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Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors

Page iv

Responding to Literature

Emily Dickinson, "There Is No Frigate Like a Book"

Why We Read Literature

Reading Actively and Critically

Reading Fiction

The Methods of Fiction

Characterization

Questions for Exploring Fiction

Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

Figurative Language

Personification

The Music of Poetry

Questions for Exploring Poetry

Stages and Staging

The Elements of Drama

Plot and Conflict

Questions for Exploring Drama

Reading Nonfiction

Types of Nonfiction

Narrative Nonfiction

Descriptive Nonfiction

Expository Nonfiction

Argumentative Nonfiction

Analyzing Nonfiction

Structure and Detail

Questions for Exploring Nonfiction

Writing About Literature

Responding to Your Reading

Annotating While You Read

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29

Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed"

Keeping a Journal

Exploring and Planning

Thinking Critically

Asking Good Questions

Establishing a Working Thesis

Gathering Information

Organizing Information

Drafting the Essay

Opening with an Argument

Supporting Your Thesis

Revising the Essay

Editing Your Draft

Selecting Strong Verbs

Eliminating Unnecessary Modifiers

Grammatical Connections

Proofreading Your Draft

Some Common Writing Assignments

Comparison and Contrast

The Research Paper

An Annotated Student Research Paper

Some Matters of Form and Documentation

Brackets and Ellipses

Quotation Marks and Other Punctuation

Documenting Online Sources

A Checklist for Writing About Literature

Innocence and Experience

Questions for Thinking and Writing

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) — Young Goodman Brown

Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) — Half a Day

John Updike (1932–2009) — A & P

Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) — The Lesson

Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949) — Girl

Daniel Orozco (b. 1942) — Orientation

Camden Joy (b. 1964) — Dum Dum Boys

Connecting Stories: Crushes

James Joyce (1882–1941) — Araby

Rivka Galchen (b. 1976) — Wild Berry Blue

Case Study in Argument: Finding Grace in Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) — A Good Man Is Hard to Find

From Mystery and Manners (O'Connor excerpt)

Bob Dowell (b. 1932) — From The Moment of Grace in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

Hallman B. Bryant (b. 1936) — Reading the Map in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"

Michael Clark (1946–1999) — Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find": The Moment of Grace

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) — Stella's Birth-Day

William Blake (1757–1827) — The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence)

William Blake — The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Experience)

William Blake — The Lamb

William Blake — The Shepherd

William Blake — The Garden of Love

William Blake — London

William Blake — The Tyger

Robert Browning (1812–1889) — My Last Duchess

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) — "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain"

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) — Men Who March Away

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) — Spring and Fall

A. E. Housman (1859–1936) — When I Was One-and-Twenty

Robert Frost (1874–1963) — The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost — Birches

E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) — In Just-

Stevie Smith (1902–1971) — Not Waving but Drowning

Stevie Smith — To Carry the Child

Countee Cullen (1903–1946) — Incident

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) — Fern Hill

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) — Constantly Risking Absurdity

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) — A Study of Reading Habits

Philip Larkin — This Be the Verse

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) — Hanging Fire

Alicia Ostriker (b. 1937) — The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz

Jean Nordhaus (b. 1939) — A Dandelion for My Mother

Louise Glück (b. 1943) — The School Children

Louise Glück — The Myth of Innocence

Alan Feldman (b. 1945) — My Century

Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) — My Wicked Wicked Ways

Sandra M. Castillo (b. 1962) — Christmas, 1970

Spencer Reece (b. 1963) — The Manhattan Project

Evelyn Lau (b. 1971) — Solipsism

Connecting Poems: Voices of Experience

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) — Mother to Son

Peter Meinke (b. 1932) — Advice to My Son

Robert Mezey (b. 1935) — My Mother

Gary Soto (b. 1952) — Behind Grandma's House

Connecting Poems: Happy Holidays

W. S. Merwin (b. 1927) — Thanks

Carl Dennis (b. 1939) — Thanksgiving Letter from Harry

Sheila Ortiz Taylor (b. 1939) — The Way Back

James Welch (1940–2003) — Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat

Maggie Nelson (b. 1973) — Thanksgiving

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) — A Doll's House

Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1963) — Father Comes Home from the Wars

Langston Hughes — Salvation

Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) — American History

Brian Doyle (b. 1956) — Pop Art

Allie Brosh (b. 1985) — This Is Why I'll Never Be an Adult

Connecting Nonfiction: Graduating

David Sedaris (b. 1956) — What I Learned

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) — Commencement Speech, Kenyon College

