Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• I Reading, Thinking, And Writing Critically About Literature
• 1 Reading and Responding to Literature
• What is Literature?
• Looking at an Example
• Looking at a Second Example: Pat Mora's Immigrants
• Thinking about a Story: The Parable of the Prodigal Son
• Samuel, Grace Paley
• What's Past is Prologue
• Incident, Countee Cullen
• 2 Writing about Literature: From Idea to Essay
• Why Write?
• Getting Ideas: Pre-Writing
• Annotating a Text
• Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing
• The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin
• Focused Free Writing
• Listing and Clustering
• Developing an Awareness of the Writer's Use of Language
• Asking Questions
• Keeping a Journal
• Arriving at a Thesis
• Writing a Draft
• Sample Draft of an Essay on Kate Chopin's The Story of anHour
• Revising a Draft
• Peer Review
• The Final Version (Sample Student Essay): Ironies of Life in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour."
• A Brief Overview of the Final Version
• Explication
• A Sample Explication
• The Balloon of the Mind, William Butler Yeats
• Comparison and Contrast
• Review: How to Write an Effective Essay
• Additional Readings
• Ripe Figs, Kate Chopin
• Infant Joy, Infant Sorrow, William Blake
• II Fiction
• 3 Approaching Fiction: Responding in Writing
• Cat in the Rain, Ernest Hemingway
• Responses: Annotations and Journal Entries
• 4 Stories and Meanings: Plot, Character, Theme
• Misery, Anton Chekhov
• The Storm, Kate Chopin
• Desiree's Baby
• 5 Narrative Point of View
• Participant (or First-Person) Points of View
• Nonparticipant (or Third-Person) Points of View
• The Point of a Point of View
• John Updike
• A & P
• The Rumor
• 6 Allegory and Symbolism
• A Note on Setting
• Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Worn Path, Eudora Welty
• 7 In Brief: Writing about Fiction
• Plot
• Character
• Point of View
• Setting
• Symbolism
• Style
• Theme
• A Story, Notes, and an Essay
• The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe
• A Student Written Response to a Story
• Notes
• A Sample Student Essay: Revenge, Noble and Ignoble
• 8 Two Fiction Writers in Depth, Flannery O''connor and Raymond Carver
• Flannery O'Connor, Three Stories and Observations on Literature
• A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• Revelation
• Parker's Back
• On Fiction: Remarks from Essays and Letters
• On Interpreting A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• Raymond Carver: Three Stories, and Talking About Stories
• Popular Mechanics
• What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
• Cathedral
• Talking about Stories
• 9 A Collection of Short Fiction
• The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
• Mademoiselle, Guy de Maupassant
• The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Paul's Case, Willa Cather
• Araby, James Joyce
• The Horse Dealer's Daughter, D. H. Lawrence
• A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner
• The Chrysanthemums, John Steinbeck
• Guests of the Nation, Frank O'Connor
• The Son from America, Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Answer is No, Naguib Mahfouz
• Battle Royal, Ralph Ellison
• A Woman on a Roof, Doris Lessing
• The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
• Contemporary Voices
• A Conversation with My Father, Grace Paley
• A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children,Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Civil Peace, Chinua Achebe
• Boys and Girls, Alice Munro
• Only Approved Indians Can Play: Made in USA, Jack Forbes
• Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates
• The Lesson, Toni Cade Bambara
• Rape Fantasies, Margaret Atwood
• Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason
• The Artificial Family, Anne Tyler
• The Stolen Party, Liliana Heker
• Everyday Use, Alice Walker
• Powder, Tobias Wolff
• The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
• The Man to Send Rain Clouds, Leslie Marmon Silko
• The Oriental Contingent, Diana Chang
• Girl, Jamaica Kincaid
• The Two, Gloria Naylor
• Two Kinds, Amy Tan
• Second-Hand Man, Rita Dove
• Fleur, Louise Erdrich
• One Holy Night, Sandra Cisneros
• The Moths, Helena Maria Viramontes
• No One's a Mystery, Elizabeth Tallent
• In the Gloaming, Alice Elliot Dark
• 10 The Novel
• Observations on the Novel
• III Poetry
• 11. Approaching Poetry: Responding in Writing
• Harlem, Langston Hughes
• Thinking about Harlem
• Some Journal Entries
• Final Draft: Langston Hughes's Harlem
• 12 Lyric Poetry
• Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Anonymous
• Careless Love, Anonymous
• The Colorado Trail, Anonymous
• Sally Goodin, Anonymous
• Western Wind, Anonymous
• Song: Love Armed, Aphra Behn
• Stop All the Clocks, Cut Off the Telephone, W. H. Auden
• The Self-Unseeing, Thomas Hardy
• Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe
• Deep River, Anonymous
• Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel, Anonymous
• Evenin' Air Blues, Langston Hughes
• I Ask My Mother to Sing, Li-Young Lee
• The Spring and the Fall, Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
• A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman
• Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats
• Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town, E. E. Cummings
• Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Jump Cabling, Linda Pastan
• General Review of the Sex Situation, Dorothy Parker
• 13 The Speaking Tone of Voice
• I'm Nobody! Who are you?, Emily Dickinson
• The Hour-Glass, Ben Jonson
• The Mother, Gwendolyn Brooks
• We Real Cool
• The Reader as the Speaker
• Not Waving but Drowning, Stevie Smith
• The Dramatic Monologue
• My Last Duchess, Robert Browning
• Diction and Tone
• To the Virgins to Make Much of Time, Robert Herrick
• The Man He Killed, Thomas Hardy
• An Epitaph, Walter de la Mare
• Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, Gerard Manley Hopkins
• For a Lady I Know, Countee Cullen
• My Mother and the Bed, Lyn Lifshin
• The Voice of the Satirist
• Next to of Course God America I, E. E. Cummings
• Barbie Doll, Marge Piercy
• What's That Smell in the Kitchen? Marge Piercy
• To the Lady, Mitsuye Yamada
• Dear John Wayne, Louise Erdrich
• 14 Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification,Apostrophe
• A Red, Red Rose, Robert Burns
• Metaphors, Sylvia Plath
• Simile
• A Simile for Her Smile, Richard Wilbur
• Metaphor
• On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, John Keats
• A Work of Arti

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Sylvan Saul Barnet was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 11, 1926. During World War II, he served in the Army for two years. He received a bachelor's degree in English from New York University in 1948 and a master's degree in 1950 and a doctorate in 1954 from Harvard University. For the next three decades, he taught freshman writing and literature at Tufts University.

He wrote or edited numerous textbooks including An Introduction to Literature, A Short Guide to Writing About Literature, A Short Guide to Writing About Art, The Study of Literature: A Handbook of Critical Essays and Terms, and Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing: A Brief Guide to Argument.

In the early 1960s, he decided that his students at Tufts University needed an edition of Shakespeare with each play in a separate volume including an introduction and study aids. He presented the idea to editors at the New American Library. The editors approved of the idea and Barnet became the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series. He was the co-author with William Burto of Zen Ink Paintings, which was published in 1982. He died of cancer on January 11, 2016 at the age of 89.

(Bowker Author Biography)