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An Introduction to Fiction de Joe Kennedy

An Introduction to Fiction

Autor Joe Kennedy, Dana Gioia, X. J. Kennedy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2009
Kennedy/Gioia's "An Introduction to Fiction, "11th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of fiction and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about stories. This bestselling anthology includes sixty-five superlative short stories, blending classic works and contemporary selections. Written by noted poets X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, the text reflects the authors' wit and contagious enthusiasm for their subject. Informative, accessible apparatus presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, and supported by interludes with the anthologized writers. This edition features 10 new stories, three masterwork casebooks, revised and expanded chapters on writing, and a new design.
  • New Key Terms Review feature at the end of every major chapter provide students a simple study guide to go over key concepts and terms in each chapter.
  • New 2009 MLA guidelines provides students the updated source citation guidelines from the new 7th edition of the "MLA Handbook" and incorporates these in all sample student papers.
  • New section on Writing a Response Paper provides instructions and a sample student essay for this popular type of writing assignment.
  • Updated, revised format to increase accessibility and ease of use newly added section titles and sub-titles will help Web-oriented students navigate easily from topic to topic in every chapter. Additionally, all chapters have been reviewed and updated to include relevant cultural references.

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    ISBN-13: 9780205687886
    ISBN-10: 0205687881
    Pagini: 832
    Dimensiuni: 160 x 231 x 23 mm
    Greutate: 0.66 kg
    Ediția:Nouă
    Editura: Pearson
    Locul publicării:New York, United States

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    Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Fiction, 11th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of fiction and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about stories.
                                                
    This bestselling anthology includes sixty-five superlative short stories, blending classic works and contemporary selections.  Written by noted poets X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, the text reflects the authors' wit and contagious enthusiasm for their subject.  Informative, accessible apparatus presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, and supported by interludes with the anthologized writers.  This edition features 10 new stories, three masterwork casebooks, revised and expanded chapters on writing, and a new design.
     
    • New “Key Terms Review” feature at the end of every major chapter—provide students a simple study guide to go over key concepts and terms in each chapter.
    • New 2009 MLA guidelines—provides students the updated source citation guidelines from the new 7th edition of the MLA Handbook and incorporates these in all sample student papers.
    • New section on “Writing a Response Paper”—provides instructions and a sample student essay for this popular type of writing assignment.
    • Updated, revised format to increase accessibility and ease of use—newly added section titles and sub-titles will help Web-oriented students navigate easily from topic to topic in every chapter. Additionally, all chapters have been reviewed and updated to include relevant cultural references.

     

    Cuprins

    Preface  
    To the Instructor  
    About the Authors  
     
    ** Indicates new selections
     
    Fiction
     
    Interview with Amy Tan
     
    1. Reading a Story  
    The Art of Fiction
    Types of Short Fiction
        W. Somerset Maugham, The Appointment in Samarra  
        Aesop, The North Wind and the Sun  
        ** Bidpai, The Tortoise and the Geese
        Chuang Tzu, Independence  
        Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Godfather Death   
    Plot  
    The Short Story 
        John Updike, A & P  
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing 
        John Updike, Why Write? 
    Thinking About Plot
    Checklist: Writing About Plot
    Writing Assignment on Plot  
    More Topics for Writing  
    Terms for Review 
     
    2. Point of View  
    Identifying Point of View
    Types of Narrators
    Stream of Consciousness
        William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily  
        Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
        ** Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House
        ** Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P. O.
        James Baldwin, Sonny’s Blues  
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing
        James Baldwin, Race and the African American Writer  
    Thinking About Point of View
    Checklist: Writing About Point of View
    Writing Assignment on Point of View  
    More Topics for Writing
    Terms for Review
     
    3. Character
    Types of Characters
        Katherine Anne Porter, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall  
        Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill  
        ** Naguib Mahfouz, The Lawsuit 
        Raymond Carver, Cathedral  
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing  
        Raymond Carver, Commonplace but Precise Language  
    Thinking About Character
    Checklist: Writing About Character
    Writing Assignment on Character
    More Topics for Writing
    Terms for Review
     
    4. Setting  
    Elements of Setting
    Historical Fiction
    Regionalism
    Naturalism
        Kate Chopin, The Storm  
        Jack London, To Build a Fire  
        T. Coraghessan Boyle, Greasy Lake  
        Amy Tan, A Pair of Tickets  
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing  
        Amy Tan, Setting the Voice  
    Thinking About Setting
    Checklist: Writing About Setting
    Writing Assignment on Setting
    More Topics for Writing
    Terms for Review
     
    5. Tone and Style  
    Tone
    Style
    Diction
        Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place  
        William Faulkner, Barn Burning  
    Irony  
        O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi  
        Ha Jin, Saboteur  
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing  
        Ernest Hemingway, The Direct Style  
    Thinking About Tone and Style
    Checklist: Writing About Tone and Style
    Writing Assignment on Tone and Style
    More Topics for Writing
    Terms for Review
     
