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Literature: A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays, Essays de David L. Pike

Literature: A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays, Essays

Autor David L. Pike, Ana M. Acosta
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 oct 2012
Literature A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays is an exciting new full-color introduction to literature anthology with compelling visual pedagogy and a rich selection of thematically organized readings that make new literature familiar and familiar literature new. An extensive writing handbook shows students how to read critically and guides them through the process of writing arguments using dynamic visual tools to convey key concepts. Outstanding selections, engaging visual pedagogy, superior writing instruction - all for 20% less than comparable texts! Key concepts are presented visually using idea maps, fill-in boxes, and annotations that enable students to grasp main ideas more effectively. Diverse texts are presented in four casebooks called, "Reading Globally, Writing Locally."
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ISBN-13: 9780205886234
ISBN-10: 020588623X
Pagini: 693
Dimensiuni: 213 x 274 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.38 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: Pearson

Notă biografică

David L. Pike is Professor of Literature at American University, where he teaches courses on urban culture and the underground, cinema, modernism, Dante, Roman literature, and the novel. He is the author of Canadian Cinema since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World (U of Toronto P, 2012); Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800 -2001(Cornell UP, 2007); Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London 1800-1945 (Cornell UP), shortlisted for the 2006 Modernist Studies Association book prize; Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (Cornell UP), recipient of the 1997 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1997; and articles on urban culture, subterranean studies, film, and medieval literature. He is co-general editor of the Longman Anthology of World Literature. Ana M. Acosta is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Her book, Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley, was published by Ashgate in 2006. She has published articles on religion, science and Enlightenment and is currently at work on a book-length project entitled "Theaters of Enlightenment: Imagined Encounters between Science and Religion in 18th-century Culture." She has twice been the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship, has received two PSC-CUNY awards, and was chosen in 2008 by the students at Brooklyn College as a Role Model in the conference "Standing on the Shoulders of Others."

