The Prentice Hall pocket guide to understanding literature.

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The Prentice Hall pocket guide to understanding literature.

Soles, Derek. (Author).

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ISBN: 0130269948 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xi, 180 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002.

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General Note:: Includes indexes.

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Subject:: English literature > History and criticism > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
American literature > History and criticism > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc. > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Criticism > English-speaking countries > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Literature > Terminology > Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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Summary

Preface

Introduction: What is Literature?

(1)

Kubla Khan

(4)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fiction

(8)

The Short Story

(4)

Guests of the Nation

(1)

Frank O'Connor

No One's a Mystery

(1)

Elizabeth Tallent

What I Have Been Doing Lately

(1)

Jamaica Kincaid

The A & P

(1)

John Updike

Neighbors

(1)

Raymond Carver

The Novel

(2)

Pride and Prejudice

(2)

Jane Austen

The Novella

(2)

The Awakening

(2)

Kate Chopin

Poetry

(18)

Poetry: Regular Verse

(5)

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Tyger

(1)

William Blake

The Destruction of Sennacherib

(1)

Lord Byron

Eve

(1)

Ralph Hodgson

God's Grandeur

(1)

Gerard Manly Hopkins

Anthem for Doomed Youth

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Poetry: Blank Verse

(1)

Ulysses

(1)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Poetry: Free Verse

(2)

Dover Beach

(1)

Matthew Arnold

Disillusionment of Ten o'Clock

(1)

Wallace Stevens

The Sonnet

(2)

When in Disgrace with Fortune

(1)

William Shakespeare

Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments

(1)

William Shakespeare

On His Blindness

(1)

John Milton

Leda and the Swan

(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Ballad

(3)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(1)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Ballad of Birmingham

(1)

Dudley Randall

The Villanelle

(1)

Do Not Go Gentle

(1)

Dylan Thomas

The Ode

(2)

Ode to a Nightingale

(1)

John Keats

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

(1)

William Wordsworth

The Epic

(1)

Paradise Lost

(1)

John Milton

The Elegy

(1)

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

(1)

W. H. Auden

The Dramatic Monologue

(1)

Tithonus

(1)

Alfred

Lord Tennyson

Drama

(7)

Drama: Tragedy

(3)

Hamlet

(2)

William Shakespeare

Drama: Comedy

(1)

The Importance of Being Earnest

(1)

Oscar Wilde

Drama: Theater of the Absurd

(3)

Waiting for Godot

(3)

Samuel Beckett

Plot

(13)

The Sequential Plot

(2)

The Garden Party

(1)

Katherine Mansfield

Living in Sin

(1)

Adrienne Rich

The Found Boat

(1)

Alice Munro

The Nonsequential Plot

(3)

A Rose for Emily

(1)

William Faulkner

The Curse

(1)

Andre Dubus

Bitch

(1)

Carolyn Kizer

All Gone

(1)

Stephen Dixon

The Archetypal Plot

(2)

Heart of Darkness

(1)

Joseph Conrad

Directive

(1)

Robert Frost

The Plot Twist

(2)

The Catbird Seat

(1)

James Thurber

The Fish

(1)

Elizabeth Bishop

Plot and Irony

(4)

The Ruined Maid

(1)

Thomas Hardy

An Old-Fashioned Story

(1)

Laurie Colwin

Woodchucks

(1)

Maxime Kumin

Othello

(2)

William Shakespeare

Character

(14)

Dynamic Characters

(3)

The Odor of Chrysanthemums

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

Bartleby, the Scrivener

(1)

Herman Melville

I'm a Fool

(1)

Sherwood Anderson

Static Characters

(2)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

(1)

T. S. Eliot

Her First Ball

(1)

Katherine Mansfield

Stereotypical Characters

(3)

My Last Duchess

(1)

Robert Browning

The Great Gatsby

(1)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Krapp's Last Tape

(1)

Samuel Beckett

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

(1)

Katherine Ann Porter

Character and Irony

(2)

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory

(1)

A Worn Path

(1)

Eudora Welty

Two Loves I Have of Comfort and Despair

(1)

William Shakespeare

Character and Satire

(4)

Pygmalion

(1)

George Bernard Shaw

Everyday Use

(1)

Alice Walker

Harrison Bergeron

(2)

Kurt Vonnegut

Point of View

(12)

