Living literature : an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama

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Living literature : an introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama

[compiled by] John C. Brereton

Pearson Longman, c2008

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LIVING LITERATURE is a distinctive new anthology unique in its focus on literature as one part of a living, fluid conversation across cultures and time periods. Each feature in this innovative anthology accentuates the study of literature as a continual dialogue, encouraging students to explore, interact with, and respond to what they read. Organized by genre, LIVING LITERATURE lends context to a vibrant collection of stories, poems, and plays by highlighting several "moments" in which writers, painters, photographers, critics, filmmakers, and musicians all derive inspiration from one another. The text then shows students how to add their own voices to that ongoing conversation, and how to go from being passive readers to active participants and critical thinkers. As author John Brereton writes in the book's preface, the "cultural conversation in thinking, speaking, and writing about literature is a powerful means of participating in the world around us-of playing our parts as community and world citizens."

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PART I: FICTION 1. Stories: Plot, Character, Setting The Hare and the Tortoise Story with a Lesson Inspiration: Animation and The Tortoise and the Hare Video locale: Bugs Bunny Cartoons of The Tortoise and the Hare Plot Ordering the Plot Kate Chopin, The Story of An Hour For Further Reading: Plot Richard Ford, Under the Radar Character Tim O'Brien, Stockings Types of Characters For Further Reading: Character Alice Munro, Prue Setting James Joyce, Araby Literary Locale: James Joyce and Davy Byrnes Pub Symbolic Setting For Further Reading: Setting Literary Locale: Colter's Chicago-The South Side and the El Cyrus Colter, Mary's Convert 2. Stories: Point of View, Theme, Symbol, Performance Point of View First-Person Narration Third-Person Narration Subjective vs. Objective Narration Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Point of View in "Girl" The Narrator's Role For Further Reading: Point of View Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings Theme John Updike, A & P Theme in "A & P" Theme, Meaning, and Intention For Further Reading: Theme Anita Desai, Games at Twilight Symbol Stuart Dybek, The Palatski Man For Further Reading: Symbol Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Tone Inspiration: Carver to Altman: From Fiction to Film Raymond Carver, Cathedral For Further Reading: Tone Ana Castillo, Loverboys Story and Performance Wallace Stegner, A Note on Technique Story and Performance in "A Note on Technique" Audio and Video Locale: Updike's "A&P" in Performance 3. Writing about Stories The Cultural Conversation Reviews Short Review Short Review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Full Review Full Review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Beyond Reviews: Criticism Popular Criticism Newsweek, Here's Harry: Behind the Fastest-Selling Book in History Scholarly Articles Roni Natov, Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary How to Enter the Conversation? Virtual Locale: Blogging about Stories Questions to Develop Ideas About a Story Point of View Language Setting Character Plot Links to Other Texts Response Formats for Writing about Stories Annotating a Story Annotations for a page of "The Story of An Hour" Summarizing a Story Summaries of "The Story of An Hour" Keeping a Personal Journal Double-Entry Reaction Journal on a page of "The Story of An Hour" Writing a Response Paper From a Response Paper to "The Story of An Hour" Writing an Intervention Writing an Explication Explication of the opening of "The Story of An Hour" Writing an Analytical Essay Student Analytical Essay of "The Story of An Hour" 4. A Fiction Writer in Depth: Nathaniel Hawthorne Literary Locale: Hawthorne's Massachusetts-Concord and Salem Virtual Locale:Hawthorne in Salem Website Nathaniel Hawthorne Timeline Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown Lady Eleanore's Mantle The Maypole of Merry Mount Commentary: Nathaniel Hawthorne on his Art and His Life Inspiration: Hawthorne and Melville: A Literary Friendship 5. A Fiction Writer in Depth: Willa Cather Literary and Virtual Locale: Willa Cather's Red Cloud, Nebraska Willa Cather Timeline Audio Locale: Cather's 1933 Radio Speech Stories by Willa Cather Peter Paul's Case A Wagner Matinee Inspiration: "A Wagner Matinee" in Performance-Cather from Page to Radio