Fiction 1
Chapter 1 Plot 1
Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm,Godfather Death 5
John Updike,A P 9
Anton Chekhov,Misery 19
Chapter 2 Point of View 27
Ernest Hemingway,Cat in the Rain 33
Edgar Allan Poe,The Tell-Tale Heart 38
Chapter 3 Character and Characterization 46
Katherine Anne Porter,The Jilting of Granny Weatherall 51
Edith Wharton,Roman Fever 64
Chapter 4 Setting 84
Kate Chopin,The Storm 88
John Steinbeck,Chrysanthemums 96
Chapter 5 Tone and Style 112
Kate Chopin,The Story of an Hour 117
Ernest Hemingway,A Clean,Well-Lighted Place 121
John Collier,The Chaser 128
Chapter 6 Theme 133
William Carlos Williams,The Use of Force 137
Alice Walker,Everyday Use 142
Chapter 7 Symbol 155
Langston Hughes,On the Road 158
William Faulkner,A Rose for Emily 165
Eudora Welty,A Worn Path 178
Poctry 191
Chapter 8 Reading a Poem 191
Langston Hughes,Harlem 196
Robert Frost, Out,Out— 197
Robert Browning,My Last Duchess 200
Li-young Lee,I Ask My Mother to Sing 203
Chapter 9 The Speaking Tone of Voice 204
Countee Cullen,For a Lady I Know 210
Mitsuye Yamada,To the Lady 211
Lyn Lifshin,My Mother and the Bed 213
Walter De La Mare,An Epitaph 215
Chapter 10 Figures of Speech 216
Sylvia Plath,Metaphors 225
Alfred,Lord Tennyson,The Eagle 226
William Wordsworth,London,1802 227
James Stephens,The Wind 228
N．Scott Momaday,Simile 228
Margaret Atwood,You Fit Into Me 229
William Shakespeare,Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day? 229
Howard Moss,Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day? 230
Chapter 11 Imagery and Symbolism 232
Ezra Pound,In a Station of the Metro 235
T．S．Eliot,The Winter Evening Settles Down 236
Wallace Stevens,The Emperor of Ice-Cream 237
Robert Frost,The Road Not Taken 238
T．S．Eliot,The Boston Evening Transcript 239
Sharon Olds,Rites of Passage 240
William Blake,The Tyger 241
Chapter 12 Irony 244
Daniel Halpern,How to Eat Alone 247
Edna St.Vincent Millay,Love Is Not All:It Is Not Meat nor Drink 249
W．H．Auden,The Unknown Citizen 250
Chapter 13 Sound 253
Galway Kinnell,Blackberry Eating 260
T．S．Eliot,Virginia 261
A．E．Housman,Eight O Clock 262
Robert Frost,Desert Places 262
Chapter 14 Rhythm 264
Thomas Hardy,The Man He Killed 269
Robert Frost,Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 270
Chapter 15 Stanzaic Forms 272
Dylan Thomas,Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 275
Michael Drayton,Since There Is No Help,Come Let Us Kiss and Part 277
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Grief 277
Edward Arlington Robinson,Richard Cory 278
Chapter 16 Open Form 280
Wallace Stevens,Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 284
Stephen Crane,The Heart 284
Drama 289
Chapter 17 The Elements of Drama 289
Susan Glaspell,Trifles 297
Chapter 18 Tragedy 332
John Millington Synge,Riders to the Sea 334
Chapter 19 Comedy 354
Wendy Wasserstein,The Man in a Case 357
Critical Approaches to Literature 369
Formalist(or New)Criticism 369
Marxist(or Sociological)Criticism 372
Structuralism 375
Post-structuralism 379
Deconstructionist Criticism 382
Psychoanalytical Criticism 384
Reader-Response Criticism 388
Feminist(Gender)Criticism 392
Mythic and Archetypal Criticism 395
Glossary of Literary Terms 399
Fictional Terms 399
Poetic Terms 406
Dramatic Terms 419
Bibliography 422