Literature and the Writing Process combines the best elements of a literature anthology with those of a handbook to guide students through the interrelated process of analytical reading and critical writing. Text writing assignments use literature as a tool of critical thought, a method for analysis, and a way of communicating ideas.  This approach emphasizes writing as the focus of the book with literature as the means to write effectively.  A three part organization combines a literary anthology with composition instruction and a style handbook so students have everything they need at their fingertips.  Some of the new features include: New Humor and Satire Portfolios now appear in every genre chapter, offering engaging new readings to encourage student interest. Expanded argument writing coverage (Ch. 3) offers more support for improving writing skills. New readings reflect a wide diversity of classic and contemporary voices, including Margaret Atwood, Chinua Achebe, David Sedaris, Billy Collins, and Robert Frost. Updated MLA coverage reflects the most current guidelines from the Modern Language Association. A refreshed drama section includes two remarkable plays:  Picnic on the Battlefield, by Fernando Arrabal, and Beauty, by Jane Martin and A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry has been brought back to this edition by popular demand.      

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Contents by Genre Thematic Table of Contents Preface   PART ONE  Composing: An Overview 1 The Prewriting Process James Joyce, “Eveline” 2 The Writing Process Sample Student Paper: First Draft 3 Writing a Convincing Argument Sample Student Paper (annotated)        Dagoberto Gilb, “Love in L.A.” 4 The Rewriting Process Sample Student Paper: Final Draft 5 Researched Writing Sample Documented Student Paper Sample  Published Essay Explanation of the MLA Documentation Style                         PART TWO  Writing About Short Fiction 6 How Do I Read Short Fiction? 7 Writing About Structure Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” MLL 8 Writing About Imagery and Symbolism Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery” Sample Student Paper:  Second and Final Drafts 9 Writing About Point of View Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”MLL 10 Writing About Setting and Atmosphere Tobias Wolff, “Hunters in the Snow” 11 Writing About Theme Flannery O'Connor, “Good Country People” Casebook: Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”   The Story’s Origins Don Moser.  “The Pied Piper of Tucson” Greg Johnson.  From Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates Four Critical Interpretations Greg Johnson.  From Understanding Joyce Carol Oates Larry Rubin.   The Explicator Joyce Wegs.    Journal of Narrative Technique Mike Tierce and John Michael Crafton.  “Connie’s Tambourine Man”                            Anthology of Short Fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) “The Birthmark” Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) “The Cask of Amontillado” Kate Chopin (1851-1904) “Désirée’s Baby”MLL “The Story of an Hour”MLL Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) “Hands” Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) “A Jury of Her Peers” D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) “The Rocking-Horse Winner” Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) “The Grave” Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) “Spunk” William Faulkner (1897-1962) “A Rose for Emily” Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) “Hills Like White Elephants” John Steinbeck (1902-1968) “The Chrysanthemums” Richard Wright (1908-1960) “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” Tillie Olsen (1913-2007) “I Stand Here Ironing” Hisaye Yamamoto (1921-    ) “Seventeen Syllables” Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”MLL Rosario Morales (1930-    ) “The Day It Happened” NEW Chinua Achebe (1930-  ) “Dead Men’s Path” NEW Raymond Carver (1938-1988) “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) “The Lesson”MLL Bharati Mukherjee (1940-    ) “A Father” Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) “Speech Sounds” T. Coraghessan Boyle (1948-    ) “The Love of My Life” Sandra Cisneros (1954-    ) “Geraldo No Name” Louise Erdrich (1954-    ) “The Red Convertible   “ Ha Jin (1956-    ) “The Bridegroom” Sherman Alexie (1966-    ) “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”   A Portfolio of Humorous and Satiric Stories Frank O’Connor (1903-1966) “My Oedipus Complex” Eudora Welty (1909-2001) “Why I Live at the P. O.” John Updike (1932-    ) “A & P” MLL Margaret Atwood (1939-    ) “Happy Endings” NEW David Sedaris (1956-    ) “Nuit of the Living Dead” NEW Daniel Orozco (1957-    ) “Orientation” NEW   PART THREE Writing About Poetry 12 How Do I Read Poetry? 