Backpack Literature
Subtitle: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing
Edition: fifth edition; student edition, printing (1)
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 1189
ISBN-13: 9780134586441
Copyright date: 2016
Table of contents: title: Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan --; title: Reading a story --; title: The art of fiction --; title: Types of short fiction --; title: Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend --; title: The north wind and the sun / Aesop --; title: The tortoise and the geese / Bidpai --; title: Independence / Chuang Tzu --; title: Godfather death / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm --; title: Plot --; title: The short story --; title: A & P / John Updike --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Point of view --; title: Identifying point of view --; title: Types of narrators --; title: How much does a narrator know? --; title: Stream of consciousness --; title: A Rose for Emily / William Faulkner --; title: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --; title: Girl / Jamaica Kincaid --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Character --; title: Characterization --; title: Motivation --; title: The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --; title: Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff --; title: Everyday use / Alice Walker --; title: Cathedral / Raymond Carver --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Setting --; title: Elements of setting --; title: Historical fiction --; title: Regionalism --; title: Naturalism --; title: The storm / Kate Chopin --; title: To build a fire / Jack London --; title: The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges --; title: A pair of tickets / Amy Tan --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Tone and Style --; title: Tone --; title: Style --; title: Diction --; title: A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --; title: Barn burning / William Faulkner --; title: Irony --; title: The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --; title: The story of an hour / Kate Chopin --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Theme --; title: Plot versus theme --; title: Summarizing the theme --; title: Finding the theme --; title: Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe --; title: The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros --; title: The parable of the prodigal son / Luke --; title: Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Symbol --; title: Allegory --; title: Symbols --; title: Recognizing symbols --; title: The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --; title: The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --; title: The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --; title: The lottery / Shirley Jackson --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Stories for further reading --; title: This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie --; title: Happy endings / Margaret Atwood --; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne --; title: The gift of the magi / O. Henry --; title: Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston --; title: Saboteur / Ha Jin --; title: Araby / James Joyce --; title: Before the law / Franz Kafka --; title: Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield --; title: Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --; title: The things they carried / Tim O'Brien --; title: A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --; title: Tell them not to kill me! / Juan Rulfo --; title: A haunted house / Virginia Woolf --; title: Poetry. Talking with Kay Ryan --; title: Reading a poem --; title: Poetry or verse --; title: How to read a poem --; title: Paraphrase --; title: The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats --; title: Lyric poetry --; title: Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden --; title: Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich --; title: Narrative poetry --; title: Sir Patrick Spence / Anonymous --; title: "Out, out --" / Robert Frost --; title: Dramatic poetry --; title: My last duchess / Robert Browning --; title: Didactic poetry --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Ask me / William Stafford --; title: Listening to a voice --; title: Tone --; title: My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke --; title: The wayfarer / Stephen Crane --; title: The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet --; title: To a locomotive in winter / Walt Whitman --; title: I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson --; title: For my daughter / Weldon Kees --; title: The speaker in the poem --; title: White lies / Natasha Trethewey --; title: Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson --; title: Dog haiku / Anonymous --; title: Theme for English B / Langston Hughes --; title: The farmer's bride / Charlotte Mew --; title: The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams --; title: Irony --; title: Oh no / Robert Creeley --; title: The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden --; title: Rite of passage / Sharon Olds --; title: Second fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay --; title: The workbox / Thomas Hardy --; title: For review and further study --; title: Deliberate / Amy Uyematsu --; title: To Lucasta / Richard Lovelace --; title: Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Words --; title: Literal meaning : what a poem says first --; title: This is just to say / William Carlos Williams --; title: Diction --; title: Cargoes / John Masefield --; title: Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you / John Donne --; title: The value of a dictionary --; title: Aftermath / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --; title: That will to divest / Kay Ryan --; title: Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead / J.V. Cunningham --; title: Bread / Samuel Menashe --; title: Grass / Carl Sandburg --; title: Word choice and word order --; title: Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick --; title: The ruined maid / Thomas Hardy --; title: Lonely hearts / Wendy Cope --; title: For review and further study --; title: anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings --; title: Carnation milk / Anonymous --; title: English con salsa / Gina Valdés --; title: My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth --; title: Mutability / William Wordsworth --; title: Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Saying and suggesting --; title: Denotation and connotation --; title: London / William Blake --; title: Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens --; title: Fire and ice / Robert Frost --; title: The minefield / Diane Thiel --; title: Bilingual/bilingüe / Rhina P. Espaillat --; title: Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --; title: Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Imagery --; title: In a station of the Metro / Ezra Pound --; title: The piercing chill I feel / Taniguchi Buson --; title: Imagery --; title: The winter evening settles down / T.S. Eliot --; title: Root cellar / Theodore Roethke --; title: The fish / Elizabeth Bishop --; title: A route of evanescence / Emily Dickinson --; title: Reapers / Jean Toomer --; title: Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins --; title: About haiku --; title: The falling flower / Arakida Moritake --; title: Heat-lightning streak / Matsuo Basho --; title: In the old stone pool / Matsuo Basho --; title: On the one-ton temple bell / Taniguchi Buson --; title: Moonrise on mudflats / Taniguchi Buson --; title: only one guy / Kobayashi Issa --; title: Cricket / Kobayashi Issa --; title: Haiku from Japanese internment camps --; title: Rain shower from mountain / Suiko Matsushita --; title: Cosmos in bloom / Suiko Matsushita --; title: Even the croaking of frogs / Hakuro Wada --; title: The war, this year / Neiji Ozawa --; title: Contemporary haiku --; title: The old neighborhood / Nick Virgilio --; title: Visitor's room / Lee Gurga --; title: Born again / Jennifer Brutschy --; title: Learning to shave / Adelle Foley --; title: For review and further study --; title: Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats --; title: Lipstick / Tami Haaland --; title: El hombre / William Carlos Williams --; title: Drinking alone by moonlight / Li Po, translated by Arthur Waley --; title: Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith --; title: Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Figures of Speech --; title: Why speak figuratively? --; title: The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --; title: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare --; title: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Howard Moss --; title: Metaphor and simile --; title: My life had stood, a loaded gun / Emily Dickinson --; title: Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --; title: To see a world in a grain of sand / William Blake --; title: Metaphors / Sylvia Plath --; title: Simile / N. Scott Momaday --; title: A Martian sends a postcard home / Craig Raine --; title: Other figures of speech --; title: The wind / James Stephens --; title: You fit into me / Margaret Atwood --; title: Epitaph / Timothy Steele --; title: Money / Dana Gioia --; title: Fog / Carl Sandburg --; title: For review and further study --; title: The secret sits / Robert Frost --; title: Turtle / Kay Ryan --; title: Love and friendship / Emily Brontë --; title: Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Sound --; title: Sound as meaning --; title: Who goes with Fergus? / William Butler Yeats --; title: (from) Ulalume / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth --; title: Alliteration and assonance --; title: The watch / Frances Cornford --; title: The splendor falls on castle walls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --; title: Rime --; title: The hippopotamus / Hilaire Belloc --; title: Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats --; title: God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins --; title: Desert places / Robert Frost --; title: How to read a poem aloud --; title: In memoriam John Coltrane / Michael Stillman --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Rhythm --; title: Stresses and pauses --; title: Stress and meaning --; title: Line endings --; title: We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks --; title: Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --; title: Résumé / Dorothy Parker --; title: Meter --; title: Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay --; title: When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman --; title: Beat! beat! drums! / Walt Whitman --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Closed form --; title: The value of form --; title: Formal patterns --; title: Days of wine and roses / Ernest Dowson --; title: Song ("Go and catch a falling star") / John Donne --; title: Ballads --; title: Bonny Barbara Allan / Anonymous --; title: Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall --; title: The sonnet --; title: Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare --; title: What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay --; title: Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost --; title: Shakespearean sonnet / R.S. Gwynn --; title: The Facebook sonnet / Sherman Alexie --; title: The epigram --; title: Of treason / Sir John Harrington --; title: Two somewhat different epigrams / Langston Hughes --; title: Other forms --; title: Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas --; title: We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar --; title: Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Open Form --; title: Ancient stairway / Denise Levertov --; title: Free verse --; title: Buffalo Bill's / e.e. cummings --; title: The dance / William Carlos Williams --; title: The heart / Stephen Crane --; title: Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman --; title: Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens --; title: Prose poetry --; title: The magic study of happiness / Charles Simic --; title: For review and further study --; title: in Just- / e.e. cummings --; title: I shall paint my nails red / Carole Satyamurti --; title: I, too / Langston Hughes --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Symbol --; title: The meanings of a symbol --; title: The Boston Evening Transcript / T.S. Eliot --; title: The lightning is a yellow fork / Emily Dickinson --; title: Identifying symbols --; title: Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy --; title: Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa --; title: Allegory --; title: The parable of the good seed / Matthew --; title: Redemption / George Herbert --; title: Proverbios y cantares (XXIX) / Antonio Machado --; title: Traveler / translated by Michael Ortiz --; title: The road not taken / Robert Frost --; title: Up-hill / Christina Rossetti --; title: For review and further study --; title: Wild geese / Mary Oliver --; title: Popcorn-can cover / Lorine Niedecker --; title: Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Myth and Narrative --; title: The subjects and uses of myth --; title: Origins of myth --; title: Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost --; title: The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth --; title: Helen / H.D. --; title: Archetype --; title: Medusa / Louise Bogan --; title: First love : a quiz / A.E. Stallings --; title: Personal myth --; title: The second coming / William Butler Yeats --; title: Memento mori in middle school / Diane Thiel --; title: Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath --; title: Myth and popular culture --; title: Cinderella / Anne Sexton --; title: Writing effectively --; title: What is poetry? --; title: Poems for further reading --; title: thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla / Aaron Abeyta --; title: First poem for you / Kim Addonizio --; title: The powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie --; title: Last words of the prophet / Anonymous (Navajo chant) --; title: Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold --; title: Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden --; title: One art / Elizabeth Bishop --; title: The tyger / William Blake --; title: the mother / Gwendolyn Brooks --; title: How do I love thee? let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --; title: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning --; title: Dostoevsky / Charles Bukowski --; title: Quinceañera / Judith Ortiz Cofer --; title: Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --; title: Care and feeding / Billy Collins --; title: Wild nights, wild nights! / Emily Dickinson --; title: I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson --; title: Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson --; title: Death be not proud / John Donne --; title: The flea / John Donne --; title: The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot --; title: Mending wall / Robert Frost --; title: Birches / Robert Frost --; title: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost --; title: A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg --; title: The convergence of the twain / Thomas Hardy --; title: Digging / Seamus Heaney --; title: Easter wings / George Herbert --; title: To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick --; title: Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins --; title: The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins --; title: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Housman --; title: To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman --; title: The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes --; title: Harlem [dream deferred] / Langston Hughes --; title: The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell --; title: Fire on the hills / Robinson Jeffers --; title: Missed time / Ha Jin --; title: On my first son / Ben Jonson --; title: On the death of friends in childhood / Donald Justice --; title: Ode to a nightingale / John Keats --; title: Home is so sad / Philip Larkin --; title: Piano / D.H. Lawrence --; title: Learning to love America / Shirley Geok-lin Lim --; title: To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell --; title: The Harlem dancer / Claude McKay --; title: Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay --; title: When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton --; title: We are many / Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid --; title: Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen --; title: Daddy / Sylvia Plath --; title: Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe --; title: The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound --; title: Naming of parts / Henry Reed --; title: Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson --; title: Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") / Christina Rossetti --; title: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes / William Shakespeare --; title: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare --; title: Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley --; title: The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens --; title: Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --; title: Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas --; title: When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman --; title: O captain! my captain! / Walt Whitman --; title: Spring and all // William Carlos Williams --; title: Queen-Anne's-lace / William Carlos Williams --; title: Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth --; title: Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright --; title: In this strange labyrinth / Mary Sidney Wroth --; title: He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats --; title: Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats --; title: When you are old / William Butler Yeats --; title: Drama. Talking with David Ives --; title: Reading a play --; title: Interpreting plays --; title: Theatrical conventions --; title: Elements of a play --; title: Trifles / Susan Glaspell --; title: Analyzing Trifles --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Tragedy and comedy --; title: Tragedy --; title: (Scene from) Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe --; title: Comedy --; title: (Scene from) The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde --; title: Soap opera / David Ives --; title: Writing effectively --; title: The theater of Sophocles --; title: Theater in ancient Greece --; title: The civic role of Greek drama --; title: Aristotle's concept of tragedy --; title: Sophocles --; title: The origins of Oedipus the King --; title: Oedipus the King / Sophocles, translated by David Grene --; title: Writing effectively --; title: The theater of Shakespeare --; title: William Shakespeare --; title: A note on Othello --; title: Picturing Othello --; title: Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare --; title: Writing effectively --; title: The modern theater --; title: Realism --; title: A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, revised by Viktoria Michelsen --; title: The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams --; title: Experimental drama --; title: The Cuban swimmer / Milcha Sanchez-Scott --; title: Documentary drama --; title: (Scenes from) Twilight : Los Angeles, 1992 / Anna Deavere Smith --; title: Writing effectively --; title: Plays for further reading --; title: The sound of a voice / David Henry Hwang --; title: El Santo Americano / Edward Bok Lee --; title: Click / Brighde Mullins --; title: Fences / August Wilson --; title: Writing. Writing about literature --; title: Read actively --; title: Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost --; title: Think about the reading --; title: Plan your essay --; title: Prewriting : generate ideas and issues --; title: Sample student prewriting exercises --; title: Develop your argument --; title: Strengthen your argument : rhetorical appeals --; title: Draft your argument --; title: Revise your argument --; title: Some final advice on rewriting --; title: What's your purpose? common approaches to writing about literature --; title: The form of your finished paper --; title: Topics for writing --; title: Writing a research paper --; title: Browse the research --; title: Choose a topic : formulate your argument --; title: Begin your research --; title: Evaluate your sources --; title: Organize your research --; title: Organize your paper --; title: Maintain academic integrity --; title: Acknowledge all sources --; title: Document sources using MLA style --; title: Concluding thoughts --; title: Reference guide for MLA citations.