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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing by X. J. Kennedy

The material is presented in a newly revised, easier to study format and inlcudes MLA's latest guidelines. Conversations between Dana Gioia and celebrated fiction writer Amy Tan, current U. S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and contemporary playwright David Ives, offer students an insider's look into the importance of reading to three contemporary writers. A Latin American Writers casebook is new to Fiction and collects some of the finest authors from the region including Octavia Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Ines Arendondo. A casebook on Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown is now featured as part of the Three Stories In-depth chapter. Many new writers have been added including Naguib Mahfouz, Virginia Woolf, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Bettie Sellers, and Anne Deavere Smith. As always, editors X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to the Eleventh Edition of this comprehensive anthology.

About X. J. Kennedy

X. J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (Actually, I was pretty eighth class). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children.

Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. (Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!) After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award; and three critical volumes, including Can Poetry Matter? (1992), an influential study of poetry's place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College.

He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. From 2003-2009 he served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest. He also led the campaign to restore active and engaged literary reading by creating The Big Read, which has helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He currently divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Santa Rosa, California, living with his wife Mary, their two sons, and two uncontrollable cats.

Dante, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, J. V. Cunningham, **Jose Garcia Villa, **Christopher Fry, Elizabeth Bishop, **Joy Harjo, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, William Stafford, **Charles Simi , Some Definitions of Poetry -

Ha Jin, Missed Time

31. Two Critical Casebooks
Emily Dickinson and Langston Hughes

Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest

Wild Nights - Wild Nights!

** There's a certain Slant of light

I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

The Soul selects her own Society

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

** Much Madness is divinest Sense

This is my letter to the World

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died

I started Early - Took my Dog

Because I could not stop for Death

The Bustle in a House

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant

Emily Dickinson on Emily Dickinson

Recognizing Poetry

Self-Description

Critics on Emily Dickinson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Meeting Emily Dickinson

Thomas H. Johnson, The Discovery of Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts

Richard Wilbur, The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson

Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Dickinson and Death (A Reading of Because I could not stop for Death)

Judith Farr, A Reading of My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

** My People

Mother to Son

Dream Variations

I, Too

The Weary Blues

Song for a Dark Girl

Prayer

Ballad of the Landlord

End

Theme for English B

Subway Rush Hour

Harlem [Dream Deferred]

** Homecoming

As Befits a Man

Langston Hughes on Langston Hughes

The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain

The Harlem Renaissance

Critics on Langston Hughes

Arnold Rampersad, Hughes as an Experimentalist

Rita Dove and Marilyn Nelson, Langston Hughes and Harlem

Darryl Pinckney, Black Identity in Langston Hughes

Peter Townsend, Langston Hughes and Jazz

Onwuchekwa Jemie, A Reading of Dream Deferred

Topics for Writing About Emily Dickinson

Topics for Writing About Langston Hughes

32. Critical Casebook: T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

T. S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Publishing Prufrock

The Reviewers on Prufrock

Unsigned, Review from Times Literary Supplement

Unsigned, Review from Literary World

Unsigned, Review from New Statesman

Conrad Aiken, From Divers Realists, The Dial

Babette Deutsch, from Another Impressionist, The New Republic

Marianne Moore, From A Note on T. S. Eliot's Book, Poetry

May Sinclair, From Prufrock and Other Observations: A Criticism, The Little Review

T. S. Eliot on Writing

Poetry and Emotion

The Objective Correlative

The Difficulty of Poetry

Critics on Prufrock

Denis Donoghue, One of the Irrefutable Poets

Christopher Ricks, What's in a Name?

Philip R. Headings, The Pronouns in the Poem: One, You, and I

Maud Ellmann, Will There Be Time?