The Omniscient Narrator

(3)

The Rocking Horse Winner

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

The Storm

(2)

Kate Chopin

The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

(1)

Stephen Crane

The Limited-Omniscient Narrator

(2)

Eveline

(1)

James Joyce

Babylon Revisited

(1)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

First-Person, Major-Character Narrator Rape Fantasies

(3)

Atwood, Rape Fantasies

(1)

Margaret Atwood

Boys and Girls

(1)

Alice Munro

Those Winter Sundays

(1)

Robert Hayden

First-Person, Minor-Character Narrator

(1)

Our Friend Judith

(1)

Doris Lessing

The Objective Narrator

(1)

Hills Like White Elephants

(1)

Earnest Hemingway

Multiple Points of View

(3)

Bleak House

(2)

Charles Dickens

Setting

(13)

Setting and Plot

(3)

The Painted Door

(1)

Sinclair Ross

Beyond the Pale

(1)

William Trevor

Porphyria's Lover

(1)

Robert Browning

Setting and Symbolism

(2)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

(1)

Robert Frost

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

(1)

Earnest Hemingway

London

(1)

William Blake

Setting and Irony

(3)

Naming of Parts

(1)

Henry Reed

The Lottery

(1)

Shirley Jackson

The Waste Land

(2)

T. S. Eliot

Setting and Metaphor

(5)

Full Many a Glorious Morning

(1)

William Shakespeare

The Darkling Thrush

(1)

Thomas Hardy

At the San Francisco Airport

(1)

Yvor Winters

A Midsummer Night's Dream

(3)

William Shakespeare

Theme

(21)

Family

(5)

The Parable of the Prodigal Son

(1)

St. Luke

My Papa's Waltz

(1)

Theodore Roethke

The Daughters of the Late Colonel

(1)

Katherine Mansfield

The Writer

(1)

Richard Wilbur

Girl

(1)

Jamaica Kincaid

Two Kinds

(1)

Amy Tan

The Planned Child

(1)

Sharon Olds

Love

(2)

How Do I Love Thee

(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dance Me to the End of Love

(1)

Leonard Cohen

Somewhere i have never travelled

(1)

E. E. Cummings

The Folly of Being Comforted

(1)

William Butler Yeats

The Horse Dealer's Daughter

(1)

D. H. Lawrence

War

(5)

Futility

(1)

Wilfred Owen

What Were They Like

(1)

Denise Levertov

The Things They Carried

(1)

Tim O'Brien

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

(1)

Randall Jarrell

Catch 22

(2)

Joseph Heller

Home Soil

101

(1)

Irene Zabytko

The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

102

(1)

Richard Eberhart

Nature

102

(2)

To Autumn

102

(1)

John Keats

The Lonely Land

103

(1)

A. J. M. Smith

Morning Swim

103

(1)

Maxine Kumin

I Taste a Liquor

104

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Death

104

(2)

Sailing to Byzantium and Byzantium

104

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Death Be Not Proud

105

(1)

John Donne

Poor Soul the Center of My Sinful Earth

105

(1)

William Shakespeare

A Refusal to Mourn

105

(1)

Dylan Thomas

Because I Could Not Stop for Death

106

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Faith

106

(3)

Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God

106

(1)

John Donne

Church Going

107

(1)

Philip Larkin

The Collar

107

(1)

George Herbert

Sunday Morning

108

(1)

Wallace Stevens

Time

109

(2)

To the Virgins to Make Much of Time

109

(1)

Robert Herrick

Loveliest of Trees

109

(1)

A. E. Houseman

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed

110

(1)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Time Past

110

(1)

Denise Levertov

Metaphor

111

(7)

Metaphor and Character

111

(3)

That Time of Year Thou Mayest in Me Behold

112

(1)

William Shakespeare

Not Waving, But Drowning

112

(1)

Stevie Smith

Clay

112

(1)

James Joyce

The Flea

113

(1)

John Donne

Metaphor and Theme

114

(2)

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

114

(1)

John Donne

Separation

115

(1)

W. S. Merwin

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

115

(1)

John Keats

The Masque of the Red Death

115

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

My Mistress's Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun

116

(1)

William Shakespeare

Metaphor and Symbolism

116

(2)

A Poison Tree

116

(1)

William Blake

Desert Places

117

(1)