Further Questions for Thinking and Writing

Conformity and Rebellion

Questions for Thinking and Writing

Herman Melville (1819–1891) — Bartleby, the Scrivener

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — A Hunger Artist

Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) — Battle Royal

Shirley Jackson (1919–1965) — The Lottery

Harlan Ellison (b. 1934) — "Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman"

Amy Tan (b. 1952) — Two Kinds

Jennifer Egan (b. 1962) — Safari

Connecting Stories: Rebellious Imaginations

James Thurber (1894–1961) — The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

George Saunders (b. 1958) — The End of Firpo in the World

John Donne (1572–1631) — Holy Sonnets: "If poisonous minerals, and if that tree"

Richard Crashaw (1613–1649) — "But men loved darkness rather than light"

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) — The World Is Too Much with Us

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) — Ulysses

Emily Dickinson — Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

Emily Dickinson — She Rose to His Requirement

W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) — Easter, 1916

W. B. Yeats — The Second Coming

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) — I Am the People, the Mob

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) — Peter Quince at the Clavier

Claude McKay (1890–1948) — If We Must Die

Langston Hughes — Harlem

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) — The Unknown Citizen

Dudley Randall (1914–2000) — Ballad of Birmingham

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) — We Real Cool

Donald Davie (1922–1995) — The Nonconformist

Philip Levine (b. 1928–2015) — What Work Is

Marge Piercy (b. 1936) — The Market Economy

Carolyn Forché (b. 1950) — The Colonel

Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) — Flounder

Connecting Poems: Revolutionary Thinking

W. B. Yeats — The Great Day

Robert Frost — A Semi-Revolution

Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943) — Dreams

Connecting Poems: Revising America

Walt Whitman — One Song, America, Before I Go

Langston Hughes — I, Too

Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) — A Supermarket in California

Shirley Geok-lin Lim (b. 1944) — Learning to Love America

Connecting Poems: Soldiers' Protests

Thomas Hardy — The Man He Killed

Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) — Dulce et Decorum Est

Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi (b. 1946) — Night Patrol

Kevin C. Powers (b. 1980) — Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting

Sophocles (c. 496–c. 406 BCE) — Antigone

Jonathan Swift — A Modest Proposal

Jamaica Kincaid — On Seeing England for the First Time

Connecting Nonfiction: Weighing Belief

E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) — Why We Are Infidels

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) — "Imagine There's No Heaven"

Case Study in Argument: Making Change

Bill McKibben (b. 1960) — A Call to Arms: An Invitation to Demand Action on Climate Change

Rebecca Solnit (b. 1961) — Revolutions Per Minute

Malcolm Gladwell (b. 1963) — Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

Clay Shirky (b. 1964) — The Political Power of Social Media

Further Questions for Thinking and Writing

Culture and Identity

Questions for Thinking and Writing

Lu Xun (1881–1936) — Diary of a Madman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) — The Yellow Wallpaper

James Baldwin (1924–1987) — Sonny's Blues

Alice Walker (b. 1944) — Everyday Use

Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) — War Dances

Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) — The Book of the Dead

Connecting Stories: Insiders and Outcasts

William Faulkner (1897–1962) — A Rose for Emily

Ha Jin (b. 1956) — The Bridegroom

Jonathan Swift — Market Women's Cries

Emily Dickinson — I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) — A Poet to His Baby Son

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) — We Wear the Mask

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966) — Old Black Men

T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

E. E. Cummings — The Cambridge Ladies Who Live in Furnished Souls

Howard Nemerov (1920–1991) — Money

Etheridge Knight (1931–1991) — Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane

Marge Piercy — Barbie Doll

Kay Ryan (b. 1945) — All Shall Be Restored

Juan Felipe Herrera (b. 1948) — 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border (Remix)

Maggie Anderson (b. 1948) — Long Story

Gregory Djanikian (b. 1949) — Sailing to America

Judith Ortiz Cofer — Latin Women Pray

Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) — Dear John Wayne

Marilyn Chin (b. 1955) — How I Got That Name

Joshua Clover (b. 1962) — The Nevada Glassworks

Taslima Nasrin (b. 1962) — Things Cheaply Had

Omar Pérez (b. 1964) — Contributions to a Rudimentary Concept of Nation

Chris Abani (b. 1966) — Blue

Kevin Young (b. 1970) — Negative

Terrance Hayes (b. 1971) — Root

Alexandra Teague (b. 1974) — Adjectives of Order

Tishani Doshi (b. 1975) — The Immigrant's Song

Tishani Doshi — Lament-I

Connecting Poems: Poetic Identities

Walt Whitman — from Song of Myself

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) — My Heart

Billy Collins (b. 1941) — Monday

Carl Phillips (b. 1959) — Blue

Timothy Yu (b. 1974) — Chinese Silence No. 22

Connecting Poems: Working Mothers

Tess Gallagher (b. 1943) — I Stop Writing the Poem

Julia Alvarez (b. 1950) — Woman's Work

Rita Dove (b. 1952) — My Mother Enters the Work Force

Deborah Garrison (b. 1965) — Sestina for the Working Mother

Connecting Poems: America Through Immigrants' Eyes

Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) — On Being Brought from Africa to America

Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) — The New Colossus

Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) — To New York

Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013) — America

Richard Blanco (b. 1968) — América

Case Study in Argument: Reviewing an American Classic: A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) — A Raisin in the Sun

Lloyd W. Brown (b. 1938) — Lorraine Hansberry as Ironist: A Reappraisal of A Raisin in the Sun

Margaret B. Wilkerson — A Raisin in the Sun: Anniversary of an American Classic

Robin Bernstein (b. 1969) — Inventing a Fishbowl: White Supremacy and the Critical Reception of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

Marilyn Stasio (b. 1940) — Variety Review of A Raisin in the Sun

David Henry Hwang (b. 1957) — Trying to Find Chinatown

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) — What If Shakespeare Had Had a Sister?

George Orwell (1903–1950) — Shooting an Elephant

Sabrina Jones (b. 1960) — Little House in the Big City

Eula Biss (b. 1977) — Time and Distance Overcome

Connecting Nonfiction: Fitting In

Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) — Two Ways to Belong in America

Lacy M. Johnson (b. 1978) — White Trash Primer

Further Questions for Thinking and Writing

Questions for Thinking and Writing

Kate Chopin (1851–1904) — The Storm

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) — Sweat

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) — What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) — Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Lydia Millet (b. 1968) — Love in Infant Monkeys

Junot Díaz (b. 1968) — Drown

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) — My American Jon

Connecting Stories: Having It All

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) — Hills Like White Elephants

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) — Good People

Sappho (c. 610–c. 580 BCE) — With His Venom

Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 BCE) — 85

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) — Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?"

William Shakespeare — Sonnet 29 "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"

William Shakespeare — Sonnet 64 "When I have seen by Time's fell hand Dafc'd"

William Shakespeare — Sonnet 116 "Let me not to the marriage of true minds"

William Shakespeare — Sonnet 130 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"

John Donne (1572–1631)— The Flea

John Donne — A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Ben Jonson — Song, to Celia

Robert Herrick (1591–1674) — To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672) — To My Dear and Loving Husband

William Blake — A Poison Tree

Robert Burns (1759–1796) — A Red, Red Rose

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) — Dover Beach

Robert Frost — Fire and Ice

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) — One Perfect Rose

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) — I Knew a Woman

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) — One Art

John Frederick Nims (1913–1999) — Love Poem

Lisel Mueller (b. 1924) — Happy and Unhappy Families I

Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014) — Bitch

Carolyn Kizer — Afternoon Happiness

Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) — After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) — Living in Sin

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) — Daddy

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) — There Is a Girl Inside

Seamus Heaney (b. 1939–2013) — Valediction

Billy Collins (b. 1941) — Sonnet

Sharon Olds (b. 1942) — Sex Without Love

Wyatt Prunty (b. 1947) — Learning the Bicycle

Adrian Blevins (b. 1964) — Case Against April

Daisy Fried (b. 1967) — Econo Motel, Ocean City

Connecting Poems: Looking Back on Love

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542) — They Flee from Me

Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587–c. 1651) — "Come Darkest Night, Becoming Sorrow Best"

Sharon Olds — My Father's Diary

Dean Young (b. 1955) — Winged Purposes

Connecting Poems: Remembering Fathers

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) — My Papa's Waltz

Robert Hayden (1913–1980) — Those Winter Sundays

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) — Eating Alone

Connecting Poems: Love Stinks

Catullus — 70

Aphra Behn (1640–1689) — Love in Fantastique Triumphs

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) — Sonnet XXVII

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911–1984) — Be Near Me

Andrea Hollander (b. 1947) — Betrayal

Case Study in Argument: Seductive Reasoning

Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) — To His Coy Mistress

A. D. Hope (1907–2000) — His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell

Peter DeVries (1910–1993) — To His Importunate Mistress (Andrew Marvell Updated)

Annie Finch (b. 1956) — Coy Mistress

William Shakespeare — Othello

Susan Glaspell (1882–1948) — Trifles

Lynn Nottage (b. 1964) — POOF!

