Michael Meyer - The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading-Thinking-Writing

Cover Page

The title, on the top portion of the cover, reads Resources for Reading and Writing about Literature.

The list reads as follows:

CHAPTERS ON READING AND WRITING

Introduction: Reading Imaginative Literature page 1

Chapter 42. Critical Strategies for Reading page 1459

Chapter 43. Writing about Literature page 1479

Chapter 44. The Literary Research Paper page 1537

SAMPLE CLOSE READINGS

Gregory Corsos I Am 25 Ch. 17, page 510 Annotated versions of

Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour Ch. 1, page. 16

William Faulkners A Rose for Emily Ch. 2, page 48

Susan Glaspells Trifles Ch. 35, page 985

Elizabeth Bishops Manners Ch. 43, page 1503

John Donnes Death Be Not Proud Ch. 43, page 1524

QUESTIONS FOR READING AND WRITING

Writing about an Author in Depth (Poetry) Ch. 26, page 747

Questions for Writing (Drama) Ch. 39, page 1258

Arguing about Literature (Strategies for Reading and Writing) Ch. 42, page 1476

A Revision Checklist (Strategies for Reading and Writing) Ch. 43, page 1495

Responsive Reading and Writing about Fiction (Strategies for Reading and Writing) Ch. 43, page 1513

Responsive Reading and Writing about Poetry (Strategies for Reading and Writing) Ch. 43, page 1520

Responsive Reading and Writing about Drama (Strategies for Reading and Writing) Ch. 43, page 1531

SAMPLE STUDENT PAPERS

Analysis

Differences in Responses to Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour Ch. 1, page 19

Conflict in the Plot of William Faulkners A Rose for Emily Ch. 2, page 50

Layers of Symbol in Cynthia Ozicks The Shawl Ch. 6, page 180

The Minimalist Style of Raymond Carvers Popular Mechanics Ch. 8, p. 219

Tossing Metaphors Together in Robert Franciss Catch Ch. 17, p. 514

Tone in Katharyn Howd Machans Hazel Tells Laverne Ch. 18, p. 553

Irony in Edwin Arlington Robinsons Richard Cory Ch. 21, p. 609

Sound in Emily Dickinsons A Bird came down the Walk Ch. 22, p. 636

The Rhythm of Anticipation in Timothy Steeles Waiting for the Storm Ch. 23, p. 661

The Power of Walt Whitmans Open Form Poem I Sing the Body Electric Ch. 25, p. 705

Memory in Elizabeth Bishops Manners Ch. 43, p. 1504

John Updikes A & P as a State of Mind Ch. 43, p. 1515

Comparison

Differences in Responses to Kate Chopins The Story of an Hour Ch. 1, p. 19

Imagery in William Blakes London and Mary Robinsons Londons Summer Morning Ch. 19, p. 581

The Struggle for Womens Self-Definition in Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House and James Joyces Eveline Ch. 43, p. 1509

Explication

The Use of Conventional Metaphors for Death in John Donnes Death Be Not Proud (draft, outline, and final paper) Ch. 43, p. 1525

A Reading of Emily Dickinsons Theres a certain Slant of light Ch. 43, p. 1498

In-Depth Study of an Author

Religious Faith in Four Poems by Emily Dickinson Ch. 26, p. 750

Paper Incorporating Critical Approaches

The Feminist Evidence in Susan Glaspells Trifles Ch. 43, p. 1533

On the Other Side of the Slammed Door in Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House Ch. 39, p. 1260

Paper-in-Progress

Explication: The Use of Conventional Metaphors for Death in John Donnes Death Be Not Proud (draft, outline, and final paper) Ch. 43, p. 1525

Research Paper

How William Faulkners Narrator Cultivates a Rose for Emily Ch. 44, p. 1553

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Acknowledgments

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For My Wife

Regina Barreca

M.M.

For Michael:

Mentor, Guide, Friend.

D.Q.M.

Michael Meyer, Emeritus Professor of English, taught writing and literature courses for more than thirty years since 1981 at the University of Connecticut and before that at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the College of William and Mary. In addition to being an experienced teacher, Meyer is a highly regarded literary scholar. His scholarly articles have appeared in distinguished journals such as American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, and Virginia Quarterly Review. An internationally recognized authority on Henry David Thoreau, Meyer is a former president of the Thoreau Society and coauthor (with Walter Harding) of The New Thoreau Handbook, a standard reference source. His first book, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreaus Political Reputation in America, was awarded the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize by the American Studies Association. He is also the editor of Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings. He has lectured on a variety of American literary topics from Cambridge University to Peking University. His other books for Bedford/St. Martins include The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Literature to Go, Thinking and Writing about Poetry, Poetry: An Introduction, and Thinking and Writing about Literature.

D. Quentin Miller, Professor of English, has taught literature and writing at Suffolk University in Boston since 2000. Prior to that he taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, at the University of Connecticut (where he wrote his dissertation under the direction of Michael Meyer), and in a variety of other settings, including prisons. Miller is the author, editor, or coeditor of a dozen books and over two dozen critical essays in collections and in scholarly journals such as