generate ideas for writing, such as Cinderella, love proposals, Sept. 11, and images of war.   A four-color insert, A Case Study in Aesthetic Context, features several famous paintings and the poems written about them.   
  • Pedagogy designed to engage students includes images of authors and related cultural materials, “Connecting Through Collaboration” exercises designed for small group discussion; student journal responses as a starting point for critical writing; and an appendix on Writing about Film.

    • Parts I and II have been revised to give a more unified, step-by-step presentation of the writing process.  Each of our "Writing an Essay" chapters concludes by moving student's through a sample student paper from idea to finished essay using a set of consistent headings to help students see how the basic writing process remains, even though different approaches may be needed when composing a personal, critical, or research essay.       
    • We have augmented Chapter 4: Argumentation: Writing the Critical Essay to include discussion of Toulmin, Aristotelian, and Rogerian argumentation strategies and an in-depth discussion of logical fallacies.
    • An enhanced discussion of peer review has been added to Chapter 5.
    • MyLiteratureLab, Pearson's state-of-the-art, web-based, interactive learning system, has been fully integrated into this edition of Exploring Literature.  Icons in the chapters and a convenient media index located near the front of the book indicate where material from the anthology is enhanced with material on the website.  MyLiteratureLab leads students to film and audio clips, interactive readings, critical articles, student papers, writing prompts and other exercises that are available on MyLiteratureLab.com, with subscription.  

      Although MyLiteratureLab is integrated, it is not defaulted with the book.  MyLiteratureLab Student Access Code Cards may be packaged at no additional cost to make MyLiteratureLab part of your course. 

    • We have refreshed the selections throughout the thematic anthology.  New selections come from contemporary and global writers such as Haruki Murakami, Pablo Neruda, Gloria Naylor, Mary Oliver, and Robert Olen Butler. 
    • We have added new Making Connections and new Making an Argument questions throughout the anthology - altogether equaling over 50 new questions to prompt student writing. 
    • New to this edition, each student paper is prefaced with a section that describes the essay by identifying the type of essay, thesis statement, and noteworthy rhetorical strategies, in order to help students  better utilize these valuable models.                      
    • We have doubled the number of Connecting through Comparison subtheme "clusters" throughout the anthology.  These clusters provide related groups of literature on which students can view similarities and differences and draw upon these works to create new ideas for critical essays.   New Connecting through Comparison sections include: Sibling Relationships, Parents and Children, Illusion and Disillusion, Young Death, Immigration, Facing our own Mortality, Nature and Humanity, Belief in a Supreme Being, and Responding to the the Deaths of Others.
    • Our revised "Exploring the Literature of THEME: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using Research."  These revised sections each contain a new "Using Research" section, which provides specific research topic ideas that students can either use to understand what a research topic should look like or on which they can actually base a research essay. 

    New selections are indicated with asterisks. 

     

    I. MAKING CONNECTIONS

     

    1. Participation: Personal Response and Critical Thinking

    The Personal Dimension of Reading Literature

    Personal Response and Critical Thinking

    Writing to Learn

                Your First Response

                            Checklist: Your First Response

                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

                PETER MEINKE, Advice to My Son

    Making Connections with Literature

                Images of Ourselves

    Connecting Through Experience

                PAUL ZIMMER, Zimmer in Grade School

    Connecting Through Experience

                Culture, Experience, and Values

    Connecting Through Experience

                ROBERT HAYDEN, Those Winter Sundays

    Connecting Through Experience

                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 a Response Essay

    The Response Essay

                Checklist: The Basics of a Response Essay

    Voice and Writing

                Voice and Response to Literature

    Connecting Through Experience

                COUNTEE CULLEN, Incident

    Writing to Describe

                Choosing Details

                Choosing Details from Literature

    Connecting Through Experience

                SANDRA CISNEROS, Eleven

    Writing to Compare

                Comparing and Contrasting Using a Venn Diagram

    Connecting Through Experience

                ANNA QUINDLEN, Mothers

    Connecting Through Experience

                LANGSTON HUGHES, Salvation

                Possible Worlds

    From First Response to Final Draft

                The Importance of Revision

                Using Your First Response

                Using First or Third Person in Formal Essays

                            Step 1: Using Your First Response

                                        Choosing a Topic

                                        Brainstorming

                                        Extending Your Ideas

                                        Semantic Mapping or Clustering

                                        Mix and Match

                                        Generating Ideas Through Collaboration

                            Step 2: Composing a Draft

                                        Developing a Thesis Statement

                                        Checklist Thesis Statement

                                        Effective Paragraphs

                                        Checklist: Paragraphs

                                        Dierdre’s Draft

                            Step 3: Revising the Essay

                                        Checklist: Revision

                                        Revising Dierdre’s Draft

                                        Organization and Unity

                                                    Showing Support

                                                    Clarity

                                                    Voice

                                        Formatting and Documenting Your Essay

                                        Checklist: Some Basics for a Literary Essay

                                        Checklist: Editing and Proofreading

                            Step 4: Dierdre’s Revised Essay

     