Stage Audio and Virtual Locale:Recording of Scribbling Women "A Wagner Matinee" Radio Play An Old Beauty Virtual Locale:The Willa Cather Archive Commentary: Willa Cather on Writing Commentary: Willa Cather the Critic Willa Cather, From "Shakespeare and Hamlet" 6. A Fiction Writer in Depth: Charles Baxter Charles Baxter Timeline Literary Locale: Baxter's Michigan and the Mystery of the Midwest Stories by Charles Baxter Shelter Inspiration:"Gryphon" in Performance-Chicago Public Radio's Stories on Stage Gryphon Audio and Virtual Locale:Recording of Stories on Stage "Gryphon" Dramatic Reading Saul and Patsy Are Pregnant Virtual Locale:Charles Baxter's Website Kiss Away Commentary: Charles Baxter on Fiction and the Writer's Role Commentary: Charles Baxter, Critical Writing on Fiction Commentary: Excerpts from Selected Reviews Inspiration: Music in the Fiction of Charles Baxter Audio Locale:Recordings of "Gimme Shelter" and "Unchain My Heart" 7. More Than Magnolias: Southern Women Storytellers Literary and Virtual Locale: The Gravesite of Zora Neale Hurston, Fort Pierce, Florida Southern Women Writers Timeline Literary and Virtual Locale: Zora Festival, Eatonville, Florida Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat Inspiration: "Sweat" in Performance-Hurston from Page to Radio Stage Audio and Virtual Locale:Recording of Scribbling Women "Sweat" Radio Play Literary and Virtual Locale:The Homes and the Archives of Eudora Welty-Jackson, Mississippi Virtual Locale:The Eudora Welty House and The Eudora Welty Collection Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O. A Worn Path A Shower of Gold Commentary: Eudora Welty on the Craft of Writing Inspiration: Alice Walker and Lee Smith on Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty Literary Locale: The Georgia Homes of Flannery O'Connor-Savannah and Milledgville Virtual Locale:Flannery O'Connor Home Foundation and Andalusia Farm Websites Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find Parker's Back Inspiration: Flannery O'Connor and Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska Commentary: Flannery O'Connor on her Craft Lee Smith, Cakewalk Mary Hood, How Far She Went Dorothy Allison, I'm Working on My Charm Inspiration: Writers Who Inspired Dorothy Allison Virtual Locale:Alice Walker and other "Voices of Mississippi" Alice Walker, Everyday Use Commentary: Contemporary Southern Women Writers Speak On the South 8. Passage to America: New Immigrant Tell Their Stories Passage to America Timeline Pat Mora, Immigrants Inspiration: "I, Too, Sing America"-"All-American" Writers, from Whitman to Hughes to Alvarez Langston Hughes, I, Too, Sing America Virtual Locale: The "Writers on America" Project: What Does It Means to be an American Writer? Literary Locale: Los Angeles's Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture Jhumpa Lahiri, The Third and Final Continent Commentary: Jhumpa Lahiri on the Short Story Virtual Locale: The South Asian Women's Network's Online Bookshelf Gish Jen, In the American Society Commentary: Gish Jen on the Short Story Virtual and Video Locale:Interview With Gish Jen on "Becoming American: Personal Journeys" Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican Commentary: Esmeralda Santiago on When I Was Puerto Rican Video and Virtual Locale: Santiago in Performance: PBS Film Adaptation of Almost a Woman Junot Diaz, Fiesta, 1980 Commentary: Junot Diaz on Fiction Literary and virtual Locale: New York's El Museo del Barrio Anjana Appachana, Her Mother Commentary: Anjana Appachana on the Short Story Literary Locale:Ellis Island-The Gateway for the Early U.S. Immigrant virtual Locale: The Ellis Island Immigration Museum 9. Stories for Further Reading A Brief Note on the Sequencing of the Stories A Brief Note on the Inclusion of Non-Fiction Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart Literary Locale: Edgar Allan Poe-The Philadelphia Years Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Dog D.H. Lawrence, The Horse Dealer's Daughter Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants Inspiration: Imitation Hemingway and Faux Faulkner Contests Virtual Locale: Hemispheres Magazine Website Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall William Faulkner, Barn Burning A Rose for Emily Literary Locale: Faulkner's Oxford, Mississippi James Thurber, The Night the Bed Fell In George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant E.B. White, Once More to the Lake Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground Jorge Luis Borges, Theme of the Traitor and the Hero James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues Chinua Achebe, A Civil Peace Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman Kazuo Ishiguro, Family Dinner David Leavitt, Territory Amy Hempel, In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried Lorrie Moore, How to Become a Writer Sherman Alexie, Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Stuart Dybek, We Didn't Inspiration: From Verse to Prose: Yehuda Amichai's "We Did It" and Dybek's "We Didn't" Andrea Barrett, Rare Bird Ha Jin, Saboteur PART II: POETRY 10. Poems: Tone, Image, Language Shaping Experience Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask Literary and VIRTUAL Locale: Paul Laurence Dunbar House-Dayton, Ohio Tone Linda Pastan, Marks D.H. Lawrence, Piano For Further Reading: Tone Ezra Pound, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter Inspiration: Two Additional Translations of Li Po's Poem Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse Virtual Locale: The Lannan Foundation and Louise Gluck Louise Gluck, The Red Poppy Audio Locale: Louise Gluck's "The Red Poppy" Margaret Atwood, Siren Song Images and Imagery Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 For Further Reading: Images and Imagery Robert Burns, My Luve's like a Red, Red Rose Sylvia Plath, Metaphors Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck Inspiration: Adrienne Rich Rethinks Emily Dickinson Poetic Language Emily Dickinson, I like to see it lap the miles William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree Literary Locale: Yeats and the Landscape in Sligo, Ireland Inspiration: U2's Bono-The Yeats of Our Time? Before the World Was Made Commentary: Louise Gluck on Poetic Language For Further Reading: Poetic Language Frank O'Hara, The Day Lady Died Audio Locale: Lady Sings the Blues Thomas Gray, Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes Phyllis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Snow-Flakes Jimmy Santiago Baca, Green Chile Struggles Over Poetic Language 11. Poems: Meter, Stanza, Form Meter William Langland, From Piers Plowman John Newton, From Amazing Grace Iamb Trochee Anapest Dactyl John Hollander, Historical Reflection Spondee Feet Blank verse William Shakespeare, From Macbeth John Milton, From Paradise Lost Elizabeth Barrett Browning, From Aurora Leigh For Further Reading: Meter Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Literary Locale: The Robert Frost Place, Franconia, New Hampshire Ben Jonson, Song: To Celia A.E. Housman, When I Was One-and-Twenty Stanza Alexander Pope, From The Rape of the Lock Percy Bysshe Shelley, From Ode to the West Wind Anonymous, From Bonny Barbara Allan Free verse Walt Whitman, When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Inspiration: William Carlos Williams and Tino Villaneuva For Further Reading: Stanza William Carlos Williams, The Great Figure Inspiration: Charles Demuth's painting The Figure 5 in Gold George Herbert, Easter Wings William Wordsworth, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Video Locale: Adrienne Rich and The Lannan Foundation Form Sonnet John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer John Keats, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be Edna St. Vincent Millay, I will put Chaos into fourteen lines Billy Collins, Sonnet Commentary: Billy Collins on American Poetry John Milton, On His Blindness Robert Frost, Once by the Pacific Alice Oswald, Wedding Weldon Kees, For My Daughter Elegy Ben Jonson, On My First Son Thomas Gray, Sonnet on the Death of Richard West Samuel Johnson, On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet, a Practiser in Physic Chidiock Tichborne, Elegy Written with His Own Hand in the Tower before His Execution E.E. Cummings, Buffalo Bill's Inspiration: Cummings and Bjork: Poetry as Pop Song I will wade out It may not always be so Aubade William Shakespeare, Aubade from Cymbeline Amy Lowell, Aubade John Donne, The Sun Rising Richard Wilbur, A Late Aubade Terese Svoboda, Aubade Barbara Lau, Aubade/Iowa Philip Larkin, Aubade William Shakespeare, Aubade from Romeo and Juliet Villanelle Elizabeth Bishop, One Art Video Locale: Documentary on Elizabeth Bishop Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night For Further Reading: Form Theodore Roethke, The Waking Robert Frost, Design Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink Gertrude Schnackenberg, Signs Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll Michael Drayton, Since There's No Help Edmund Spenser, One day I wrote her name upon the strand Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush During Wind and Rain Gerard Manly Hopkins, God's Grandeur The Windhover 12. Writing about Poetry The Cultural Conversation Reviews Short Review: The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, ed. by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter Full Review: The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, ed. by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter Beyond Reviews: Criticism Popular Criticism Scott Thrill, Eminem vs. Robert Frost Scholarly Articles or Works Edward Hirsch, From How to Read a Poem How to Enter the Conversation Questions to Develop Ideas about a Poem Point of View Language Setting Character Plot Links to Other Texts Response Virtual Locale: Poetry Websites and Blog Formats for Writing about Poems Annotating a Poem Annotations forDickinson's "After Great Pain" Summarizing or Paraphrasing a Poem Summary of "After Great Pain" Paraphrase of "After Great Pain" Keeping a Personal Journal Double-Entry Reaction Journal on "After Great Pain" Writing a Response Paper From a Response Paper to "After Great Pain" Writing an Intervention Inspiration: Two Poets Respond to Emily Dickinson Francis Heaney, Skinny Domicile [An anagram of Emily Dickinson] Billy Collins,Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes Writing an Explication Student Explication of "After Great Pain" Professional Explication of "After Great Pain" Writing an Analytical Essay Student Analytical Essay of "After Great Pain" 13. A Poet in Depth: Walt Whitman Inspiration: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Letter to Whitman Virtual Locale: The Whitman Electronic Archive Walt Whitman Timeline Literary Locale: Walt Whitman House, Camden, New Jersey Poems by Walt Whitman From Song of Myself Audio Locale: Whitman Reading "America" Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Literary Locale: Whitman in New York Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd O Captain! My Captain! Inspiration: Whitman and the Civil War A Noiseless Patient Spider Inspiration: The Music of Whitman I Hear America Singing Literary Locale: The "I Hear America Singing" Mural, Bronx, New York When I Heard at the Close of the Day I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Video Locale: Whitman in Video Cavalry Crossing a Ford The Wound-Dresser Commentary: Walt Whitman on his Art and Poetry Commentary: Four Poets Inspired by Whitman Langston Hughes, Old Walt Kenneth Koch, Whitman's Words Marge Piercy, How I Came to Walt Whitman and Found Myself Alicia Ostriker, Loving Walt Whitman and the Problem of America 14. A Poet in Depth: Emily Dickinson Literary Locale: The Emily Dickinson Museum Emily Dickinson Timeline Poems by Emily Dickinson I heard a Fly buzz-when I died Because I could not stop for Death A narrow Fellow in the Grass Inspiration:Three Poets Write of Emily Dickinson Hart Crane, To Emily Dickinson Linda Pastan, Emily Dickinson Wild Nights-Wild Nights! It dropped so low-in my Regard- I taste a liquor never brewed Safe in their Alabaster Chambers There's a certain Slant of light I felt a Funeral, in my Brain Inspiration: "In My Dreams Awake": Photos by John Dugdale and Dickinson's Poetry Elysium is as far to We grow accustomed to the Dark The Soul selects her own Society My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun- Video Locale: Loaded Gun: Life, Death, and Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant As imperceptibly as Grief `Faith' is a fine invention From all the Jails, the boys and girls The Bible is an antique Volume- Audio Locale: The Songs of Emily Dickinson Much Madness is divinest Sense- Beauty be not caused, it is On a columnar Self Commentary: Excerpts from Selected Reviews Commentary: Emily Dickinson in her Letters 15. A Poet in Depth: Gwendolyn Brooks Literary Locale:Brooks inBronzeville, Chicago Gwendolyn Brooks Timeline Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks Kitchenette Building Sadie and Maud The Mother the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon Gay Chaps at the Bar What shall I give my children? who are poor (Sonnet 2) First Fight. Then Fiddle (Sonnet 4) In Honor of David Anderson Brooks, My Father Beverly Hills, Chicago The Bean Eaters Audio Locale: Brooks Reading Her Poetry Audio Locale: Brooks Reading "We Real Cool" Commentary: Gwendolyn Brooks on the Men in "We Real Cool" A Bronzeville Woman Loiters in Mississippi... Crazy Woman Ballad of Rudolph Reed Inspiration:Artists of Inspiration--Hughes, Frost, and Robeson Langston Hughes Of Robert Frost Paul Robeson The Sermon on the Warpland The Second Sermon on the Warpland From In the Mecca Inspiration: Brooks and Emily Dickinson Myself Commentary: Gwendolyn Brooks on her Life and the Art of Poetry Commentary: Excerpts from Selected Reviews Inspiration:The Wall of Respect, Chicago The Wall 16. Passionate Verse: Love Poetry of the English Renaissance English Renaissance Timeline Sir Philip Sidney, Loving