Literature An Introduction To Fiction Poetry Drama And Writing 14th Edition Pdf Download

<div>Note: Contents data are machine generated based on pre-publication provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.</div><div></div><div>ContentsPreface xlvTo the Instructor xlixAbout the Authors lxiFiction1Reading a Story 3Fable, Parable, and Tale 4W. Somerset Maugham n The Appointment in Samarra 4A servant tries to gallop away from Death in this brief sardonic fable retold in memorable form by a popular storyteller.Aesop n The North Wind and the Sun 5The North Wind and the Sun argue who is stronger and decide to try their powers on an unsuspecting traveler.Bidpai n The Camel and His Friends 6With friends like these, you can guess what the camel doesn't need. Chuang Tzu n Independence 8The Prince of Ch'u asks the philosopher Chuang Tzu to become his advisor and gets a surprising reply in this classic Chinese fable.Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm n Godfather Death 9Neither God nor the Devil came to the christening. In this stark folktale,a young man receives magical powers with a string attached.Plot 11The Short Story 13John Updike n A & P 14In walk three girls in nothing but bathing suits, and Sammy finds himself no longer an aproned checkout clerk but an armored knight.Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing John Updike n Why Write? 20Writing About PlotPaying Attention to Plot 20ChecklistAnalyzing Plot 21Writing Assignment on Plot 22More Topics for Writing 222Point of View 23William Faulkner n A Rose for Emily 28Proud, imperious Emily Grierson defied the town from the fortress of her mansion. Who could have guessed the secret that lay within?Anne Tyler n Teenage Wasteland 35With her troubled son, his teachers, and a peculiar tutor all giving her their own versions of what's going on with him, what's a mother to do?James Baldwin n Sonny's Blues 43Two brothers in Harlem see life differently. The older brother is the sensible family man, but Sonny wants to be a jazz musician.Eudora Welty n A Worn Path 64When the man said to old Phoenix, "you must be a hundred years old, and scared of nothing," he might have been exaggerating, but not by much.Writing EffectivelyWriters on WritingJames Baldwin n Race and the African American Writer 70Writing about Point of ViewHow Point of View Shapes a Story 71ChecklistUnderstanding Point of View 71Writing Assignment on Point of View 72More Topics for Writing 723Character 73Katherine Anne Porter n The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 76For sixty years Ellen Weatherall has fought back the memory of that terrible day, but now once more the priest waits in the house.Katherine Mansfield n Miss Brill 83Sundays had long brought joy to solitary Miss Brill, until one fateful day when she happened to share a bench with two lovers in the park.Tobias Wolff n The Rich Brother 86Blood may be thicker than water, but sometimes the tension between brothers is thicker than blood.Raymond Carver n Cathedral 98He had never expected to find himself trying to describe a cathedral to a blind man. He hadn't even wanted to meet this odd, old friend of his wife.Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Raymond Carver n Commonplace but Precise Language 109Writing About Character How Character Creates Action 110Checklist Writing About Character 110Writing Assignment on Character 110More Topics for Writing 1114Setting 112Kate Chopin n The Storm 115Even with her husband away, Calixta feels happily, securely married. Why then should she not shelter an old admirer from the rain?Jack London n To Build a Fire 119Seventy-five degrees below zero. Alone except for one mistrustful wolf dog,a man finds himself battling a relentless force.T. Coraghessan Boyle n Greasy Lake 130Murky and strewn with beer cans, the lake appears a wasteland. On its shore three "dangerous characters" learn a lesson one grim night.Amy Tan n A Pair of Tickets 137A young woman flies with her father to China to meet two half sisters she never knew existed.Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Amy Tan n Setting the Voice 150Writing about Setting The Importance of Setting 151Checklist Analyzing Setting 152Writing Assignment on Setting 152More Topics for Writing 1525Tone and Style 153Ernest Hemingway n A Clean, Well-Lighted Place 156All by himself each night, the old man lingers in the bright cafø. What does he need more than brandy? William Faulkner n Barn Burning 160This time when Ab Snopes wields his blazing torch, his son Sarty faces a dilemma: whether to obey or defy the vengeful old man.Irony 172O. Henry n The Gift of the Magi 174A young husband and wife find ingenious ways to buy each other Christmas presents, in the classic story that defines the word "irony."Ha Jin n Saboteur 178When the police unfairly arrest Mr. Chiu, he hopes for justice. After witnessing their brutality, he quietly plans revenge.Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Ernest Hemingway n The Direct Style 186Writing About Tone and Style Be Style-Conscious 186Checklist Thinking About Tone and Style 187Writing Assignment on Tone and Style 187More Topics for Writing 1886Theme 189Stephen Crane n The Open Boat 191In a lifeboat circled by sharks, tantalized by glimpses of land, a reporter scrutinizes Fate and learns about comradeship.Alice Munro n How I Met My Husband 208When Edie meets the carnival pilot, her life gets more complicated than she expects.Luke 15:11/32 n The Parable of the Prodigal Son 220A father has two sons. One demands his inheritance now and leaves to spend it with ruinous results.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. n Harrison Bergeron 221Are you handsome? Off with your eyebrows! Are you brainy? Let a transmitter sound thought-shattering beeps inside your ear.Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. n The Themes of Science Fiction 226Writing about theme Stating the Theme 227CheckList Determining a Story's Theme 228Writing Assignment on Theme 228More Topics for Writing 2287Symbol 229John Steinbeck n The Chrysanthemums 231Fenced-in Elisa feels emotionally starved; then her life promises to blossom with the arrival of the scissors-grinding man.Shirley Jackson n The Lottery 239Splintered and faded, the sinister black box had worked its annual terror for longer than anyone in town could remember.Elizabeth Tallent n No One's a Mystery 245A two-page story speaks volumes about an open-hearted girl and her married lover.Ursula K. Le Guin n The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas 248Omelas is the perfect city. All of its inhabitants are happy. But everyone's prosperity depends on a hidden evil.writing effectivelyWriters on Writing Shirley Jackson n Biography of a Story 253Writing About Symbols Recognizing Symbols 255ChecklistThinking About Symbols 256Writing Assignment on Symbols 256Student Paper n an analysis of the symbolism in steinbeck's "the chrysanthemums" 256More Topics for Writing 2588Evaluating a Story 260Yiyun Li n A Thousand Years of Good Prayers 262An elderly Chinese man wants to help his Americanized daughter find happiness, but are there too many secrets standing in the way?Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Yiyun Li n What I Could Not Write About Was Why I was Writing 271Writing an Evaluation Judging a Story's Value 272Checklist Evaluating a Story 273Writing Assignment on Evaluating a story 273More Topics for Writing 2749Reading Long Stories and Novels 275Leo Tolstoy n The Death of Ivan Ilych 280The supreme Russian novelist tells how a petty, ambitious judge, near the end of his wasted life, discovers a harrowing truth.Franz Kafka n The Metamorphosis 317"When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect." Kafka's famous opening sentence introduces one of the most chilling stories in world literature.Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Franz Kafka n Discussing The Metamorphosis 348Writing About Long Stories and Novels Knowing What to Leave Out 349Checklist Organizing Your Ideas for a Research Paper 349Writing Assignment for a research paper 349Student Research Paper n kafka's greatnessMore Topics for Writing 35610Critical Casebook: Flannery O'Connor 357Flannery O'Connor n A Good Man Is Hard to Find 358Wanted: The Misfit, a cold-blooded killer. An ordinary family vacation leads to horror; and one moment of redeeming grace.Flannery O'Connor n Revelation 368Mrs. Turpin thinks herself Jesus' favorite child, until she meets a troubled college girl. Soon violence flares in a doctor's waiting room.Flannery O'Connor n Parker's Back 382A tormented man tries to find his way to God and to his wife; by having himself tattooed.Flannery O'Connor on WritingFrom "on her own work" 396on her catholic faith 398From "the grotesque in southern fiction" 399yearbook cartoons 401Critics on Flannery O'ConnorRobert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. n Flannery O'Connor and Her Readers 402J. O. Tate n A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit 404Mary Jane Schenck n Deconstructing "A Good Man Is Hardto Find" 407Kathleen Feeley n The Mystery of Divine Direction: "Parker's Back" 408Writing EffectivelyWriting About an Author How One Story Illuminates Another 409Checklist Reading an Author in Depth 410Writing Assignment on an Author 410More Topics for Writing 41011Critical Casebook: Three Stories in Depth 412Edgar Allan Poe 412the tell-tale heart 413The smoldering eye at last extinguished, a murderer finds that, despite all his attempts at a cover-up, his victim will be heard.Edgar Allan Poe on Writingthe tale and its effect 417on imagination 418the philosophy of composition 418Critics on "The Tell-Tale Heart"Daniel Hoffman n the father-figure in "the tell-tale heart" 419Scott Peeples n "The Tell-Tale Heart" as a Love Story 421John Chua n The Figure of the Double in Poe 421Charlotte Perkins Gilman 424the yellow wallpaper 424A doctor prescribes a "rest cure" for his wife after the birth of their child. The new mother tries to settle in to life in the isolated and mysterious country house they have rented for the summer. The cure proves worse than the disease in this Gothic classic.Charlotte