    6. Theme  
    Plot vs. Theme
    Theme as Unifying Device
    Finding the Theme
        Stephen Crane, The Open Boat  
        Alice Munro, How I Met My Husband  
        Luke 15:11–32, The Parable of the Prodigal Son  
        Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Harrison Bergeron  
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing  
        Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Themes of Science Fiction  
    Thinking About Theme
    Checklist: Writing about Theme
    Writing Assignment on Theme
    More Topics for Writing
    Terms for Review
     
    7. Symbol  
    Allegory
    Symbols
    Recognizing Symbols
        John Steinbeck, The Chrysanthemums  
        ** John Cheever, The Swimmer
        Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas  
        Shirley Jackson, The Lottery  
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing  
        Shirley Jackson, Biography of a Story  
    Thinking About Symbols
    Checklist: Writing About Symbols
    Writing Assignment on Symbols  
        Student Paper, An Analysis of the Symbolism in Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums”  
    More Topics for Writing
    Terms for Review
     
    8. Reading Long Stories and Novels  
    Origins of the Novel
    Romance
    Novels and Journalism
    Short Novels and Novellas
    The Future of the Novel
        Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych  
        Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis  
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing  
        Franz Kafka, Discussing The Metamorphosis  
    Thinking About Long Stories and Novels
    Checklist: Writing About Ideas for a Research Paper
    Writing Assignment for a Research Paper
    Student Paper, Kafka’s Greatness
    More Topics for Writing
    Terms for Review
     
    9. Latin American Fiction 
        Jorge Luis Borges, The Gospel According to Mark  
        Octavio Paz, My Life with the Wave  
        ** Gabriel García Márquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings  
        ** Inés Arredondo, The Shunammite   
    Writing Effectively
    Writers on Writing  
        Gabriel García Márquez, My Beginnings As A Writer
    Topics for Writing on “The Gospel According to Mark”  
    Topics for Writing on “My Life with Wave”  
    Topics for Writing on “a very old man with enormous wings”  
    Topics for Writing on “The Shunammite”  
     
    10. Critical Casebook: Flannery O’Connor  
        Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find  
        Flannery O’Connor, Revelation  
        Flannery O’Connor, Parker’s Back  
        Flannery O’Connor on Writing
        From “On Her Own Work”  
        On Her Catholic Faith
        From “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction”  
    Yearbook Cartoons
    Critics on Flannery O’Connor
        J. O. Tate, A Good Source Is Not So Hard to Find: The Real Life Misfit  
        Mary Jane Schenck, Deconstructing “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”  
        Louise S. Cowann The Character of Mrs. Turpin in “Revelation”  
        Kathleen Feeley, The Mystery of Divine Direction: “Parker’s Back”  
    Writing Effectively
    Topics for Writing  
     
    11. Critical Casebook: Three Stories in Depth  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
        Young Goodman Brown 
        ** Nathaniel Hawthorne on Writing
        ** Reflections on Truth and Clarity in Literature
        ** Criticizing His Own Work
    Critics on Hawthorne
        ** Herman Melville, Excerpt from a Review of “Mosses from and Old Manse”
        ** Edgar Allan Poe, The Genius of Hawthorne's Short Stories
    Critics on “Young Goodman Brown”
        ** Richard H. Fogle, Ambiguity in “Young Goodman Brown”
        ** Paul J. Hurley, Evil Wherever He Looks
        ** Nancy Bunge, Complacency and Community
     
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman  
        The Yellow Wallpaper 
        Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Writing
        Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”  
        Whatever Is  
        The Nervous Breakdown of Women  
    Critics on “The Yellow Wallpaper”
        Juliann Fleenor, Gender and Pathology in “The Yellow Wallpaper”  
        Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Imprisonment and Escape: The Psychology of Confinement  
        Elizabeth Ammons, Biographical Echoes in “The Yellow Wallpaper”  
     
    Alice Walker  
        Everyday Use
        Alice Walker on Writing
        The Black Woman Writer in America  
        Reflections on Writing and Women's Lives
    Critics on “Everyday Use”
        Barbara T. Christian, “Everyday Use” and the Black Power Movement  
        Houston A. Baker and Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Stylish vs. Sacred in “Everyday Use”  
        Elaine Showalter, Quilt as Metaphor in “Everyday Use”  
    Writing Effectively
    Topics for Writing on “Young goodman brown”  
    Topics for Writing on “The Yellow Wallpaper”  
    Topics for Writing on “Everyday Use”  
     
    12. Stories for Further Reading  
    Chinua Achebe, Dead Men’s Path  
    ** Sherman Alexie, This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
    Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings  
    Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge  
    Willa Cather, Paul’s Case  
    Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Pet Dog  
    Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour  
    Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street  
    Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal  
    Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat  
    James Joyce, Araby  
    ** Franz Kafka, Before the Law  
    Jamaica Kincaid, Girl  
    Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies  
    D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner  
    Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh  
    ** Lorrie Moore, How To Become A Writer
    Joyce Carol Oates, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?  
    Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried  
    Tillie Olsen, I Stand Here Ironing  
    Tobias Wolff, The Rich Brother  
     
