Discovering Literature:Stories, Poems, Plays

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Designed to turn reluctant readers into enthusiastic readers, DISCOVERING LITERATURE, Third Edition, features carefully chosen literature selections that work well in today's classrooms. This text is unsurpassed in integrating multicultural authors and honoring the rich diversity of the American experience. Readers will discover the contemporary relevance and continuing influence of the classics as they strengthen their skills with positive writing instruction and student models for writing about literature. NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Four colorful Image and Word sections juxtaposing poetry with paintings
• Festival of Classics stories and Festival of Nature poetry
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Résumé
For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Introduction to Literature or Composition and Literature. A genre based literature anthology which focuses on giving students various ways to “discover” literature to help them understand, appreciate and read and write about literature. It provides an expanded canon including many more multicultural authors, a variety of critical perspectives, and addresses the various learning styles of today's students.

Contenu
(NOTE: Each chapter contains a “Writing about Literature” and “Writing Focus” section.)

Introduction: The Promise of Literature.

Interacting with Literature. Writing about Literature. Searching Online Sources.

FICTION. 1. PREVIEW: The World of Fiction.

(Setting) Mericans, Sandra Cisneros. (Character) Wants, Grace Paley. (Plot) Why the Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth, Chinua Achebe. (Point of View) Say Yes, Tobias Wolff. (Symbol) Yours, Mary Robison. (Theme) The Wolf and the Lamb, Aesop. (Style) Bread, Margaret Atwood.

2. SETTING: Landscapes of the Mind.

Deportation at Breakfast, Larry Fondation. Araby, James Joyce. Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason. Swaddling Clothes, Yukio Mishima.

3. CHARACTER: The Buried Self.

Stockings, Tim O'Brien. The Third Thing That Killed My Father Off, Raymond Carver. Boys and Girls, Alice Munro. The Red Convertible, Louise Erdrich. Paper Pills, Sherwood Anderson. Girl, Jamaica Kincaid.

4. PLOT: The Chain of Events.

Homage for Isaac Babel, Doris Lessing. The Magic Barrel, Bernard Malamud. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson. A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner.

5. POINT OF VIEW: Windows on the World.

Vanka, Anton Chekov. Stalking, Joyce Carol Oates. I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Katherine Anne Porter.

6. SYMBOL: The Eloquent Image.

Snow, Ann Beattie. The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck. The Real Woman in “The Chrysanthemums,” Stanley Renner. Steinbeck's Strong Women and “The Chrysanthemums,” Marilyn H. Mitchell. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, Gabriel García Márquez.

7. THEME: The Search for Meaning.

The Censors, Luisa Valenzuela. Everyday Use, Alice Walker. The Open Boat, Stephen Crane. Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

8. STYLE: The Writer's Voice.

Love, Your Only Mother, David Michael Kaplan. Hills like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway. The Enormous Radio, John Cheever. The Country Doctor, Franz Kafka. The Standard of Living, Dorothy Parker. The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara.

9. A WRITER IN DEPTH: Flannery O'Connor.

A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Enoch and the Gorilla, Flannery O'Connor. Juxtaposition: On “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” Flannery O'Connor. A Self-Portrait in Letters, Joyce Carol Oates. Beyond the Peacock, Alice Walker. The Mystery of Love, Richard Giannone.

10. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES: The Reader's Response.

The Psychoanalytic Kafka, James M. McGlathery. The Marxist Kafka, Ernst Fischer. Kafka: A Feminist Perspective, Evelyn Torton Beck. Biography of a Story, Shirley Jackson. Trying to Stay Centered [Interview], Toni Cade Bambara. Symbolism in “Hills like White Elephants,” Stanley Kozikowski. Enclosure and Escape: Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. “Young Goodman Brown”: Id versus Superego, Wilfred L. Guerin.

11. OTHER VOICES/OTHER VISIONS.
A Festival of Classic Stories.

The Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe. Looking Back, Guy de Maupassant. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Bret Harte. A White Heron, Sarah Orne Jewett. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Ambrose Bierce. An Outpost of Progress, Joseph Conrad. To Build a Fire, Jack London. Paul's Case, Willa Cather. The Horse-Dealer's Daughter, D.H. Lawrence. Roman Fever, Edith Wharton.

A World of Stories.

Snow, Julia Alvarez. The School, Donald Barthelme. Donald Duk and the White Monsters, Frank Chin. The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin. The Ingrate, Paul Laurence Dunbar. Mister Toussan, Ralph Ellison. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin. 1920, Toni Morrison. A Wife's Story, Bharati Mukherjee. Yellow Woman, Leslie Marmon Silko. Two Kinds, Amy Tan. Average Waves in Unprotected Waters, Anne Tyler. Recuerdo, Guadalupe Valdés. A Visit of Charity, Eudora Welty.

POETRY. 12. PREVIEW: The Voice of Poetry.

Separation, W.S. Merwin. Lost, David Wagoner. For a Coming Extinction, W.S. Merwin. Snowy Egret, Bruce Weigl. Elegy for the Giant Tortoises, Margaret Atwood. (Image) Presentiment, Emily Dickinson. (Metaphor) Time and the Weather, Donald Justice. (Symbol) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost. (Rhyme) The Snail, William Cowper. (Meter) The Eagle, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. (Rhythm) A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman. (Open Form) Truth, Gwendolyn Brooks. (Theme) From A Satirical Romance, Juana Inés de la Cruz. Sometimes in Winter, Linda Pastan. Valediction, Seamus Heaney. New Face, Alice Walker. Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock, Wallace Stevens. Reading “Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock,” Irving Howe. This Is Just to Say, William Carlos Williams. Men at Forty, Donald Justice. Women at Thirty, Maurya Simon. An Old Quiet Pond, Basho. Whether I Sit or Lie, Ukihashi. Grasshoppers, Kawai Chigetsu-Ni. How Long Will It Last?, Lady Horikawa.

13. PATTERN: The Whole Poem.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. The Genius, Archibald MacLeish. The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry. Between Walls, William Carlos Williams. The Possessive, Sharon Olds. Legacy II, Leroy V. Quintana. The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy. Frog Autumn, Sylvia Plath. Solace, Dorothy Parker. A Major Work, William Meredith. From The Vanity of All Worldly Things, Anne Bradstreet. October 1954, Kay Boyle. New World, N. Scott Momaday. A Lecture upon the Shadow, John Donne. Simple Song, Marge Piercy. The Story, Lisel Mueller. A Black Man Talks of Reaping, Arna Bontemps. Oranges, Gary Soto. Junk Mail, James Laughlin. Fire and Ice, Robert Frost. Novella, Adrienne Rich.

14. IMAGE: The Open Eye.

Sunday at the Apple Market, Peter Meinke. The Plum, Nan Fry. At the Bomb Testing Site, William Stafford. The Black Snake, Mary Oliver. My Papa's Waltz, Theodore Roethke. Laughter, Philip Schultz…