Table of Contents

• • About This Book

• Instructor Resources

  • Note to Instructors

• Genre Introduction

  • Connecting Reading & Writing: The Voice You Hear Response
  • (Re)Reading Poetry: Challenges to Expect
  • Stress in Poetry

• Literary Conventions

  • Literary Terms
  • Elements of Literature
  • Defining Literature
  • Theme
  • Conflict
  • Symbolism
  • Characters and Characterization
  • Metaphor
  • Point of View
  • Tragedy and Comedy
  • Irony
  • Binary Patterns: A Western Obsession

• Writing About Literature

  • Academic Writing Review
  • Self-Diagnosis of One's Writing Ailments can be Fun!
  • The Paragraph Body: Supporting Your Ideas
  • How to Avoid Plagiarizing
  • Works Cited Entries: What to Include
  • Paragraph Menu Settings Use No Extra Vertical Spaces
  • Writing an Introduction to a Literary Analysis Essay
  • MLA In-Text Citations
  • Annotation: Why Mark Up Your Texts?
  • Creating MLA Works Cited Entries
  • Not Taking Sides is Like That Beetlejuice Waiting Room Scene. . .
  • With Analysis, Focus Upon Functions or Effects

• Literary Analysis

  • The Nature of Analysis
  • Multicultural Societies Explained
  • How to Analyze a Short Story
  • Introduction to Fiction
  • How to Analyze Poetry
  • How to Analyze a Novel
  • Reader-Response Criticism

• Fiction Readings and Responses

  • Cao Xueqin, The Dream of the Red Chamber (Chs. I-IX)
  • Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899
  • Arthur Conan Doyle, "Scandal in Bohemia," 1891
  • Rabindranath Tagore, Stories from Tagore
  • Madhuri Vijay, "Lorry Raja," 2012
  • Analysis of "Lorry Raja"

• Poetry Readings and Responses

  • Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," 1845
  • Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773
  • Kabir, Songs of Kabir
  • The Poems of Sappho
  • Background on the Sufis
  • The Persian Mystics: Jalálu'd-dín Rúmí by Frederick Hadland Davis & Rumi
  • Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
  • Valmiki, The Ramayana

• Drama Readings and Responses

  • Langston Hughes and Zora Hurston, "The Mule-Bone," 1930

• Nonfiction Readings and Responses

  • Plato, Symposium
  • Sun Tzu, The Art of War
  • Izumi Shikubu, et al. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
  • Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
  • Zitkala-Sa, "The School Days of an Indian Girl," 1900
• • About the Author