in Truth Pastoral Poems Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love Inspiration: Sir Walter Raleigh's Nymph-Talking Back to Marlowe's Shepherd Poems on Clothing Ben Jonson, Still to Be Neat, Still to Be Drest Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder Upon Julia's Clothes Virtual Locale: Elizabethan Clothing Carpe Diem Poems Robert Herrick, To Virgins, to Make Much of Time Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress Poems and Music Thomas Campion, When Thou Must Home to Shades of Underground Fire, Fire, Fire Shakespearean Love Sonnets William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18 Audio and Virtual Locale: Sir John Gielgud Reading the Shakespearean Sonnets Sonnet 55 Sonnet 106 Audio Locale: Shakespearean Sonnets Out Loud-Sung and Spoken Sonnet 116 Sonnet 130 INSPIRATION: Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 and Sting's "Sister Moon" Sonnet 138 INSPIRATION: Love's Fire-Shakespeare's Sonnets from Page to Stage Garden scene from Romeo and Juliet INSPIRATION: Romeo and Juliet: The Garden Scene, From Stage to Screen VIDEO AND VIRTUAL LOCALE: Trailer for George Cukor's 1936 film, Romeo and Juliet VIRTUAL LOCALE: Two Versions of the Famous Romeo and Juliet Garden Scene Women's Voices in the English Renaissance Lady Mary Wroth, Am I Thus Conquer'd? Have I Lost the Powers When every one to pleasing pastime hies How fast thou fliest, O time, on loues swift wings My paine still smother'd in my grieved brest Ben Jonson, A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth Katherine Philips, Against Love A Married State To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband Commentary: Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own 17. Writing Out Loud: Popular Victorian Narratives Poetry's Oral Beginnings Virtual Locale: Aural Poetry on the Web Poetry Readings at Home Professional Authors on the Stage Inspiration: Modern Poetry Out Loud-From Beat Poets to Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam Professonal Readers Video Locale: Fooling With Words with Bill Moyers Elocution Victorian Narratives Timeline Clement Clark Moore, A Visit from St. Nicholas Ernest L. Thayer, Casey at the Bat Felicia Hemans, Casabianca INSPIRATION: Elizabeth Bishop Responds to Felicia Hemans Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Proud Layde Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Commentary: Poe on the Composition of "The Raven" Literary and Virtual Locale: Poe Historical Sites Annabelle Lee Video Locale: Poe on American Masters Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from The Building of the Ship Inspiration: Sonnet on Mrs. Kemble's Reading from Shakespeare The Wreck of the Hesperus Inspiration: George Harrison Riffing on Longfellow Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mother and Poet Walt Whitman, O Captain! My Captain! Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses The Charge of the Light Brigade 18. Poems for Further Reading A Brief Note on the Sequencing of the Poems Video Locale: Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poems Project Robert Southwell, The Burning Babe John Donne, First Anniversary A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Batter My Heart Three Personed God The Canonization Death be not Proud The Flea The Relic The Anniversarie Ben Jonson, Come, my Celia, let us prove On My First Daughter George Herbert, The Pulley The Windows John Milton, How Soon Hath Time Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Andrew Marvell, The Garden Mary, Lady Chudleigh, To the Ladies Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning Samuel Johnson, Prologue Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747 Christopher Smart, For I will consider my cat Jeoffry William Cowper, The Castaway William Blake, Infant Joy The Lamb The Tyger Infant Sorrow A Poison Tree The Sick Rose Virtual Locale: The William Blake Archive William Wordsworth, Lines Composted a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 It is a Beauteous Evening London, 1802 My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold The World Is Too Much with Us Surprised by Joy Mutability Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan Dejection: An Ode George Gordon, Lord Byron, When We Two Parted The Destruction of Sennacherib She Walks in Beauty Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind When the lamp is shattered England in 1819 John Clare, Badger John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn The Eve of St. Agnes To Autumn Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mezzo Cammin Aftermath Edgar Allen Poe, The Bells Alfred