*New to the 13th Edition Resources for Reading and Writing about Literature Preface for Instructors Introduction: Reading Imaginative Literature The Nature of Literature *Danusha Laméris, "Feeding the Worms" The Value of Literature The Changing Literary Canon *Approaching Sensitive Subjects FICTION The Elements of Fiction 1. Reading Fiction Reading Fiction Responsively Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Section of "The Story of an Hour" A SAMPLE PAPER: Differences in Responses to Kate Chopin''s "The Story of an Hour" Explorations and Formulas Ann Beattie, "Janus" 2. Plot T.C. Boyle, "The Hit Man" *Joy Harjo, "The Reckoning" William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" PERSPECTIVE: William Faulkner, On "A Rose for Emily" A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Annotated Section of "A Rose for Emily" A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Conflict in the Plot of William Faulkner''s "A Rose for Emily" Andre Dubus, "Killings" 3. Character Tobias Wolff, "Powder" *Zadie Smith, "Martha, Martha" James Baldwin, "Sonny''s Blues" 4. Setting Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier''s Home" Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" 5.

Point of View Third-Person Narrator (Nonparticipant) First-Person Narrator (Participant) John Updike, "A & P " Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl" Manuel Muñoz,"Zigzagger" *Lorrie Moore, "How to Become a Writer" 6. Symbolism Louise Erdrich, "The Red Convertible" Ralph Ellison, "King of the Bingo Game" Cynthia Ozick, "The Shawl" A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Layers of Symbol in Cynthia Ozick''s "The Shawl" 7. Theme *Adrian Tomine, "Intruders" (graphic short story) *A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Danger among Us: Distilling the Theme in "Intruders" Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Minister''s Black Veil" *Carmen Maria Machado, "Eight Bites" 8. Style, Tone, and Irony Style Tone Irony Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery" Mark Twain, "The Story of the Good Little Boy" *Virginia Woolf, "The Man Who Loved His Kind" PERSPECTIVE: Virginia Woolf, "On Conventions in Writing" Approaches to Fiction Thematic Approaches 9. A Thematic Case Study: War and Its Aftermath Tim O''Brien, "How to Tell a True War Story" Kurt Vonnegut, "Happy Birthday, 1951" Edwidge Danticat, "The Missing Peace" 10. A Thematic Case Study: Privacy Oscar Wilde, "The Sphinx without a Secret: An Etching" David Long, "Morphine" ZZ Packer, "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" John Cheever, "The Enormous Radio" Genre Studies 11. A Genre Case Study: Speculative Fiction *Peter Ho Davies, "Minotaur" *N. K.

Jemisin, "Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters" *Mariana Enriquez, "Back When We Talked to the Dead" *Philip K. Dick, "To Serve the Master" Authors in Depth 12. *A Study of Alice Munro An Introduction A Brief Biography Alice Munro: *"Walker Brothers Cowboy" *"The Moons of Jupiter" *"Silence" PERSPECTIVES *Alice Munro, "In Her Own Words" *Margaret Atwood, "Alice Munro: An Appreciation" *Beverly Rasporich, "Alice: The Woman Behind the Art" *W.R. Martin and Warren U. Ober, "Alice Munro as Small-Town" Historian: "Spaceships Have Landed" SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR LONGER PAPERS 13. A Study of Flannery O''Connor A Brief Biography and Introduction Flannery O''Connor: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" "Good Country People" *"The Life You Save May Be Your Own" PERSPECTIVES Flannery O''Connor, "On the Use of Exaggeration and Distortion" Josephine Hendin, "On O''Connor''s Refusal to ''Do Pretty''" Claire Katz, "The Function of Violence in O''Connor''s Fiction" Edward Kessler, "On O''Connor''s Use of History" TIME Magazine, "On A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories" 14. A Study of Dagoberto Gilb: The Author Reflects on Three Stories An Introduction A Brief Biography Dagoberto Gilb: "How Books Bounce" (INTRODUCTION) "Love in L.