Perkins Gilman on WritingWhy I Wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" 435Whatever Is 436The Nervous Breakdown of Women 437Critics on "The Yellow Wallpaper"Juliann Fleenor n Gender and Pathology in "The Yellow Wallpaper" 438Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar n Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement 439Elizabeth Ammons n Biographical Echoes in "The Yellow Wallpaper" 441Alice Walker 443everyday use 443When successful Dee visits from the city, she has changed her name to reflect her African roots. Her mother and sister notice other things have changed, too.Alice Walker on WritingThe Black Woman Writer in America 449Reflections on Writing 451Critics on "Everyday Use"Barbara T. Christian n "Everyday Use" and the Black Power Movement 453Houston A. Baker and Charlotte Pierce-Baker n Stylish vs. Sacred in "Everyday Use" 455Elaine Showalter n Quilt as Metaphor in "Everyday Use" 459Writing EffectivelyTopics for Writing on "The Tell-Tale Heart" 461Topics for Writing on "The Yellow Wallpaper" 461Topics for Writing on "Everyday Use" 46112Stories for Further Reading 462Chinua Achebe n Dead Men's Path 462The new headmaster of the village school was determined to fight superstition, but the villagers did not agree.Anjana Appachana n The Prophecy 465Seventeen years old and pregnant, Amrita doesn't know what to do, but before she visits the gynecologist, she consults a fortune teller.Margaret Atwood n Happy Endings 476John and Mary meet. What happens next? This witty experimental story offers five different outcomes.Ambrose Bierce n An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 479At last, Peyton Farquhar's neck is in the noose. Reality mingles with dream in this classic story of the American Civil War.Jorge Luis Borges n The Gospel According to Mark 485A young man from Buenos Aires is trapped by a flood on an isolated ranch. To pass the time he reads the Gospel to a family with unforeseen results.Willa Cather n Paul's Case 489Paul's teachers can't understand the boy. Then one day, with stolen cash, he boards a train for New York and the life of his dreams.John Cheever n The Five-Forty-Eight 503After their brief affair, Blake fired his secretary. He never expected she would seek revenge.Anton Chekhov n The Lady with the Pet Dog 512Lonely and bored at a seaside resort, a couple seeks a merely casual affair. How could they know it might deepen and trouble their separate marriages?Kate Chopin n The Story of an Hour 523"There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name."Sandra Cisneros n The House on Mango Street 525Does where we live tell what we are? A little girl dreams of a new house, but things don't always turn out the way we want them to.Ralph Ellison n Battle Royal 526A young black man is invited to deliver his high school graduation speechto a gathering of a Southern town's leading white citizens. What promisesto be an honor turns into a nightmare of violence, humiliation, and painful self-discovery.Gabriel Garcøa Mørquez n The Handsomest Drowned Man inthe World 536Even in death, a mysterious stranger has a profound effect on all of the people in the village.Dagoberto Gilb n Look on the Bright Side 540"You have to look on the bright side" is the motto of this story's narrator, but that gets harder and harder to do as things just keep on getting worse.Nathaniel Hawthorne n Young Goodman Brown 548Urged on through deepening woods, a young Puritan sees; or dreams he sees; good villagers hasten toward a diabolic rite.Zora Neale Hurston n Sweat 558Delia's hard work paid for her small house. Now her drunken husband Sykes has promised it to another woman.Kazuo Ishiguro n A Family Supper 566Something very odd lurks beneath the surface of this family supper, and it might prove fatal.James Joyce n Araby 573If only he can find her a token, she might love him in return. As night falls,a Dublin boy hurries to make his dream come true.Jamaica Kincaid n Girl 578"Try to walk like a lady, and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming." An old-fashioned mother tells her daughter how to live.Jhumpa Lahiri n Interpreter of Maladies 579Mr. Kapasi's life had settled into a quiet pattern; and then Mrs. Das and her family came into it.D. H. Lawrence n The Rocking-Horse Winner 593Wild-eyed "as if something were going to explode in him," the boy predicts each winning horse, and gamblers rush to bet a thousand pounds.Bobbie Ann Mason n Shiloh 604After the accident Leroy could no longer work as a truck driver. He hoped to make a new life with his wife, but she seemed strangely different.Joyce Carol Oates n Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? 