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With classic and contemporary selections by authors from a wide range of racial and ethnic groups, Literature Across Cultures, 2009 MLA Update 5/e introduces the reader to important literary works and helps readers explore critical themes of our times, such as gender and identity, the effects of war and violence, race and culture, and more.
Preface for Instructors 000
Preface for Students 000
INTRODUCTION:Readingand Writing as a Social Act0
The Meaning of Literature 000
The Function of Literature 000
Strategies for Reading Literature 000
Previewing 000
Highlighting 000
Annotating 000
Guided Reading: Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour" 000
Strategies for Writing About Literature 000
Frames of Reference 000
Generating Ideas 000
Brainstorming 000
Clustering 000
Finding a Thesis 000
Thesis Statement 000
Developing a Rough Draft with Peer Editing 000
Peer Group Critiques 000
Revising the Rough Draft and Writing the Final Paper 000
Checklist for Revising the Rough Draft 000
The Final Draft 000
PART ONE: Roots and Rebellions000
FICTION
Lan Samantha Chang The Unforgetting 000
Edith Wharton Roman Fever 000
Par Lagerkvist Father and I 000
Elie Wiesel The Watch 000
Tobias Wolff Powder 000
ESSAYS
Toni Morrison The Nobel Prize in Literature 000
Plato The Allegory of the Cave 000
N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain 000
Salman Rushdie From Imaginary Homelands 000
Zora Neale Hurston I Get Born 000
POETRY
Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers 000
Linda Hogan First Light 000
Evangelina Vigil-Pinon warm heart contains life 000
Maurice Kenny Going Home 000
Duane Niatum StreetKid 000
James Dickey In the Tree House at Night 000
Seamus Heaney Mid-term Break 000
Sharon Olds The Possessive 000
Janice Mirikitani Breaking Tradition 000
Dylan Thomas Fern Hill 000
Richard Eberhart If I could only live at the pitch that is
near madness 000
Maria Mazziotti Gillan My Grandmother's Hands 000
James Geasor Beads 000
Eric Chock Poem for My Father 000
Li-Young Lee The Gift 000
James A. Emanuel Fishermen 000
Robert Hayden Frederick Douglass 000
Robert Hayden Tour 5 000
Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays 000
Robert Hayden Runagate Runagate 000
DRAMA
Sophocles Oedipus Rex 000
William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark 000
COMPOSING PROCESS AND PEER CRITIQUES: PART ONE 000
STUDENT ESSAY 000
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND WRITING 000
FILM ANGLES 000
PART TWO: Gender and Identity000
FICTION
Haruki Murakami On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful
April Morning 000
Kate Chopin The Storm 000
Alice Walker Roselily 000
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper 000
Alifa Rifaat Another Evening at the Club 000
Yukio Mishima Fountains in the Rain 000
Sandip Roy The Smells of Home 000
ESSAYS
Virginia Woolf Professions for Women 000
Steve Tesich An Amateur Marriage 000
David Brooks The Power of Marriage 000
Peter Lyman The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship 000
Deborah Tannen Sex, Lies, and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard
for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? 000
POETRY
John Donne Woman's Constancy 000
John Donne The Sun Rising 000
James Dickey Adultery 000
Anne Sexton For My Lover, Returning to His Wife 000
Maryfrances Wagner Ragazza 000
Pat Mora Borders 000
Robert Frost Home Burial 000
Claude McKay The Harlem Dancer 000
Edna St. Vincent Millay What Lips My Lips Have Kissed 000
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Colours 000
Theodore Roethke I Knew a Woman 000
Gary Soto Oranges 000
Robert Browning My Last Duchess 000
Gabriel Spera My Ex-Husband 000
May Sarton AIDS 000
Michael Lassell How to Watch Your Brother Die 000
Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress 000
Aphra Behn The Willing Mistress 000
John Keats Bright Star 000