    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

                Literature in Its Many Contexts

                Your Critical Approach

    Reading and Analyzing Fiction

                Summary Checklist: 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

                Summary Checklist: Analyzing Poetry

    Language and Style

                Denotation and Connotation

                Voice

                Tone

                Irony

                STEPHEN CRANE, War Is Kind

                Imagery

                HELEN CHASIN, The Word Plum

                ROBERT BROWNING, Meeting at Night

                                                    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 No. 29

                Blank Verse

                Free or Open Form Verse

                WALT WHITMAN, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

    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

                Summary Checklist: 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

                Shakespearean Drama

                Modern Drama

    Getting Ideas for Writing About Drama

                Tips on Reading Antigonê

                SOPHOCLES, Antigonê

    Reading and Analyzing Essays

                Summary Checklist: 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 the Essay

                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

                            Checklist: Options for a Critical Essay

                An Analytical Essay

                A Comparative Essay

                A Thematic Essay

                A Philosophical or Ethical Evaluation

                A Contextual Essay

    Argumentation: Writing a Critical Essay

                The Shape of an Argument

                            Checklist: Writing a Critical Essay

                Planning Your Argument

                            Determine the Argument’s Feasibility

                            Consider Your Own Motivation

                            Clarify Your Proposition: Write a Thesis Statement

                            Know Your Readers

                Supporting Your Argument: Induction and Substantiation

                            Arrange Your Support Effectively

                            Support Your Thesis with Facts from the Text

                            Account for All the Evidence

                            Explain the Connections

                Opening, Closing, and Revising Your Argument

                            Write Your Introduction After You Know Your Argument

                            Close Your Argument Reasonably

                            Revise with a Fresh View

                            Check Against Your Intentions and Organization

                            Beware of Logical Fallacies

                            Proofread Carefully

    The Development of a Critical Essay

                Step 1: Using Your First Response

                            Planning an Argument

                Step 2: Composing a Draft

                            Supporting the Argument

                            Suzanne’s Draft

                Step 3: Revising the Essay

                Step 4: Suzanne’s Revised Essay 

     

    5. Research: Writing with Secondary Sources

    The Research Essay

    Creating, Expanding, and Joining Interpretive Communities

    It Is Your Interpretation

    Getting Started

                Choosing a Topic

                Some Popular Areas of Literary Research

    Your Search

                Peer Support

                The Library

                Reference Works

                Finding Sources on the Internet

                Evaluating Internet Sources

                Checklist: Evaluating Internet Sources

    Integrating Sources into Your Writing

                What Must Be Documented

                Where and How

                Paraphrasing and Summarizing

                Quoting

                Avoiding Plagiarism

    From First Response to Research Essay

                Checklist: Writing a Research Essay

    CASE STUDY IN RESEARCH

                Step 1: Using Your First Response

                JAMES JOYCE, Eveline

                Step 2: Composing a Draft

                            Prof. Devenish’s Commentary

                Step 3: Revising the Essay

                Step 4: Kevin’s Revised Essay

     

    III. A THEMATIC ANTHOLOGY

     

    FAMILY AND FRIENDS

    A Dialogue Across History

    Family and Friends: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs

    Reading and Writing About Family and Friends

    Fiction

    Connecting through Comparison: Sibling Relationships***

                JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny’s Blues

                LOUISE ERDRICH, The Red Convertible

                CHINUA ACHEBE, Marriage Is a Private Affair

                 JOHN CHEEVER, Reunion

                 LINDA CHING SLEDGE, The Road

    Connecting through Comparison: Parents and Children***      

                AMY TAN, Two Kinds

                JULIA ALVAREZ, Dusting

                JANICE MIRIKITANI, For My Father

                THEODORE ROETHKE, My Papa’s Waltz

                CATHY SONG, The Youngest Daughter

                MARGARET ATWOOD, Siren Song

                JOHN CIARDI, Faces***

                ROBERT FROST, Mending Wall

                SEAMUS HEANEY, Digging

                PHILIP LARKIN, This Be the Verse

                LI-YOUNG LEE, The Gift

                SHARON OLDS, 35/10

                WILLIAM STAFFORD, Friends ***

                STEVIE SMITH, Not Waving But Drowning

    Connecting Through Comparison: Remembrance

                ELIZABETH GAFFNEY, Losses That Turn Up in Dreams

                WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought (Sonnet No. 30)

