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Preface for Instructors
Selections by Form and Theme

PART ONE: READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE

1. INTRODUCTION TO READING AND WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
Why Read Literature?
Why Write about Literature?
What to Expect in a Literature Class
Literature and Enjoyment

2. THE ROLE OF GOOD READING
The Value of Rereading
Critical Reading
The Myth of "Hidden Meaning"
Active Reading
     Annotating
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, The Second Coming (Annotated Poem)
     Note Taking 
     Journal Keeping 
     Using Reference Materials
Questions for Active Reading: Fiction
Questions for Active Reading: Poetry
Questions for Active Reading: Drama
Asking Critical Questions of Literature
BEN JONSON, On My First Son (Annotated Poem)
Checklist for Good Reading

3. THE WRITING PROCESS
Prewriting
     Choosing a Topic 
     *Developing an Argument
*The Thesis 
     Gathering Support for Your Thesis
Organizing Your Paper
Drafting the Paper
Revising and Editing 
     Global Revision Checklist 
     Local Revision Checklist　 
     Final Editing Checklist
Peer Editing and Workshops
Tips for Writing about Literature
Using Quotations Effectively
Quoting from Stories
Quoting from Poems
Quoting from Plays
Formatting Your Paper

4. COMMON WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
Summary
Response 
     *STUDENT ESSAY: Taylor Plantan, "A Response to ''Sweat''"
*Explication 
     ROBERT HERRICK, Upon Julia''s Clothes
     STUDENT ESSAY: Jessica Barnes, "Poetry in Motion: Herrick''s ''Upon Julia''s Clothes''"
*Analysis 
     ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
     STUDENT ESSAY: Adam Walker, "Possessed by the Need for Possession: Browning''s ''My Last Duchess''"
Comparison and Contrast 
     CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, After Death
     STUDENT ESSAY: Todd Bowen, "Speakers for the Dead: Narrators in ''My Last Duchess'' and ''After Death''"
Essay Exams 
     WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 73
     ROBERT HERRICK, To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time 
     STUDENT ESSAY EXAM: Midterm Essay

5. WRITING ABOUT STORIES
Elements of Fiction 
     Plot 
     Character 
     Point of View 
     Setting 
     Theme 
     Symbolism 
     Style
Stories for Analysis 
     KATE CHOPIN, The Story of an Hour (Annotated Story) 
     STUDENT ESSAY: An Essay that Compares and Contrasts: Melanie Smith, "Good Husbands in Bad Marriages"

6. WRITING ABOUT POEMS
Elements of Poetry
The Speaker
The Listener
Imagery
Sound and Sense
Two Poems for Analysis 
     WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 116 (Annotated Poem) 
     T.S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Annotated Poem)
     STUDENT ESSAY: An Explication: Patrick McCorkle, "Shakespeare Defines Love"

7. WRITING ABOUT PLAYS
Elements of Drama 
     Plot, Character, and Theme 
     Diction 
     Spectacle 
     Setting
How to Read a Play 
     Watching a Play 
     The Director''s Vision
　     STUDENT ESSAY: An Analysis: Sarah Johnson, "Moral Ambiguity and Character Development in Trifles"

8. WRITING A LITERARY RESEARCH PAPER
Finding Sources
Evaluating Sources
Working with Sources 
     Quotations 
     *Paraphrases and Summaries 
     Commentaries 
     Keeping Track of Your Sources
Writing the Paper 
     Refine Your Thesis 
     Organize Your Evidence 
     Start Your Draft 
     Revise 
     Edit and Proofread
*Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism
What to Document and What　Not　to Document
Documenting Sources: MLA Format 
     In-Text Citations 
     Preparing Your Works Cited List　
     *STUDENT ESSAY: Research Paper: Rachel McCarthy, "The Widening Gyres of Chaos in Yeats''s ''The Second Coming''"

9. LITERARY CRITICISM AND LITERARY THEORY
Formalism and New Criticism
Feminist and Gender Criticism
Queer Theory
Marxist Criticism
Cultural Studies
Postcolonial Criticism
Historical Criticism and New Historicism
Psychological Theories
Reader-Response Theories
Structuralism
Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
*Ecocriticism

PART TWO: 40 STORIES
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Young Goodman Brown
EDGAR ALLAN POE, The Cask of Amontillado
* AMBROSE BIERCE, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
KATE CHOPIN, The Story of an Hour
ANTON CHEKHOV, The Lady with the Dog
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper
SUI SIN FAR (EDITH MAUD EATON), In the Land of the Free
*SHERWOOD ANDERSON, Hands
*JAMES JOYCE, The Dead
*VIRGINIA WOOLF, Kew Gardens
FRANZ KAFKA, The Metamorphosis
*KATHERINE MANSFIELD, Bliss
ZORA NEALE HURSTON, Sweat
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Hills Like White Elephants
JOHN CHEEVER, Reunion
RALPH ELLISON, Battle Royal
SHIRLEY JACKSON, The Lottery
JAMES BALDWIN, Sonny''s Blues
FLANNERY O''CONNOR, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
GABRIEL GARCĺA MÁRQUEZ, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
RAYMOND CARVER, Cathedral
JOYCE CAROL OATES, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? MARGARET ATWOOD, Happy Endings
TONI CADE BAMBARA, The Lesson
ALICE WALKER, Everyday Use
TIM O''BRIEN, The Things They Carried
JAMAICA KINCAID, Girl
LOUISE ERDRICH, The Red Convertible
* SANDRA CISNEROS, My Name
* GEORGE SAUNDERS, Sticks
* SHERMAN ALEXIE, This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
* ALEXANDER CHEE, Mine
* TED CHIANG, The Great Silence
* JUNOT DĺAZ, Fiesta, 1980
* MAILE MELOY, Tome
YIYUN LI, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
*ZZ PACKER, Brownies
* ADRIAN TOMINE, Echo Ave.
* CHIMIMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, The Thing Around Your Neck

PART THREE: 200 POEMS
*ANONYMOUS, The Wife''s Lament
*ANONYMOUS, Western Wind
SIR THOMAS WYATT, Whoso list to hunt
QUEEN ELIZABETH I, On Monsieur''s Departure　
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
WALTER RALEGH, The Nymph''s Reply to the Shepherd　
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?")
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")
AEMILIA LANYER, Eve''s Apology in Defense of Women
JOHN DONNE, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
JOHN DONNE, Death, be not proud
BEN JONSON, On My First Son
ROBERT HERRICK, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
*GEORGE HERBERT, The Collar
*HESTER PULTER, The Eclipse
JOHN MILTON, When I consider how my light is spent
ANNE BRADSTREET, Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress
THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
PHILLIS WHEATLEY, On Being Brought from Africa to America
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Lamb
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Tyger
*KOBAYASHI ISSA, ("All the time I pray to Buddha")
*KOBAYASHI ISSA, ("Don''t worry spiders")
*KOBAYASHI ISSA, ("Goes out,/Comes back" )
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
*SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Kubla Kahn
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON, Prometheus
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Ode to the West Wind
JOHN KEATS, When I have fears that I may cease to be
JOHN KEATS, Ode to a Nightingale
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
EDGAR ALLAN POE, Annabel Lee　
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Ulysses
ROBERT BROWNING, My Last Duchess
WALT WHITMAN, from Song of Myself
*WALT WHITMAN, When I heard the learn''d astronomer　
MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach
EMILY DICKINSON, Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!
EMILY DICKINSON, I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died
EMILY DICKINSON, Much Madness is divinest sense
EMILY DICKINSON, Bec