Literature and the Writing Process
7th Edition
Published on 23. March 2004
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1168 pages
978-0-13-189102-9 (ISBN)
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For Composition Through Literature and Introduction to Literature courses.
Message: Literature and the Writing Process promotes interactive learning by integrating writing instruction with the study of literature. Its approach utilizes writing as a mode of learning, as a means for promoting critical thinking, as a method for exploring and developing insights and ideas about literary works. The process-oriented instruction shows students how to use writing as a way of studying literature and gives them the tools to analyze literature on their own.
This book allows instructors to teach writing and literature together in a single course. The complementary processes of reading and writing work together to improve students' compositional skills and increase their comprehension of imaginative literature.
Story: This textbook grew out of the authors' long-standing interest in integrating the study of literature with the practice of composition. Many of their students have learned to write perceptively and well using literature as their subject matter. Great literature is always thought-provoking, always new. Why not utilize it to sharpen critical thinking and improving writing skills? Toward that end, we have combined an introduction to literature anthology with detailed instruction in the writing process.
Message: Literature and the Writing Process promotes interactive learning by integrating writing instruction with the study of literature. Its approach utilizes writing as a mode of learning, as a means for promoting critical thinking, as a method for exploring and developing insights and ideas about literary works. The process-oriented instruction shows students how to use writing as a way of studying literature and gives them the tools to analyze literature on their own.
This book allows instructors to teach writing and literature together in a single course. The complementary processes of reading and writing work together to improve students' compositional skills and increase their comprehension of imaginative literature.
Story: This textbook grew out of the authors' long-standing interest in integrating the study of literature with the practice of composition. Many of their students have learned to write perceptively and well using literature as their subject matter. Great literature is always thought-provoking, always new. Why not utilize it to sharpen critical thinking and improving writing skills? Toward that end, we have combined an introduction to literature anthology with detailed instruction in the writing process.
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Elizabeth McMahan
is professor emerita of English at Illinois State University. She holds a Ph.D. in nineteenth-century literature from the University of Oregon. While still in graduate school, she wrote her first book, A Crash Course in Composition, published by McGraw Hill. She has taught on every level, from freshman composition to graduate seminars, and has published critical articles on works of literature and teaching composition. She served as the director of writing programs for seven years at Illinois State University. During her academic career, she received an NDEA Title IV Fellowship, the Kester Svendson Dissertation Grant, and the 1978 Illinois Arts Council Essay Award. Since taking early retirement, she has devoted her energies to writing and revising textbooks.
Robert W. Funk taught high school for 10 years before receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1974. He is currently a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and lectures in grammar, advanced composition, Shakespeare, and methods for teaching English in the secondary school. He has co-authored a number of college-level textbooks with Elizabeth McMahan and Susan Day, including Literature and the Writing Process (6th ed., 2001), The Simon & Schuster Short Prose Reader (2nd ed., 2000), Strategies for College Writing (2000)
He has also lectured at Eureka College and Richland Community College and has presented numerous workshops on composition and the teaching of literature at national and regional conferences, including CCCC and NCTE, and for state and local in-service training sessions. His current research interests include contemporary rhetoric, composition theory, and reader-response criticism.
Susan X Day is an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University of Science and Technology in Ames. She pursues two research programs, one concerning personality and the development of interests, and one concerning the use of distance technology in psychotherapy. Dr. Day taught English at Illinois State University for 20 years before beginning her Ph.D. in psychology at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her specialties in English studies are writing and pedagogy, and she has done research on the practices of dissertation writers and the identity development of creative writers. In 1999, Dr. Day won the national American Psychological Association-sponsored Outstanding Graduate Student Award for excellence in scholarship and professional development in her field. She is the author and co-author of more than a dozen college textbooks in rhetoric, grammar, and literature, and her research has appeared in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist and Psychological Science.
is professor emerita of English at Illinois State University. She holds a Ph.D. in nineteenth-century literature from the University of Oregon. While still in graduate school, she wrote her first book, A Crash Course in Composition, published by McGraw Hill. She has taught on every level, from freshman composition to graduate seminars, and has published critical articles on works of literature and teaching composition. She served as the director of writing programs for seven years at Illinois State University. During her academic career, she received an NDEA Title IV Fellowship, the Kester Svendson Dissertation Grant, and the 1978 Illinois Arts Council Essay Award. Since taking early retirement, she has devoted her energies to writing and revising textbooks.