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PART 1 A READER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF WRITING 1. Reading and Thinking about Literature: A World of Meaning Meaningless Words and the World of Meaning Literary Form and Assumptions about Meaning The Point of Literary Meaning Forming Literary Meaning Making Sense Making Meaning out of Misunderstanding Roberto Fernandez, Wrong Channel Deciphering Meaning: The Riddle Game The Riddle as a Literary Device Sylvia Plath, Metaphors Reading for What Does Not Make Sense Strategies for Reading Critically Writer @ Work: The Reading Process Sharon Olds, The Possessive Student Writing: Justin Schiel reads and annotates The Possessive Clarity and Ambiguity of Language Working with Ambiguity in Literary Writing Reading versus Writing Working with Clarity in Nonliterary Writing: The Summary Student Writing: Four Summaries ofThe Possessive Clarity and Ambiguity in Storytelling Franz Kafka, Before the Law Student Writing: Two Summaries of Before the Law Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wife's Story Clarity and Ambiguity of Argument: Summarizing an Essay Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, I Hate Trees Student Writing: Melissa Kim, A Summary of Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, "I Hate Trees" Clarity and Ambiguity in Literary Genres Plot Conventions and Expectations Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings Clarity and Ambiguity in Visual Culture Visual Assumptions Writing a Summary of an Image Cornelius Gijsbrechts, Letter Rack with Christian V's Proclamation Student Writing: Alan Green, A Summary of Letter Rack with Christian V's Proclamation Looking Back: A World of Meaning 2. Argument, Critical Thinking, and the Process of Writing: Writing in the World Crafting an Argument Analyzing an Argumentative Essay May Sarton, The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life Making Your Own Argument Argument versus Thesis From Idea to Thesis Chinua Achebe, Dead Men's Path Student Idea Map for "Dead Men's Path" Critical Thinking: Reading, Questioning, Writing Writer @ Work: Critical Thinking from First Impressions to Finished Paper Critical Thinking Step by Step Mary Oliver, August Student Writing: Katherine Randall, sample writing from drafts to final paper Student Writing: Three Summaries of August Critical Thinking in a Comparison Paper Ellen Hunnicutt, Blackberries Leslie Norris, Blackberries Student Writing: Cynthia Wilson, Leave the Picking to the Boys Thinking Critically about Visual Culture Signs Still Images Sequential Images Moving Images Interactive Images Looking Back: Writing in the World 3. Planning, Writing, and Revising a Research Paper: Investigating the World Finding a Topic Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Paper Topic and Revised Paper Topic Finding, Evaluating, and Summarizing Your Sources in the Annotated Bibliography Primary Sources and Secondary Sources The MLA Works-Cited List Plagiarism and How to Avoid It The Annotated Bibliography Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Annotated Bibliography-Source #1 From the Annotated Bibliography to the First Draft Making an Outline Student Writing: Rob Lanney, The Castle in Productions and Films of Hamlet-An Outline Writing the First Draft MLA In-Text Citations Writer @ Work: Revising Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Hamlet's Elsinore-Initial draft Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Hamlet's Elsinore Student Writing: Lorraine Betesh, The Brooklyn Bridge in Illustrations and Photographs Looking Back: Investigating the World PART 2 The Writer's World: Genres And The Craft Of Literature 4. Stories: Describing the World What Is Fiction? Fiction and History Types of Fiction The Craft of Fiction Padgett Powell, A Gentleman's C The Materials of Fiction The Tools of Fiction Writer @ Work: Description Julia Alvarez, Snow Student Writing: Hashim Naseem, The Motherland Describing the World: Topics for Essays Looking Back: Describing the World 5. Poetry: Imagining the World What Is Poetry? Prosody: An Introduction Samuel Taylor Coleridge, fromMetrical Feet- Lesson for a Boy Poetic Diction Poetic Forms Writer @ Work: Three Poems about Social Relations William Blake, London Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Mary Oliver, Singapore Student Writing: Melissa Pabon, Summaries of London, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Singapore Student Writing: Melissa Pabon, The Importance of Everyday Occurrences in London, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Singapore Imagining the World: Topics for Essays Writer @ Work: Reading and Writing Essays Student Writing: Scott Nathanson, The Meaning of Death Types of Essays Looking Back: Imagining the World 6. Plays: Staging the World What Is a Play? Susan Glaspell, Trifles Dramatic Structure Characters Staging Form and Genre Writer @ Work: Writing about a Live or a Taped Performance Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape Student Writing: Joshua Cohen,Notes on Krapp's Last Tape, directed by Atom Egoyan Student Writing: Joshua Cohen, Response Paper on Krapp's Last Tape Staging the World: Topics for Essays Looking Back: Staging the World 7. Essays: Explaining the World What Is Nonfiction? The Essay Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth Annie Dillard, Death of a Moth Analyzing an Essay Writer @ Work: Arguing with an Essay George Packer, How Susie Bayer's T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama's Back Student Writing: Jacquelynn Messina, The Used Clothes Trade: Who Benefits? Explaining the World: Topics for Essays Looking Back: Explaining the World 8. Working with Literary Devices: Writing the World Literary Devices Patterns of Repetition Patterns of Inversion Patterns of Contradiction Ambiguity and Double Meaning Imagery Referring to Other Texts Word Pictures John Keats, Drawing of the Sosibios Vase John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn Hiram Powers, Greek Slave Elizabeth Barrett Browning, On Hiram Powers' Greek Slave Peter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts Michael Hamburger, Lines on Brueghel's Icarus Robert Hass, Heroic Simile