Literature: A Portable Anthology 5th Edition by Janet E. Gardner, ISBN-13: 978-1319215033

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Literature: A Portable Anthology 5th Edition by Janet E. Gardner, ISBN-13: 978-1319215033

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• Publisher: ‎ Bedford/St. Martin’s; Fifth edition (September 8, 2020)
• Language: ‎ English
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1319215033
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1319215033

Literature: A Portable Anthology features nearly 250 literary selections with thorough coverage of reading and writing about literature, all at an affordable price.

Table of Contents:

About this Book

Cover Page

Inside Front Cover

Haltitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface for Instructors

Brief Contents

Contents

Selections by Form and Theme

Part One: Reading and Writing about Literature

Chapter 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

Chapter 2: The Role of Good Reading

The Value of Rereading

Critical Reading

The Myth of “Hidden Meaning”

Active Reading

Annotating

Note-Taking

Journal Keeping

Using Reference Materials

Asking Critical Questions of Literature

Questions about the Text

Questions about the Author

Questions about the Cultural Context

Questions about the Reader

Chapter 3: The Writing Process

Prewriting

Choosing a Topic

Developing an Argument

The Thesis

Gathering Support for Your Thesis

Organizing Your Paper

Drafting the Paper

Introductions, Conclusions, and Transitions

Revising and Editing

Global Revision

Local Revision

Final Editing and Proofreading

Peer Editing and Workshops

Tips for Writing about Literature

Using Quotations Effectively

Avoiding Floating Quotations

Integrating Quotations

Adding to or Altering a Quotation

Omitting Words from a Quotation

Quotations within Quotations

Quotation Marks with Other Punctuation

Quoting From Stories

Short Quotations

Long Quotations

Quoting From Poems

Short Quotations

Long Quotations

Quoting From Plays

Short Single-Speaker Passages

Longer or More Complex Passages

Verse Drama

Tips for Quoting

Formatting Your Paper

Chapter 4: Common Writing Assignments

Summary

Response

Explication

Analysis

Comparison and Contrast

Essay Exams

Open-Book versus Closed-Book Exams

Develop a Plan

Aim for Clarity

Watch the Time

Chapter 5: Writing about Stories

Elements of Fiction

Plot

Character

Point of View

Setting

Theme

Symbolism

Style

Stories for Analysis

Student Essay: An Essay that Compares and Contrasts

Chapter 6: Writing about Poems

Elements of Poetry

The Speaker

The Listener

Imagery

Sound and Sense

Two Poems for Analysis

Student Essay: An Explication

Chapter 7: Writing about Plays

Elements of Drama

Plot, Character, and Theme

Diction

Spectacle

Setting

How to Read a Play

Watching the Play

The Director’s Vision

Student Essay: An Analysis

Chapter 8: Writing a Literary Research Paper

Finding Sources

Online Indexes

Using the Best Search Terms

Evaluating the Results

Periodicals

Books

Interlibrary Loan

The Internet

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

Sample Research Paper

Chapter 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 García 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 Díaz, Fiesta, 1980

Maile Meloy, Tome

Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

Zz Packer, Brownies

Adrian Tomine, Echo Ave.

Chimamanda 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

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

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, July 10th, 1666

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 Khan

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?

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, Because I could not stop for Death

Emily Dickinson, There’s a certain Slant of light

Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky

Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Windhover

A. E. Housman, To an Athlete Dying Young

William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree

William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

William Butler Yeats, Leda and the Swan

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory

Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear the Mask

Robert Frost, After Apple-Picking

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night

Rainer Maria Rilke, Archaic Torso of Apollo

Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Guillaume Apollinaire, Il Pleut/It’s Raining

