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"Literature A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays is an exciting new full-color introduction to literature anthology with compelling visual pedagogy and a rich selection of thematically organized readings that make new literature familiar and familiar literature new.  An extensive writing handbook shows students how to read critically and guides them through the process of writing arguments using dynamic visual tools to convey key concepts.  Outstanding selections, engaging visual pedagogy, superior writing instruction – all for 20% less than comparable texts!  Key concepts are presented visually using idea maps, fill-in boxes, and annotations that enable students to grasp main ideas more effectively.  Diverse texts are presented in four casebooks called, ""Reading Globally, Writing Locally."""

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Author:   David L. Pike ,  Ana Acosta
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   1.315kg
ISBN:  

9780321364890

ISBN 10:   0321364899
Pages:   736
Publication Date:   25 August 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9780205886234
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

PART I.  A Reader’s Guide to the World of Writing   1.      A World of Meaning: Reading and Thinking about Literature   Meaningless Words and the World of Meaning       Literary Form and Assumptions about Meaning       The Point of Literary Meaning       Forming Literary Meaning Making Sense       Making Meaning out of Misunderstanding                   Roberto Fernández,  Wrong Channel       Deciphering Meaning: The Riddle Game             The Riddle as a Literary Device                  Sylvia Plath,  Metaphors        Making and Breaking the Rules                   Carol Shields,  Absence       Reading for What Does Not Make Sense    Writer at Work: The Reading Process                   Sharon Olds,  The Possessive STUDENT WRITING: Justin Schiel reads and annotates  The Possessive           Clarity and Ambiguity of Language             Working with Ambiguity in Literary Writing             Reading versus Writing             Working with Clarity in Nonliterary Writing: The Summary                   STUDENT WRITING: Four Summaries of  The Possessive             Clarity and Ambiguity in Storytelling                   Franz Kafka,  Before the Law                   STUDENT WRITING: Two Summaries of  Before the Law                   Ursula K. Le Guin,  The Wife’s Story             Clarity and Ambiguity of Argument: Summarizing an Essay                   Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks,  I Hate Trees STUDENT WRITING: Melissa Kim, A Summary of Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks’s  I Hate Trees       Clarity and Ambiguity in Visual Culture             Visual Assumptions             Writing a Summary of an Image                   Cornelis Gijsbrechts, Letter Rack with Christian V’s Proclamation STUDENT WRITING: Alan Green, A Summary of Letter Rack with Christian V’s Proclamation   Looking Back: A World of Meaning               2.    Writing in the World: Argument, Critical Thinking, and the Process of Writing               Crafting an Argument                   May Sarton,  The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life             Analyzing an Argumentative Essay             Making Your Own Argument             Argument versus Thesis             From Idea to Thesis                   Chinua Achebe,  Dead Men’s Path                                Critical Thinking: Reading, Questioning, Writing           Writer at Work: Critical Thinking from First Impressions to Finished Paper             Mary Oliver,  August             Student Writer Katherine Randall, sample writing drafts         to final paper.       Reading       Questioning       Writing       Critical Thinking in a Comparison Paper                   Ellen Hunnicutt,  Blackberries               Leslie Norris,  Blackberries                                                           STUDENT WRITING: Cynthia Wilson, Leave the Picking to the Boys       Thinking Critically about Visual Culture             Thinking Critically about Signs   Looking Back: Writing in the World      3.    Investigating the World: Planning, Writing, and Revising a Research Paper         Finding a Topic       Finding, Evaluating, and Summarizing Your Sources in the Annotated Bibliography             Primary Sources and Secondary Sources             The MLA Works-Cited List             Plagiarism and How to Avoid It             The Annotated Bibliography STUDENT WRITING: Lorraine Betesh, Annotated Bibliography–Source #1       From the Annotated Bibliography to the First Draft             Making an Outline STUDENT WRITING: Lorraine Betesh, The Brooklyn Bridge in Illustrations and Photographs–An Outline             Writing a First Draft             MLA In-Text Citations        Writer at Work: Revising                                                                                                                   Revising the initial  draft                                                                                                             A STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER USING VISUAL MEDIA: Lorraine Betesh, The Brooklyn Bridge in Illustrations and Photographs        A STUDENT RESEARCH LITERARY ANALYSIS PAPER: Rob Lanney, Hamlet’s Denmark             Looking Back: Investigating the World     4.      Organizing the World of Literature: Genre         Plot Conventions and Expectations                                                 Margaret Atwood,  Happy Endings Comparing Genres                   N.Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain   What Is Poetry?                                                                                       Prosody: An Introduction                    Samuel Taylor Coleridge,  Metrical Feet — Lesson for a Boy             Poetic Diction             Poetic Forms       What Is Fiction?                                                                                       Fiction and History             Types of Fiction             The Craft of Fiction                         Padgett Powell,  A Gentleman’s C              The Materials of Fiction             The Tools of Fiction       What Is a Play?                                                                                                   