Compact Anthology of World Literature - 4, 5, and 6

by Anita Turlington, Matthew Horton, Karen Dodson, Laura Getty, Kyounghye Kwon, Georgia, & Laura Ng

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Texts from a variety of genres and cultures are included in each unit. Additionally, each selection or collection includes a brief introduction about the author and text(s), and each includes 3 – 5 discussion question

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University of North Georgia
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Humanities, Literature and Literacy
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Introduction: How to Use this Textbook
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Licensing
  7. Untitled Page 02
  8. Untitled Page 03
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
  11. 1.1: Age of Reason
  12. 1.1.1: Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
  13. 1.1.1.1: Rape of the Lock
  14. 1.1.2: Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)
  15. 1.1.2.1: Before the Birth of One of Her Children
  16. 1.1.2.2: By Night When Others Soundly Slept
  17. 1.1.2.3: Contemplations
  18. 1.1.2.4: A Dialogue between Old England and New
  19. 1.1.3: Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
  20. 1.1.3.1: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
  21. 1.1.4: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
  22. 1.1.4.1: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  23. 1.1.5: Eliza Haywood (1693–1756)
  24. 1.1.5.1: Fantomina
  25. 1.1.6: François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
  26. 1.1.6.1: Candide, or Optimism
  27. 1.1.7: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
  28. 1.1.7.1: What Is Enlightenment?
  29. 1.1.8: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-1673)
  30. 1.1.8.1: Tartuffe
  31. 1.1.9: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
  32. 1.1.9.1: A Modest Proposal
  33. 1.1.9.2: Gulliver's Travels
  34. 1.1.10: Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)
  35. 1.1.10.1: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
  36. 1.2: Near East and Asia
  37. 1.2.1: Cáo Xueqín (1715 or 1724 - 1763 or 1764)
  38. 1.2.1.1: The Story of the Stone
  39. 1.2.2: Evliya Çelebi (1611-1682)
  40. 1.2.2.1: Book of Travels
  41. 1.2.3: Korean Pansori
  42. 1.2.3.1: The Song of Chunhyang
  43. 1.2.4: Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694)
  44. 1.2.4.1: from The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  45. 2: The Long Nineteenth Century
  46. 2.1: Romanticism
  47. 2.1.1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
  48. 2.1.1.1: Confessions
  49. 2.1.2: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
  50. 2.1.2.1: Faust
  51. 2.1.3: John Keats (1795-1821)
  52. 2.1.3.1: When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be
  53. 2.1.3.2: Ode to a Nightingale
  54. 2.1.3.3: Ode on a Grecian Urn
  55. 2.1.3.4: The Second Coming
  56. 2.1.4: Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
  57. 2.1.4.1: Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
  58. 2.1.4.2: Mathilda
  59. 2.1.4.3: The Last Man
  60. 2.1.5: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
  61. 2.1.5.1: from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  62. 2.1.6: Olympe De Gouges (1748-1793)
  63. 2.1.6.1: The Rights of Woman
  64. 2.1.7: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
  65. 2.1.7.1: To Wordsworth
  66. 2.1.7.2: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
  67. 2.1.7.3: Ozymandias
  68. 2.1.7.4: A Song- "Men of England"
  69. 2.1.7.5: Ode to the West Wind
  70. 2.1.7.6: Mutability
  71. 2.1.7.7: from A Defence of Poetry
  72. 2.1.8: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
  73. 2.1.8.1: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  74. 2.1.8.2: Kubla Khan
  75. 2.1.9: William Blake (1757-1827)
  76. 2.1.9.1: Songs of Innocence- The Lamb
  77. 2.1.9.2: Songs of Innocence- The Chimney Sweeper
  78. 2.1.9.3: Songs of Innocence- Holy Thursday
  79. 2.1.9.4: Songs of Experience- Holy Thursday
  80. 2.1.9.5: Songs of Experience- The Chimney Sweeper
  81. 2.1.9.6: Songs of Experience- The Tyger
  82. 2.1.9.7: London
  83. 2.1.10: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
  84. 2.1.10.1: Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  85. 2.1.10.2: from Preface to Lyrical Ballads
  86. 2.1.10.3: Michael, a Pastoral Poem
  87. 2.1.10.4: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
  88. 2.1.10.5: Ode- Intimations of Immortality
  89. 2.2: Realism
