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Connections: Literature for Composition, 1st Edition
ISBN-10: 0618481141 ISBN-13: 9780618481149
1504 Pages Paperbound
© 2008 Published
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Table of Contents
I. Reading, Writing, and Argument
1. Reading Literature
Thinking Critically about Human Nature
Animal Nature: Reading Allegories
Mark Twain, "A Fable"
The Nature of Reading
Nikki Giovanni, "Woman"
2. Writing about Literature
Why Write?
What Do I Know?
Audience
Getting Started
The Reading Journal
Outlining, Brainstorming, and Freewriting
Annotating and Questioning a Text
Illustration of Prewriting: Collette's "The Other Wife"
Colette, "The Other Wife" (Translated by Matthew Ward)
The Drafting Process
The First Rough Draft
The Next Drafts
Evidence
Elements of the Final Draft: A Checklist
3. Constructing an Argument
Matters of Opinion
Evidence: The Burden of Proof
Audience
Interpretation
Organization and Coherence
Persuasion
Tone
II. Reading and Writing about Literary Genres
4. Reading and Writing about Fiction
Elements of Fiction
Point of View
Plot
Character
Setting
Theme
Student Essay on Jhumpa Lahiri's "This Blessed House"
Jhumpa Lahiri, "This Blessed House"
Sarah Himberger, "An Ironic Blessing"
5. Reading and Writing about Poetry
What Is a Poem?
Words into Lines
Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
George Herbert, "The Altar"
Verse, Rhyme, Assonance, and Alliteration
Meter
Form
Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, "Farewell, Love"
Countee Cullen, "Yet I Do Marvel"
Lyric, Epic, and Other Types
Dudley Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham"
Alexander Pope, "Ode on Solitude"
Figurative Language
Student Essay on Langston Hughes's "The Weary Blues"
Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues"
Kristin Seabolt, "Movement and Change in 'The Weary Blues'"
6. Reading and Writing about Drama
A Brief History of Drama
Elements of Drama
Tragedy, Comedy, and Other Distinctions
Student Essay on Susan Glaspell's Trifles
Susan Glaspell, "Trifles"
Darryl Holliday, "Trifles: Susan Glaspell's Social Theater"
7. Reading and Writing about Essays
Types of Essays
Analyzing Essays
Student Essay on Sir Henry Taylor's "On Secrecy"
Sir Henry Taylor, "On Secrecy"
Lacey Perkins, "Secrecy in the Information Age"
8. Reading and Writing about Film
Characters
Point of View and the Camera
Mise-en-Scène
Editing
Sound
Films Adapted from Books
Be Specific
Student Essay on Casablanca
Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, from Casablanca
Jineyda Tapia, "Classic Casablanca"
III. Critical Strategies for Research
9. Critical Approaches to Literature
Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
A Formalist Approach to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
Historical Approaches to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
A Gender-Based Approach to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
A Psychological Approach to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
A Reader-Response Approach to "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
10. Writing the Literary Research Paper
Getting Started
What Is a Source?
Library Research
Internet Sources
Avoiding Plagiarism
Citing Sources
The Works Cited Page
11. A Step-by-Step Example of the Research Process
Research Log and Prewriting
Sources: Selected Criticism on Rebecca Harding Davis and "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Walter Hesford, from Literary Contexts of "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Janice Milner Lasseter, from The Censored and Uncensored Literary Lives of "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Andrew Silver, from "Unnatural Unions": Picturesque Travel, Sexual Politics, and Working-Class Representation in "A Night under Ground" and "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Sheila Hassell Hughes, from Between Bodies of Knowledge There Is a Great Gulf Fixed: A Liberationalist Reading of Class and Gender in "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Notes and Quotations
Final Draft
IV. Literary Explorations of Human Nature
12. Obedience and Rebellion
FICTION
William Dean Howells, "Editha"
Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery"
Albert Camus, "The Guest" (Translated by Justin O'Brien)
John Updike, "A & P"
Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"
Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game"
Elizabeth McKenzie, "Stop That Girl"
POETRY
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, "Casabianca"
Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Emily Dickinson, "Much Madness is divinest Sense--" (435)
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
W.H. Auden, "The Unknown Citizen"
Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Gregory Corso, "Marriage"
DRAMA
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman
ESSAYS
Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
Sarah Vowell, "Take the Cannoli""
CONSIDERING ART: Obedience and Rebellion
COMMON CHARACTERS: Icarus
Robert Graves, from The Greek Myths
Ovid, from Metamorphoses (Translated by Rolfe Humphries)
Edith Hamilton, "A Great Adventure"
W.H. Auden, "Musée Des Beaux Arts"
Joni Mitchell, "Amelia" (song lyric from Hejira)
Reginald Shepard, "Icarus on Fire Island"
Jack Gilbert, "Failing and Flying"
CONSIDERING ART: Icarus
13. Love and Lust
FICTION
James Joyce, "The Dead"
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "Kesa and Morito"
John Updike, "Wife-Wooing"
Bharati Mukherjee, "The Tenant"
Susan Minot, "Lust "
POETRY
Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
William Shakespeare, "My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun" (Sonnet 130)
William Shakespeare, "My love is a fever longing still" (Sonnet 147)
Thomas Carew, "A Rapture"
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Aphra Behn, "The Disappointment"