Robert W. Funk taught high school for 10 years before receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1974. He is currently a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and lectures in grammar, advanced composition, Shakespeare, and methods for teaching English in the secondary school. He has co-authored a number of college-level textbooks with Elizabeth McMahan and Susan Day, including Literature and the Writing Process (6th ed., 2001), The Simon & Schuster Short Prose Reader (2nd ed., 2000), Strategies for College Writing (2000)
He has also lectured at Eureka College and Richland Community College and has presented numerous workshops on composition and the teaching of literature at national and regional conferences, including CCCC and NCTE, and for state and local in-service training sessions. His current research interests include contemporary rhetoric, composition theory, and reader-response criticism.
Susan X Day is an assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University of Science and Technology in Ames. She pursues two research programs, one concerning personality and the development of interests, and one concerning the use of distance technology in psychotherapy. Dr. Day taught English at Illinois State University for 20 years before beginning her Ph.D. in psychology at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her specialties in English studies are writing and pedagogy, and she has done research on the practices of dissertation writers and the identity development of creative writers. In 1999, Dr. Day won the national American Psychological Association-sponsored Outstanding Graduate Student Award for excellence in scholarship and professional development in her field. She is the author and co-author of more than a dozen college textbooks in rhetoric, grammar, and literature, and her research has appeared in prestigious journals such as American Psychologist and Psychological Science.
Content
I. COMPOSING: AN OVERVIEW.
1. The Prewriting Process.
Reading for Writing.
Eveline, James Joyce.
Who Are My Readers? Why Am I Writing? What Ideas Should I Use? Discovering and Developing Ideas. What Point Should I Make? How Do I Find the Theme?
2. The Writing Process.
How Should I Organize My Ideas? Arguing My Interpretation. Developing with Details. Maintaining a Critical Focus. How Should I Begin? How Should I End? Composing the First Draft. Quoting from Your Sources. Sample Student Paper: First Draft. Suggestions for Writing. Ideas for Writing.
3. The Rewriting Process.
What Is Revision? Getting Feedback: Peer Review. What Should I Add or Take Out? What Should I Rearrange? Does It Flow? What Is Editing? What Sentences Should I Combine? Rearranging for Emphasis and Variety. Which Words Should I Change? What Is Proofreading? Sample Student Paper: Final Draft.
II. WRITING ABOUT SHORT FICTION.
4. How Do I Read Short Fiction?
Notice the Structure. Consider Point of View and Setting. Study the Characters. Look for Specialized Literary Techniques. Examine the Title. Investigate the Author's Life and Times. Continue Questioning to Discover Theme.
5. Writing About Structure.
What Is Structure? How Do I Discover Structure? Looking at Structure.
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting. Integrating Quotations Gracefully.
6. Writing About Imagery and Symbolism.
What Are Images? What Are Symbols? How Will I Recognize Symbols? Looking at Images and Symbols.
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting. Sharpening the Introduction. Sample Student Paper: Second and Final Drafts.
7. Writing About Point of View.
What Is Point of View? Looking at Point of View.
Everyday Use, Alice Walker.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting.
8. Writing About Setting and Atmosphere.
What Are Setting and Atmosphere? Looking at Setting and Atmosphere.
Hunters in the Snow, Tobias Wolff.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting: Organization and Style.
9. Writing About Theme.
What Is Theme? Looking at Theme.
Good Country People, Flannery O'Connor.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting. Editing: Improving Connections.
A Casebook on Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ). The Story's Origins. Four Critical Interpretations.
ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The Birthmark. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Cask of Amontillado. Kate Chopin (1851-1904), Desiree's Baby. The Story of An Hour. Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Roman Fever. Willa Cather (1873-1947), Paul's Case. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), Hands. James Joyce (1882-1941), Araby. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), The Rocking-Horse Winner. Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. Zora Neale Hurston (c. 1891-1960), The Gilded Six-Bits. William Faulkner (1897-1962), A Rose for Emily. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Hills Like White Elephants. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), The Chrysanthemums. Frank O'Connor (1903-1966), My Oedipus Complex. Richard Wright (1908-1960), The Man Who Was Almost a Man. Ann Petry (1908-1997) Like a Winding Sheet. Eudora Welty (1909-2001), A Worn Path. Irwin Shaw (1913-1984), The Girls in Their Summer Dresses. Tillie Olsen (1913- ), I Stand Here Ironing. Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ), Seventeen Syllables. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Ursula K. LeGuin (1929- ), The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. Chinua Achebe (1930- ), Dead Men's Path. Alice Munro (1931- ), An Ounce of Cure. John Updike (1932- ), A & P. Raymond Carver (1938-1988), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), The Lesson. Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ), A Father. Isabel Allende (1942- ), The Judge's Wife. Sandra Cisneros (1954- ), Geraldo No Last Name. Louise Erdrich (1954- ), The Red Convertible. Ha Jin (1956- ), The Bridegroom. Sherman Alexie (1966- ), This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona.
III. WRITING ABOUT POETRY.
10. How Do I Read Poetry?
Get the Literal Meaning First: Paraphrase. Make Associations for Meaning.
11. Writing About Persona and Tone.
Who Is Speaking? What Is Tone? Describing Tone. Looking at Persona and Tone.
My Papa's Waltz, Theodore Roethke. The Ruined Maid, Thomas Hardy. The Unknown Citizen, W.H. Auden. Go, Lovely Rose, Edmund Waller. One Perfect Rose, Dorothy Parker.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Editing. Sample Student Paper: Poetry.
12. Writing About Poetic Language.
What Do the Words Suggest? Looking at Poetic Language.
A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?, William Shakespeare. Heat, H.D. In the Long Hall, Hayden Carruth. My Son My Executioner, Donald Hall.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting: Style.
A Casebook on Love Poetry.
Sappho (ca. 612-ca. 580 B.C.), With His Venom. Anonymous, Western Wind. John Donne (1572-1631), A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Andrew Marvel (1621-1678), To His Coy Mistress. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways?. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Wild Nights-Wild Nights! Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), What Lips My Lips Have Kissed. Adrienne Rich (1929- ), Living in Sin. Sharon Olds (1942- ),Topography. Sample Student Papers: Second and Final Drafts. Topics for Discussion and Writing.
13. Writing About Poetic Form.
What Are the Forms of Poetry? Looking at the Forms of Poetry.
We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks. Eight O'Clock, A.E. Housman. anyone lived in a pretty how town, E.E. Cummings. Telephone Conversation, Wole Soyinka. Nuns Fret Not, William Wordsworth. Sonnet, Billy Collins.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting: Style. Sample Published Essay on Poetic Form: David Huddle, "The `Banked Fire' of Robert Hayden's 'Those Winter Sundays.'" Dorthi Charles (1963-)Concrete Cat.
ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY.