Tennyson, Break, Break, Break Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Tears, Idle Tears Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Meeting at Night Parting at Morning Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach Inspiration: Anthony Hecht's The Dover Bitch Christina Rossetti, Song Lewis Carroll [Charles Ludwig Dodgson], Jabberwocky Thomas Hardy, Hap The Darkling Thrush The Convergence of the Twain During Wind and Rain Gerard Manly Hopkins, Spring and Fall Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus A.E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Eden Phillpotts, The Learned W.B. Yeats, The Song of the Wandering Angus The Scholars The Wild Swans at Coole The Second Coming Leda and the Swan Sailing to Byzantium Virtual Locale: Boland on Yeats-Branching Out Lecture Series Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Theology Sympathy Robert Gould Shaw Robert Frost, Mending Wall The Road Not Taken For Once, Then, Something Once by the Pacific Audio Locale: Frost Reading "The Road Not Taken" Rainer Maria Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo (trans. by Stephen Mitchell) Carl Sandburg, Chicago Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice Cream Anecdote of the Jar The Snow Man The Idea of Order at Key West The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm Literary Locale: Stevens Walking Tour, Hartford, Connecticut William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Virtual Locale: Pinsky on Williams-Branching Out Lecture Series Marianne Moore, Poetry Robinson Jeffers, Continent's End Carmel Point T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Audio Locale: Eliot Reading Prufrock Preludes Audio Locale: NPR's top 15 American Poems of the 20th Century Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo What lips my lips have kissed Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth Dulce et decorum est Louise Bogan, Women Federico Garcia Lorca, Arbole, Arbole (trans. by William Logan) Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers Audio Locale: Hughes Reading "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Theme for English B Advice Virtual Locale: Pinsky on Williams and Frost-Branching Out Poetry Lecture Series Stevie Smith, Not Waving But Drowning The Heavenly City Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel Pablo Neruda, Oblivion The Potter The Son W.H. Auden, Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone Musee des Beaux Arts September 1, 1939 Audio Locale: Auden Reading at the 92nd Street Y Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz Root Cellar Elizabeth Bishop, At the Fishhouses First Death in Nova Scotia The Moose Czeslaw Milosz, After Paradise Robert Hayden, Homage to the Empress of the Blues Those Winter Sundays Octavio Paz, With Our Eyes Shut/Con Los Ojos Cerrados William Stafford, Ask Me Waiting in Line Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill In My Craft or Sullen Art Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour Amy Clampitt, On the Disadvantages of Central Heating Richard Hugo, Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage The Wedding-Ring Jack Gilbert, The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart A.R. Ammons, The City Limits Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Audio Locale: Ginsberg Reading "A Supermarket in California" First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels James Merrill, To a Butterfly Frank O'Hara, Why I Am Not a Painter Inspiration: Frank O'Hara and the New York School of Painters Ave Maria Digression on Number 1, 1948 In Memory of My Feelings John Ashbery, Paradoxes and Oxymorons Galway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Blackberry Eating W.S. Merwin, One of the Lives James Wright, A Blessing Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Philip Levine, Animals are Passing from Our Lives Anne Sexton, The Starry Night Two Hands Adrienne Rich, Moving in Winter Living in Sin Gary Snyder, Above Pate Valley Derek Walcott, Midsummer, Tobago Geoffrey Hill, September Song Linda Pastan, Agoraphobia Sylvia Plath, Mushrooms The Mirror Daddy Audre Lorde, Coal Mark Strand, Keeping Things Whole Mary Oliver, The Wild Geese When Death Comes Lucille Clifton, homage to my hips Audio Locale: Clifton Reading "homage to my hips" Charles Simic, Eyes Fastened With Pins Margaret Atwood, This is a Photograph of Me Siren Song February Frank Bidart, Hammer Seamus Heaney, Digging From the Frontier of Writing The Summer of Lost Rachel Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning Audio Locale: Billy Collins on National Public Radio Toi Derricotte, Black Boys Play the Classics Robert Hass, Meditation at Lagunitas A Story