Burton Raffel, Indeterminacy in Eliot's Poetry

John Berryman, Prufrock's Dilemma

M. L. Rosenthal, Adolescents Singing

Topics for Writing

33. Poems for Further Reading

Anonymous, Lord Randall

Anonymous, The Three Ravens

Anonymous, Last Words of the Prophet

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach

John Ashbery, At North Farm

Margaret Atwood, Siren Song

W. H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening

W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts

** Jimmy Baca, Spliced Wire

Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station

William Blake, The Tyger

William Blake, The Sick Rose

Gwendolyn Brooks, The Mother

** Gwendolyn Brooks, The Rites for Cousin Vit

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

Robert Browning, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

Geoffrey Chaucer, Merciless Beauty

John Ciardi, Most Like an Arch This Marriage

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

Billy Collins, Care and Feeding

Hart Crane, My Grandmother's Love Letters

E. E. Cummings, somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

Marisa de los Santos, Perfect Dress

John Donne, Death be not proud

John Donne, The Flea

John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

** Rita Dove, Daystar

John Dryden, To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi

Robert Frost, Birches

Robert Frost, Mending Wall

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California

Donald Hall, Names of Horses

Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain

Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush

Thomas Hardy, Hap

Seamus Heaney, Digging

** Anthony Hecht, The Vow

George Herbert, Love

Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

** Tony Hoagland, Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Spring and Fall

Gerard Manley Hopkins, No worst, there is none

Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover

A. E. Housman, Loveliest of trees, the cherry now

A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young

Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Robinson Jeffers, To the Stone-cutters

Ben Jonson, On My First Son

Donald Justice, On the Death of Friends in Childhood

John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats, When I have fears that I may cease to be

John Keats, To Autumn

Ted Kooser, Abandoned Farmhouse

Philip Larkin, Home is so Sad

Philip Larkin, Poetry of Departures

D. H. Lawrence, Piano

Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage

Shirley Geok-lin Lim, To Li Po

Robert Lowell, Skunk Hour

Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo

John Milton, When I consider how my light is spent

Marianne Moore, Poetry

Marilyn Nelson, A Strange Beautiful Woman

Howard Nemerov, The War in the Air

** Lorine Niedecker, Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves

Sharon Olds, The One Girl at the Boys' Party

Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth

Linda Pastan, Ethics

Sylvia Plath, Daddy

Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream within a Dream

Alexander Pope, A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing

Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

Dudley Randall, A Different Image

John Crowe Ransom, Piazza Piece

Henry Reed, Naming of Parts

Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy

Theodore Roethke, Elegy for Jane

William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes

William Shakespeare, Not marble nor the gilded monuments

William Shakespeare, That time of year thou mayst in me behold

William Shakespeare, My mistress' eyes are nothing likethe sun

** Charles Simic, The Butcher Shop

Christopher Smart, For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry

Cathy Song, Stamp Collecting

William Stafford, The Farm on the Great Plains

Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Jonathan Swift, A Description of the Morning

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill

John Updike, Ex-Basketball Player

Derek Walcott, The Virgins

Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose

Walt Whitman, from Song of the Open Road

Walt Whitman, I Hear America Singing

Richard Wilbur, The Writer

William Carlos Williams, Spring and All

William Carlos Williams, To Waken an Old Lady

William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge

James Wright, A Blessing

James Wright, Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

Mary Sidney Wroth, In this strange labyrinth

Sir Thomas Wyatt, They flee from me that sometime did me seke

William Butler Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

William Butler Yeats, The Magi

William Butler Yeats, When You Are Old

Drama

Interview with David Ives

34. Reading a Play

Elements of a Play

Susan Glaspell, Trifles

Analyzing Trifles

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Susan Glaspell, Creating Trifles

Thinking About a Play

Checklist: Writing about a Play

Writing Assignment on Conflict

Student Paper, Outside Trifles

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

35. Modes of Drama: Tragedy and Comedy

Tragedy

Christopher Marlowe, scene From Doctor Faustus (act 2, scene 1)

Comedy

** David Ives, Soap Opera

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

David Ives, On the one-act play

Thinking About Comedy

Checklist: Writing about Comedy

Writing Assignment on Comedy

Topics for Writing on Tragedy

Topics for Writing on Comedy

Terms for Review

36. Critical Casebook: Sophocles

The Theater of Sophocles

Staging

Dramatic Structure

The Civic Role of Greek Drama

Aristotle's Concept of Tragedy

Sophocles

The Origins of Oedipus the King

Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)

The Background of Antigone

Sophocles, Antigone (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)

Critics on Sophocles

Aristotle, Defining Tragedy

Sigmund Freud, The Destiny of Oedipus

E. R. Dodds, On Misunderstanding Oedipus

A. E. Haigh, The Irony of Sophocles

David Wiles, The Chorus as Democrat

Patricia M. Lines, what is AntigonE's Flaw?