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), They Flee from Me. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes. Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds. That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold. My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun. John Donne (1572-1631), Death, Be Not Proud. Ben Jonson (1572-1637), On My First Son. Richard Lovelace (1618-1657), To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars. William Blake (1757-1827), The Lamb. The Tyger. The Sick Rose. London. William Wordsworth (1770-1850), The World Is Too Much with Us. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), She Walks in Beauty. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Ozymandias. John Keats (1795-1821), On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), The Eagle. Walt Whitman (1819-1892), When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. One's-Self I Sing. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), Dover Beach. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Success Is Counted Sweetest. I'm Nobody! Who Are You? Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers. He Put the Belt Around My Life. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense. Because I Could Not Stop for Death. Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Channel Firing. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Pied Beauty. Spring and Fall. A. E. Housman (1859-1936), To An Athlete Dying Young. Loveliest of Trees. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), The Second Coming. Stephen Crane (1871-1900), A Man Said to the Universe. War Is Kind. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), We Wear the Mask. Robert Frost (1874-1963), Mending Wall. Birches. Out, Out-. Fire and Ice. Design. Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Fog. Grass. Chicago. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), The Emperor of Ice Cream. Anecdote of the Jar. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Danse Russe. The Red Wheelbarrow. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Piano. Snake. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Claude McKay (1890-1948), America. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for That Word. First Fig. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), Dulce et Decorum Est. E. E. cummings (1894-1962), in Just-. next to of course god america i. she being Brand. pity this busy monster, manunkind. Jean Toomer (1894-1967), Reapers. Stevie Smith (1902-1971), Not Waving But Drowning. Countee Cullen (1903-1946), Incident. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), The United Fruit Co. Sweetness, Always. W.H. Auden (1907-1973), Funeral Blues. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), Dolor. I Knew a Woman. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), One Art. May Sarton (1912-1995), AIDS. Robert Hayden (1913-1980), Those Winter Sundays. Karl Shapiro (1913-2000), Auto Wreck. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Octavio Paz (1914-1998), The Street. Dudley Randall (1914-2000), To the Mercy Killers. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Sadie and Maud. The Bean Eaters. Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), The Goose Fish. Richard Wilbur (1921- ), Love Calls Us to the Things of This World. Philip Larkin (1922-1985), Home Is So Sad. James Dickey (1923-1997), The Leap. Wislawa Szymborska (1923- ) , End and Beginning. Lisel Mueller (1924- ), Things. Maxine Kumin (1925- ), Woodchucks. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), A Supermarket in California. James Wright (1927-1980), Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Anne Sexton (1928-1974), You All Know the Story of the Other Woman. Adrienne Rich (1929- ), Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. Adrian Henri (1932-2000), Any Prince to Any Princess. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), Mirror. Daddy. John Updike (1932- ), Ex-Basketball Player. Linda Pastan (1932- ), Ethics. Marks. Imamu Amiri Baraka (1934- ), Biography. Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Hanging Fire. Marge Piercy (1936- ), Barbie Doll. The Woman in the Ordinary. Seamus Heaney (1939- ), Digging. John Lennon (1940-1980) and Paul McCartney (1942- ), Eleanor Rigby. Sharon Olds (1942- ), The Death of Marilyn Monroe. Sex Without Love. Nikki Giovanni (1943- ), Dreams. Gina Valdes (1943- ), My Mother Sews Blouses. Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ), Facing It. My Father's Love Letters. Rita Dove (1952- ), Daystar. Alberto Rios (1952- ), In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did. Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952- ), There Are Black. Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952- ) , Latin Women Pray. Cornelius Eady (1954- ), The Supremes. Louise Erdrich (1954- ), Indian Boarding School: The Runaways. Martin Espada (1957- ), Coca-Cola and Coco Frio. Liberating a Pillar of Tortillas.
Paired Poems for Comparison.
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Sir Walter Raleigh (1952-1618). The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. Robert Browning (1812-1889), My Last Duchess. Gabriel Spera (1966- ), My Ex-Husband. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), The Convergence of the Twain. David R. Slavitt (1935- ), Titanic. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Richard Cory. Paul Simon, (1942- ), Richard Cory. Robert Frost (1874-1963), The Road Not Taken. Blanche Farley (1937- ), The Lover Not Taken. William Stafford (1914-1993), Traveling Through the Dark. Mary Oliver (1935- ), The Black Snake.
A Casebook on the Poetry and Prose of Langston Hughes.
Langston Hughes: A Brief Biography. Poetry: The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Mother to Son. Weary Blues. Saturday Night. Trumpet Player. Harlem (A Dream Deferred). Theme for English B. Considering the Poems. Prose: Salvation. On the Road. Thank You, Ma'am. Considering the Prose. Critical Commentaries: Onwuchekwa Jemie, Hughes and the Black Controversy. Margaret Larkin, A Poet for the People. Richard Wright,Forerunner and Ambassador. Karen Jackson Ford, Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes's Aesthetics of Simplicity. Peter Townsend,Jazz and Langston Hughes's Poetry. Langston Hughes, Harlem Rent Parties. Ideas for Writing About Langston Hughes. For Further Reading and Research. Poet's Profiles.