Robert Frost

There's a Certain Slant of Light

117

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Imagery

118

(8)

Imagery and Plot

118

(2)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

118

(1)

Ambrose Bierce

Imperial Adam

119

(1)

A. D. Hope

Imagery and Character

120

(2)

Beija Flor

120

(1)

Diane Ackerman

She Walks in Beauty

120

(1)

Lord Byron

The Dead

120

(1)

James Joyce

Still To Be Neat

121

(1)

Ben Jonson

Imagery and Setting

122

(2)

Fern Hill

122

(1)

Dylan Thomas

Brideshead Revisited

122

(2)

Evelyn Waugh

Wellfleet Sabbath

124

(1)

Marge Piercy

Imagery and Theme

124

(2)

The Red Wheelbarrow

124

(1)

William Carlos Williams

In a Station of the Metro

125

(1)

Ezra Pound

Symbolism

126

(9)

Objects as Symbols

126

(2)

My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

128

Emily Dickinson

Mirror

127

(1)

Sylvia Plath

Ode on a Grecian Urn

127

(1)

John Keats

Natural Symbols

128

(2)

Fire and Ice

128

(1)

Robert Frost

I Heard a Fly Buzz

128

(1)

Emily Dickinson

The Sick Rose

129

(1)

William Blake

The Force that through the Green Fuse

129

(1)

Dylan Thomas

The Chrysanthemums

129

(1)

John Steinbeck

Religious Symbols

130

(1)

Araby

130

(1)

James Joyce

The Second Coming

131

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Character as Symbol

131

(4)

The Swimmer

132

(1)

John Cheever

Livvie

132

(1)

Eudora Welty

Young Goodman Brown

133

(2)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tone

135

(6)

Sorrow

135

(2)

When You Are Old

135

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Bright Star

136

(1)

John Keats

Miss Brill

136

(1)

Katherine Mansfield

Resignation

137

(1)

Woman

137

(1)

Nikki Giovanni

When My Love Swears that She is Made of Truth

137

(1)

William Shakespeare

Irony

138

(1)

One Perfect Rose

138

(1)

Dorothy Parker

How To Become a Writer

138

(1)

Lorrie Moore

Dulce et Decorum Est

139

(1)

Wilfred Owen

Triumph

139

(2)

The Donkey

139

(1)

G. K. Chesterton

Tenderness

139

(2)

Stephen Dunn

The Author's Life and Times

141

(7)

Personal Experience

141

(2)

To Althea, From Prison

141

(1)

Richard Lovelace

Among School Children

142

(1)

William Butler Yeats

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

143

(1)

John Milton

Values and Ideals

143

(2)

To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars

143

(2)

Richard Lovelace

Observed Experience

145

(1)

The Rape of the Lock

145

(1)

Alexander Pope

Historical Circumstance

146

(2)

On the Late Massacre at Piedmont

146

(2)

John Milton

An Introduction to Methods of Literary Analysis

148

(21)

Formalism

148

(2)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

149

(1)

John Keats

Structuralism

150

(2)

The Blue Hotel

151

(1)

Stephen Crane

Psychoanalytic Criticism

152

(2)

The Turn of the Screw

153

(1)

Henry James

The Cask of Amontillado

153

(1)

Edgar Allan Poe

Archetypal Criticism

154

(1)

Barn Burning

155

(1)

William Faulkner

Reader-Response Criticism

155

(2)

I Like to See It Lap the Miles

156

(1)

Emily Dickinson

Marxist Criticism

157

(2)

I Stand Here Ironing

158

(1)

Tillie Olsen

A Supermarket in California

158

(1)

Allen Ginsberg

Feminist Criticism

159

(3)

Shiloh

159

(2)

Bobbie Ann Mason

To His Coy Mistress

161

(1)

Andrew Marvel

The Story of an Hour

162

(1)

Kate Chopin

Gay/Lesbian Criticism

162

(1)

Paul's Case

163

(1)

Willa Cather

Deconstruction

163

(3)

Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)

164

(1)

William Wordsworth

A Good Man Is Hard to Find

165

(1)

Flannery O'Connor

New Historicism

166

(3)

The Yellow Wallpaper

167

(1)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Pair of Tickets

168

(1)

Amy Tan

Credits

169

(4)

Author-Title Index

173

(6)

Literary Terms Index

179

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