Perrine's Literature : Structure, Sound, and Sense
by Arp, Thomas; Johnson, GregEdition: 10th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-03-03
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
An authoritative bestseller for nearly 50 years, PERRINE?S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE continues to be an essential and highly effective introduction to literature for today?s students. Written for students beginning a serious study of literature, the text introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts tend to ignore, such as ?Is some literature better?? and ?How can it be evaluated?? A remarkable selection of classic, modern, and contemporary readings serves to illustrate the elements of literature and ensure broad appeal to students of diverse backgrounds and interests. Now thoroughly updated with more than 100 new stories, poems, and plays by some of the finest authors of any era, the tenth edition remains true to Perrine?s original vision while addressing the needs of a new generation of students.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Writing About Literature | |
| Why Write about Literature? | |
| For Whom Do You Write? | |
| Two Basic Approaches | |
| Choosing a Topic | |
| Proving Your Point | |
| Writing the Paper | |
| Writing In-Class Essays or Essay Tests | |
| Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q11) | |
| Documentation | |
| Stance and Style (S1-S6) | |
| Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | |
| Writing Samples | |
| Fiction: The Elements of Fiction | |
| Reading the Story | |
| Reviewing Chapter One | |
| The Most Dangerous Game | |
| Hunters in the Snow | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Fiction | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Plot and Structure | |
| Reviewing Chapter Two | |
| The Destructors | |
| How I Met My Husband | |
| Interpreter of Maladies | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Characterization | |
| Reviewing Chapter Three | |
| Everyday Use | |
| Miss Brill | |
| The Man Who Was Almost a Man | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Theme | |
| Reviewing Chapter Four | |
| Welding with Children | |
| The Darling | |
| Translated by Constance Garnett | |
| A Worn Path | |
| Once upon a Time | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Point of View | |
| Reviewing Chapter Five | |
| Paul''s Case | |
| The Lottery | |
| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
| Hills Like White Elephants | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy | |
| Reviewing Chapter Six | |
| The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
| Young Goodman Brown | |
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
| Translated by Gregory Rabassa | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Humor and Irony | |
| Reviewing Chapter Seven | |
| The Drunkard | |
| Rape Fantasies | |
| The Guest | |
| Translated by Justin O''Brien | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Evaluating Fiction | |
| Reviewing Chapter Eight | |
| Exercise | |
| Roman Fever | |
| A New Leaf | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Three Featured Writers | |
| Introduction | |
| James Joyce | |
| Araby | |
| Eveline | |
| The Boarding House | |
| Flannery O''Connor | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
| Everything That Rises Must Converge | |
| Greenleaf | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Life After High School | |
| June Birthing | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Stories for Further Reading | |
| Civil Peace | |
| The Swimmer | |
| The Story of an Hour | |
| A Rose for Emily | |
| A Jury of Her Peers | |
| The Gilded Six-Bits | |
| The Real Thing | |
| Bartleby the Scrivener | |
| The Cask of Amontillado | |
| A & P. Poetry: The Elements of Poetry | |
| What is Poetry? | |
| The Eagle | |
| Winter | |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
| Reviewing Chapter One | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Poetry | |
| Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day? | |
| The Whipping | |
| The last Night that She lived | |
| Ballad of Birmingham | |
| Kitchenette Building | |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | |
| Constantly risking absurdity | |
| Suicide''s Note | |
| Terence, this is stupid stuff | |
| Ars Poetica | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Reading the Poem | |
| The Man He Killed | |
| A Study of Reading Habits | |
| Is my team plowing | |
| Reviewing Chapter Two | |
| Break of Day | |
| There''s been a Death, in the Opposite House | |
| When in Rome | |
| Animals Are Passing from Our Lives | |
| Question | |
| Mirror | |
| The Clod and the Pebble | |
| Ethics | |
| Storm Warnings | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Denotation and Connotation | |
| There is no Frigate l | |
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