  90. 2.2.1: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
  91. 2.2.1.1: The Lotos-Eaters
  92. 2.2.1.2: Ulysses
  93. 2.2.2: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
  94. 2.2.2.1: The Lady with the Dog
  95. 2.2.2.2: The Cherry Orchard
  96. 2.2.2.3: A Doctor's Visit
  97. 2.2.3: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838-1894)
  98. 2.2.3.1: The Poison Tree
  99. 2.2.4: Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
  100. 2.2.4.1: Correspondences
  101. 2.2.4.2: The Corpse
  102. 2.2.4.3: Spleen
  103. 2.2.4.4: Hymn to Beauty
  104. 2.2.5: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)
  105. 2.2.5.1: The Yellow Wall-Paper
  106. 2.2.6: Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
  107. 2.2.6.1: After Death
  108. 2.2.6.2: Up-Hill
  109. 2.2.6.3: Goblin Market
  110. 2.2.6.4: "No, Thank You, John"
  111. 2.2.7: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
  112. 2.2.7.1: from Sonnets from the Portuguese
  113. 2.2.7.2: The Cry of the Children
  114. 2.2.7.3: Lord Walter's Wife
  115. 2.2.8: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
  116. 2.2.8.1: Because I could not stop for Death
  117. 2.2.8.2: A bird came down the walk
  118. 2.2.8.3: The brain is wider than the sky
  119. 2.2.8.4: Hope is the thing with feathers
  120. 2.2.8.5: I died for beauty, but was scarce
  121. 2.2.8.6: I heard a fly buzz when I died
  122. 2.2.8.7: If I can stop one heart from breaking
  123. 2.2.8.8: My life closed twice before its close
  124. 2.2.8.9: The soul selects her own society
  125. 2.2.8.10: Success is counted sweetest
  126. 2.2.8.11: There's a certain slant of light
  127. 2.2.8.12: Wild nights! Wild nights!
  128. 2.2.9: Frederick Douglass (c.1818-1895)
  129. 2.2.9.1: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  130. 2.2.10: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
  131. 2.2.10.1: Notes from Underground
  132. 2.2.11: Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
  133. 2.2.11.1: A Simple Soul
  134. 2.2.12: Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
  135. 2.2.12.1: Boule de Suif
  136. 2.2.12.2: The Diamond Necklace
  137. 2.2.13: H.G. Wells (1866-1946)
  138. 2.2.13.1: The Invisible Man
  139. 2.2.13.2: The Island of Doctor Moreau
  140. 2.2.13.3: The War of the Worlds
  141. 2.2.14: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
  142. 2.2.14.1: A Doll's House
  143. 2.2.14.2: An Enemy of the People
  144. 2.2.15: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
  145. 2.2.15.1: The Death of Ivan Ilych
  146. 2.2.16: Olive Schreiner (1855-1920)
  147. 2.2.16.1: The Story of an African Farm
  148. 2.2.17: Robert Browning (1812-1889)
  149. 2.2.17.1: Porphyria's Lover
  150. 2.2.17.2: My Last Duchess
  151. 2.2.17.3: "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
  152. 2.2.18: W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
  153. 2.2.18.1: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  154. 2.2.18.2: When You Are Old
  155. 2.2.18.3: Easter 1916
  156. 2.2.19: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
  157. 2.2.19.1: Song of Myself
  158. 2.2.19.2: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
  159. 2.2.19.3: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
  160. 2.2.19.4: O Captain! My Captain!
  161. 3: The Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature
  162. 3.1: Modernism (1900-1945)
  163. 3.1.1: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
  164. 3.1.1.1: The Cabuliwallah
  165. 3.1.2: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
  166. 3.1.2.1: Six Characters in Search of an Author
  167. 3.1.3: Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
  168. 3.1.3.1: Swann's Way
  169. 3.1.4: Violetta Thurstan (1879-1978)
  170. 3.1.4.1: Field Hospital and Flying Column
  171. 3.1.5: Lu Xun (1881-1936)
  172. 3.1.5.1: Diary of a Madman
  173. 3.1.6: Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
  174. 3.1.6.1: A Room of One's Own
  175. 3.1.7: James Joyce (1882-1941)
  176. 3.1.7.1: The Dead
  177. 3.1.8: Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
  178. 3.1.8.1: The Metamorphosis
  179. 3.1.9: Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
  180. 3.1.9.1: The Garden Party
  181. 3.1.10: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
  182. 3.1.10.1: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  183. 3.1.10.2: Tradition and the Individual Talent
  184. 3.1.10.3: The Waste Land
  185. 3.1.11: Anna Akhmatova (1889-1996)
  186. 3.1.11.1: Lot's Wife
  187. 3.1.11.2: Requiem
  188. 3.1.11.3: Why Is This Century Worse...
