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This text presents a perspective on the role that literature plays in our lives, shaping our feelings, thoughts and cultures. It encourages a variety of personal and analytic responses to literature and literary non-fiction with its thematic focus and its wide range of genres, cultures, disciplines and assignments. Two introductory chapters on reading, journal writing and writing as processes of discovery are followed by chapters on the four genres of literature that fully explain and illustrate the process of writing about literature within the context of student casebooks. Six thematic chapters provide a collection of readings and engaging writing topics.

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• Part I Imagining Worlds: The Reading and Writing Process
• 1 Keeping a Journal
• 2 From Reader's Journal to Finished Text
• Part II Reading and Writing About Literature
• 3 Reading and Writing about Stories Writing in Response to Fiction: A Student Casebook
• 4 Reading and Writing about Essays Writing in Response to Essays: A Student Casebook
• 5 Reading and Writing about Poetry Writing in Response to Poetry: A Student Casebook
• 6 Reading and Writing about Drama Writing in Response to Drama: A Student Casebook
• Part III Themes and Genres
• 7 Creativity
• Folk Tale "How Spider Obtained the Sky God's Stories" (African/Ashanti)
• Journals
• How I Came to Write Fiction from Diaries and Letters
• from A Writer's Diary
• From the Dalva Notebooks: 1985-1987
• from Strong Songs Fiction
• Conversation with My Father
• Lush Life
• Leaf by Niggle Essays
• Memory and Imagination
• Ordinary Spirit
• Coming to Voice
• Pushing Through Poetry
• Ode to a Grecian Urn
• The Secret Claude
• The Harlem Dance
• The Quilt
• Sailing to Byzantium e. e. cummings, [maggie and milly and molly and may]
• Poetry
• Of Modern Poetry
• The Thought-Fox
• In My Craft or Sullen Art William
• The Artist
• Ego Tripping (There May Be A Reason Why)
• Poem for the Creative Writing Class, Spring 1982
• Why I Never Answered Your Letter
• Yonosa House Drama August
• The Piano Lesson Student Writing
• The Beginning Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing
• 8 Initiation and Passages Folk Tale The Brothers
• Hansel and Gretel (German) Journals (excerpts)
• My Longing to Talk to Someone from The Diary of a Young Girl
• How Shall I Say It? from The Journals of Ruth Benedict
• Berkeley 1987, from Fragments from a Journal Fiction
• Chike's School Days
• Celia Behind
• Araby
• The Doll Queen
• I Stand Here Ironing
• My Man Bovanne Essays
• Silent Dancing
• Graduation
• Life Stories
• Once More to the Lake Poetry
• Metaphors
• For Jane at Thirteen
• Saturday at the Canal
• The Wild Swans at Coole
• The Life Ahead
• Birches
• The Moment
• Hanging Fire
• The Woman in the Next Room
• Who He Was Theodore
• My Papa's Waltz
• Big Bessie Throws Her Son into the Street
• Happy Birthday
• Nightmare Begins Responsibility
• Eating Together
• Bukit China
• This Place in the Ways Drama
• Am I Blue? Student Writing
• The Shadow in the Spotlight
• Letter to a Mother Connections: Ideas for Discussion and Writing
• 9 Relationships Folk Tale: How Men and Women Got Together (Native American)
• Journals
• Diaries May Sarton, from Journal of Solitude
• Last Autumn of the War Fiction
• Two Kinds Ernest
• Hills Like White Elephants
• A Place I've Never Been