The Norton introduction to literature - Mays, Kelly J. (New York W.W. Norton & Company, 2013)
Fiction : reading, responding, writing. Telling stories : an album -- Understanding the text. Plot ; Initiation stories : an album ; Narration and point of view ; Character ; Monsters : an album ; Setting ; Symbol and figurative language ; Theme ; Cross-cultural encounters : an album ; The longer work -- Exploring contexts. The author's work as context : Flannery O'Connor ; The author's work as context : James Joyce's Dubliners ; Cultural and historical contexts : women in turn-of-the-century America ; Cultural and historical contexts : the jazz age ; Critical contexts: William Faulkner's "A rose for Emily" -- Reading more fiction -- Poetry : reading, responding, writing. The art of (reading) poetry : an album -- Understanding the text. Speaker : whose voice do we hear? ; Exploring gender : an album ; Situation and setting : What happens? When? Where? ; Homelands : an album ; Theme and tone ; Family : an album ; Language : word choice and order ; Visual imagery and figures of speech ; Symbol ; The sounds of poetry ; Word and music : an album ; Internal structure ; External form ; The sonnet : an album ; Haiku : an album ; The longer work -- Exploring contexts. The author's work as context : Adrienne Rich ; Emily Dickinson : an album ; W. B. Yeats : an album ; Pat Mora : an album ; The author's work as context : Wlllliam Blake's Songs of innocence and of experience ; Literary tradition as context ; Garden of Eden : an album ; Cultural and historical contexts : the Harlem Renaissance ; Critical contexts : Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" -- . Reading more poetry -- Drama : reading, responding, writing. Understanding the text. Elements of drama ; Tragedy and comedy -- Exploring contexts. The author's work as context : William Shakespeare ; Performance as context ; Cultural and historical contexts : Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the sun ; Critical contexts : Sophocles's Antigone -- Reading more drama -- Writing about literature. Paraphrase, summary, description ; The elements of the essay ; The writing process ; The research essay ; Quotation, citation, and documentation ; Sample research paper -- Critical approaches -- Glossary
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Literature -- Collections