IV. WRITING ABOUT DRAMA.
14. How Do I Read a Play?
Listen to the Lines. Visualize the Scene. Envision the Action. Drama on Film.
15. Writing About Dramatic Structure.
What Is Dramatic Structure? Looking at Dramatic Structure.
Antigone, Sophocles.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting. Sample Student Paper: Drama.
16. Writing About Character.
What Is the Modern Hero? Looking at the Modern Hero.
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting.
A Casebook on The Glass Menagerie: Interpreting Amanda.
Burton Rasco, Review of The Glass Menagerie. Howard Tubman, Diverse, Unique Amanda. Durant Da Ponte, Tennessee Williams's Gallery of Feminine Characters. Marc Robinson, Amanda.
17. Drama for Writing: The Research Paper.
What Is Cultural Analysis?
M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang.
Using Library Sources in Your Writing. Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Researched Writing. Rewriting. Editing. Sample Documented Student Papers. Explanation of the MLA Documentation Style.
ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA.
Sophocles (ca. 496 - ca. 405 B.C.), Oedipus The King. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello, the Moor of Venice. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), A Doll's House. Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), Trifles. Edward Albee (1928- ), The Sandbox. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), A Raisin in the Sun. Luis Valdez (1940- ), Los Vendidos. David Ives (1950- ), Sure Thing. Wendy Wasserstein (1950- ), Tender Offer. Harvey Fierstein (1954- ), On Tidy Endings.
V. THE EDITING PROCESS.
A Handbook for Correcting Errors.
Proofreading. Correcting Sentence Boundary Errors. Run-On Sentences. Clearing Up Confused Sentences. Solving Faulty Predication Problems. Fixing Subject-Verb Agreement Errors. Fixing Pronoun Errors. Correcting Shifts in Person. Correcting Shifts in Tense. Finding Modifier Mistakes. Coping with Irregular Verbs. Getting Verbs Right. Writing in Active Voice. Solving Punctuation Problems. Using Necessary Commas Only. Using Apostrophes. Distinguishing Hyphens from Dashes. Integrating Quotations Gracefully. Quoting from a Story: Crediting Sources. Quoting from a Poem. Quoting from a Play. Punctuating Quoted Material. Writing Smooth Transitions. Catching Careless Mistakes.
Appendix: Critical Approaches for Interpreting Literature.
Formalism. Historical Approaches. Psychological Approaches. Mythological and Archetypal Approaches. Gender Focus. Reader Response. Deconstruction. Where Do You Stand?
Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms.
Credits.
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry.
Subject Index.
1. The Prewriting Process.
Reading for Writing.
Eveline, James Joyce.
Who Are My Readers? Why Am I Writing? What Ideas Should I Use? Discovering and Developing Ideas. What Point Should I Make? How Do I Find the Theme?
2. The Writing Process.
How Should I Organize My Ideas? Arguing My Interpretation. Developing with Details. Maintaining a Critical Focus. How Should I Begin? How Should I End? Composing the First Draft. Quoting from Your Sources. Sample Student Paper: First Draft. Suggestions for Writing. Ideas for Writing.
3. The Rewriting Process.
What Is Revision? Getting Feedback: Peer Review. What Should I Add or Take Out? What Should I Rearrange? Does It Flow? What Is Editing? What Sentences Should I Combine? Rearranging for Emphasis and Variety. Which Words Should I Change? What Is Proofreading? Sample Student Paper: Final Draft.
II. WRITING ABOUT SHORT FICTION.
4. How Do I Read Short Fiction?
Notice the Structure. Consider Point of View and Setting. Study the Characters. Look for Specialized Literary Techniques. Examine the Title. Investigate the Author's Life and Times. Continue Questioning to Discover Theme.
5. Writing About Structure.
What Is Structure? How Do I Discover Structure? Looking at Structure.
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting. Integrating Quotations Gracefully.
