Literature and Ourselves A Thematic Introduction for Readers and Writers

INTRODUCTION. Literature. Text-Oriented Approaches. Author-Oriented Approaches. Reader-Oriented Approaches. Essays. Theme/Tone/Imagery/Diction/Syntax. A Guide to Reading and Analyzing Essays. Fiction. Point of View/Setting/Style/Character/Plot/Theme. A Guide to Reading and Writing About Fiction. Poetry. Speaker and Situation/Theme/Tone/Diction/Syntax/Imagery/Sound. A Guide to Reading and Writing About Poetry. Drama. Performance versus Reading/Stage Directions/Setting/Style/Character/Plot/Theme. A Guide to Reading and Writing About Drama. The Writing Process. Developing Ideas. Researching. Organizing. Drafting. Revising and Editing. Ways to Write About Literature. The Literary Response Essay. The Comparison/Contrast Essay. The Critical Analysis Essay. The Evaluative Essay. The Research Essay. FAMILY. Essays. Joan Didion, On Going Home. Faye Moskowitz, Jewish Christmas. Frances Mayes, Bramare. Fiction. Patricia Grace, It Used to Be Green Once. Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son. Carson McCullers, A Domestic Dilemma. James Baldwin, Sonny''s Blues. Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory. Alice Walker, Everyday Use. Michael Dorris, The Benchmark. Svava Jakobsdottir, A Story for Children. Poetry. William Butler Yeats, A Prayer for My Daughter. Theodore Roethke, My Papa''s Waltz. Mary TallMountain, There Is No Word for Goodbye. Maxine Kumin, Nurture. Sylvia Plath, Daddy. Luis Omar Salinas, My Father Is a Simple Man. Alicia Ostriker, First Love. Raymond Carver, Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year. Nikki Giovanni, Nikki-Rosa. Rita Dove, Variation on Guilt. Li-Young Lee, The Gift. Virginia Cerenio, we who carry the endless seasons. Affa M. Weaver, Improvisation for Piano: After Mood Indigo. Marilyn Nelson, The House on Moscow Street. Drama. Terrence McNally, Andre''s Mother. Casebook on August Wilson: Writing About Relationships. August Wilson, Fences. Sandra Shannon, from The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson. Alan Nadel, Boundaries, Logistics, and Identity: The Property of Metaphor in "Fences" and Joe Turner''s "Come and Gone." John Timpane, Filling the Time: Reading History in the Drama of August Wilson. Harry Elam, Jr., August Wilson''s Women. A Student Essay: Jim Fowler, Baseball Metaphors in "Fences." MEN AND WOMEN. Essays. Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women. David Osborne, Beyond the Cult of Fatherhood. Rosa del Castillo Guilbault, Americanization Is Tough on Macho. Shalmali Pal, Looking for My Prince Charming. Fiction. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath''s Tale. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark. Kate Chopin, Desiree''s Baby. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper. Zora Neale Hurston, The Gilded Six-Bits. Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants. Jamaica Kincaid, Girl. Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh. Poetry. William Shakespeare, Sonnets 116, 130, and 138. John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress. Elizabeth Browning, Sonnet 43. Edgar Allan Poe, To Helen. Robert Browning, Porphyria''s Lover. Robert Browning, My Last Duchess. Hilda Doolittle, Helen. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sonnet 42. Muriel Rukeyser, Myth. Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman. Ted Hughes, Incompatibilities. Octavio Paz, Two Bodies. Adrienne Rich, Living in Sin. Janice Mirikitani, Breaking Tradition. Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Anniversary. Rita Dove, Courtship. Rita Dove, Courtship, Diligence. Drama. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll''s House. Casebook on Three Poets: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes: Writing About Love and Gender. Emily Dickinson, 106 The Daisy follows soft the Sun. Emily Dickinson, 199 I''m wifeI''ve finished that. Emily Dickinson, 284 The Drop, that wrestles in the Sea. Emily Dickinson, 339 I tend my flowers for thee. Emily Dickinson, 732 She rose to His Requirementdropt. Gertrude Reif Hughes, Subverting the Cult of Domesticity: Emily Dickinson''s Critique of Women''s Work. Joanne Dobson, The Invisible Lady: Emily Dickinson and the Female Experience. Suzanne Juhasz, Writing Doubly: Emily Dickinson and Female Experience. Margaret Homans, Oh, Vision of Language: Dickinson''s Poems of Love and Death. Robert Frost, Home Burial. Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man. Robert Frost, The Silken Tent. Robert Frost, Putting in the Seed. Robert Frost, Mending Wall. Edward Garnett, A New American Poet. Judith Oster, from Robert Frost: The Reader and the Poet. William G. O''Donnell, Talking About Poets with Robert Frost. Langston Hughes, Mother to Son. Langston Hughes, A Song to a Negro Wash-Woman. Langston Hughes, Jazzonia. Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues. Langston Hughes, I, Too. R. Baxter Miller, The ''Crystal Stair'' Within: The Apocalyptic Imagination. Steven C. Tracy, Langston Hughes: Poetry, Blues, and GospelSomewhere to Stand. Arthur P. Davis, The Harlem of Langston Hughes'' Poetry. A Student Essay: Brittney Victor, Transcendent Women, Earthbound Men. GRIEF AND LOSS. Essays. Elie Wiesel, Yom Kippur. Annie Dillard, Heaven and Earth in Jest. Mark Mathabane, The Road to Alexandra. Lee Stringer, from Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street. Fiction. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams. Katherine Anne Porter, The Grave. William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily. Arna Bontemps, A Summer Tragedy. Liliana Heker, The Stolen Party. Madison SmartHenderson, Gloria is the author of 'Literature and Ourselves A Thematic Introduction for Readers and Writers', published 2002 under ISBN 9780321102164 and ISBN 0321102169.