Mina Loy, Moreover, the Moon —

William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow

William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say

Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Helen

Marianne Moore, Poetry

T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Claude Mckay, America

Edna St. Vincent Millay, What lips my lips have kissed

Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est

E. E. Cummings, in Just-

E. E. Cummings, “next to of course god america i

Federico García Lorca, Dawn

Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues

Langston Hughes, Theme for English B

Langston Hughes, Harlem

Countee Cullen, Incident

Pablo Neruda, Body of a Woman

W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues

Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz

Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish

Elizabeth Bishop, One Art

Czesław Miłosz, Dedication

Robert Hayden, Middle Passage

Muriel Rukeyser, Waiting for Icarus

Dudley Randall, Ballad of Birmingham

William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark

Randall Jarrell, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night

Gwendolyn Brooks, the mother

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool

Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead

Denise Levertov, The Ache of Marriage

Jack Gilbert, Failing and Flying

Maxine Kumin, Morning Swim

Frank O’Hara, The Day Lady Died

Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California

Galway Kinnell, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

Galway Kinnell, When one has lived a long time alone

John Ashbery, They Knew What They Wanted

W. S. Merwin, One of the Butterflies

James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

Philip Levine, What Work Is

Anne Sexton, Cinderella

Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck

Etheridge Knight, Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane

Linda Pastan, love poem

Sylvia Plath, Morning Song

Sylvia Plath, Daddy

Audre Lorde, Coal

Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

Lucille Clifton, at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989

Lucille Clifton, homage to my hips

C. K. Williams, On the Métro

Charles Simic, Eyes Fastened with Pins

Seamus Heaney, Digging

Seamus Heaney, Mid-Term Break

Robert Pinsky, Shirt

Mahmoud Darwish, Identity Card

Billy Collins, Forgetfulness

Toi Derricotte, A Note on My Son’s Face

Richard Garcia, Why I Left the Church

Sharon Olds, I Go Back to May 1937

Louise Glück, Mock Orange

Quincy Troupe, A Poem For “Magic”

Bernadette Mayer, Sonnet

Marilyn Nelson, Emmett Till’s name still catches in my throat,

Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It

Jane Kenyon, Happiness

Linda Hogan, Crow Law

Victor Hernández Cruz, Problems with Hurricanes

Carolyn Forché, The Boatman

Jorie Graham, Prayer

Linda Gregerson, Prodigal

Marie Howe, Death, the last visit

Dana Gioia, Majority

Joy Harjo, Fear Poem, or I Give You Back

Jimmy Santiago Baca, Family Ties

Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica

Naomi Shihab Nye, Gate A-4

Gary Soto, Moving Away

Mary Ruefle, Rain Effect

Rita Dove, Fifth Grade Autobiography

Alberto Ríos, Nani

Cherríe Moraga, Loving in the War Years

Harryette Mullen, Elliptical

Mark Doty, A Display of Mackerel

Tony Hoagland, History of Desire

Louise Erdrich, Indian Boarding School: The Runaways

Kim Addonizio, First Kiss

Patricia Smith, Skinhead

Marilyn Chin, How I Got That Name

Cathy Song, Heaven

Martín Espada, Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100

Li-Young Lee, Eating Alone

Kathy Fish, Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild

Claudia Rankine, (“You are in the dark, in the car …”) ​

Spencer Reece, The Clerk’s Tale

A. Van Jordan, from

Taylor Mali, What Teachers Make

Margaret Noodin, Agoozimakakiig Idiwag / What the Peepers Say

Natasha Trethewey, History Lesson

Sherman Alexie, Postcards to Columbus

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Unidentified Female Student, Former Slave

Allison Joseph, On Being Told I Don’t Speak Like a Black Person

Adrienne Su, Substitutions

Brian Turner, What Every Soldier Should Know

Suji Kwock Kim, Occupation

Terrance Hayes, Talk

Monica Youn, Goldacre

Jen Bervin, 64

Oliver De La Paz, Autism Screening Questionnaire — Speech and Language Delay

Tracy Smith, Declaration

Eduardo Corral, In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes

Ross Gay, A Small Needful Fact

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Self-Portrait as Scallop

Katy Didden, “Embrace Them All”

Jericho Brown, Bullet Points

Mahogany L. Browne, Black Girl Magic

Ada Limón, How to Triumph Like a Girl

Matthew Olzmann, Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz

Aracelis Girmay, Ode to the Watermelon

Ilya Kaminsky, We Lived Happily during the War

Maggie Smith, Good Bones

Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

Jenny Johnson, Tail

Amit Majmudar, Arms and the Man

Tarfia Faizullah, En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith

Patricia Lockwood, Rape Joke

Jacob Saenz, Blue Line Incident

Ocean Vuong, Aubade with Burning City

Kaveh Akbar, Portrait of the Alcoholic with Relapse Fantasy

Fatimah Asghar, Pluto Shits on the Universe

Danez Smith, alternate names for black boys

Javier Zamora, El Salvador

Noah Baldino, Passing

Layli Long Soldier, 38

Part Four: 9 Plays

Sophocles, Oedipus the King

William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice

Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House

Susan Glaspell, Trifles

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

August Wilson, Fences

Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics

Neena Beber, Misreadings

Lynn Nottage, Sweat

Biographical Notes on the Authors

Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms

Acknowledgments

Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines

Inside Back Cover

Back Cover

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