John Keats, "And what is Love? It is a doll dressed up"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "How do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways"
Emily Dickinson, "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" (249)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"
Octavio Paz, "Two Bodies"
Sharon Olds, "Sex without Love"
Rita Dove, "Courtship"
DRAMA
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
ESSAYS
Marie-Henri Beyle de Stendhal, "The Birth of Love"
Robert Louis Stevenson, "On Marriage"
CONSIDERING ART: Love and Lust
COMMON CHARACTERS: Don Juan
George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Don Juan, Canto I
Gustave Flaubert, "Passion and Virtue: A Philosophical Tale"
Dorothy Parker, "The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk"
V.S. Pritchett, "A Story of Don Juan"
CONSIDERING ART: Don Juan
14. Honesty and Deception
FICTION
Charles Chestnutt, "The Wife of His Youth"
Salman Rushdie, "The Prophet's Hair"
David Long ,"Morphine"
Alifa Rifaat, "Another Evening at the Club" (Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies)
Ann Beattie, "Weekend"
Raymond Carver, "Jerry and Molly and Sam"
Mori Yoko, "Spring Storm" (Translated by Makoto Ueda)
POETRY
Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Lie"
William Shakespeare, "When my love swears that she is made of truth" (Sonnet 138)
Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" (1129)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, "We Wear the Mask"
Thomas Hardy, "At Tea"
Langston Hughes, "Theme for English B"
Louise Glück, "The Mountain"
Richard Wilbur, "Lying"
Mark Halperin, "The Escape"
Jessica Greenbaum, "Sonnets for the Autobiographical Urban Dweller"
Melissa Kwasny, "Deception"
Nathasha Trethewey, "Letter Home"
DRAMA
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
ESSAYS
Maxine Hong Kingston, "No Name Woman"
CONSIDERING ART: Honesty and Deception
COMMON CHARACTERS: The Trickster Figure
Algonquin Folk Tale, "Manabozho, The Great Hare"
Joseph Jacobs, "Molly Whuppie"
Virginia Hamilton, "Little Girl and Buh Rabby"
S.E. Schlosser, "Brer Rabbit Meets a Tar Baby"
Robert Browning, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Mark Twain, from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
CONSIDERING ART: The Trickster Figure
15. Vengeance and Forgiveness
FICTION
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"
Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever"
Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat"
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited"
Sembene Ousmane, "Her Three Days"
E. Annie Proulx, "On the Antler"
Andre Dubus, "Killings"
Fay Weldon, "Inspector Remorse"
POETRY
Andrew Marvell, "The Mower's Song"
Robert Herrick, "The Bubble: A Song"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Emily Dickinson, "Mine Enemy is growing old" (1509)
Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
Margaret Walker, "Since 1619"
Langston Hughes, "Harlem"
Nellie Wong, "Mama Come Back"
Marilyn Nelson, "Minor Miracle"
Galway Kinnell, "It All Comes Back"
DRAMA
Euripedes, Medea (Translated by E.P. Coleridge)
ESSAYS
Sir Francis Bacon, "On Revenge"
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
CONSIDERING ART: Vengeance and Forgiveness
COMMON CHARACTERS: The Prodigal Son
Luke, The Parable of the Lost Son
James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues"
Alice Walker, "Everyday Use"
CONSIDERING ART: The Prodigal Son
16. Industry and Idleness
FICTION
Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker"
Rebecca Harding Davis, "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall-street"
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, "The Interview"
Ann Cummins, "Where I Work"
POETRY
Stephen Duck, "The Thresher's Labour"
Mary Collier, "The Woman's Labour: To Mr. Stephen Duck"
Joanna Baillie, "Hay Making"
William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper"
Walt Whitman, "Sparkles from the Wheel"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
Robert Frost, "The Tuft of Flowers"
Philip Larkin, "Toads" and "Toads Revisited"
Theodore Roethke, "Dolor"
Marge Piercy, "The Secretary Chant"
Philip Levine, "What Work Is"
Seamus Heaney, "Digging"
Elizabeth Alexander, "Blues"
DRAMA
Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry the Fourth
ESSAYS
Virginia Woolf, "Professions for Women"
Aristides, "Work and Its Contents"
CONSIDERING ART: Industry and Idleness
COMMON CHARACTERS: The Rags-to-Riches Figure
Edward Arlington Robinson, "Richard Cory"
Thomas Hardy, "The Ruined Maid"
Anne Sexton, "Cinderella"
Russell Banks, "Success Story"
CONSIDERING ART: The Rags-to-Riches Figure
17. Greed, Gluttony, and Generosity
FICTION
W.W. Jacobs, "The Monkey's Paw"
O. Henry, "The Gift of the Magi"
D.H. Lawrence, "The Rocking Horse Winner"
Tobias Wolff, "The Rich Brother"
Gish Jen, "In the American Society"
POETRY
William Wordsworth, "The World Is Too Much with Us"
Arthur Hugh Clough, "Le Dîner"
William Carlos Williams, "This Is Just to Say"
César Vallejo, "Our Daily Bread" (Translated by James Wright)
Pablo Neruda, "The Beggars" (Translated by Ben Belitt)
Diane Wakoski, "The Greed That Is Not Greed"
Barbara Ras, "You Can't Have It All"
Allen Ginsberg, "C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease"
Ai, "Greed"
William Matthews, "The Bear at the Dump"
DRAMA
Molière, The Miser (Translated by Charles Heron Wall)
ESSAYS
Abraham Cowley, "Of Avarice"
M.F.K. Fisher, "Young Hunger"
Natalia Ginzburg, "The Little Virtues" (Translated by Dick Davis)
CONSIDERING ART: Greed, Gluttony, and Generosity
COMMON CHARACTERS: The Gambler
Charles Baudelaire, "The Gamblers" (Translated by Richard Howard)
Stuart Dischell, "Days of Me"
Louise Erdrich, "Raspberry Sun (Fleur)"
CONSIDERING ART: The Gambler
Glossary
Credits
Index of Terms
Index of Authors, and Titles