about the Body Marilyn Hacker, Sonnet William Matthews, An Airline Breakfast Pat Mora, La Migra Sharon Olds, Sex Without Love Tess Gallagher, I Stop Writing This Poem Nikki Giovanni, Ego Tripping Louise Gluck, Mock Orange The School Children James Tate, Where Babies Come From Eavan Boland, Anorexic The Dolls Museum in Dublin Mary Kinzie, Beautiful Days Ira Sadoff, Nazis Linda Hogan, First Light Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It Wendy Rose, For the White Poets Who would be Indian Agha Shahid Ali, The Country Without a Post Office Julia Alvarez, Dusting Anne Carson, Helen Carolyn Forche, The Colonel Jorie Graham, Over and Over Stitch The Way Things Work Brooks Haxton, Again Consider the Wind Ed Hirsch, Fast Break Marie Howe, Isaac Garrett Hongo, The Legend Brigit Pegeen Kelly, River of Heaven Judith Ortiz Cofer, Quinceanera Rita Dove, Describe Yourself in Three Words or Less Soprano Cynthia Huntington, Breaking Linton Kwesi Johnson, Sense Outa Nonsense Dorianne Laux, For My Daughter Who Loves Animals Naomi Shahib Nye, Rain Gary Soto, Oranges Black Hair Susan Stewart, Kingfisher Carol Rosanna Warren, Simile Sandra Cisneros, Loose Woman Marilyn Chin, Composed Near the Bay Bridge Cathy Song, Beauty and Sadness A Conservative View Henri Cole, Myself With Cats Martin Espada, Public School 190, Brooklyn, 1963 The Bouncer's Confession Li-Young Lee, From Blossoms Lucia Perillo, The Afterlife of the Fifties Dad The Crows Start Demanding Royalties Elizabeth Alexander, Affirmative Action Blues (1993) Deborah Garrison, A Working Girl Can't Win Sherman Alexie, Evolution 19. Biographies of Selected Poets PART III: DRAMA Plays: Action and Performance Seeing vs. Reading Talking about Drama Susan Glaspell, Trifles INSPIRATION: Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers Drama as Action Audio Locale: Scribbling Women's A Jury of Her Peers Performance Notes: Trifles in Performance Virtual Locale:American Literature on the Web-Susan Glaspell Lady Gregory, Spreading the News Performance Notes: Spreading the News in Performance Virtual Locale: Gregory's Our Irish Theatre Online David Ives, The Philadelphia Performance Notes: The Philadelphia in Performance Inspiration: Ives on the Power of Theater Writing about Plays The Cultural Conversation Reviews Full Review Chris Rohmann, Opening Night Review: Art Ross Wetzsteon, Janet McTeer in A Doll's House Brief Reviews Beyond Reviews: Criticism How to Enter the Conversation? Virtual Locale:Blogging about Plays Questions to Develop Ideas About a Play Point of View Language Setting Character Plot Links to Other Texts Response Formats for Writing about Plays Annotating a Play Annotations forGlaspell's Trifles Keeping a Personal Journal Double-Entry Reaction Journal for Spreading the News Writing a Response Paper From a Response Paper to [EXAMPLE TK] Writing an Intervention Inspiration: Muriel Rukeyser on Oedipus Muriel Rukeyser, Myth Writing a Critical Analysis Critical Analysis of Glaspell's Trifles A Playwright in Depth: Sophocles Theater in Sophocles' Time Literary Locale: The Greek Theater Ritual and Religion in Greek Drama video locale: Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth Tragedy in Greek Drama Performance Notes on Greek Drama Modern Setting and Dress Major Alterations Language The Greek Canon Greek Drama on the American Stage Sophocles Timeline Plays by Sophocles Oedipus The King (translated by Robert Fagles) Commentary: Aristotle on Tragedy and Oedipus Rex Commentary: Other Critical Responses to Oedipus-Freud, Dodds, and Artaud Sigmund Freud, On the Oedipus Complex E.R. Dodds, disagreeing with Freud, from "On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex" Antonin Artaud, from The Theater and its Double INSPIRATION: The Oedipal Complex on Film Antigone (translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) Antigone on the American Stage Audio Locale: Antigone and Modern-Day Current Events Inspiration: Antigone Abroad 23. A Playwright in Depth: William Shakespeare Literary Locale: The Globe Theater, London William Shakespeare Timeline Video Locale: Will the Real Will Please Stand Up?