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Literature Across Cultures (with MyLiteratureLab), 4/E
Sheena Gillespie, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York
Terezinha Fonseca, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York
Anthony P. Pipolo, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York

ISBN-10: 0321322819
ISBN-13: 9780321322814

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper Bound with PIN; 1184 pp
Published: 11/24/2004

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This thematic introduction to literature is distinguished by its inclusion of both classical and contemporary writers, writers from the British and American tradition, ethnic writers from the United States, and writers from other cultures.

 

A newly revised pedagogy highlights brevity, clarity, and accuracy, providing effective strategies for reading and writing about literature. Students are asked to observe, reflect on, and write about the social, political, and cultural aspects of the literature being examined. The literature is organized thematically into units, each including stories, poems, and plays arranged in clusters to provoke personal, analytical, and critical responses.


  • Introductory unit, "Reading and Writing as a Social Act," provides strategies for reading closely and takes students step-by-step through the process of writing about literature.
  • Discusses timely topics including women's issues, the dialectic of self and society, the causes and effects of war and violence, AIDS, and individual and institutional attitudes towards sexual preference, ethnicity, race, gender, and class.
  • Journal entries provide students with an interactive approach to literature and culture, emphasizing students' personal and critical responses to the literature (Units 1-5).
  • A unique compilation of cultural questions and suggested peer group questions provide the basis for students to respond to literature as a personal, social, and cultural act.
  • Sections on “Using the Internet to Research Literary Sources” contain information on source reliability, search engines, Web directories, list-servers, and user-net groups.
  • A useful glossary of literary and cultural terms contributes to student understanding of terms which they will use in writing papers.

  • Performance exercises interspersed throughout motivate students to set a play into motion.
  • Newly revised discussion questions follow each short story, play, and cluster of poems to assist students in making informed responses to the reading selections, suggesting multiple possibilities for the production of meaning.
  • Film Angles at the end of each unit demonstrate the continuity between literature and film as well as the ways in which films have shaped cultural attitudes toward the subjects dealt with in the literature, such as gender, race, and war.
  • New material on the connection between the reading selections, film analysis, and performance exercises promotes classroom discussion and student interactivity—a feature that makes this anthology unique in the market (Units 1 - 5).
  • New expanded Appendices:

    • Appendix A introduces the literary elements, explores the complexities of literary genres, and concldes with an innovative list of 67 topics suggesting ways to approach the literature as mirrors of culture.

    • Appendix B and C offer guidelines on the literary research paper and Internet research principles and assist students in locating critical material and research websites.

    • Appendix D discusses ways to examine a text from various critical viewpoints, including feminist and psychoanalytical perspectives.

Preface for Instructors.

Preface for Students.

Introduction: Reading and Writing as a Social Act.


The Meaning of Literature.

The Function of Literature.

Strategies for Reading Literature: A Step-by-Step Guideline.

Step 1: Previewing.

Step 2: Highlighting.

Step 3: Annotating.

Guided Reading: Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour.”

Strategies for Writing about Literature.

Sample Reading: Sherwood Anderson, “Hands.”

Step 1: Generating Ideas.

Step 2: Finding a Thesis.

Step 3: Organizing the Essay: A Formal Outline.

Step 4: Writing a Rough Draft with Peer Editing

Step 5: Revising.

Strategies for Preparing the Final Draft.

Writing the Final Draft.

I. ORIGINS AND INSIGHTS.

Fiction.

And the Soul Shall Dance, Wakako Yamauchi.

Roman Fever, Edith Wharton.

First Confession, Frank O'Connor.

Father and I, Pär Lagerkvist.

The Watch, Elie Wiesel.

The Sky Is Gray, Ernest J. Gaines.

Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Essays.

My People, Chief Seattle.

The Allegory of the Cave, Plato.

Fraternity, Garrett Hongo.

From Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie.

Poetry.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Langston Hughes.

First Light, Linda Hogan.

warm heart contains life, Evangelina Vigil-Piñón.

The Lamb, William Blake.

The Tyger, William Blake.

In the Tree House at Night, James Dickey.

Mid-term Break, Seamus Heaney.

During a Son's Dangerous Illness, Denise Levertov.

Lost Sister, Cathy Song.

The Possessive, Sharon Olds.

Breaking Tradition, Janice Mirikitani.

A Breeze Swept Through, Luci Tapahonso.

Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas.

If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness, Richard Eberhart.

Poem for My Father, Eric Chock.

The Gift, Li-Young Lee.

Fishermen, James A. Emanuel.

Frederick Douglass, Robert Hayden.

Tour 5, Robert Hayden.

Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden.

Runagate Runagate, Robert Hayden.

Drama.

Oedipus Rex, Sophocles.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, William Shakespeare.

Topics for Discussion and Writing. 
 
Film Angles.

II. GENDER AND IDENTITY. 

Fiction.

Girl, Jamaica Kincaid.

The Revolt of “Mother,” Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

A Respectable Woman, Kate Chopin.

The Storm, Kate Chopin.

Roselily, Alice Walker.

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Another Evening at the Club, Alifa Rifaat.

Town and Country Lovers, Nadine Gordimer.

Essays.

Professions for Women, Virginia Woolf.

One Man's Kids, Daniel Meier.

The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship, Peter Lyman.

Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? Deborah Tannen.

Poetry.

Woman's Constancy, John Donne.

The Sun Rising, John Donne.

For My Lover, Returning to His Wife, Anne Sexton.

Adultery, James Dickey.

The Faithful Wife, Barbara L. Greenberg.

Genesis, Mahwash Shoaib.

Ragazza, Maryfrances Wagner.

Borders, Pat Mora.

Home Burial, Robert Frost.

The Harlem Dancer, Claude McKay.

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Colours, Yevgeny Tevtushenko.

I Knew a Woman, Theodore Roethke.

My Last Duchess, Robert Browning.

My Ex-Husband, Gabriel Spera.

To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell.

The Willing Mistress, Aphra Behn.

Bright Star, John Keats.

She Proves the Inconsistency of the Desires and Criticism of Men Who Accuse Women of What They Themselves Cause, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Sonnet 30 (“When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought”), William Shakespeare.

Sonnet 116 (“Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”), William Shakespeare.

Sonnet 129 (“The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame”), William Shakespeare.

Sonnet 130 (“My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun”), William Shakespeare.

Drama.

Medea, Euripides.

Topics for Discussion and Writing.
 
Film Angles.

 

III. WAR AND VIOLENCE.

Fiction.

A Mystery of Heroism, Stephen Crane.

The Sniper, Liam O'Flaherty.

Silence, Tadeusz Borowski.

The Curse, Andre Dubus.

The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien.

Like a Winding Sheet, Ann Petry.

Essays.

A Brother's Murder, Brent Staples.

Vietnam: What I Remember, David W. Powell.

Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts, Bruce Catton.

Not Just the Inner City: Well-to-Do Join Gangs, Seth Mydans.

Poetry.

Reflection on the Vietnam War Memorial, Jeffrey Harrison.

Facing It, Yusef Komunyakaa.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Randall Jarrell.

The Man He Killed, Thomas Hardy.

What Were They Like?, Denise Levertov.

Babiy Yar, Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Prisons of Silence, Janice Mirikitani.

Disabled, Wilfred Owen.

Waking This Morning, Muriel Rukeyser.

The Dying Veteran, Walt Whitman.

The Artilleryman's Vision, Walt Whitman.

Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Idle Hands, Gabriel Spera.

Kindness, Gabriel Spera.

The Colonel, Carolyn Forché.

The Visitor, Carolyn Forché.

The Memory of Elena, Carolyn Forché.

As Children Together, Carolyn Forché.

Drama.

Picnic on the Battlefield, Fernando Arrabal.

The Conduct of Life, Maria Irene Fornes.

Topics for Discussion and Writing.
 
Film Angles.

IV. RACE AND DIFFERENCE.

Fiction.

The Moment Before the Gun Went Off, Nadine Gordimer.

The Smells of Home, Sandip Roy.

The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara.

I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen.

Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee.

Désirée's Baby, Kate Chopin.

Essays.

Silent Dancing, Julia Ortiz Cofer.

How I Learned to Read and Write, Frederick Douglass.

Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, Paul Monette.

A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream, Eric Liu.

Poetry.

I Hear America Singing, Walt Whitman.

Poet Power, Denise Levertov.

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways, Louise Erdrich.

Public School No. 18: Paterson, New Jersey, Maria Mazziotti Gillan.

The Weary Blues, Langston Hughes.

Dream Variations, Langston Hughes.

Harlem (A Dream Deferred), Langston Hughes.

Telephone Converstaion, Wole Soyinka.

On the Subway, Sharon Olds.

Chinese Fireworks Banned in Hawaii, Eric Chock.

Latero Story, Tato Laviera.

AIDS, May Sarton.

How to Watch Your Brother Die, Michael Lassell.

Cross Plains, Wisconsin, Martín Espada.

Federico's Ghost, Martín Espada.

Tony Went to the Bodega but He Didn't Buy Anything, Martín Espada.