    Drama

                TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

    Essays

                BELL HOOKS, Inspired Eccentricity 

                CHRISTINE O’HAGAN, Friendship’s Gift***

    CASE STUDY IN BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT

    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 Others’ Words

                JAMES BALDWIN, Sweet Lorraine

                JULIUS LESTER, The Heroic Dimension in A Raisin in the Sun

                ANNE CHENEY, The African Heritage in A Raisin in the Sun

                STEVEN R. CARTER, Hansberry’s Artistic Misstep

                MARGARET B. WILKERSON, Hansberry’s Awareness of Culture and Gender

                MICHAEL ANDERSON, A Raisin in the Sun: A Landmark Lesson in Being Black

                A Student’s Research Essay

    Exploring the Literature of FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using Research

     

    INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE

    A Dialogue Across History

    Innocence and Experiences: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs

    Reading and Writing About Innocence and Experience

    Fiction

    Connecting through Comparison: Illusion and Disillusion

                LILIANA HEKER, The Stolen Party         

                JAMES JOYCE, Araby

                JULIA ALVAREZ, Snow

                TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson

                THOMAS BULFINCH, The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus

                RALPH ELLISON, Battle Royal

                HARUKI MURAKAMI, On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning***

                JOYCE CAROL OATES, WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

                FRANK O’CONNOR, Guests of the Nation

                TWO READERS/TWO DIFFERENT VIEWS: JOHN UPDIKE, A&P

                            Two Sample Student Essays

    Poetry

    Connecting Through Comparison: Images of Innocence and Experience

                WILLIAM BLAKE, London

                WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,September 3, 1802

    Connecting Through Comparison: The Chimney Sweeper

                WILLIAM BLAKE, The Chimney Sweeper (From Songs of Innocence)

                                             The Chimney Sweeper (From Songs of Experience)

                A. E. HOUSMAN, When I Was One-and-Twenty

                ALBERTO RIOS, In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did***

                EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON, Richard Cory

                ANNE SEXTON, Pain for a Daughter

                WALT WHITMAN, There was a Child Went Forth

                STEPHEN CRANE, The Wayfarer

    Connecting through Comparison: Young Death***

                ROBERT FROST, “Out, Out ...”

                SEAMUS HEANEY, Mid-Term Break

     Essays

                DAN BARRY, Hurricane Katrina: The Corpse on Union Street

                JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, I Fell in Love, or My Hormones Awakened

                DAVID SEDARIS, The Learning Curve

    CASE STUDY IN THEATRICAL CONTEXT

    Interpretation and Performance

    Multiple Interpretations of Hamlet

                WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

                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’s Critical Essay—An Explication and Analysis of  the “To Be, or Not To Be” Soliloquy

    HAMLET ON SCREEN

                A Critic’s  Influential Interpretation

                            Ernest Jones, Hamlet’s Oedipus Complex

                Hamlet On Screen

                            Bernice Kliman,  The BBC Hamlet: A Television Production

                            Claire Bloom, Playing Gertrude on Television

                            Stanley Kauffmann, At Elsinore: Branagh’s Hamlet

                            Russell Jackson, A Film Diary of the Shooting of

                                        Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet

    Exploring the Literature of INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using Research

     

    CASE STUDY IN AESTHETIC CONTEXT

                PIETER BRUEGHEL, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus  / W. H. AUDEN, Musée 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, Starry Night  / ANNE SEXTON, The Starry Night

                HENRI MATISSE, Dance / NATALIE SAFIR, Matisse’s Dance

                UTAMARO, Two Women Dressing their Hair/ CATHY SONG, Beauty and Sadness***

                 EDWIN ROMANZO ELMER, The 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 POETRY AND PAINTING: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using 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

                 ROBERT OLSEN BUTLER, Jealous Husband Returns as a Parrot***

                CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper

                ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants

                D. H. LAWRENCE, The Horse Dealer’s Daughter

                BOBBIE ANN MASON, Shiloh

                ROSARIO MORALES, The Day It Happened

                GLORIA NAYLOR, The Two***

    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

                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

                DONALD HALL, The Wedding Couple***

                ESSEX HEMPHILL, Commitments

                MICHEAL LASSELL, How to Watch Your Brother Die

                EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why

                                                                Love Is Not All

                SHARON OLDS, Sex Without Love

                OCTAVIO PAZ, Two Bodies***

                SYLVIA PLATH, Mirror

    Connecting Through Comparison: Shall I Compare Thee?

                WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (Sonnet No. 18)

                HOWARD MOSS, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

                WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnet No. 130)

    Connecting and Comparing Across Genres: Cinderella

                JACOB LUDWIG CARL GRIMM AND WILHELM CARL GRIMM, Cinderella

                ANNE SEXTON, Cinderella

                BRUNO BETTELHEIM, Cinderella

    Drama

                ANTON CHEKHOV, The Proposal

    Connecting and Comparing Across Genres: Drama and Fiction

                SUSAN GLASPELL, The Play: Trifles

                SUSAN GLASPELL, The Short Story: A Jury of Her Peers

    Essays

                STEVEN DOLOFF, The Opposite Sex***

                VIRGINIA WOOLF, If Shakespeare Had a Sister

    CASE STUDY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT

    Women in Culture and History

                HENRIK IBSEN, A Doll’s House

                The Adams Letters

                A Husband’s Letter to His Wife

                SOJOURNER TRUTH, “Ain’t I a Woman”

                HENRIK IBSEN, Notes for the Modern Tragedy

                                        The Changed Ending of A Doll’s House for a German Production

                                        Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women’s Rights

                ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Excerpt from The Solitude of Self

                WILBUR FISK TILLETT, Excerpt from Southern Womanhood

                DOROTHY DIX, The American Wife

                                        Women and Suicide

                CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON (GILMAN), Excerpt from Women and Economics

                NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS AND JILL KER CONWAY, The Rest of the

                            Story

                A Student’s Response Essay

    Exploring the Literature of WOMEN AND MEN: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using Research

     

    CULTURE AND IDENTITY

    A Dialogue Across History

    Culture and Identity: Exploring Your Own Values and Beliefs

    Reading and Writing About Culture and Identity

    Fiction

                JOSE ARMAS, El Tonto del Barrio***

                KATE CHOPIN, Désirée’s Baby

                WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily

                JAMAICA KINCAID, Girl

                THOMAS KING, Borders

                GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World***

                TAHIRA NAQVI, Brave We Are

                ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use

    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, Evolution***

                GLORIA ANZALDÚA, To Live in the Borderlands Means You

                ELIZABETH BISHOP, In the Waiting Room

                GWENDOLYN BROOKS, We Real Cool

                E.E. CUMMINGS, anyone lived in a pretty how town

                MARTIN ESPADA, Coca-Cola and Coco Fria***

    Connecting Through Comparison: Immigration***           

                EMILY LAZARUS, The New Colossus***

                SHIRLEY GEOCK-LIN LIM, Learning to Love America***

                PAT MORA, Immigrants

                JOHN UPDIKE, Ex-Basketball Player

                WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, At the Ball Game

                WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

    Connecting Through Comparison: What Is Poetry?

                ARCHIBALD MACLEISH, Ars Poetica

                LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, Constantly Risking Absurdity

                BILLY COLLINS, Introduction to Poetry

    Drama

                SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex

                LUIS VALDEZ, Los Vendidos

    Essays

                CHARLES FRUEHLING SPRINGWOOD AND C. RICHARD KING, “Playing Indian”: Why Native American Mascots Must End

                JOAN DIDION, Why I Write

                FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Learning to Read and Write

                MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., I Have a Dream

                RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Workers

                JONATHAN SWIFT, A Modest Proposal

                HENRY DAVID THOREAU, From Civil Disobedience

    CASE STUDY IN CULTURAL CONTEXT

    Writers of the Harlem Renaissance

                ALAIN 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

                GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON, I Want to Die While You Love Me

                ZORA NEALE HURSTON, Sweat

    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 Student’s Critical Essay

    Exploring the Literature of CULTURE AND IDENTITY: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using 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

                RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral

                NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Young Goodman Brown

                TIM O’BRIEN, The Things They Carried

                FLANNERY O’CONNOR, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

                JOHN STEINBECK, The Chrysanthemums

    Poetry

    Connecting Through Comparison: Facing Our Own Mortality

                JOHN DONNE, Death, Be Not Proud

                JOHN KEATS, When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be

                MARY OLIVER, When Death Comes***

    Connecting Through Comparison: Nature and Humanity

                MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach

                ROBERT BRIDGES, London Snow

                ROBERT FROST, Fire and Ice

                GALWAY KINNELL, Saint Francis and the Sow

                WILLIAM STAFFORD, Traveling Through the Dark

                WALT WHITMAN, Song of Myself 6

    Connecting Through Comparison: September 11, 2001

                DEBORAH GARRISON, I Saw You Walking

                BRIAN DOYLE, Leap

                BILLY COLLINS, The Names

    Connecting Through Comparison: Belief in a Supreme Being

                STEPHEN CRANE, A Man Said to the Universe,

                THOMAS HARDY, HAP

    Connecting Through Comparison: The Impact of War

                THOMAS HARDY, The Man He Killed

                WILFRED OWEN, Dulce et Decorum Est

                CARL SANDBURG, Grass

                YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, Facing It

    Connecting Through Comparison: Responding to the Deaths of Others

                MARK DOTY, Brilliance

                A. E. HOUSMAN, To an Athlete Dying Young

                PABLO NERUDA, The Dead Woman***

                DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

    Drama

                JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE, Riders to the Sea 

                DAVID MAMET,  Oleanna

    Essays

                ALBERT CAMUS, The Myth of Sisyphus

                PLATO, The Allegory of the Cave

                PHILIP SIMMONS, Learning to Fall

    CASE STUDY IN CONTEXTUAL CONTEXT

    Poetry and Criticism: Emily Dickinson

    Her Life

    Her Work

    The Poems

                Success Is Counted Sweetest 

                Faith is a fine invention

                There’s a Certain Slant of Light

                I like a look of agony    

                Wild Nights—Wild Nights!   

                The Brain—is wider than the Sky   

                Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

                I’ve seen a dying eye   

                I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died—

                After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes

                Some keep the Sabbath going to Church   

                This world is not conclusion   

                There is a pain—so utter—   

                Because I could not stop for death   

                The Bustle in a House 

                 Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant

    Making Connections

    Emily Dickinson—In Her Own Words

                A Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson—her sister-in-law. (1852)   

                A Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1862)   

    In Others’ Words

                Thomas Wentworth Higginson, letter (1870)   

                Mary Loomis Todd, letter (1881)   

                Richard Wilbur, On Her Sense of Privation (1960)   

                Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, On  Her White Dress (1979)   

    Critical Commentary on Her Poetry

                Helen McNeil, Dickinson’s Method   

                Cynthia Griffin Woolf, The Voices in Dickinson’s Poetry   

                Allan Tate, On Because I Could Not Stop for Death   

                Paula Bennett, On I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died   

    Poems about Emily Dickinson

                Linda Pastan, Emily Dickinson   

                Billy Collins, Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes   

    A Student’s Critical Essay

    Exploring the Literature of FAITH AND DOUBT: Options for Making Connections, Building Arguments, and Using 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

     

     

      Featuring culturally rich and diverse literature, this anthology weaves critical thinking into every facet of its writing apparatus and guides students through the process of crafting their personal responses into persuasive arguments. 

       

      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 writing and arguing about literature. An anthology follows, organized around five themes. Each thematic unit includes an ethnically diverse collection 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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      © 2007 | Longman | Paper; 1424 pages | Estimated Availability: 07/16/2007
      ISBN-10: 0321366301 | ISBN-13: 9780321366306
      Brief Description

    Exploring Literature
    Writing and Arguing About Fiction, Drama, Poetry and the Essay
    Fourth Edition

    Frank Madden

    With engaging selections, provocative themes, and comprehensive coverage of the writing process, Exploring Literature combines practical writing instruction with a carefully selected anthology of classic and contemporary literature from around the world. This new edition weaves critical thinking into every facet of its writing apparatus while guiding you through the process of crafting personal responses into persuasive arguments. The five opening chapters are dedicated to reading, writing, arguing, and researching about literature. Following the opening chapters is an anthology, divided into five thematically-arranged sections that include contextual case studies, writing prompts, and sample student essays to help you approach literature with a critical eye and write thoughtful essays. Exploring Literature assembles stimulating literature and structured advice to create a valuable guide that will not only help you to write about literature, but to improve your writing and thinking processes in general.

    NEW TO THE FOURTH EDITION

    • A more unified, step-by-step presentation of the writing process in Parts I and II
    • Additional discussion of argumentation and logical fallacies
    • New anthology selections from contemporary and global writers such as Haruki Murakami, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Gloria Naylor, Mary Oliver, and Robert Olen Butler
    • New “Connecting Through Comparison” sub-theme clusters and over 50 new writing prompts throughout the anthology
    • New feature, “Using Research,” provides research topic ideas at the close of each theme
    • Fully integrated support for the MyLiteratureLab interactive learning system

    “The writing instruction is immediate. The anthology selections are superior. The … ancillary materials (Making Connections, Making Arguments, quotation pages) [are] rich and varied.”

    –Donna Townsend, Baker College

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