Susan Glaspell, Trifles              Dramatic Structure             Characters             Staging                 Form and Genre             Tragedy             Comedy             What Is Nonfiction?                                                                                                                     The Essay        Virginia Woolf,  The Death of the Moth                                 Annie Dillard, The Death of a Moth                   Analyzing an Essays   Writer at Work: Reading and Writing Essays STUDENT WRITING: Scott Nathanson,  The Meaning of Death   Types of Essays       What Are Visual Media?             Still Images             Sequential Images             Moving Images             Interactive Images   Looking Back: Organizing the World of Literature   Part II.  The Writer’s World:  Genres and the Craft of Literature      5.    Imaging the World: Exploring the Forms of Literature   Imagining the World: Working with Poetry               Writer at Work: Three Poems about Social Relations                                 William Blake,  London                          Robert Frost,  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening                          Mary Oliver,  Singapore        STUDENT WRITING: Summaries of  London,   Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,  and  Singapore       STUDENT WRITING: A Comparison of  London,   Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,  and  Singapore   Describing the World: Working with Stories          Writer at Work: The Power of Description                                 Julia Alvarez,  Snow     STUDENT WRITING: A Descriptive Essay                               Staging the World: Working with Plays                    Writer at Work: Viewing and Writing about a Performance of Krapp’s Last Tape                                 Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape        Notes on Krapp’s Last Tape, directed by Atom Egoyan, by Joshua Cohen      Response Paper on Krapp’s Last Tape, directed by Atom Egoyan, by       Joshua Cohen             Explaining the World: Working with Essays              Writer at Work:  Arguing with an Essay                                                                                                                 George Packer,  How Susie Bayer’s T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama’s Back                                         STUDENT WRITING: An Argumentative Essay on  How Susie Bayer’s T- Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama’s Back                                               Writer at Work: Topics for essays     6.     Writing the World: Working with Literary Devices             Literary Devices             Patterns of Repetition             Patterns of Inversion             Patterns of Contradiction             Ambiguity and Double Meaning             Imagery             Referring to Other Texts             Word Pictures                         John Keats, Drawing of the Sosibios Vase                                                 John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn                   Hiram Power, Greek Slave                                     Elizabeth Barrett Browning, On Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave                   Peter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus                   William Carlos Williams, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus                   W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts                   Michael Hamburger, Lines on Brueghel’s Icarus”                   Akira Kurosawa, movie still from The Seven Samurai                   Robert Hass, Heroic Simile                   Writing the World: Topics for Essays       7.     Translating the World: Reading and Writing between Languages          I Hate and Love: A Casebook on Translation  Catullus: Poem 85 with interlinear and literal translation Richard Lovelace,  I hate and love Walter Landor,  I love and hate Ezra Pound,  I hate and love Peter Whigham,  I hate and I love Charles Martin,  I hate & love Frank Bidart,  Catullus: Odi et Amo,   Catullus: Excrucior Miriam Sagan,  Translating Catullus Translation and Bilingualism Mary TallMountain,  There Is No Word for Goodbye  [Native American] Wilfrid Owen,  Dulce et decorum est  Michael Martone,  The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a Night in December in 1976  Amy Tan, from Mother Tongue         Translating the World: Topics for Essays      PART III.  The Reader’s World: Exploring the Themes of Literature          8.  The World Closest to Us: Me and You                                           Families                         Fiction                                             Julio Cortázar, Unusual Occupations                   Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find  James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues  Jonathan Safran Foer, Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease  Alice Walker, Everyday Use                                            Poetry                                 Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays   Lucille Clifton, wishes for sons   Kitty Tsui, A Chinese Banquet                         PLAY William Shakespeare, Hamlet                         Nonfiction                                     Scott Russell Sanders, Buckeye   Families: Topics for essays   Children and Adolescents                              Fiction Jamaica Kincaid, Girl                      Lorrie Moore, The Kid’s Guide to Divorce  James Joyce, Araby  John Updike, A&P                                      Poetry Elizabeth Bishop, In the Waiting Room  Anne Sexton, Little Red Riding Hood Agha Shahid Ali, The Wolf’s Postscript to Little Red Riding Hood Gary Soto, Behind Grandma’s House                    NonFiction Langston Hughes, Salvation   Children and Adolescents: Topics for essays   Lovers                         Fiction Dorothy Parker, The Waltz  John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums Amanda Holzer,  ove and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape                         Poetry Uruttiran, What She Said to Her Girl Friend  Ono no Komachi, selected tanka Sara Teasdale, The Look  William Shakespeare,       Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116)       When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29)       How oft when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128) John Donne, The Flea  Jimmy Santiago Baca, Spliced Wire Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee  T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock                                                       Nonfiction       Sei Shonagon, from The Pillow Book   Lovers: Topics for essays Working further with the World Closest to Us    Reading Globally, Writing Locally I: Orhan Pamuk and the Literature of Europe               Nonfiction Orhan Pamuk, My Father’s Suitcase                    Fiction Orhan Pamuk, To Look Out The Window                            Julio Cortázar, Axolotl                                                                             Poetry Eleni Fourtouni, Child’s Memory  CzesBaw MiBosz, My Faithful Mother Tongue    Working further with the literature of Europe     9.  