6. Writing About Imagery and Symbolism.
What Are Images? What Are Symbols? How Will I Recognize Symbols? Looking at Images and Symbols.
The Lottery, Shirley Jackson.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting. Sharpening the Introduction. Sample Student Paper: Second and Final Drafts.
7. Writing About Point of View.
What Is Point of View? Looking at Point of View.
Everyday Use, Alice Walker.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting.
8. Writing About Setting and Atmosphere.
What Are Setting and Atmosphere? Looking at Setting and Atmosphere.
Hunters in the Snow, Tobias Wolff.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting: Organization and Style.
9. Writing About Theme.
What Is Theme? Looking at Theme.
Good Country People, Flannery O'Connor.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting. Editing: Improving Connections.
A Casebook on Joyce Carol Oates's "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Joyce Carol Oates (1938- ). The Story's Origins. Four Critical Interpretations.
ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The Birthmark. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), The Cask of Amontillado. Kate Chopin (1851-1904), Desiree's Baby. The Story of An Hour. Edith Wharton (1862-1937), Roman Fever. Willa Cather (1873-1947), Paul's Case. Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941), Hands. James Joyce (1882-1941), Araby. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), The Rocking-Horse Winner. Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. Zora Neale Hurston (c. 1891-1960), The Gilded Six-Bits. William Faulkner (1897-1962), A Rose for Emily. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Hills Like White Elephants. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), The Chrysanthemums. Frank O'Connor (1903-1966), My Oedipus Complex. Richard Wright (1908-1960), The Man Who Was Almost a Man. Ann Petry (1908-1997) Like a Winding Sheet. Eudora Welty (1909-2001), A Worn Path. Irwin Shaw (1913-1984), The Girls in Their Summer Dresses. Tillie Olsen (1913- ), I Stand Here Ironing. Hisaye Yamamoto (1921- ), Seventeen Syllables. Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964), A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Ursula K. LeGuin (1929- ), The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. Chinua Achebe (1930- ), Dead Men's Path. Alice Munro (1931- ), An Ounce of Cure. John Updike (1932- ), A & P. Raymond Carver (1938-1988), What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), The Lesson. Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ), A Father. Isabel Allende (1942- ), The Judge's Wife. Sandra Cisneros (1954- ), Geraldo No Last Name. Louise Erdrich (1954- ), The Red Convertible. Ha Jin (1956- ), The Bridegroom. Sherman Alexie (1966- ), This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona.
III. WRITING ABOUT POETRY.
10. How Do I Read Poetry?
Get the Literal Meaning First: Paraphrase. Make Associations for Meaning.
11. Writing About Persona and Tone.
Who Is Speaking? What Is Tone? Describing Tone. Looking at Persona and Tone.
My Papa's Waltz, Theodore Roethke. The Ruined Maid, Thomas Hardy. The Unknown Citizen, W.H. Auden. Go, Lovely Rose, Edmund Waller. One Perfect Rose, Dorothy Parker.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Editing. Sample Student Paper: Poetry.
12. Writing About Poetic Language.
What Do the Words Suggest? Looking at Poetic Language.
A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?, William Shakespeare. Heat, H.D. In the Long Hall, Hayden Carruth. My Son My Executioner, Donald Hall.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting: Style.
A Casebook on Love Poetry.
Sappho (ca. 612-ca. 580 B.C.), With His Venom. Anonymous, Western Wind. John Donne (1572-1631), A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Andrew Marvel (1621-1678), To His Coy Mistress. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways?. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Wild Nights-Wild Nights! Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), What Lips My Lips Have Kissed. Adrienne Rich (1929- ), Living in Sin. Sharon Olds (1942- ),Topography. Sample Student Papers: Second and Final Drafts. Topics for Discussion and Writing.
13. Writing About Poetic Form.
What Are the Forms of Poetry? Looking at the Forms of Poetry.
We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks. Eight O'Clock, A.E. Housman. anyone lived in a pretty how town, E.E. Cummings. Telephone Conversation, Wole Soyinka. Nuns Fret Not, William Wordsworth. Sonnet, Billy Collins.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting: Style. Sample Published Essay on Poetic Form: David Huddle, "The `Banked Fire' of Robert Hayden's 'Those Winter Sundays.'" Dorthi Charles (1963-)Concrete Cat.
ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY.
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), They Flee from Me. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes. Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds. That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold. My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun. John Donne (1572-1631), Death, Be Not Proud. Ben Jonson (1572-1637), On My First Son. Richard Lovelace (1618-1657), To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars. William Blake (1757-1827), The Lamb. The Tyger. The Sick Rose. London. William Wordsworth (1770-1850), The World Is Too Much with Us. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), She Walks in Beauty. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Ozymandias. John Keats (1795-1821), On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), The Eagle. Walt Whitman (1819-1892), When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. One's-Self I Sing. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), Dover Beach. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Success Is Counted Sweetest. I'm Nobody! Who Are You? Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers. He Put the Belt Around My Life. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense. Because I Could Not Stop for Death. Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Channel Firing. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Pied Beauty. Spring and Fall. A. E. Housman (1859-1936), To An Athlete Dying Young. Loveliest of Trees. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), The Second Coming. Stephen Crane (1871-1900), A Man Said to the Universe. War Is Kind. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), We Wear the Mask. Robert Frost (1874-1963), Mending Wall. Birches. Out, Out-. Fire and Ice. Design. Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Fog. Grass. Chicago. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), The Emperor of Ice Cream. Anecdote of the Jar. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Danse Russe. The Red Wheelbarrow. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), Piano. Snake. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Claude McKay (1890-1948), America. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry for That Word. First Fig. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), Dulce et Decorum Est. E. E. cummings (1894-1962), in Just-. next to of course god america i. she being Brand. pity this busy monster, manunkind. Jean Toomer (1894-1967), Reapers. Stevie Smith (1902-1971), Not Waving But Drowning. Countee Cullen (1903-1946), Incident. Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), The United Fruit Co. Sweetness, Always. W.H. Auden (1907-1973), Funeral Blues. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), Dolor. I Knew a Woman. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), One Art. May Sarton (1912-1995), AIDS. Robert Hayden (1913-1980), Those Winter Sundays. Karl Shapiro (1913-2000), Auto Wreck. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. Octavio Paz (1914-1998), The Street. Dudley Randall (1914-2000), To the Mercy Killers. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Sadie and Maud. The Bean Eaters. Howard Nemerov (1920-1991), The Goose Fish. Richard Wilbur (1921- ), Love Calls Us to the Things of This World. Philip Larkin (1922-1985), Home Is So Sad. James Dickey (1923-1997), The Leap. Wislawa Szymborska (1923- ) , End and Beginning. Lisel Mueller (1924- ), Things. Maxine Kumin (1925- ), Woodchucks. Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), A Supermarket in California. James Wright (1927-1980), Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Anne Sexton (1928-1974), You All Know the Story of the Other Woman. Adrienne Rich (1929- ), Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. Adrian Henri (1932-2000), Any Prince to Any Princess. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), Mirror. Daddy. John Updike (1932- ), Ex-Basketball Player. Linda Pastan (1932- ), Ethics. Marks. Imamu Amiri Baraka (1934- ), Biography. Audre Lorde (1934-1992), Hanging Fire. Marge Piercy (1936- ), Barbie Doll. The Woman in the Ordinary. Seamus Heaney (1939- ), Digging. John Lennon (1940-1980) and Paul McCartney (1942- ), Eleanor Rigby. Sharon Olds (1942- ), The Death of Marilyn Monroe. Sex Without Love. Nikki Giovanni (1943- ), Dreams. Gina Valdes (1943- ), My Mother Sews Blouses. Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ), Facing It. My Father's Love Letters. Rita Dove (1952- ), Daystar. Alberto Rios (1952- ), In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did. Jimmy Santiago Baca (1952- ), There Are Black. Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952- ) , Latin Women Pray. Cornelius Eady (1954- ), The Supremes. Louise Erdrich (1954- ), Indian Boarding School: The Runaways. Martin Espada (1957- ), Coca-Cola and Coco Frio. Liberating a Pillar of Tortillas.