    13. Writing about Literature
        Read Actively
            Robert Frost, NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY
        Plan Your Essay
        Discover Your Ideas
            Sample Student Prewriting Exercises
        Developing a Literary Argument
        Writing a Rough Draft
            Sample Student Paper (Rough Draft)
        Revise Your Draft
        Some Final Advice on Rewriting
        Document Sources to Avoid Plagiarism
        The Form of Your Finished Paper
        Spell-Check and Grammar Check Programs
     
     
    14. Writing About a Story
        Read Actively
        Think About the Story
        Discover Ideas
            Sample Student Prewriting Exercises
        Write a Rough Draft
        What’s Your Purpose? Common Approaches to Writing about Fiction
        Topics for Writing
     
     15. Writing a Research Paper
        Browse the Research
        Choose a Topic
        Begin Your Research
        Evaluate Sources
        Organize Your Research
        Refine Your Thesis
        Organize Your Paper
        Write and Revise
        Maintain Academic Integrity
        Acknowledge All Sources
        Documenting Sources Using MLA Style
        Reference Guide for Citation
     
    16.  Critical Approaches to Literature
        Formalist Criticism
        Biographical Criticism
        Historical Criticism
        Psychological Criticism
        Mythological Criticism
        Sociological Criticism
        Gender Criticism
        Reader-Response Criticism
        Deconstructionist Criticism
        Cultural Studies
     
    Terms for Review
     
    Acknowledgements
    Photo Acknowledgements
    Index of Major Themes
    Index of Authors and Titles
    Index of Literary Terms

    Notă biografică

    X. J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (“Actually, I was pretty eighth class”). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children.
     
    Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. (“Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!”) After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2001); and three critical volumes, including Can Poetry Matter? (1992), an influential study of poetry’s place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College.
     
    He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. From 2003-2009 he served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest. He also led the campaign to restore active and engaged literary reading by creating The Big Read, which has helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He currently divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Santa Rosa, California, living with his wife Mary, their two sons, and two uncontrollable cats.

    Caracteristici

    • Sixty-five diverse and exciting stories range from beloved classics to contemporary works from around the globe.
    • Author portraits humanize writers for students and add interest.
    • Four extensive casebooks—one author casebook and three masterwork casebooks on a single significant work—provide a wealth of material for in-depth study and research projects.
    • Writers on Writing offer commentary from noted authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker,  John Updike, James Baldwin, and Amy Tan, on their craft, influences, and inspirations.
    • Generous and insightful writing coverage is evidenced through8 sample student papers, “Writing Effectively” sections in every chapter that provide a useful introduction to the principles of composition and critical thinking, and three  revised writing chapters at the end of the text that provide comprehensive coverage of the writing and research process. 
    • Thorough critical coverage is provided with 28 critical excerpts integrated into the text along with a chapter devoted to the 10 major schools of literary thought.

    Caracteristici noi

    • An exclusive conversation between Dana Gioia and celebrated writer Amy Tan gives students an insider’s look into the importance of reading to this contemporary writer.
    • A diverse array of new selections including 10 new stories such as Naguib Mafhouz’s “The Lawsuit,” Virginia Woolf’s “A Haunted House,” Sherman Alexie’s “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” and Lorrie Moore’s “How to Become a Writer.”
    • A new  “Latin American Writers” chapter features some of the finest writers of the region including Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez, and Inés Arredondo.  
    • A new casebook on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”provides students new critical insight into this ever-popular and fascinating story.
    • New “Key Terms Review” feature at the end of every major chapter–provide students a simple study guide to go over key concepts and terms in each chapter.
    • New 2009 MLA guidelines–provides students the updated source citation guidelines from the new 7th edition of the MLA Handbook and incorporates these in all sample student papers.
    • New section on “Writing a Response Paper”–provides instructions and a sample student essay for this popular type of writing assignment.
    • Updated, revised format to increase accessibility and ease of use–newly added section titles and sub-titles will help Web-oriented students navigate easily from topic to topic in every chapter. Additionally, all chapters have been reviewed and updated to include relevant cultural references.


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    Kennedy/Gioia's "An Introduction to Fiction, "11th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of fiction and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about stories. This bestselling anthology includes sixty-five superlative short stories, blending classic works and contemporary selections. Written by noted poets X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, the text reflects the authors' wit and contagious enthusiasm for their subject. Informative, accessible apparatus presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, and supported by interludes with the anthologized writers. This edition features 10 new stories, three masterwork casebooks, revised and expanded chapters on writing, and a new design.
  • New "Key Terms Review" feature at the end of every major chapter-provide students a simple study guide to go over key concepts and terms in each chapter.
  • New 2009 MLA guidelines-provides students the updated source citation guidelines from the new 7th edition of the "MLA Handbook" and incorporates these in all sample student papers.
  • New section on "Writing a Response Paper"-provides instructions and a sample student essay for this popular type of writing assignment.
  • Updated, revised format to increase accessibility and ease of use-newly added section titles and sub-titles will help Web-oriented students navigate easily from topic to topic in every chapter. Additionally, all chapters have been reviewed and updated to include relevant cultural references.

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