Literature: A Portable Anthology

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Literature: A Portable Anthology features nearly 250 literary selections with thorough coverage of reading and writing about literature, all at an affordable price. About this Book Cover Page Inside Front Cover Haltitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Preface for Instructors Brief Contents Contents Selections by Form and Theme Part One: Reading and Writing about Literature Chapter 1: Introduction to Reading and Writing about Literature Why Read Literature? Why Write about Literature? What to Expect in a Literature Class Literature and Enjoyment Chapter 2: The Role of Good Reading The Value of Rereading Critical Reading The Myth of “Hidden Meaning” Active Reading Annotating Note-Taking Journal Keeping Using Reference Materials Asking Critical Questions of Literature Questions about the Text Questions about the Author Questions about the Cultural Context Questions about the Reader Chapter 3: The Writing Process Prewriting Choosing a Topic Developing an Argument The Thesis Gathering Support for Your Thesis Organizing Your Paper Drafting the Paper Introductions, Conclusions, and Transitions Revising and Editing Global Revision Local Revision Final Editing and Proofreading Peer Editing and Workshops Tips for Writing about Literature Using Quotations Effectively Avoiding Floating Quotations Integrating Quotations Adding to or Altering a Quotation Omitting Words from a Quotation Quotations within Quotations Quotation Marks with Other Punctuation Quoting From Stories Short Quotations Long Quotations Quoting From Poems Short Quotations Long Quotations Quoting From Plays Short Single-Speaker Passages Longer or More Complex Passages Verse Drama Tips for Quoting Formatting Your Paper Chapter 4: Common Writing Assignments Summary Response Explication Analysis Comparison and Contrast Essay Exams Open-Book versus Closed-Book Exams Develop a Plan Aim for Clarity Watch the Time Chapter 5: Writing about Stories Elements of Fiction Plot Character Point of View Setting Theme Symbolism Style Stories for Analysis Student Essay: An Essay that Compares and Contrasts Chapter 6: Writing about Poems Elements of Poetry The Speaker The Listener Imagery Sound and Sense Two Poems for Analysis Student Essay: An Explication Chapter 7: Writing about Plays Elements of Drama Plot, Character, and Theme Diction Spectacle Setting How to Read a Play Watching the Play The Director’s Vision Student Essay: An Analysis Chapter 8: Writing a Literary Research Paper Finding Sources Online Indexes Using the Best Search Terms Evaluating the Results Periodicals Books Interlibrary Loan The Internet Evaluating Sources Working with Sources Quotations Paraphrases and Summaries Commentaries Keeping Track of Your Sources Writing the Paper Refine Your Thesis Organize Your Evidence Start Your Draft Revise Edit and Proofread Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism What to Document and What Not to Document Documenting Sources: MLA Format In-Text Citations Preparing Your Works Cited List Sample Research Paper Chapter 9: Literary Criticism and Literary Theory Formalism and New Criticism Feminist and Gender Criticism Queer Theory Marxist Criticism Cultural Studies Postcolonial Criticism Historical Criticism and New Historicism Psychological Theories Reader-Response Theories Structuralism Poststructuralism and Deconstruction Ecocriticism Part Two: 40 Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton), In the Land of the Free Sherwood Anderson, Hands James Joyce, The Dead Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Katherine Mansfield, Bliss Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants John Cheever, Reunion Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal Shirley Jackson, The Lottery James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Raymond Carver, Cathedral Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson Alice Walker, Everyday Use Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible Sandra Cisneros, My Name George Saunders, Sticks Sherman Alexie, This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona Alexander Chee, Mine Ted Chiang, The Great Silence Junot Díaz, Fiesta, 1980 Maile Meloy, Tome Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers Zz Packer, Brownies Adrian Tomine, Echo Ave. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Thing Around Your Neck Part Three: 200 Poems Anonymous, The Wife’s Lament Anonymous, Western Wind Sir Thomas Wyatt, Whoso list to hunt Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur’s Departure Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Walter Ralegh, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116 Aemilia Lanyer, Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne, Death, be not proud Ben Jonson, On My First Son Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time George Herbert, The Collar Hester Pulter, The Eclipse John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent Anne Bradstreet, Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666 Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America William Blake, The Lamb William Blake, The Tyger Kobayashi Issa, (“All the time I pray to Buddha”) Kobayashi Issa, (“Don’t worry, spiders,”) Kobayashi Issa, (“Goes out, comes back — ”) William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan George Gordon, Lord Byron, Prometheus Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I love thee? Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Walt Whitman, From Song of Myself Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights — Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz — when I died Emily Dickinson, Much Madness is divinest Sense Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson, There’s a certain Slant of light Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask Robert Frost, After Apple-Picking Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night Rainer Maria Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream Guillaume Apollinaire, Il Pleut/It’s Raining Mina Loy, Moreover, the Moon — William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Helen Marianne Moore, Poetry T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Claude Mckay, America Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est E. E. Cummings, in Just- E. E. Cummings, “next to of course god america i Federico García Lorca, Dawn Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues Langston Hughes, Theme for English B Langston Hughes, Harlem Countee Cullen, Incident Pablo Neruda, Body of a Woman W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish Elizabeth Bishop, One Art Czesław Miłosz, Dedication Robert Hayden, Middle Passage Muriel Rukeyser, Waiting for Icarus Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night Gwendolyn Brooks, the mother Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage Jack Gilbert, Failing and Flying Maxine Kumin, Morning Swim Frank O’Hara, The Day Lady Died Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Galway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell, When one has lived a long time alone John Ashbery, They Knew What They Wanted W. S. Merwin, One of the Butterflies James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Philip Levine, What Work Is Anne Sexton, Cinderella Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck Etheridge Knight, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane Linda Pastan, love poem Sylvia Plath, Morning Song Sylvia Plath, Daddy Audre Lorde, Coal Mary Oliver, The Summer Day Lucille Clifton, at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989 Lucille Clifton, homage to my hips C. K. Williams, On the Métro Charles Simic, Eyes Fastened with Pins Seamus Heaney, Digging Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break Robert Pinsky, Shirt Mahmoud Darwish, Identity Card Billy Collins, Forgetfulness Toi Derricotte, A Note on My Son’s Face Richard Garcia, Why I Left the Church Sharon Olds, I Go Back to May 1937 Louise Glück, Mock Orange Quincy Troupe, A Poem For “Magic” Bernadette Mayer, Sonnet Marilyn Nelson, Emmett Till’s name still catches in my throat, Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It Jane Kenyon, Happiness Linda Hogan, Crow Law Victor Hernández Cruz, Problems with Hurricanes Carolyn Forché, The Boatman Jorie Graham, Prayer Linda Gregerson, Prodigal Marie Howe, Death, the last visit Dana Gioia, Majority Joy Harjo, Fear Poem, or I Give You Back Jimmy Santiago Baca, Family Ties Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica Naomi Shihab Nye, Gate A-4 Gary Soto, Moving Away Mary Ruefle, Rain Effect Rita Dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography Alberto Ríos, Nani Cherríe Moraga, Loving in the War Years Harryette Mullen, Elliptical Mark Doty, A Display of Mackerel Tony Hoagland, History of Desire Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways Kim Addonizio, First Kiss Patricia Smith, Skinhead Marilyn Chin, How I Got That Name Cathy Song, Heaven Martín Espada, Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Li-Young Lee, Eating Alone Kathy Fish, Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild Claudia Rankine, (“You are in the dark, in the car …”) ​ Spencer Reece, The Clerk’s Tale A. Van Jordan, from Taylor Mali, What Teachers Make Margaret Noodin, Agoozimakakiig Idiwag / What the Peepers Say Natasha Trethewey, History Lesson Sherman Alexie, Postcards to Columbus Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Unidentified Female Student, Former Slave Allison Joseph, On Being Told I Don’t Speak Like a Black Person Adrienne Su, Substitutions Brian Turner, What Every Soldier Should Know Suji Kwock Kim, Occupation Terrance Hayes, Talk Monica Youn, Goldacre Jen Bervin, 64 Oliver De La Paz, Autism Screening Questionnaire — Speech and Language Delay Tracy Smith, Declaration Eduardo Corral, In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes Ross Gay, A Small Needful Fact Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Self-Portrait as Scallop Katy Didden, “Embrace Them All” Jericho Brown, Bullet Points Mahogany L. Browne, Black Girl Magic Ada Limón, How to Triumph Like a Girl Matthew Olzmann, Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz Aracelis Girmay, Ode to the Watermelon Ilya Kaminsky, We Lived Happily during the War Maggie Smith, Good Bones Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec Jenny Johnson, Tail Amit Majmudar, Arms and the Man Tarfia Faizullah, En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith Patricia Lockwood, Rape Joke Jacob Saenz, Blue Line Incident Ocean Vuong, Aubade with Burning City Kaveh Akbar, Portrait of the Alcoholic with Relapse Fantasy Fatimah Asghar, Pluto Shits on the Universe Danez Smith, alternate names for black boys Javier Zamora, El Salvador Noah Baldino, Passing Layli Long Soldier, 38 Part Four: 9 Plays Sophocles, Oedipus the King William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House Susan Glaspell, Trifles Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof August Wilson, Fences Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics Neena Beber, Misreadings Lynn Nottage, Sweat Biographical Notes on the Authors Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms Acknowledgments Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines Inside Back Cover Back Cover