Paul (d. ca. 64 CE) 1 Corinthians 13

Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) — No Name Woman

Grace Talusan (b. 1972) — My Father's Noose

Sonya Chung (b. 1973) — Getting It Right

Connecting Nonfiction: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Dagoberto Gilb (b. 1950) — I Knew She Was Beautiful

Pablo Piñero Stillmann (b. 1982) — Life, Love, Happiness: A Found Essay from the Twitterverse

Further Questions for Thinking and Writing

Questions for Thinking and Writing

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) — The Cask of Amontillado

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) — The Death of Iván Ilýich

Kate Chopin (1850–1904) — The Story of an Hour

Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) — The Things They Carried

Helena María Viramontes (b. 1954) — The Moths

Sam Lipsyte (b. 1968) — The Naturals

Connecting Stories: Mourning Rituals

Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) — The Man to Send Rain Clouds

Allegra Goodman (b. 1967) — Apple Cake

Connecting Stories: Between Life and Death

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) — The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

Tobias Wolff (b. 1945) — Bullet in the Brain

Anonymous — Edward

William Shakespeare — Sonnet 73 "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"

William Shakespeare — Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun

John Donne — Death, Be Not Proud

Jonathan Swift — A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) — Ozymandias

John Keats (1795–1821) — Ode on a Grecian Urn

Emily Dickinson — After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes

Emily Dickinson — I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died

Emily Dickinson — Apparently with No Surprise

Case Study in Words and Images: Poems about Paintings

W. H. Auden — Musée des Beaux Arts

Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) — Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) — In Goya's Greatest Scenes

Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) — The Third of May, 1808, Madrid

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) — The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) — The Starry Night

Donald Finkel (1929–2008) — The Great Wave: Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) — The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Emily Dickinson — Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Gerard Manley Hopkins — God's Grandeur

A. E. Housman — To an Athlete Dying Young

W. B. Yeats — Sailing to Byzantium

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) — Richard Cory

Robert Frost — After Apple-Picking

Robert Frost — 'Out, Out-'

Robert Frost — Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost — Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost — Design

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) — The Dead Woman

Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) — A Song on the End of the World

Dylan Thomas — Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Donald Hall (b. 1928) — Affirmation

Marvin Klotz (1930–2014) — Requiem

Mary Oliver (b. 1935) — When Death Comes

Alicia Ostriker — Daffodils

Seamus Heaney — Mid-Term Break

Jane Kenyon (1947–1995) — Let Evening Come

Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) — Facing It

Victor Hernández Cruz (b. 1949) — Problems with Hurricanes

Mark Halliday (b. 1949) — Chicken Salad

Marie Howe (b. 1950) — What the Living Do

Mark Turpin (b. 1953) — The Man Who Built This House

Dilruba Ahmed (b. 1973) — Snake Oil, Snake Bite

Connecting Poems: Animal Fates

Elizabeth Bishop — The Fish

William Stafford (1914–1995) — Traveling Through the Dark

John Updike — Dog's Death

William Greenway (b. 1947) — Pit Pony

Connecting Poems: Seizing the Day

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) — Archaic Torso of Apollo

James Wright (1927–1980) — Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

Billy Collins — The Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska

Barbara Ras (b. 1949) — You Can't Have It All

Tony Hoagland (b. 1953) — I Have News for You

Edward Albee (b. 1928) — The Sandbox

John Donne — Meditation XVII, from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

E. B. White (1899–1985) — Once More to the Lake

Jill Christman (b. 1969) — The Sloth

John Jeremiah Sullivan (b. 1974) — Feet in Smoke

Connecting Nonfiction: Missing Mothers

Jonathan Lethem (b. 1964) — 13, 1977, 21

Ruth Margalit (b. 1983) — The Unmothered

Further Questions for Thinking and Writing

Glossary of Critical Approaches

Introduction (to Glossary of Critical Approaches)

Ethical Criticism

Feminist Criticism

Formalist Criticism

Marxist Criticism

New Historical Criticism

Postcolonial Criticism

Psychoanalytic Criticism

Reader-Response Criticism

Biographical Notes on the Authors

Glossary of Literary Terms

Acknowledgments

Index of Authors and Titles

Edition Notes

Source title: Literature: The Human Experience

Classifications

Library of Congress: PN6014 .L62 2016, PN6014.L62 2016

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Format: paperback
Pagination: xlviii, 1447 pages
Number of pages: 1447

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Internet Archive: literaturehumane0000unse_w7o8
ISBN 10: 1457699931
ISBN 13: 9781457699931
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