Introduction to Literature

by Lumen Learning

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Publisher
Lumen Learning
Subjects
Humanities, Literature and Literacy
Licence
Public domain, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. About This Course
  6. Licensing
  7. Course Contents at a Glance
  8. Licensing
  9. About the Book
  10. In-Class Activities
  11. Assignments
  12. 1: Genre Introduction
  13. 1.1: Poetry Literary Terms- A Guide
  14. 1.2: Free Verse
  15. 1.3: Billy Collins- A Poet Speaks Out
  16. 1.4: Approaching Poetry (Includes Free Verse)
  17. 1.5: Approaching Poetry
  18. 1.6: Defining Literature
  19. 1.7: Introduction to American Literature
  20. 1.8: Introduction to Fiction
  21. 1.9: The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction
  22. 1.10: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
  23. 1.11: Introduction to Plays and Film
  24. 1.12: Reading a Play
  25. 1.13: Reading Poetry
  26. 1.14: Poetry Lesson Presentation
  27. 2: Literary Conventions
  28. 2.1: Point of View
  29. 2.2: Perspective and Point of View
  30. 2.3: Literary Terms
  31. 2.4: Elements of Literature
  32. 2.5: The Rough Guide to Literary Style, a Historical Overview
  33. 2.6: Theme
  34. 2.7: Conflict
  35. 2.8: Symbols in Literature
  36. 2.9: Symbolism
  37. 2.10: Characters and Characterization
  38. 2.11: Metaphor
  39. 3: Writing About Literature
  40. 3.1: Creating MLA Works Cited Entries
  41. 3.2: MLA In-Text Citations
  42. 3.3: Annotated Bibliographies- An Illustrated Guide
  43. 3.4: How to Read Like a Writer
  44. 3.5: Modes of Exposition
  45. 3.6: Reading to Write Effectively
  46. 3.7: How to Write With Style
  47. 3.8: Creating an Effective Style
  48. 3.9: Structure in Literary Essays
  49. 3.10: Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources
  50. 3.11: Using Databases- Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
  51. 3.12: Writing an Introduction to a Literary Analysis Essay
  52. 4: Literary Analysis
  53. 4.1: Finding Literary Criticism
  54. 4.2: Multicultural Societies Explained
  55. 4.3: The Nature of Analysis
  56. 4.4: How to Analyze a Novel
  57. 4.5: How to Analyze a Short Story
  58. 4.6: How to Analyze Poetry
  59. 4.7: How to Analyze a Film
  60. 4.8: Introduction to Critical Theory
  61. 4.9: Reader-Response Criticism In Brief
  62. 4.10: Reader-Response Criticism
  63. 4.11: New Criticism
  64. 5: Poetry Readings and Responses
  65. 5.1: Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, 1920
  66. 5.2: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Selected Works, 1855
  67. 5.3: Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz,” 1961
  68. 5.4: Reader-response to “My Papa’s Waltz”
  69. 5.5: Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market,” 1862
  70. 5.6: William Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1609
  71. 5.7: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind,” 1891
  72. 5.8: Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773
  73. 5.9: Walt Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” 1865
  74. 5.10: William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow,” 1962
  75. 5.11: Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning,” 1993
  76. 5.12: Additional Poems
  77. 5.13: Billy Collins, “The Lanyard,” 2007
  78. 5.14: Emily Dickinson, Poems Series One, 1890
  79. 5.15: Emily Dickinson, “Wild nights – Wild nights!” 1861
  80. 5.16: Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night,” 1923
  81. 5.17: Robert Frost, “The Lockless Door,” 1920
  82. 5.18: Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again,” 1935
  83. 5.19: Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Poetical Works, 1845
  84. 5.20: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven,” 1845
  85. 6: Drama Readings and Responses
  86. 6.1: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
  87. 6.2: Critical Reviews of Film Version of The Importance of Being Earnest
  88. 6.3: Anton Chekhov, “The Bear,” 1888
  89. 6.4: Anton Chekhov, “The Cherry Orchard,” 1904
  90. 6.5: Anton Chekhov, “The Three Sisters,” 1900
  91. 6.6: Susan Glaspell, “Inheritors,” 1921
  92. 6.7: Susan Glaspell, “The Outside,” 1916
  93. 6.8: Susan Glaspell, “Trifles,” 1916
  94. 6.9: Susan Glaspell, “The Verge,” 1921
  95. 6.10: Langston Hughes and Zora Hurston, “The Mule-Bone,” 1930
  96. 6.11: Henrik Ibsen, “A Doll’s House,” 1879
  97. 7: Fiction Readings and Responses
  98. 7.1: Philip K. Dick, “Beyond the Door,” 1954
  99. 7.2: Charles Dickens, “The Signal-Man,” 1866
  100. 7.3: Arthur Conan Doyle, “Scandal in Bohemia,” 1891
  101. 7.4: F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Ice Palace,” 1920
  102. 7.5: Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Ethan Brand,” 1850
  103. 7.6: Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown,” 1835
  104. 7.7: Critical Responses to “Young Goodman Brown”
  105. 7.8: Kelly Link, “The Specialist’s Hat,” 1998
  106. 7.9: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” 1892
  107. 7.10: Saki, “The Open Window,” 1914
  108. 7.11: Louisa May Alcott, “Scarlet Stockings,” 1869
  109. 7.12: Mary Shelley, “The Mortal Immortal,” 1833
  110. 7.13: Jim Shepard, “The Zero Meter Diving Team,” 2007
  111. 7.14: Mark Twain, “Eve’s Diary,” 1905
  112. 7.15: Madhuri Vijay, “Lorry Raja,” 2012
  113. 7.16: Analysis of “Lorry Raja”
  114. 7.17: Ambrose Bierce, “The Middle Toe of the Right Foot,” 1890
  115. 7.18: Henry Cuyler Bunner, “The Nice People,” 1890
  116. 7.19: Willa Cather, “On the Gull’s Road,” 1908
  117. 7.20: Anton Chekhov, “Peasant Wives,” 1891
  118. 7.21: Kate Chopin, “Regret,” 1897
  119. 7.22: Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour,” 1894
  120. 7.23: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899
  121. 7.24: Joseph Conrad, “The Idiots,” 1896
  122. 8: Nonfiction Readings and Responses
  123. 8.1: Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
  124. 8.2: Henry David Thoreau, “Walden,” 1854
  125. 8.3: Mark Twain, “Two Ways of Seeing A River,” 1883
  126. 8.4: Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, 1901
  127. 8.5: Zitkala-Sa, “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” 1900
  128. 8.6: Other Creative Nonfiction Readings
  129. 9: Assignments
  130. 9.1: Assignment- Listening
  131. 9.2: Assignment- Character Analysis
  132. 9.3: Assignment- Close Reading
  133. 9.4: Assignment- Symbolism
  134. 9.5: Assignment- Comparative Essay
  135. Back Matter
  136. Index
  137. Glossary
  138. Detailed Licensing