13 Writing About Persona and Tone Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz” Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid” W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” Edmund Waller, “Go, Lovely Rose” Dorothy Parker, “One Perfect Rose” Sample Student Paper 14 Writing About Poetic Language Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider” William Shakespeare, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” Kay Ryan, “Turtle” Hayden Carruth, “In the Long Hall” Donald Hall, “My Son My Executioner” Sample Student Paper: Second and Final Drafts 15 Writing About Poetic Form Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” MLL A. E. Housman, “Eight O’Clock” E. E. Cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town” MLL Wole Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation” Robert Frost, “The Silken Tent” NEW Billy Collins, “Sonnet” Roger McGough, “40---Love” Sample Student Paper Sample Published Essay on Poetic Form: David Huddle, “The `Banked Fire’ of Robert Hayden’s `Those Winter Sundays’” Casebook:  The Poetry and Prose of Langston Hughes Poetry “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” “Mother to Son” “The Weary Blues” MLL “Saturday Night” “Trumpet Player” “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” MLL “Theme for English B” Prose “Salvation” “On the Road” “Thank You, M’am” 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”   The Art of Poetry Lisel Mueller (1924-    ) “American Literature” IMAGE:    Edward Hopper (1882-1967),  Nighthawks, 1942 Samuel Yellen (1906-1983) “Nighthawks” Susan Ludvigson (1942-    ) “Inventing My Parents” IMAGE:    Peter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525-1569), Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1554-55 W. H. Auden (1907-1973) “Musée des Beaux Arts” IMAGE: Paolo Uccello, St. George and the Dragon (1470) U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-    ) “Not My Best Side” IMAGE:    Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890),  The Starry Night, 1889. Anne Sexton (1928-1974) “The Starry Night” IMAGE: Henri Matisse (1869-1954), The Red Studio, 1911 W. D. Snodgrass (1926-    ) “Matisse: `The Red Studio’ ” IMAGE:  Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806), Two Women Dressing Their Hair, 1794-95 Cathy Song (1952-    )  “Beauty and Sadness” 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) “The Flea” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” “Death, Be Not Proud” MLL Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)  “To His Coy Mistress” William Blake (1757-1827) “The Lamb” “The Tyger” MLL “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” MLL John Keats (1795-1821) “Ode on a Grecian Urn”  MLL Walt Whitman (1819-1892) “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” “Song of Myself” (Section 11) Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) “Dover Beach” MLL Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) “Faith Is a Fine Invention” “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” “He Put the Belt Around My Life” “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” MLL “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church” “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” MLL Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) “Pied Beauty” MLL “Spring and Fall” A. E. Housman (1859-1936) “To an Athlete Dying Young” “Loveliest of Trees” William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) “The Second Coming” “Sailing to Byzantium” Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) “We Wear the Mask” Robert Frost (1874-1963) “Mending Wall” MLL “Birches” MLL “ `Out, Out—’” MLL “Fire and Ice” “Design” Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) “Fog” “Chicago” William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) “Danse Russe” “The Red Wheelbarrow” D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) “Piano” 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” E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) “in Just- ” “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) “Sweetness, Always” W. H. Auden (1907-1973) “Funeral Blues” “Lullaby” Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) “I Knew a Woman” Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) “One