The Worlds around Us: Beliefs and Ethics                                    Beliefs: Creation and Beginnings                         Sacred Text Genesis, chapters 1-3                   Secular Texts Voltaire, Plato’s Dream                                      Salman Rushdie, Imagine There’s No Heaven K. C. Cole, Murmurs                       Creation and Beginnings: Topics for essays   Ethics: Destruction and Endings                               Fiction                                             Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried                   Poetry William Carlos Williams, Complete Destruction Robert Frost, Fire and Ice John Donne, Death, Be Not Proud  Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Emily Dickinson, I like a look of Agony       Because I could not stop for Death ;       I felt a Funeral, in my Brain ;       I heard a Fly buzz–when I died–       It was not Death, for I stood up       A toad can die of light!        Tell all the Truth but tell it slant WisBawa Szymborska, Lot’s Wife  Carolyn Forché, The Colonel                   PLAY Sophocles, Antigone                   Destruction and Endings: Topics for essays   Working further with the Worlds around Us     Reading Globally, Writing Locally II: Naguib Mahfouz and the Literature of Africa                                                                                                                                                       Fiction  Naguib Mahfouz, Half a Day (translated by Davies Denys Johnson)  Naguib Mahfouz, Zaabalawi (translated by Davies Denys Johnson)                                       Nonfiction      Binyavanga Wainaina, How to Write about Africa                               Poetry      Jeremy Cronin, To learn how to speak …       Chenjerai Hove, You Will Forget                     Working further with the literature of Africa         10.        The World We Live in: Spaces and Places                                                      In-Between Spaces                             Fiction Eudora Welty, A Worn Path Raymond Carver, Cathedral Sherman Alexie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona                     Poetry Robert Frost, Mending Wall James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Henry Taylor, Landscape with Tractor Louise Erdrich, Dear John Wayne  Yusuf Komunyakaa, Facing It             Nonfiction Rachel Carson, The Marginal World     In-between spaces: Topics for essays                                                                                                Confined Spaces                         Fiction Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper                          Poetry Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sympathy Stevie Smith, Not Waving but Drowning  Robert Browning, My Last Duchess                         Play Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House                         Nonfiction Mikhael Metzel, The accused awaiting trial in the Butyrskaya prison in Moscow Malcolm X, from The Autobiography of Malcolm X   Confined Spaces: Topics for essays                                                                                        Working further with the World We Live In   Reading Globally, Writing Locally III: Jhumpa Lahiri and The Literature of Asia                           Nonfiction Jhumpa Lahiri, My Two Lives               Fiction Jhumpa Lahiri, When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine Kazuo Ishiguro, A Family Supper                Poetry                     Garrett Hongo, Who among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?  Xu Gang, Red Azalea on the Cliff                                   Working further with the literature of Asia     11.        The World We Share: Nature, Cities, and the Environment   Living in the City             Fiction Toni Cade Bambara, The Lesson Poetry Allen Ginsberg, Supermarket in California Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro Sharon Olds, On the Subway  Langston Hughes, Theme for English B                                                             Nonfiction Bill Buford, Lions and Tigers and Bears                               Living in the City: Topics for essays   Living in Nature Fiction Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron T. C. Boyle, Greasy Lake             Poetry Haiku by Basho and Richard Wright H. D., The Sea Rose William Carlos Williams, So Much Depends                                  Elizabeth Bishop, The Fish Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learned Astronomer  Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid  Wendell Berry, Stay Home  Robert Frost, A Brook in the City  W. S. Merwin, Rain at Night             Nonfiction Louis D. Owens, The American Indian Wilderness  Donella Meadows,  Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land                         Living in Nature: Topics for Essays                                                                       Working further with the World Around Us   Reading Globally, Writing Locally IV: Gabriel García Márquez and the Literature of the Americas                                       Fiction Gabriel García Márquez, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World      Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings               Poetry      Pablo Neruda,  The Word       Jimmy Santiago Baca, So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans       Tino Villanueva, Variation on a Theme by William Carlos Williams                Working further with the literature of the Americas                                       Appendix A: The World of Literary Criticism Appendix B: MLA Documentation Guidelines                            