A." (STORY) "On Writing ''Love in L.A.''" (ESSAY) "Shout" (Story) "On Writing ''Shout''" (ESSAY) "Uncle Rock" (Story) "On Writing ''Uncle Rock''" (ESSAY) PERSPECTIVES Dagoberto Gilb: "On Physical Labor" "On Distortions of Mexican American Culture" "Michael Meyer Interviews Dagoberto Gilb" FACSIMILES: Dagoberto Gilb, Two Draft Manuscript Pages Further Reading 15. Stories for Further Reading Judith Ortiz Cofer, "Volar" Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat" James Joyce, "Eveline" *Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, "Let''s Tell This Story Properly" Joyce Carol Oates, "Tick" Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado" George Saunders, "I Can Speak" Alice Walker, "The Flowers" John Edgar Wideman, "All Stories are True" POETRY The Elements of Poetry 16. Reading Poetry Reading Poetry Responsively Lisa Parker, "Snapping Beans" *Linda Pastan, "Jump Cabling" John Updike, "Dog''s Death" The Pleasure of Words Gregory Corso: "I am 25" A SAMPLE CLOSE READING: An Explication of "I am 25" Robert Francis, "Catch" Robert Morgan, "Mountain Graveyard" E. E. Cummings, "l(a" Anonymous, "Western Wind" Regina Barreca, "Nighttime Fires" Suggestions for Approaching Poetry Poetic Definitions of Poetry Marianne Moore, "Poetry" Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry" Ruth Forman, "Poetry Should Ride the Bus" Charles Bukowski, "a poem is a city" *Ada Limón, "The End of Poetry" Recurrent Poetic Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Roses Robert Burns, "A Red, Red Rose" Edmund Waller, "Go, Lovely Rose" William Blake, "The Sick Rose" Dorothy Parker, "One Perfect Rose" H.

D. (Hilda Doolittle), "Sea Rose" Poems for Further Study Mary Oliver, "The Poet with His Face in His Hands" Jim Tilley, "The Big Questions" Alberto Ríos, "Seniors" Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle" Edgar Allan Poe, "Sonnet To Science" Cornelius Eady, "The Supremes" 17. Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone Word Choice Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" Allusion Word Order Tone Marilyn Nelson, "How I Discovered Poetry" Katharyn Howd Machan, "Hazel Tells LaVerne" A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Tone in Katharyn Howd Machan''s "Hazel Tells LaVerne" Martín Espada, "Latin Night at the Pawnshop" *Joy Harjo, "Granddaughters" Diction and Tone in Four Love Poems *Shamim Azad, "First Love" *Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnet XLIII" *John Frederick Nims, "Love Poem" *Pablo Neruda, "Drunk as drunk on turpentine" Poems for Further Study Walt Whitman, "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Kwame Dawes, "History Lesson at Eight a.m." Cathy Song, "The Youngest Daughter" John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Alice Jones, "The Lungs" Louis Simpson, "In the Suburbs" A Note on Reading Translations Sappho, "Immortal Aphrodite of the broidered throne" (trans. Henry T. Wharton) Sappho, "Beautiful-throned, immortal Aphrodite" (trans. Thomas Wentworth Higginson) Sappho, "Prayer to my lady of Paphos" (trans.

Mary Barnard) 18. Images Poetry''s Appeal to the Senses William Carlos Williams, "Poem" Walt Whitman, "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" *Suji Kwock Kim, "The Korean Community Garden in Queens" David Solway, "Windsurfing" Poems for Further Study Adelaide Crapsey, "November Night" Ruth Fainlight, "Crocuses" Mary Robinson, "London''s Summer Morning" William Blake, "London" A SAMPLE STUDENT RESPONSE: Imagery in William Blake''s "London" and Mary Robinson''s "London''s Summer Morning" Kwame Dawes, "The Habits of Love" *Charles Simic, "House of Cards" Sally Croft, "Home-Baked Bread" John Keats, "To Autumn" PERSPECTIVE: T. E. Hulme, "On the Differences between Poetry and Prose" 19. Figures of Speech William Shakespeare, from Macbeth Simile and Metaphor Langston Hughes, "Harlem" Jane Kenyon, "The Socks" Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book" Other Figures Edmund Conti, "Pragmatist" Dylan Thomas, "The Hand That Signed the Paper" Janice Townley Moore, "To a Wasp" Tajana Kovics, "Text Message" Poems for Further Study William Carlos Williams, "To Waken an Old Lady" Ernest Slyman, "Lightning Bugs" Martín Espada, "The Mexican Cabdriver''s Poem for His Wife, Who Has Left Him" Judy Page Heitzman, "The Schoolroom on the Second Floor of the Knitting Mill" Robert Pi.