The McGraw-Hill Introduction To Literature - Brossura

Muller, Gilbert H; Williams, John A

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0070442460 ISBN 13: 9780070442467

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1994

Riassunto

THE McGRAW-HILL INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE, now in its second edition, presents a dynamic and diverse anthology for literature and composition courses. Designed with an eye for both the uniqueness and the universality of outstanding literature, this text offers a unified, multicultural approach to the meaning, form, technique, and values in fiction, poetry, and drama. Organized by genre, the anthology contains three sections - fiction, poetry, and drama - each with a prefatory essay. Within each section are self-contained chapters arranged around literary selections that reveal the application of specific techniques. The extensive anthologies that follow are arranged alphabetically and provide a rich selection of both classic and contemporary authors as well as a broad range of women, ethnic, and international authors to advocate both a truly American and a pluralistic collection of literature.

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L'autore:

Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Muller’s awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship.

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Table of Contents

Part I: Fiction

Introduction: Understanding Fiction

1. Theme

Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog

Kate Chopin, A Respectable Woman

Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

2. Plot

Yasunari Kawabata, Up in the Tree

William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

Alice Munro, The Found Boat

3. Character

Arna Bontemps, A Summer Tragedy

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool

Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find

4. Point of View

Hernando Tellez, Just Lather, That's All

David Leavitt, Gravity

Jamaica Kincaid, Girl

5. Setting

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

James Joyce, Araby

Eudora Welty, A Worn Path

6. Tone

Luigi Pirandello, War

Alice Walker, Roselily

Amy Tan, Two Kinds

7. Symbolism

Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Langston Hughes, On the Road

Kay Boyle, Astronomers's Wife

8. An Anthology of Short Fiction

Chinua Achebe, Civil Peace

Isaac Babel, My First Goose

Jorge Luis Borges, The South

Raymond Carver, Cathedral

Isak Dinesen, The Blue Jar

Louise Erdrich, Snares

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

Yussef Idriss, A House of Flesh

Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist

Doris Lessing, Flight

Bobbie Ann Mason, Big Bertha Stories

Bharati Mukherjee, Hindus

R.K. Narayan, Mother and Son

Gloria Naylor, Kiswana Browne

Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father

Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

Leslie Marmon Silko, The Man to Send Rain Clouds" James Thurber:"The Catbird Seat"

Luisa Valenzuela, The Censors

John A. Williams, Son in the Afternoon

Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man

Part II: Poetry

Introduction: Understanding Poetry

9. Theme

William Shakespeare, Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds

Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress

Emily Dickinson, Wild Nights-Wild Nights!

Adrienne Rich, I Come Home from You

Rita Dove, Adolescence-II

Cathy Song, Picture Bride

10. Diction

Ben Jonson, On My First Daughter

Aphra Behn, The Defiance

Emily Dickinson, She Rose to His Requirement

Octavio Paz, Engaged

Nikki Giovanni, Mothers

11. Tone

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

E. A. Robinson, Richard Cory

Claude McKay, America

Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter June Jordan: "The Wedding"

Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Ah Mah

12. Imagery

Thomas Campion, There is a Garden in Her Face

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

Wallace Stevens, The Snow Man

Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station

Margaret Atwood, Game After Supper

Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays

Louise Erdrich, The Strange People

13. Symbolism

William Blake, The Tyger

Emily Dickinson, There's a Certain Slant of Light

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Denise Levertov, The Victors

Nancy Morejen, Central Park Some People (3 P.M.)"

14. Simile and Metaphor

Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est

Langston Hughes, Harlem

Nicanor Parra, Piano Solo

Josephine Miles, Housewife

Maxine Kumin, Together

Sylvia Plath, Daddy

David Mura, Grandfather and Grandmother in Love

15. Personification and Apostrophe

John Keats, To Autumn

Walt Whitman, I Saw In Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing

Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop for Death

May Swenson, Hearing the Wind at Night

Fadwa Tuquan, After Twenty Years

16. Meter, Rhythm, and Sound

John Donne, The Bait

Matthew Arnold, To Marguerite-Continued

Gwendolyn Brooks, Hunchback Girl: She Thinks of Heaven

Elinor Wylie, Puritan Sonnet

Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California

Margaret Walker, Poppa Chicken

17. Structure and Form

William Shakespeare, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

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

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

e. e. cummings, Next to of Course God America I

Muriel Rukeyser, Myth

Sonia Sanchez, Poem at Thirty

Joy Harjo, Fishing

18. An Anthology of Poetry

Anna Akhmatova, Lot's Wife

Al-Tutili, Seville

Paula Gunn Allen, Womanwork

Yehuda Amichai, The Sweet Breakdown of Abigail

Maya Angelou, Southeast Arkanasia/To A Husband

Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach

W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen

Kofi Awoonor, Song of War

Ingeborg Bachmann, The Great Freight

Amiri Baraka, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Ulli Beier, Praise-Names of Twins