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz She Proves the Inconsistency of the
Desires and Criticism of Men Who Accuse Women of What They
Themselves Cause 000
William Shakespeare Sonnet 30 "When to the Sessions of Sweet
Silent Thought" 000
William Shakespeare Sonnet 116 "Let Me Not to the Marriage
of True Minds" 000
William Shakespeare Sonnet 129 "Th' Expense of Spirit in a
Waste of Shame" 000
William Shakespeare Sonnet 130 "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing
Like the Sun" 000
DRAMA
Euripides Medea 000
Manuel Puig Kiss of the Spider Woman 000
STUDENT JOURNAL ENTRIES 000
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND WRITING 000
FILM ANGLES 000
PART THREE: War and Violence000
FICTION
Graham Greene The Destructors 000
Liam O'Flaherty The Sniper 000
Tadeusz Borowski Silence 000
Andre Dubus The Curse 000
Tim O'Brien The Things They Carried 000
Ann Petry Like a Winding Sheet 000
ESSAYS
Brent Staples A Brother's Murder 000
David W. Powell Vietnam: What I Remember 000
Kandi Tayebi Warring Memories 000
Seth Mydans Not Just the Inner City: Well-to-Do Join Gangs 000
POETRY
Jeffrey Harrison Reflections on the Vietnam Wall Memorial 000
Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It 000
Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 000
Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed 000
Denise Levertov What Were They Like? 000
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Babiy Yar 000
Janice Mirikitani Prisons of Silence 000
Wilfred Owen Disabled 000
Muriel Rukeyser Waking This Morning 000
Walt Whitman The Dying Veteran 000
Walt Whitman The Artilleryman's Vision 000
Ralph Waldo Emerson ConcordHymn 000
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade 000
Gabriel Spera Idle Hands 000
Gabriel Spera Kindness 000
Carolyn Forche The Colonel 000
Carolyn Forche The Visitor 000
Carolyn Forche The Memory of Elena 000
Carolyn Forche As Children Together 000
DRAMA
Fernando Arrabal Picnic on the Battlefield 000
STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER 000
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND WRITING 000
FILM ANGLES 000
PART FOUR: Race and Culture000
FICTION
Nadine Gordimer The Moment Before the Gun Went Off 000
John Talbird Still 000
Wakako Yamauchi And the Soul Shall Dance 000
Aurora Levins Morales Puertoricanness 000
Toni Cade Bambara The Lesson 000
Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing 000
Kate Chopin Desiree's Baby 000
ESSAYS
Judith Ortiz Cofer Silent Dancing 000
Frederick Douglass How I Learned to Read and Write 000
Gary Soto Black Hair 000
Eric Liu A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the
American Dream 000
POETRY
Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing 000
Denise Levertov Poet Power 000
Louise Erdrich IndianBoarding School: The Runaways 000
Maria Mazziotti Gillan Public School No. 18: Paterson,
New Jersey 000
Langston Hughes The Weary Blues 000
Langston Hughes Dream Variations 000
Langston Hughes Harlem000
Wole Soyinka Telephone Conversation 000
Sharon Olds On the Subway 000
Eric Chock Chinese Fireworks Banned in Hawaii 000
Tato Laviera Latero Story 000
Aurora Levin Morales Child of the Americas 000
Pat Mora Legal Alien 000
Pat Mora Elena 000
Cathy Song Lost Sister 000
Martin Espada Cross Plains, Wisconsin000
Martin Espada Federico's Ghost 000
Martin Espada Tony Went to the Bodega but He Didn't
Buy Anything 000
DRAMA
William Shakespeare Othello, The Moor of Venice 000
STUDENT JOURNAL ENTRY 000
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND WRITING 000
FILM ANGLES 000
PART FIVE: Individualism and Community000
FICTION
Shirley Jackson The Lottery 000
Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis 000
James Joyce Eveline 000
Fae Myenne Ng A Red Sweater 000
Albert Camus The Guest 000
Chinua Achebe Dead Men's Path 000
ESSAYS
May Sarton The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life 000
Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 000
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have a Dream 000
POETRY
James Wright A Blessing 000
William Carlos Williams Danse Russe 000
E. E. Cummings the Cambridge ladies who live in
furnished souls 000
Wallace Stevens Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 000
Walt Whitman What Is the Grass? 000
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias 000
William Blake London 000
William Wordsworth London, 1802 000
William Wordsworth The World Is Too Much with Us 000
Yevgeny Yevtushenko People 000
Alastair Reid Curiosity 000
Sharon Olds Summer Solstice, New York City 000
Leo Romero What the Gossips Saw 000
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Constantly Risking Absurdity 000
Richard Wilbur The Writer 000
Emily Dickinson Volcanoes be in Sicily 000
Emily Dickinson The Soul selects her own society- 000
Emily Dickinson Much madness is divinest sense- 000
Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant- 000
DRAMA
Sophocles Antigone 000
Edward Albee The Zoo Story 000
STUDENT BRAINSTORMING EXERCISE 000
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION AND WRITING 000
FILM ANGLES 000
APPENDIX A: An Introduction to the Elements of Fiction,
Nonfiction, Poetry, and Drama000
FICTION 000
Character 000
Plot 000
Setting 000
Theme 000
Narrator 000
Style and Tone 000
CREATIVE OR LITERARY NONFICTION:
THE ESSAY 000
Form 000
Rhetorical Strategies 000
POETRY 000
Voice and Tone 000
The Poetic Elements: Image, Simile, Metaphor, Symbol, Personification, Paradox 000
Types of Poetry: Lyric, Dramatic, and Narrative 000
The Forms of Poetry 000
Poetry as Performance: The Sounds of Poetry 000
DRAMA 000
The Basic Elements of Drama 000
Types of Plays: Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragicomedy 000
Kinds of Theater 000
FICTION, POETRY, AND DRAMA AS
CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS 000
APPENDIX B: Writing a Research Paper000
WHAT IS A LITERARY RESEARCH PAPER? 000
What Are Primary and Secondary Sources? 000
Locating Materials 000
How to Choose a Topic 000
ENGAGING IN DIALOGUE USING LITERARY CRITICISM 000
FOCUS: THE RESEARCH PROCESS 000
Taking Notes during the Research Process 000
Organizing Your Information 000
DRAFTING THE PAPER 000
HOW TO DOCUMENT USING THE MLA FORMAT 000
Direct Quotation 000
Indirect Quotation: Paraphrasing 000
List of Works Cited 000
REVISING AND REWRITING 000
Presenting Your Research Paper 000
SAMPLE RESEARCH: ANTIGONE 000
APPENDIX C: Researching Literary Sources000
RESEARCH RESOURCES 000
Reference Works 000
Online Sources 000
APPENDIX D: Critical Approaches: A Case Study
of Hamlet 000
PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM 000
What Is the Focus of Psychoanalytic Criticism? 000
A Psychoanalytic Reading of Hamlet 000
Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams 000
A Psychosocial Reading of Hamlet 000
David Leverenz The Women in Hamlet:
An Interpersonal View 000
FORMALISM/NEW CRITICISM 000
What Is the Focus of Formalism? 000
A New Critical Reading of Hamlet 000
T. S. Eliot Hamlet and His Problems 000
READER-RESPONSE CRITICISM 000
What Is the Focus of Reader-Response Criticism? 000
A Reader-Response Analysis of Hamlet 000
Stephen Booth On the Value of Hamlet 000
FEMINIST CRITICISM 000
What Is the Focus of Feminist Criticism? 000
A Feminist Reading of Hamlet 000
Diane Elizabeth Dreher Dominated Daughters 000
THE NEW HISTORICISM 000
What Is the Focus of the New Historicism? 000
A New Historical Reading of Hamlet 000
Leonard Tennenhouse Power in Hamlet 000
DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF HAMLET 000
What Is The Focus of Deconstructive Criticism? 000
A Deconstructive Reading of Hamlet 000
James L. Calderwood To be and Not To Be: Negation
and Metadrama in Hamlet 000
Biographical Endnotes 000
Glossary 000
Index of Authors and Titles 000
Index of First Lines 000
Index of Terms 000