613Alone in the house, Connie finds herself helpless before the advances of a spellbinding imitation teenager, Arnold Friend.Tim O'Brien n The Things They Carried 625What each soldier carried into the combat zone was largely determined by necessity, but each man's necessities differed. Tillie Olsen n I Stand Here Ironing 637Deserted by her husband, forced to send away her child, a woman remembers how both she and her daughter managed to survive.Octavio Paz n My Life with the Wave 642Meet the oddest couple ever, in this story by a Nobel Prize-winning poet.Leslie Marmon Silko n The Man to Send Rain Clouds 646When old Teofilo dies, his friends give him a tribal burial to ensure that the rains will come for the pueblo. But can they also convince Father Paul to take part in the pagan ceremony?Helena Marøa Viramontes n The Moths 649An angry adolescent performs a final act of love for the grandmother who made her feel "safe and guarded and not alone."Poetry13Reading a Poem 659William Butler Yeats n The Lake Isle of Innisfree 661Lyric Poetry 663D. H. Lawrence n Piano 664Adrienne Rich n Aunt Jennifer's Tigers 664Narrative Poetry 665Anonymous n Sir Patrick Spence 665Robert Frost n "Out, Out; " 667Dramatic Poetry 668Robert Browning n My Last Duchess 668Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Adrienne Rich n Recalling "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" 671Writing a Paraphrase Can a Poem Be Paraphrased? 671William Stafford n Ask Me 671William Stafford n A Paraphrase of "Ask Me" 672Checklist Paraphrasing a Poem 673Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing 673More Topics for Writing 67314Listening to a Voice 674Tone 674Theodore Roethke n My Papa's Waltz 674Countee Cullen n For a Lady I Know 675Anne Bradstreet n The Author to Her Book 676Walt Whitman n To a Locomotive in Winter 677Emily Dickinson n I like to see it lap the Miles 678Benjamin Alire Søenz n To the Desert 679Weldon Kees n For My Daughter 679The Person in the Poem 680Natasha Trethewey n White Lies 680Edwin Arlington Robinson n Luke Havergal 682Ted Hughes n Hawk Roosting 683Suji Kwock Kim n Monologue for an Onion 684William Wordsworth n I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 685Dorothy Wordsworth n Journal Entry 686James Stephens n A Glass of Beer 686Anne Sexton n Her Kind 687William Carlos Williams n The Red Wheelbarrow 688Irony 688Robert Creeley n Oh No 688W. H. Auden n The Unknown Citizen 690Sharon Olds n Rites of Passage 691John Betjeman n In Westminster Abbey 692Sarah N. Cleghorn n The Golf Links 693Edna St. Vincent Millay n Second Fig 693Joseph Stroud n Missing 694Thomas Hardy n The Workbox 694For Review and Further Study William Blake n The Chimney Sweeper 695David Lehman n Rejection Slip 696William Stafford n At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border 697H. L. Hix n I Love the World, As Does Any Dancer 697Richard Lovelace n To Lucasta 698Wilfred Owen n Dulce et Decorum Est 698Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Wilfred Owen n War Poetry 699Writing About Voice Listening to Tone 700Checklist Analyzing Tone 701Writing Assignment on Tone 701Student Paper n Word Choice, Tone, and Point of View in Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz" 702More Topics for Writing 70515Words 706Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First 706William Carlos Williams n This Is Just to Say 707Marianne Moore n Silence 708Robert Graves n Down, Wanton, Down! 709John Donne n Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You 709The Value of a Dictionary 710Henry Wadsworth Longfellow n Aftermath 711John Clare n Mouse's Nest 712J. V. Cunningham n Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead 713Kelly Cherry n Advice to a Friend Who Paints 714Carl Sandburg n Grass 714Word Choice and Word Order 714Robert Herrick n Upon Julia's Clothes 716Kay Ryan n Blandeur 718Thomas Hardy n The Ruined Maid 719Richard Eberhart n The Fury of Aerial Bombardment 720Wendy Cope n Lonely Hearts 721For Review and Further Study E. E. Cummings n anyone lived in a pretty how town 722Billy Collins n The Names 723Anonymous n Carnation Milk 724Kenneth Rexroth n Vitamins and Roughage 725Gina Valdøs n English con Salsa 725Lewis Carroll n Jabberwocky 726Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Lewis Carroll n Humpty Dumpty Explicates "Jabberwocky" 727Writing About Diction Every Word Counts 728Checklist Thinking About Word Choice 729Writing Assignment on Word Choice 729More Topics for Writing 73016Saying and Suggesting 731John Masefield n Cargoes 732William Blake n London 733Wallace Stevens n Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock 735Gwendolyn Brooks n Southeast Corner 735Timothy Steele n Epitaph 736E. E. Cummings n next to of course god america i 736Robert Frost n Fire and Ice 737Clare Rossini n Final Love Note 737Jennifer Reeser n Winter-proof 738Alfred, Lord Tennyson n Tears, Idle Tears 738Richard Wilbur n Love Calls Us to the Things of This World 739Writing EffectivelyWriters on Writing Richard Wilbur n Concerning "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World" 740Writing About Denotation and Connotation The Ways a Poem Suggests 741Checklist Analyzing What a Poem Says and Suggests 742Writing Assignment on Denotation and Connotation 742More Topics for Writing 74217Imagery 743Ezra Pound n In a Station of the Metro 743Taniguchi Buson n The piercing chill I feel 743T. S. Eliot n The winter evening settles down 745Theodore Roethke n Root Cellar 745Elizabeth Bishop n</div>