Drama.

Othello, the Moor of Venice, William Shakespeare.

Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig.

Topics for Discussion and Writing.
 
Film Angles.
 

V. INDIVIDUALISM AND COMMUNITY.

Fiction.

The Lottery, Shirley Jackson.

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka.

Eveline, James Joyce.

The Boarding House, James Joyce.

A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner.

The Guest, Albert Camus.

Dead Men's Path, Chinua Achebe.

Essays.

The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life, May Sarton.

The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson.

I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr..

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, Toni Morrison.

Poetry.

A Blessing, James Wright.

Danse Russe, William Carlos Williams.

The Cambridge Ladies, e. e. cummings.

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock, Walace Stevens.

What Is the Grass? Walt Whitman.

Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

London, William Blake.

London, 1802, William Wordsworth.

The World Is Too Much with Us, William Wordsworth.

People, Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Street Kid, Duane Niatum.

Summer Solstice, New York City, Sharon Olds.

What the Gossips Saw, Leo Romero.

Constantly Risking Absurdity, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

The Writer, Richard Wilbur.

Volcanoes Be in Sicily, Emily Dickinson.

The Soul Selects Her Own Society--, Emily Dickinson.

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense--, Emily Dickinson.

Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant--, Emily Dickinson.

Drama.

Antigone, Sophocles.

Tartuffe, Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin).

Topics for Discussion and Writing.
 
Film Angles.

 

Appendix A. An Introduction to the Elements of Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.

Fiction.

Character.

Plot.

Setting.

Theme.

Narrator.

Style and Tone.
 
Creative or Literary NonFiction: The Essay.

Form.

Rhetorical Strategies.
 
Poetry.

Voice and Tone.

The Poetic Elements: Images, Simile, Metaphor, Symbol, Personification, Paradox.

Types of Poetry: Lyric, Dramatic, and Narrative.

The Forms of Poetry.

Poetry as Performance: The Sounds of Poetry.
 
Drama.

The Basic Elements of Drama.

Types of Plays: Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragicomedy

Kinds of Theater.

Fiction, Poetry, and Drama as Cultural Productions.

Appendix B. Writing a Research Paper.

What Is a Literary Research Paper?

What Are Primary and Secondary Sources?
 
Locating Materials.

How to Choose a Topic?
 
What is Literary Criticism?
 
Engaging in a Dialogue.

Drafting the Paper.

The “Formula” for a Literary Research Paper.

How to Document, Using the MLA Format.

Direct Quotation.

Indirect Quotation: Paraphrasing.

List of Works Cited.
 
Revising and Rewriting.

Presenting Your Research Paper.

Sample Research Papers.

Appendix C. Researching Literary Sources.

Research Resources.

Reference Works.

Electronic Databases.

Online Sources.

Resource Guidelines.

Sample Research: James Joyce.

Online Library Catalog.

Electronic Databases and Subscription Services.

Online Searches.

Appendix D. Critical Approaches: A Case Study of Hamlet.

Psychoanalytic Criticism.

What Is the Focus of Psychoanalytic Criticism?

A Psychoanalytic Reading of Hamlet.

The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud.

A Psychosocial Reading of Hamlet.

The Women in Hamlet: An Interpersonal View, David Leverenz.
 
Formalism/New Criticism.

What Is the Focus of Formalism?

A New Critical Reading of Hamlet.

Hamlet and His Problems, T. S. Eliot.

Reader-Response Criticism.

What Is the Focus of Reader-Response Criticism?

A Reader-Response Analysis of Hamlet.

On the Value of Hamlet, Stephen Booth.
 
Feminist Criticism.

What Is the Focus of Feminist Criticism?

A Feminist Reading of Hamlet.
 
"Dominated Daughters," Diane Elizabeth.
 
The New Historicism.
 
What is the Focus of the New Historicism?
 
A New Historical Reading of Hamlet.
 
"Power In Hamlet" Leonard Temenhouse.

Biographical Endnotes.

Glossary of Literary and Cultural Terms.

Index of Authors and Titles.

Index of First Lines.

Index of Terms.

    This thematic introduction to literature is distinctive for its inclusion of both classical and contemporary writers, writers from the British and American tradition, and writers from diverse ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.

     

    A newly revised pedagogy highlights brevity, clarity, and accuracy, and provides effective strategies for reading and writing about literature. Students are asked to observe, reflect upon, and write about the social, political, and cultural aspects of the literature under examination. The literature is organized by thematic units and clusters, each including stories, poems, and plays arranged in clusters to provoke personal, analytical, and critical responses.

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