-The Shakespeare Debate Performance Notes on Shakespearean Drama To Cut or Not to Cut? Radical Changes Modern Dress Casting the Play Inspiration: Shakespeare in the Modern Movies Plays by Shakespeare Reading The Tempest The Tempest (edited by David Bevington) Inspiration: The Tempest in Film and Verse The Tempest in Performance Cultural Context for The Tempest: O Brave New World AUDIO LOCALE: Songs from Shakespeare's Plays Inspiration: Retelling The Tempest-On Film and In Verse Commentary: Aime Cesaire, A Tempest (translated by Richard Miller) Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (edited by David Bevington) Inspiration: Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Commentary: Danitra Vance, Flotilda Williams as Juliet Othello, The Moor of Venice (edited by David Bevington) Virtual Locale: Shakespeare on the Web Drama Becomes Modern LITERARY LOCALE: The Ibsen Museum in Oslo, Norway Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House (translated by Rolf Fjelde) Inspiration: A "Little" Doll's House Virtual Locale: Ibsen on the Net Performance Notes on Modern Theater New Plays, New Audiences Changing the Stage Psychology, "The Method," and Politics Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie Literary Locale: The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Audio Locale: Retrospective of a Master Playwright INSPIRATION: Bright Futures in Sales Audio Locale: 50th Anniversary of Death of a Salesman Commentary: Arthur Miller on Trial 25. Sweet Home Chicago: From Renaissance to A Raisin in the Sun VIDEO LOCALE: George King's Goin' to Chicago Chicago Renaissance Timeline St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, from Bronzeville LITERARY LOCALE: Parkway Community House-Bronzeville, Chicago Poetry of the Chicago Renaissance Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool The Lovers of the Poor LITERARY LOCALE: Chicago's South Side Community Art Center Frank Marshall Davis, I Sing No New Songs Robert Whitmore Margaret Walker, I Want to Write For My People Margaret Danner, Far From Africa: Four Poems AUDIO LOCALE: Hughes and Danner's "Writers of the Revolution" Discussion The Blues VIDEO, AUDIO, and VIRTUAL LOCALE: Martin Scorsese's The Blues Robert Johnson, Sweet Home Chicago McKinley Morganfield (Muddy Waters), Rolling Stone Willie Dixon, Spoonful LITERARY AND AUDIO LOCALE: The Chicago Blues-Chess Records Commentary on the Blues LITERARY AND VIRTUAL LOCALE: Chicago Blues Archive Gospel Thomas A. Dorsey, Precious Lord Take My Hand Sam Cooke, If I Could Just Touch the Hem of His Garment A Change Is Gonna Come VIRTUAL LOCALE: Encyclopedia of Chicago Website Stories of the Chicago Renaissance Gwendolyn Brooks, "Home" from Maud Martha Richard Wright, The Man Who Lived Underground (in fiction) Commentary: On Richard Wright Margaret Walker, Richard Wright and the Writer's Art from Daemonic Genius INSPIRATION: Literature on the Newsstands of Chicago Langston Hughes, In the Dark Commentary: A Literary Correspondence: Langston Hughes-Arna Bontemps Cyrus Colter, Mary's Convert Plays in the Chicago Renaissance Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Inspiration: Hughes and Hansberry: What Happens to a Dream Deferred? 26. From Avant-Garde to Contemporary Theater Performance Notes on Contemporary Theater Pushing Boundaries Designer Theater Breaking the Fourth Wall Samuel Beckett, Not I Commentary: Beckett's Legacy in the Drama World Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos Literary Locale: El Teatro Campesinoin California Philip Kan Gotanda, The Wash Virtual Locale: Philip Kan Gotanda's Website August Wilson, The Piano Lesson VIDEO LOCALE: The Piano Lesson on Screen Inspiration: August Wilson and the Blues Anna Deavere Smith, From Twilight, Los Angeles 1992 (selections) Video Locale: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, From Stage to Screen Inspiration:A New Generation of One-Woman Acts on Stage Part IV: LITERARY RESEARCH The Literature Research Project Understanding Literary Research Entering the Cultural Conversation about Literature Choosing a Topic Narrowing Your Topic and Developing a Research Question Determining Your Purpose: Types of Literary Research Projects Distinguishing Between Expository Essays and Literary Arguments The Research Process: A Step-By Step Summary Finding and Evaluating Sources Finding Sources Annotated References for Literary Research Annotated Library Subscription Databases for Literary Research Evaluating Sources Print Sources Internet Sources Taking Adequate Notes The Actual Writing Process Drafting a Thesis Creating an Outline Writing a First Draft Revising and Editing Avoiding Plagiarism Academic Honesty Unintentional Plagiarism An Example of Plagiarism and How to Prevent It Documenting Sources Using Parenthetical Citations in Your Text Integrating Quotations Formatting Literary Quotations from Stories, Plays, and Stories Creating the Works Cited Page Sample Literary Research Project: From Question to Finished Paper Class Assignment Sheet for Research Project Sample Student Prospectus Sample Student Thesis and Outline Sample Student Research Paper Glossary of Literary Terms Credits Index of Authors and Titles Index of First Lines of Poetry

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