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Robert Fitzgerald, Translating Sophocles into English

Thinking About Greek Tragedy

Checklist: Writing About Greek Drama

Writing Assignment on Sophocles

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

37. Critical Casebook: Shakespeare

The Theater of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Plays

A Note on Othello

William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice

The Background of Hamlet

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

The Background of A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Critics on Shakespeare

Anthony Burgess, An Asian Culture Looks at Shakespeare

A. C. Bradley, Hamlet's Melancholy

Rebecca West, Hamlet and Ophelia

Jan Kott, Producing Hamlet

Joel Wingard, Reader-Response Issues in Hamlet

W. H. Auden, Iago as a Triumphant Villain

Maud Bodkin, Lucifer in Shakespeare's Othello

Virginia Mason Vaughan, Black and White in Othello

Clare Asquith, Shakespeare's Language as a Hidden Political Code

Germaine Greer, Shakespeare's Honest Mirth

Linda Bamber, Female Power in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Writing Effectively

Writers on Writing

Ben Jonson, On His Friend and Rival William Shakespeare

Thinking About Shakespeare

Checklist: Writing About Shakespeare

Writing Assignment on Tragedy

Student Paper, Othello: Tragedy or Soap Opera?

More Topics for Writing

38. The Modern Theater

Realism and Naturalism

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House (Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, Revised by Viktoria Michelsen)

Writers on Writing

Henrik Ibsen, Correspondence on the Final Scene of A Doll's House

Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Writers on Writing

Tennessee Williams, How to Stage The Glass Menagerie

** Anna Deavere Smith, Scenes from Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Writers on Writing

** Anna Deavere Smith, A Call to the Community

Writing Effectively

Thinking About Dramatic Realism

Checklist: Writing About Realism

Writing Assignment on Realism

Student Essay, Helmer vs. Helmer

More Topics for Writing

Terms for Review

39. Evaluating a Play

Judging a Play

Checklist: Evaluating a Play

Writing Assignment on Evaluating a Play

More Topics for Writing

40. Plays for Further Reading

Rita Dove, The Darker Face of the Earth

Writers on Writing

Rita Dove, The Inspiration for The Darker Face of the Earth

David Henry Hwang, The Sound of a Voice

Writers on Writing

David Henry Hwang, Multicultural Theater

** Jane Martin, Tattoo

Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

Writers on Writing

Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man

August Wilson, Fences

Writers on Writing

August Wilson, A Look into Black America

WRITING

41. Writing about Literature

Read Actively

Robert Frost, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

Plan Your Essay

Discover Your Ideas

Sample Student Prewriting Exercises

Developing a Literary Argument

Writing a Rough Draft

Sample Student Paper (Rough Draft)

Revise Your Draft

Some Final Advice on Rewriting

Document Sources to Avoid Plagiarism

The Form of Your Finished Paper

Spell-Check and Grammar Check Programs

42. Writing About a Story

Read Actively

Think About the Story

Discover Ideas

Sample Student Prewriting Exercises

Write a Rough Draft

What's Your Purpose? Common Approaches to Writing about Fiction

Topics for Writing

43. Writing about a Poem

Read Actively

Think About the Poem

Discover Your Ideas

Write a Rough Draft

Common Approaches to Writing about Poetry

How to Quote a Poem

Topics for Writing

Robert Frost, IN WHITE

44. Writing about a Play

Read Critically

Common Approaches to Writing about Drama

How to Quote a Play

Topics for Writing

45. Writing a Research Paper

Browse the Research

Choose a Topic

Begin Your Research

Evaluate Sources

Organize Your Research

Refine Your Thesis

Organize Your Paper

Write and Revise

Maintain Academic Integrity

Acknowledge All Sources

Documenting Sources Using MLA Style

Reference Guide for Citation

46. Writing as Discovery: Keeping a Journal

The Rewards of Keeping a Journal

Sample Student Journal

47. Writing an Essay Exam

Preparing for the Exam

Taking the Exam

48. Critical Approaches to Literature

Formalist Criticism

Biographical Criticism

Historical Criticism

Psychological Criticism

Mythological Criticism

Sociological Criticism

Gender Criticism

Reader-Response Criticism

Deconstructionist Criticism

Cultural Studies

Terms for Review

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