Legacies : fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction / 4th ed.

Part I Acts of Interpretation
1 Critical Thinking and Critical Analysis of Literature
2 The Reading Process
3 The Writing Process: Writing the Essay about Literature
4 Forms of Arguments about Literature
Part II Thematic Anthology
5 Identity and Rites of Passage
Crossing the Genres/Identity and the Body. Joyce Carol Oates,
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?+ (Fiction) Heinz Insu Fenkl,
My Father+s Hand . . .+ from Memories of my Ghost Brother (Fiction/Memoir) Marie Howe,
The Attic+ (Poetry) Rita Dove,
Adolescence I, II, III+ (Poetry) Alissa Quart,
Body Branding: Cosmetic Surgery+ from Branded (Nonfiction). Fiction Wendi Kaufman,
Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street. John Updike and A & P.+ Liliana Heker,
The Stolen Party Barbara Kingsolver and Rose-Johnny and Daniel Alarc=n,
Flood. Raymond Carver and Cathedral
Fairy Tales/Fiction Nadine Gordimer,
Once Upon a Time Angela Carter,
The Company of Wolves.+ On the Web: Introduction to Fairy Tales. Poetry Diane Wakoski,
Wind Secrets Countee Cullen,
Incident Walt Whitman,
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Gary Soto,
Oranges Audre Lorde,
Hanging Fire Nikki Giovanni,
Ego Tripping Nikki Giovanni,
Quilts Anne Sexton,
Cinderella Shirley Geok-Lin Lim,
Ah Mah Neal Bowers,
Driving Lessons Stephen Dunn,
The Sacred Barbara Hamby,
Ode to my 1977 Toyota.+ Metamorphoses/Poetry Cathy Song,
Lost Sister Naomi Shihab Nye,
Biography of an Armenian Schoolgirl Louise Erdrich,
Indian Boarding School: The Runaways Janice Mirikitani,
Suicide Note Ha Jin,
The Past.+ General Ulysses S. Awesome,
Who Places Things Exactly.+ Drama Paula Vogel,
How I Learned to Drive Henrik Ibsen
A Doll+s House. Nonfiction Lynn Smith,
Betwixt and Bewildered: Scholars Are Intrigued by the Angst of +Emerging Adults Gretel Ehrlich,
Looking for a Lost Dog Bruno Bettelheim,
The Uses of Enchantment Azar Nafisi, from Reading Lolita in Tehran
Pilgrimages+Escape or Enlightenment?/Nonfiction Jonathan Lethem,
13, 1977, 21. Joan Didion,
Goodbye to All That.+ On the Web: Pilgrimages/Road Trips. Graphic Literature Marjane Satrapi,
The Veil+ and +The Black Market Tapes+ from Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
6 The Self and Beyond. Crossing the Genres/Family Secrets Mary Gaitskill,
Tiny, Smiling Daddy+ (Fiction) Edwidge Danticat,
Night Talkers+ (Fiction) Robyn Joy Leff,
Burn Your Maps+ (Fiction) Robert Hayden,
Those Winter Sundays+ (Poetry) Bell hooks,
Chapters 49, 50, 51 from bone black (Nonfiction). Fiction Tillie Olsen,
I Stand Here Ironing Dean Bakopoulos,
Some Memories of My Father+ from Please Don+t Come Back from the Moon James Baldwin,
Sonny+s Blues Alice Walker,
Everyday Use Amy Tan,
Scar+ from The Joy Luck Club Louise Erdrich,
The Shawl.+ The Family Gothic/Fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Rappaccini+s Daughter. William Faulkner,
A Rose for Emily Mary Gordon,
City Life.+ On the Web: Visions of Hauntings: Short Stories Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry Amiri Baraka,
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Grace Paley,
Fathers Sylvia Plath,
Daddy Simon Ortiz,
My Father+s Song Li-Young Lee,
Persimmons Seamus Heaney,
Digging Jamaica Kincaid,
Girl Pauline Powers Uchmanowicz,
Knee Deep In Mud My Mother Billy Collins,
The Lanyard Anne Sexton,
My Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman Maxine Kumin,
Making the Jam Without You Etheridge Knight,
The Idea of Ancestry Agha Shahid Ali,
Snowmen Marilyn Chin,
Turtle Soup, Loss and Family/Poems
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,
The Slave Mother D. H. Lawrence,
Piano Harold A. Zlotnik,
Odyssey Martin Espada,
Coca-cola and Coco Frio Dwight Okita,
The Nice Thing about Counting Stars Julia Alvarez,
Homecoming Sharon Olds,
I Go Back to May 1937.+ Drama August Wilson,
The Piano Lesson. Nonfiction Toi Derricotte,
Beginning Dialogues David Sedaris,
The Girl Next Door Chang-rae Lee,
Coming Home Again Geeta Kothari,