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Featuring culturally rich and diverse literature, this anthology weaves critical thinking into every facet of its writing apparatus and guides students through the process of crafting their personal responses into persuasive arguments. With engaging selections, provocative themes, and comprehensive coverage of the writing process, Madden's anthology is sure to capture the reader's imagination. Exploring Literature opens with five chapters dedicated to writing and arguing about literature. An anthology follows, organized around five themes. Each thematic unit includes an ethnically diverse collection of short stories, poems, plays, and essays, as well as a case study to help students explore literature from various perspectives.

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• Indicate selections new to this edition
• I Making Connections
• 1 Participation: Personal Response and Critical Thinking
• The Personal Dimension of Reading Literature
• Personal Response and Critical Thinking
• Writing to Learn
• Your First Response
• Checklist: Your First Response
• Keeping a Journal or Reading Log
• Double-Entry Journals and Logs
• The Social Nature of Learning: Collaboration Personal, Not Private
• Ourselves as Readers
• Different Kinds of Reading
• Advice to My Son
• Making Connections with Literature
• Images of Ourselves
• Connecting Through Experienc
• Zimmer in Grade School
• Connecting Through Experienc
• Not Waving but Drowning
• Culture, Experience, and Values
• Connecting Through Experienc?
• Those Winter Sundays
• Connecting Through Experienc
• Barbie Doll
• Being in the Moment
• New York Times, "Birmingham Bomb Kills 4"
• Ballad of Birmingham
• Participating, Not Solving
• Using Our Imaginations
• The Whole and Its Parts
• 2 Communication: Writing a Response Essa
• The Response Essay
• Checklist: The Basics of a Response Essa
• Voice and Writing
• Voice and Response to Literature
• Connecting Through Experience
• Incident
• Writing to Describe
• Choosing Detail?
• Choosing Details from Literature
• Connecting Through Experienc?
• Eleven
• Writing to Compare
• Comparing and Contrasting Using a Venn Diagram
• Connecting Through Experienc
• Mothers
• Connecting Through Experienc?
• Salvation
• Possible Worlds
• From First Response to Final Draft
• The Importance of Revision
• Using Your First Response
• Using First or Third Person in Formal Essays
• Step 1 Using Your First Response
• Step 2 Choosing a Topic
• Step 3 Brainstroming
• Extending Your Ideas
• Semantic Mapping or Clustering
• Mix and Match
• Generating Ideas Through Collaboration
• Step 4 Composing a Draf
• Dierdre's Draft
• Step 5 Revision
• Checklist: Revision
• Organization and Unity
• Showing Support
• Clarity
• Voice
• Formatting and Documenting Your Essay
• Checklist: Some Basics for a Literary Essay
• Checklist: Editing and Proofreading
• Step 6 Dierdre's Revised Essay
• II Analysis, Argumentation, and Research
• 3 Exploration and Analysis: Genre and the Elements of Literature
• Close Reading
• Annotating the Text
• First Annotation: Exploration
• Ozymandias
• Second Annotation: Analysis
• Literature in Its Many Contexts
• Your Critical Approach
• Reading and Analyzing Fiction
• Summary Checklist: Analyzing Fiction
• Narration
• Point of View
• Setting
• Conflict
• Plot
• Character
• Language and Style
• Diction
• Symbol
• Irony
• Theme
• Getting Ideas for Writing About Fiction
• The Story of an Hour
• Reading and Analyzing Poetry
• Summary Checklist: Analyzing Poetry
• Language and Style
• Denotation and Connotation
• Voice
• Tony
• Irony
• War Is