Paired Poems for Comparison.
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. Sir Walter Raleigh (1952-1618). The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. Robert Browning (1812-1889), My Last Duchess. Gabriel Spera (1966- ), My Ex-Husband. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), The Convergence of the Twain. David R. Slavitt (1935- ), Titanic. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Richard Cory. Paul Simon, (1942- ), Richard Cory. Robert Frost (1874-1963), The Road Not Taken. Blanche Farley (1937- ), The Lover Not Taken. William Stafford (1914-1993), Traveling Through the Dark. Mary Oliver (1935- ), The Black Snake.
A Casebook on the Poetry and Prose of Langston Hughes.
Langston Hughes: A Brief Biography. Poetry: The Negro Speaks of Rivers. Mother to Son. Weary Blues. Saturday Night. Trumpet Player. Harlem (A Dream Deferred). Theme for English B. Considering the Poems. Prose: Salvation. On the Road. Thank You, Ma'am. Considering the Prose. Critical Commentaries: Onwuchekwa Jemie, Hughes and the Black Controversy. Margaret Larkin, A Poet for the People. Richard Wright,Forerunner and Ambassador. Karen Jackson Ford, Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes's Aesthetics of Simplicity. Peter Townsend,Jazz and Langston Hughes's Poetry. Langston Hughes, Harlem Rent Parties. Ideas for Writing About Langston Hughes. For Further Reading and Research. Poet's Profiles.
IV. WRITING ABOUT DRAMA.
14. How Do I Read a Play?
Listen to the Lines. Visualize the Scene. Envision the Action. Drama on Film.
15. Writing About Dramatic Structure.
What Is Dramatic Structure? Looking at Dramatic Structure.
Antigone, Sophocles.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting. Sample Student Paper: Drama.
16. Writing About Character.
What Is the Modern Hero? Looking at the Modern Hero.
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams.
Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Writing. Rewriting.
A Casebook on The Glass Menagerie: Interpreting Amanda.
Burton Rasco, Review of The Glass Menagerie. Howard Tubman, Diverse, Unique Amanda. Durant Da Ponte, Tennessee Williams's Gallery of Feminine Characters. Marc Robinson, Amanda.
17. Drama for Writing: The Research Paper.
What Is Cultural Analysis?
M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang.
Using Library Sources in Your Writing. Prewriting. Writing. Ideas for Researched Writing. Rewriting. Editing. Sample Documented Student Papers. Explanation of the MLA Documentation Style.
ANTHOLOGY OF DRAMA.
Sophocles (ca. 496 - ca. 405 B.C.), Oedipus The King. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello, the Moor of Venice. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), A Doll's House. Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), Trifles. Edward Albee (1928- ), The Sandbox. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), A Raisin in the Sun. Luis Valdez (1940- ), Los Vendidos. David Ives (1950- ), Sure Thing. Wendy Wasserstein (1950- ), Tender Offer. Harvey Fierstein (1954- ), On Tidy Endings.
V. THE EDITING PROCESS.
A Handbook for Correcting Errors.
Proofreading. Correcting Sentence Boundary Errors. Run-On Sentences. Clearing Up Confused Sentences. Solving Faulty Predication Problems. Fixing Subject-Verb Agreement Errors. Fixing Pronoun Errors. Correcting Shifts in Person. Correcting Shifts in Tense. Finding Modifier Mistakes. Coping with Irregular Verbs. Getting Verbs Right. Writing in Active Voice. Solving Punctuation Problems. Using Necessary Commas Only. Using Apostrophes. Distinguishing Hyphens from Dashes. Integrating Quotations Gracefully. Quoting from a Story: Crediting Sources. Quoting from a Poem. Quoting from a Play. Punctuating Quoted Material. Writing Smooth Transitions. Catching Careless Mistakes.
Appendix: Critical Approaches for Interpreting Literature.
Formalism. Historical Approaches. Psychological Approaches. Mythological and Archetypal Approaches. Gender Focus. Reader Response. Deconstruction. Where Do You Stand?
Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms.
Credits.
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry.
Subject Index.