  189. 3.1.12: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927)
  190. 3.1.12.1: In a Grove
  191. 3.1.12.2: Rashomon
  192. 3.1.13: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
  193. 3.1.13.1: Preface
  194. 3.1.13.2: Strange Meeting
  195. 3.1.13.3: Anthem for Doomed Youth
  196. 3.1.13.4: Dulce et Decorum est
  197. 3.1.13.5: Exposure
  198. 3.1.13.6: Futility
  199. 3.1.13.7: Parable of the Old Men and the Young
  200. 3.1.14: William Faulkner (1897-1962)
  201. 3.1.14.1: Barn Burning
  202. 3.1.14.2: A Rose for Emily
  203. 3.1.15: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
  204. 3.1.15.1: Mother Courage and Her Children
  205. 3.1.16: Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
  206. 3.1.16.1: The Garden of Forking Paths
  207. 3.1.17: Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
  208. 3.1.17.1: Harlem
  209. 3.1.17.2: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
  210. 3.1.17.3: Theme for English B
  211. 3.1.17.4: The Weary Blues
  212. 3.1.18: Yi Sang (1910-1937)
  213. 3.1.18.1: Phantom Illusion
  214. 3.2: Postcolonial Literature
  215. 3.2.1: Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
  216. 3.2.1.1: The Golden Threshold
  217. 3.2.2: Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913-2008)
  218. 3.2.2.1: from Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
  219. 3.2.2.2: The Woman and the Flame
  220. 3.2.3: Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
  221. 3.2.3.1: Things Fall Apart
  222. 3.2.4: Cho Se-hui (1942- )
  223. 3.2.4.1: Knifeblade
  224. 3.2.4.2: A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf
  225. 3.2.4.3: The Möbius Strip
  226. 3.2.5: Joy Harjo (1951- )
  227. 3.2.5.1: Eagle Poem
  228. 3.2.5.2: An American Sunrise
  229. 3.2.5.3: My House Is the Red Earth
  230. 3.2.5.4: A Poem to Get Rid of Fear
  231. 3.2.5.5: When the World as We Knew It Ended
  232. 3.3: Contemporary Literature (1955-present)
  233. 3.3.1: Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006)
  234. 3.3.1.1: from Midaq Alley
  235. 3.3.2: Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)
  236. 3.3.2.1: An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat on Mt. Zion
  237. 3.3.2.2: Jerusalem
  238. 3.3.3: Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
  239. 3.3.3.1: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
  240. 3.3.4: Derek Walcott (1930-2017)
  241. 3.3.4.1: The Bounty
  242. 3.3.4.2: from Omeros
  243. 3.3.5: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
  244. 3.3.5.1: The Haw Lantern
  245. 3.3.5.2: The Tollund Man
  246. 3.3.6: Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
  247. 3.3.6.1: Identity Card
  248. 3.3.6.2: Victim Number 18
  249. 3.3.7: Hanan al-Shaykh (1945- )
  250. 3.3.7.1: The Women's Swimming Pool
  251. 3.3.8: Salman Rushdie (1947- )
  252. 3.3.8.1: The Perforated Sheet
  253. 3.3.9: Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )
  254. 3.3.9.1: Yellow Woman
  255. 3.3.10: Haruki Murakami (1949- )
  256. 3.3.10.1: The Second Bakery Attack
  257. 3.3.11: Jamaica Kincaid (1949- )
  258. 3.3.11.1: Girl
  259. 3.3.12: Francisco X. Alarcón (1954-2016)
  260. 3.3.12.1: "Mexican" Is Not a Noun
  261. 3.3.12.2: Prayer
  262. 3.3.12.3: To Those Who Have Lost Everything
  263. 3.3.13: Yasmina Reza (1959- )
  264. 3.3.13.1: God of Carnage
  265. Back Matter
  266. Index
  267. Unit 4- Bibliography
  268. Unit 5 - Bibliography
  269. Unit 6 - Bibliography
  270. Glossary
  271. Detailed Licensing
  272. Detailed Licensing