Literature: Approaches with ARIEL - Brossura

Diyanni, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0073252123 ISBN 13: 9780073252124

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2006

Riassunto

Like its larger counterpart, the compact Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by Robert DiYanni features student-centered approaches to literature--from experience to interpretation to evaluation--and an emphasis on making connections between texts and thinking critically about literature.

Known for its clear presentation of the formal elements of literature and literary analysis, this compact anthology effectively balances classic, modern, and contemporary works across the three major genres, blending well-known writers with a diverse gathering of newer, international figures. This literary breadth is supplemented by extensive coverage of writing about literature, making this book an excellent text for introduction to literature courses as well as literature-based composition courses.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Robert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976). Robert DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay; The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry; Women’s Voices; Like Season’d Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse, Voices and Visions). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Pat Hoy, he edited Encounters: Readings for Inquiry and Argument (1997).

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INTRODUCTION

Critical Thinking and the Pleasures of Literature

The Pleasures of Fiction

Thinking Critically about a Story

Learning to Be Silent

Critical Thinking and Contexts

The Pleasures of Poetry

Thinking Critically about a Poem

Robert Frost, Dust of Snow

Critical Thinking and Contexts

The Pleasures of Drama

Drama and Imaginative Thinking

Critical Thinking and Oprah's Book Club: An Exercise

Approaching Literature with Critical Thinking

Experience

Interpretation

Evaluation

Critical Thinking and Context

Critical Thinking and Writing about Literature

Reasons for Writing about Literature

Ways of Writing about Literature

Arguing about Literature

The Writing Process

Stephen Crane, War is Kind

PART ONE: FICTION

READING AND WRITING ABOUT FICTION

Chapter 1: Reading Stories

Luke, The Prodigal Son

The Experience of Fiction

The Interpretation of Fiction

Reading in Context

The Evaluation of Fiction

John Updike, A&P

The Act of Reading Fiction

Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

Chapter 2: Types of Short Fiction

Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale

Aesop, The Wolf and the Mastiff

Petronius, The Widow of Ephesus

The Short Story

The Nonrealistic Story

The Short Novel

Chapter 3: Elements of Fiction

Plot and Structure

Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation

Character

Kay Boyle, Astronomer's Wife

Setting

Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh

Point of View

William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

Language and Style

James Joyce, Araby

Theme

Eudora Welty, A Worn Path

Irony and Symbol

D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner

Chapter 4: Writing About Fiction

Reasons for Writing about Fiction

Informal Ways of Writing about Fiction

Katherine Anne Porter, Magic

Formal Ways of Writing about Fiction

Student Papers on Fiction

Questions for Writing about Fiction

Suggestions for Writing

THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT FICTION

Chapter 5: Three Fiction Writers In Context

Reading Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor in Depth

Edgar Allan Poe in Context

Poe and Journalism

Poe and The Horror Story

Poe and The Detective Story

The Dimension of Style

Edgar Allan Poe: Stories:

The Black Cat

The Cask of Amontillado

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe: Letters, Essays

Critics on Poe

Flannery O'Connor in Context

Southern Gothic

The Catholic Dimension

O'Connor's Irony

Flannery O'Connor: Stories:

Good Country People

A Good Man is Hard to Find

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Flannery O'Connor: Letters, Essays

Critics on O'Connor

*Chapter 6: Envisioning Narrative

*Visual Stories

*Charles Schulz, Peanuts

*Marjane Satrapi, The Veil

*Rachel Masilamani, Two Kinds of People

AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION

Chapter 7: A Selection of Contemporary Fiction

Sherman Alexie, Indian Education

*Gish Jen, Who's Irish?

*Jhumpa Lahiri, Hell-Heaven

Chapter 8: A Selection of World Fiction

*Chinua Achebe, Marriage is a Private Affair

Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths

Jamaica Kincaid, Girl

*Gabriel Garcia Marquez, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings translated by Gregory Rabassa

*Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool translated by Saul Bellow

Chapter 9: For Further Reading

Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings

*James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues

Raymond Carver, Cathedral

*Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog translated by Richard Peavear and Larissa Volokhonsky

*Kate Chopin, The Storm

*Sandra Cisneros, Barbie-Q

Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal

*William Faulkner, Barn Burning

*F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants

*Zora Neale Hurston, Spunk

*Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

James Joyce, The Boarding House

*Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing

Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

*John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums

Amy Tan, Rules of the Game

Alice Walker, Everyday Use

Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O.

PART TWO: POETRY

READING AND WRITING ABOUT POETRY

Chapter 10: Reading Poems

The Experience of Poetry

Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays

Reading in Context

The Interpretation of Poetry

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Reading in Context

The Evaluation of Poetry

Gwendolyn Brooks, A Song in the Front Yard

The Act of Reading Poetry

Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz

Chapter 11: Types of Poetry

Narrative Poetry

Lyric Poetry

Chapter 12: Elements of Poetry

Voice: Speaker and Tone

Stephen Crane, War is Kind

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess

Muriel Stuart, In the Orchard

Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend"

Anonymous, Western Wind

Henry Reed, Naming of Parts

*Randall Jarrell, Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Diction

William Wordsworth, I wandered lonely as a cloud

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy

William Wordsworth, It is a beauteous evening

Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder

Imagery

Elizabeth Bishop, First Death in Nova Scotia

William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Robert Browning, Meeting at Night

H.D., Heat

Thomas Hardy, Neutral Tones

Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor

William Shakespeare, That time of year thou may'st in me behold

John Donne, Hymn to God the Father

Robert Wallace, The Double-Play

Louis Simpson, The Battle

Judith Wright, Woman to Child

Symbolism and Allegory

Peter Meinke, Advice to My Son

Christina Rossetti, Up-Hill

William Blake, A Poison Tree

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

George Herbert, Virtue

Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death Syntax

John Donne, The Sun Rising

Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed

William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

Robert Frost, The Silken Tent

e.e. cummings, "Me up at does"

Stevie Smith, Mother, Among the Dustbins

Sound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance

Gerard Manley Hopkins, In the Valley of the Elwy

Thomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain

Alexander Pope, Sound and Sense

Bob McKenty, Adam's Song

May Swenson, The Universe

Helen Chasin, The Word Plum

Rhythm and Meter

Robert Frost, The Span of Life

George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib

Anne Sexton, Her Kind

William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow

Structure: Closed Form and Open Form

John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Walt Whitman, When I heard the learn'd astronomer

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William Carlos Williams, The Dance

Denise Levertov, O Taste and See

Theodore Roethke, The Waking

Christine Kane Molito, Reflections in Black & Blue

C.P. Cavafy, The City translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

Theme

Emily Dickinson, Crumbling is not an instant's Act

Chapter 13: Writing about Poetry

Reasons for Writing about Poetry

Informal Ways of Writing about Poetry

Robert Graves, Symptoms of Love

Formal Ways of Writing about Poetry

Sylvia Plath, Mirror

Student Papers on Poetry

Questions for Writing about Poetry

Suggestions for Writing

THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT POETRY

Chapter 14: Transformations

Revisions

William Blake, London

William Butler Yeats, A Dream of Death

Emily Dickinson, The Wind begun to knead the Grass

D.H. Lawrence, Piano

Langston Hughes, Ballad of Booker T.

Parodies

William Carlos Williams, This is Just to Say

Kenneth Koch Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Wi lliams

William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Howard Moss, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

Robert Frost, Dust of Snow Bob McKenty, Snow on Frost

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0073252123
• ISBN 13: 9780073252124
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 1591