Art” MLL May Sarton (1912-1995) “AIDS” Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) “Auto Wreck” Octavio Paz  (1914-1998) “The Street” Dudley Randall (1914-2000) “Ballad of Birmingham” NEW “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” Richard Wilbur (1921-    ) “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” Philip   (1922-1985) “Home Is So Sad” James Dickey (1923-1997) “The Leap” Maxine Kumin (1925-    ) “Woodchucks” Anne Sexton (1928-1974) “You All Know the Story of the Other Woman” Adrienne Rich (1929-     ) “Aunt Jennifer's Tigers” “Living in Sin” Ruth Fainlight (1931-     ) “Flower Feet” Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) “Mirror” John Updike (1932-    ) “Ex-Basketball Player” Imamu Amiri Baraka  (1934-    ) “Biography” Audre Lorde (1934-1992) “Hanging Fire” Marge Piercy (1936-    ) “Barbie Doll” NEW Seamus Heaney (1939-    ) “Digging” MLL Sharon Olds (1942-    ) “The Death of Marilyn Monroe” NEW “Sex Without Love” Nikki Giovanni (1943-    ) “Dreams” Gina Valdes (1943-    ) “My Mother Sews Blouses” Edward Hirsch (1950-    ) “Execution” NEW        Rita Dove (1952-    ) “Daystar” Alberto Ríos (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” Dorianne Laux (1952-    ) “What I Wouldn’t Do” Tony Hoagland (1953-    ) “The Change” Cornelius Eady (1954-    ) “The Supremes” Louise Erdrich (1954-    ) “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” Martín Espada (1957-    ) “Bully” NEW Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) “Commitments” NEW Nancy A. Henry (1961-    ) “People Who Take Care” NEW Christopher Murray  (1967-    ) “I Got Beat Up a Lot in High School”   Paired Poems for Comparison Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?-1618) “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”   Robert Browning (1812-1889) “My Last Duchess” MLL 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” MLL 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”   Robert Hayden (1913-1980) “Those Winter Sundays” George Bilgere (1951-    ) “Like Riding a Bicycle” NEW   A Portfolio of War Poetry Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) “Channel Firing” Stephen Crane (1871-1900) “War Is Kind” Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) “Grass” Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) “Dulce et Decorum Est” MLL E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) “next to of course god america i” Wislawa Szymborska (1923-    ) “End and Beginning” Peg Lauber (1938-    ) “Six National Guardsmen Blown Up Together” NEW Yusef Komunyakaa (1947-    ) “Facing It” Dwight Okita (1958-    ) “In Response to Executive Order 9066” NEW   A Portfolio of Humorous and Satirical  Poems Don Marquis (1878-1937) “the lesson of the moth” Linda Pastan (1932-    ) “Marks” Lucille Clifton (1936-    ) “homage to my hips” NEW Ron Koertge (1940-    ) “Cinderella’s Diary” NEW Billy Collins (1941-    ) “Introduction to Poetry” NEW Craig Raine (1944-    ) “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home” NEW Jan Beatty (1952-    ) “A Waitress’s Instructions on Tipping” NEW Jeanne Marie Beaumont (1954-    ) “Afraid So” NEW Peter Pereira (1959-    ) “Reconsidering the Seven” NEW Jay Leeming (1969-    ) “Man Writes Poem” NEW    PART FOUR  Writing About Drama 16 How Do I Read a Play? 17 Writing About Dramatic Structure Sophocles, Antigone MLL Sample Student Paper 18 Writing About Character August Wilson, Fences MLL Casebook   Fences: Interpreting Troy Maxson Frank Rich, “Family Ties in Wilson’s Fences” Brent Staples, “Fences: No Barrier to Emotion” August Wilson, “Talking About Fences” Christine Birdwell, “Death as a Fastball on the Outside Corner” Carla J. McDonough, “August Wilson: Performing Black Masculinity” Mary Ellen Snodgrass, “Fences” 19 Writing About Culture David Henry Hwang,M. Butterfly Sample Documented Student Paper   Anthology of Drama William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Othello, the Moor of Venice  MLL Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) A Doll's House MLL Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) Trifles MLL Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) NEW A Raisin in the Sun MLL    A Portfolio of Humorous and Satirical Plays Fernando Arrabal (1933-    ) Picnic on the Battlefield NEW Jane Martin (1938?-    ) Beauty NEW Luis Valdez (1940-    ) Los Vendidos David Ives  (1950-    ) Sure Thing Handbook for Correcting Errors Critical Approaches for Interpreting Literature Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical Terms