Akira Kurosawa, movie still from The Seven Samurai Writing the World: Topics for Essays PART 3 The Reader's World: Exploring The Themes Of Literature 9. Me and You: The World Closest to Us Photographs from The Family of Man FAMILIES **Dagoberto Gilb, Look on the Bright Side Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues Jonathan Safran Foer, A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease Alice Walker, Everyday Use Mary TallMountain, There Is No Word for Goodbye Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays Lucille Clifton, wishes for sons **Rita Dove, Daystar **A.R. Ammons, Coward William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Scott Russell Sanders, Buckeye Amy Tan, from Mother Tongue Families: Topics for Essays CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Lorrie Moore, The Kid's Guide to Divorce James Joyce, Araby John Updike, A & P **Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Cap Anne Sexton, Red Riding Hood Agha Shahid Ali, The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood" Gary Soto, Behind Grandma's House **Martin Espada, Why I Went to College Langston Hughes, Salvation Children and Adolescents: Topics for Essays LOVERS John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums **Haruki Murakami, The Year of Spaghetti Amanda Holzer, Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape Uruttiran, What She Said to Her Girl Friend Ono no Komachi, Three tanka William Shakespeare, How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128) William Shakespeare, Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116) William Shakespeare, When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29) John Donne, The Flea **Monica Ferrell, Rime Riche Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock **Jack Spicer, A Book of Music Sei Shonagon, fromHateful Things ***Joan Didion, Marrying Absurd Lovers: Topics for Essays Working Further with the World Closest to Us **Reading Globally, Writing Locally: Marjane Satrapi and The Literature of the Middle East **Marjane Satrapi, from Persepolis **Marjane Satrapi, Iran and Israel **From 1001 Nights: The Wonderful Bag **Yehuda Amichal, The Diameter of the Bomb **Yehuda Amichal, Wildpeace **Mahmoud Darwish, Who Am I without Exile? **Working Further with the Literature of the Middle East 10. Beliefs and Ethics: The Worlds around Us Images of Good and Evil in the World BELIEFS: CREATIONS AND BEGINNINGS from Genesis Salman Rushdie, Imagine There's No Heaven K. C. Cole, Murmurs **Italo Calvino, All at One Point Creation and Beginnings: Topics for Essays ETHICS: DESTUCTION AND ENDINGS Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried **Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain William Carlos Williams, Complete Destruction Robert Frost, Fire and Ice John Donne, Death, Be Not Proud Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Emily Dickinson, I like a look of Agony Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death - Emily Dickinson, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain Emily Dickinson, I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - Emily Dickinson, It was not Death, for I stood up Emily Dickinson, A Toad, can die of Light - Emily Dickinson, Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - Wilfrid Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est Carolyn Forche, The Colonel Sophocles, Antigone Destruction and Endings: Topics for Essays Working Further with the Worlds Around Us Reading Globally, Writing Locally: Naguib Mahfouz and the Literature of Africa Naguib Mahfouz, Half a Day Naguib Mahfouz, Zaabalawi Binyavanga Wainaina, How to Write about Africa Jeremy Cronin, To learn how to speak ... Chenjerai Hove, You Will Forget Working Further with the Literature of Africa 11. Spaces and Places: The World We Live in Imagining Spaces IN-BETWEEN SPACES Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Raymond Carver, Cathedral Sherman Alexie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona Robert Frost, Mending Wall James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Louise Erdrich, Dear John Wayne Yusuf Komunyakaa, Facing It Rachel Carson, fromThe Marginal World ***Studs Terkel, The Mason: Carl Murray Bates In-Between Spaces: Topics for Essays CONFINED SPACES Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper ***Daniel Orozco, Orientation Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House Malcolm X, fromThe Autobiography of Malcolm X Confined Spaces: Topics for Essays Working Further with the World We Live In Reading Globally, Writing Locally: Jhumpa Lahiri and the Literature of Asia Jhumpa Lahiri, My Two Lives Jhumpa Lahiri, When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper Garrett Hongo, Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? Xu Gang, Red Azalea on the Cliff Working Further with the Literature of Asia 12. Nature, Cities, and the Environment: The World We Share Imagining City and Nature Together LIVING IN THE CITY Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro ***Valzhyna Mort, New York Langston Hughes, Theme for English B ***David Ives, Sure Thing Bill Buford, Lions and Tigers and Bears Living in the City: Topics for Essays LIVING IN NATURE Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Three Projects Julio Cortazar, Axolotl T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake Basho, Four haiku Richard Wright, Haiku William Carlos Williams, so much depends Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish ***Kay Ryan, Turtle Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid Louis D. Owens, The American Indian Wilderness Donella Meadows, Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land Living in Nature: Topics for Essays Working Further with the World We Share Reading Globally, Writing Locally: Gabriel GarcIa Marquez and the Literature of the Americas Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Pablo Neruda, The Word Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans Tino Villanueva, Variation on a Theme by William Carlos Williams Working Further with the Literature of the Americas Appendix A: The World of Literary Criticism Appendix B: MLA Documentation Guidelines Glossary