CONTENTS
Preface xxvii
INTRODUCTION 1
What Is Literature? 3
1. Interpreting Literature 5
2. Writing About Literature 23
SHORT FICTION
3. Enjoying Short Fiction 55
4. Elements of Short Fiction 68
5. Interpreting Short Fiction 152
An Album of Short Fiction 167
Eudora Welty in Depth 512
LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING
Prentice-Hall 1996
(Prentice-Hall) is now available for Introduction to Literature Classes.
This thoroughly different anthology approaches literature from a wide range of critical perspectives, including new criticism, historical criticism, feminist, ethnic, and psychological criticism. The critical perspectives are well within the reach of beginning literature students. The extensive teacher's manual provides interpretations of texts from a variety of perspectives. An extensive section of drama includes Six Degrees of Separation, Oleanna, The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Fences, as well as A Doll House, Miss Julie, Hamlet, Oedipus Rex, and other classics. The extensive collection of poetry includes poems of Sylvia Plath and critical materials on her work. Eudora Welty is the short story writer treated in depth. A great deal of new material anthologized for the first time brings the book into the mainstream of contemporary writing.
POETRY
6. Enjoying Poetry 549
7. Elements of Poetry 560
8. Interpreting Poetry 644
An Album of Poems 663
Sylvia Plath in Depth 1005
DRAMA
9. Enjoying Drama 1051
10. Elements of Drama 1113
11. Interpreting Drama 1168
An Album of Plays 1195
Henrik Ibsen in Depth 1766