Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, 13th Edition

Table of Contents

Preface
To the Instructor
About the Authors

  1. READING A STORY
  2. POINT OF VIEW
  3. CHARACTER
  4. SETTING
  5. TONE AND STYLE
  6. THEME
  7. SYMBOL
  8. READING LONG STORIES AND NOVELS
  9. GENRE FICTION
  10. LATIN AMERICAN FICTION
  11. CRITICAL CASEBOOK Flannery O’Connor
  12. CRITICAL CASEBOOK Three Stories in Depth
  13. STORIES FOR FURTHER READING
  14. READING A POEM
  15. LISTENING TO A VOICE
  16. WORDS
  17. SAYING AND SUGGESTING
  18. IMAGERY
  19. FIGURES OF SPEECH
  20. SONG
  21. SOUND
  22. RHYTHM
  23. CLOSED FORM
  24. OPEN FORM
  25. SYMBOL
  26. MYTH AND NARRATIVE
  27. POETRY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY
  28. TRANSLATION
  29. POETRY IN SPANISH: LITERATURE OF LATIN AMERICA
  30. RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE
  31. WHAT IS POETRY?
  32. THREE CRITICAL CASEBOOKS Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Robert Frost
  33. CRITICAL CASEBOOK T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
  34. POEMS FOR FURTHER READING
  35. READING A PLAY
  36. MODES OF DRAMA Tragedy and Comedy
  37. CRITICAL CASEBOOK Sophocles
  38. CRITICAL CASEBOOK Shakespeare
  39. THE MODERN THEATER
  40. EVALUATING A PLAY
  41. Plays for Further Reading
  42. WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
  43. WRITING ABOUT A STORY
  44. WRITING ABOUT A POEM
  45. WRITING ABOUT A PLAY
  46. WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER
  47. WRITING AS DISCOVERY Keeping a Journal
  48. WRITING AN ESSAY EXAM
  49. CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LITERATURE

TERMS FOR REVIEW
Glossary of Literary Terms
Literary Credits
Photo Credits
Index of Major Themes
Index of First Lines of Poetry
Index of Authors and Titles
Index of Literary Terms