John Berryman, The Ball Poem

William Blake, London/The Lamb

Louise Bogan, Cassandra

Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children, In Memory of My Dear Grand-Child

William Stanley Braithwaite, The Watchers

Gwendolyn Brooks, The Bean Eaters/We Real Cool

Sterling A. Brown, Southern Road

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Consolation/If Thou Must Love Me, Let It Be For Naught

George Gordon, Lord Byron, On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year/She Walks in Beauty

Raymond Carver, Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year

Lorna Dee Cervantes, Refugee Ship

Aime Cesaire, Spirals

Cho Chihun, Ancient Temple

So Chongju, Poetics

Judith Ortiz Cofer, What the Gypsy Said to Her Children

Jayne Cortez, Making It

Stephen Crane, War Is Kind

Victor Hernandez Cruz, The Secrets II

Countee Cullen, Incident/Yet Do I Marvel

Roque Dalton, Love Poem

Kamala Das, An Introduction

Rene Depestre, Nothingness

Babette Deutsch, Disasters of War

Emily Dickinson: A Light Exists in Spring/From All the Jails

John Donne: Holy Sonnet 7/Holy Sonnet 14

Rita Dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography/Parsley

T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, In Goya's Greatest Scenes

Anne Finch, Trail All Your Pikes

Gisele Fong, Corrosion

Carolyn Forche, Dulcimer Maker

Robert Frost, Mending Wall/Once By the Pacificö

Anthony Grooms, Homespace

Joy Harjo, I Give You Back

George Herbert, Church-Monuments

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty

Henry Howard, To His Lady

Langston Hughes, Evening Air Blues/Mother to Son/Share-Croppers/The Negro Speaks of Rivers/Vagabonds

Lawson Fusao Inada, Nightsong in Asian American

Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Ben Jonson, On My First Son/To Celia

June Jordan, Safe

John Keats, Written in Disgust of Vulgar/Superstition

Maurice Kenny, Corn-Planter

D.H. Lawrence, Piano

Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage/Living While It May

Philip Levine, Spring in the Old World

Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Modern Secrets

Audre Lorde, Oya

Amy Lowell, The Taxi

Robert Lowell, Children of Light

Mairi MacInnes, VJ Day

Annette M'Baye, Silhouette

Claude McKay, Outcast

Ifeayi Menkiti, Veterans Day

Czeslaw Milosz, On Prayer

John Milton, When I Consider How My Light is Spent

Janice Mirikitani, Prisons of Silence/Sing With Your Body

Pat Mora, Elena

Carlos Nejar, Oil Lamps

Pablo Neruda, The United Fruit Co.

Simon J. Ortiz, Speaking

Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth

Papyrus Harris 500, Beginning of the Songs of Delight

Pepi I Pyramid Texts, Utterance

Katherine Philips, Against Love

Ezra Pound, A Virginal

Alexander Pushkin, A Sower Went Out to Sow His Seed/To My Old Nurse

Ibn Quzman, The Radish

Rahel, To My Country

Ismael Reed, Sermonette

Roberto Fernandez Retamar, A Motto from Poets: Leave Stone

Adrienne Rich, August

Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz

Christina Rossetti, Uphill

Muriel Rukeyser, The Lost Romans

Luis Omar Salinas, Quetzalcoatle

Bert Schierbeek, The Bicycle Repairman

Leopold Sedar Senghor, Prayer to the Masks

Anne Sexton, The Black Art/The Fury of Flowers and Worms

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Song to the Men of England

Sir Philip Sidney, With How Sad Steps, O Moon

Mohan Singh, Evening

Stevie Smith, The Weak Monk

Gary Snyder, Not Leaving the House

Edith Sodergran, Hope

Gary Soto,Daybreak/Learning to Bargain

Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation

Stephen Spender, An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

Wallace Stevens, The Irish Cliffs of Moher

Jonathan Swift, A Description of a City Shower

Sara Teasdale, Barter

Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill

Joyce Carol Thomas, Black Child

Mohamud S. Togane, Arfaye

Melvin B. Tolson, A Legend of Versailles

Gerald Vizenor, Family Photograph

David Wagoner, A Valedictory to Standard Oil of Indiana

Diane Wakoski, To an Autocrat

Margaret Walker, Lineage

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0070442460
• ISBN 13: 9780070442467
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 1200