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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 What Students Are Saying This is awesome. I love it. <br> Sherri Hash, Student at Somerset Community College The illustrations and colors are extremely rich! It's also very convenient that information about the region is offered because not everyone is aware of global cultures, themes, and issues. <br> Tania Kelley, Student at University of the Incarnate Word Color coordination is very important and a smart idea to help the student find certain selections in the book. Very well thought of! This is excellent. <br> David Fortin, Student at Lehigh Carbon Community College What Professors Are Saying I especially liked the way the text starts off by making it clear that critical analysis is argument. The breadth and depth of the topics covered and the emphasis on the higher cognitive nature of engaged reading and writing make this text very appealing to me. <br> Dr. J. Lynn Barrett - Florida State College at Jacksonville I

What Students Are Saying This is awesome. I love it. Sherri Hash, Student at Somerset Community College The illustrations and colors are extremely rich! It's also very convenient that information about the region is offered because not everyone is aware of global cultures, themes, and issues. Tania Kelley, Student at University of the Incarnate Word Color coordination is very important and a smart idea to help the student find certain selections in the book. Very well thought of! This is excellent. David Fortin, Student at Lehigh Carbon Community College What Professors Are Saying I especially liked the way the text starts off by making it clear that critical analysis is argument. The breadth and depth of the topics covered and the emphasis on the higher cognitive nature of engaged reading and writing make this text very appealing to me. Dr. J. Lynn Barrett - Florida State College at Jacksonville I especially like the focus on world literature and universal themes. The introduction to the Literature of Asia provides important context and a provocative spring-board for exploring the literature. The visual embellishment is this chapter is wonderful. Jeniffer Strong - Central New Mexico Community College Kudos to Pike and Acosta for creating such an interesting, illuminating, and user-friendly text. Rebecca M. Whitten - Mississippi State University

What Students Are Saying This is awesome. I love it. Sherri Hash, Student at Somerset Community College The illustrations and colors are extremely rich! It's also very convenient that information about the region is offered because not everyone is aware of global cultures, themes, and issues. Tania Kelley, Student at University of the Incarnate Word Color coordination is very important and a smart idea to help the student find certain selections in the book. Very well thought of! This is excellent. David Fortin, Student at Lehigh Carbon Community College What Professors Are Saying I especially liked the way the text starts off by making it clear that critical analysis is argument. The breadth and depth of the topics covered and the emphasis on the higher cognitive nature of engaged reading and writing make this text very appealing to me. Dr. J. Lynn Barrett - Florida State College at Jacksonville I especially like the focus on world literature and universal themes. The introduction to the Literature of Asia provides important context and a provocative spring-board for exploring the literature. The visual embellishment is this chapter is wonderful. Jeniffer Strong - Central New Mexico Community College Kudos to Pike and Acosta for creating such an interesting, illuminating, and user-friendly text. Rebecca M. Whitten - Mississippi State University

What Students Are Saying This is awesome. I love it. Sherri Hash, Student at Somerset Community College The illustrations and colors are extremely rich! It's also very convenient that information about the region is offered because not everyone is aware of global cultures, themes, and issues. Tania Kelley, Student at University of the Incarnate Word Color coordination is very important and a smart idea to help the student find certain selections in the book. Very well thought of! This is excellent. David Fortin, Student at Lehigh Carbon Community College What Professors Are Saying I especially liked the way the text starts off by making it clear that critical analysis is argument. The breadth and depth of the topics covered and the emphasis on the higher cognitive nature of engaged reading and writing make this text very appealing to me. Dr. J. Lynn Barrett - Florida State College at Jacksonville I especially like the focus on world literature and universal themes. The introduction to the Literature of Asia provides important context and a provocative spring-board for exploring the literature. The visual embellishment is this chapter is wonderful. Jeniffer Strong -- Central New Mexico Community College Kudos to Pike and Acosta for creating such an interesting, illuminating, and user-friendly text. Rebecca M. Whitten -- Mississippi State University

Author Information

David L. Pike is Professor of Literature at American University, where he teaches courses on urban culture and the underground, cinema, modernism, Dante, Roman literature, and the novel. He is the author of Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800 –2001(Cornell UP, 2007); Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London 1800–1945 (Cornell UP),shortlisted for the 2006 Modernist Studies Association book prize;Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds (Cornell UP), recipient of the 1997 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1997; and articles on urban culture, subterranean studies, film, and medieval literature. He is co-general editor of the Longman Anthology of World Literature.   Ana M. Acosta is Associate Professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Her book, Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley, was published by Ashgate in 2006. She has published articles on religion, science and Enlightenment and is currently at work on a book-length project entitled “Theaters of Enlightenment: Imagined Encounters between Science and Religion in 18th-century Culture.”  She has twice been the recipient of a Whiting Fellowship, has received two PSC-CUNY awards, and was chosen in 2008 by the students at Brooklyn College as a Role Model in the conference “Standing on the Shoulders of Others.”

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