| Contents by Genre | | xiii | |
| Preface | | xv | |
| PART 1 A READER'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF WRITING |
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| A World of Meaning: Reading and Thinking About Literature |
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| Meaningless Words and the World of Meaning |
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| Literary Form and Assumptions about Meaning |
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| The Point of Literary Meaning |
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| Making Meaning out of Misunderstanding |
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| Deciphering Meaning: The Riddle Game |
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| The Riddle as a Literary Device |
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| Making and Breaking the Rules |
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| Reading for What Does Not Make Sense |
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| Strategies for Reading Critically |
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| Writer @ Work: The Reading Process |
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| Student Writing: Justin Schiel reads and annotates The Possessive |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity of Language |
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| Working with Ambiguity in Literary Writing |
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| Working with Clarity in Nonliterary Writing: The Summary |
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| Student Writing: Four Summaries of The Possessive |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity in Storytelling |
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| Student Writing: Two Summaries of Before the Law |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity of Argument: Summarizing an Essay |
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| Student Writing: Melissa Kim, A Summary of Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, ``I Hate Trees'' |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity in Visual Culture |
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| Writing a Summary of an Image |
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| Letter Rack with Christian V's Proclamation |
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| Student Writing: Alan Green, A Summary of Letter Rack with Christian V's Proclamation |
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| Looking Back: A World of Meaning |
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| Writing in the World: Argument, Critical Thinking, and the Process of Writing |
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| Analyzing an Argumentative Essay |
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| The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life |
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| Student Idea Map for ``Dead Men's Path'' |
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| Critical Thinking: Reading, Questioning, Writing |
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| Writer @ Work: Critical Thinking from First Impressions to Finished Paper |
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| Critical Thinking Step by Step |
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| Student Writing: Katherine Randall, sample writing from drafts to final paper |
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| Student Writing: Three Summaries of August |
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| Critical Thinking in a Comparison Paper |
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| Student Writing: Cynthia Wilson, Leave the Picking to the Boys |
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| Thinking Critically about Visual Culture |
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| Thinking Critically about Signs |
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| Looking Back: Writing in the World |
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| Investigating the World: Planning, Writing, and Revising a Research Paper |
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| Student Writing: Lorraine Betesh, Paper Topic and Revised Paper Topic |
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| Finding, Evaluating, and Summarizing Your Sources in the Annotated Bibliography |
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| Primary Sources and Secondary Sources |
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| Plagiarism and How to Avoid It |
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| The Annotated Bibliography |
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| Student Writing: Lorraine Betesh, Annotated Bibliography---Source #1 |
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| From the Annotated Bibliography to the First Draft |
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| Student Writing: Lorraine Betesh, The Brooklyn Bridge---An Outline |
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| Student Writing: Lorraine Betesh, The Brooklyn Bridge---Initial draft |
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| Student Writing: Lorraine Betesh, The Brooklyn Bridge in Illustrations and Photographs |
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| Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Hamlet's Elsinore |
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| Looking Back: Investigating the World |
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| Organizing the World of Literature: The Conventions of Genre |
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| Plot Conventions and Expectations |
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| Margaret Atwood, Happy Endings |
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| From The Way to Rainy Mountain |
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| From Metrical Feet---Lesson for a Boy |
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| Writer @ Work: Reading and Writing Essays |
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| Student Writing: Scott Nathanson, The Meaning of Death |
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| Looking Back: Organizing the World of Literature |
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| PART 2 THE WRITER'S WORLD: GENRES AND THE CRAFT OF LITERATURE |
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| Reading the World: Exploring the Forms of Literature |
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| Imagining the World: Poetry |
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| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening |
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| Writer @ Work: Three Poems about Social Relations |
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| Student Writing: Melissa Pabon, Summaries of London, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Singapore |
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| Student Writing: Melissa Pabon, The Importance of Everyday Occurrences in London, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Singapore |
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| Imagining the World: Topics for Essays |
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| Describing the World: Stories |
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| Writer @ Work: A Descriptive Essay |
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| Student Writing: Hashim Naseem, The Motherland |
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| Describing the World: Topics for Essays |
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| Writer @ Work: Writing about a Live or a Taped Performance |
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| Student Writing: Joshua Cohen, Notes on Krapp's Last Tape, directed by Atom Egoyan |
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| Student Writing: Joshua Cohen, Response Paper on Krapp's Last Tape |
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| Staging the World: Topics for Essays |
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| Explaining the World: Essays |
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| How Susie Bayer's T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama's Back |
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| Writer @ Work: Arguing with an Essay |
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| Student Writing: Jacquelynn Messina, The Used Clothes Trade: Who Benefits? |
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| Explaining the World: Topics for Essays |
| | 209 | |
| Writing the World: Working with Literary Devices |
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| Patterns of Contradiction |
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| Ambiguity and Double Meaning |
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| Drawing of the Sosibios Vase |
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| On Hiram Powers' Greek Slave |
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| Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
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| Landscape with the Fall of Icarus |
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| Lines on Brueghel's Icarus |
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| movie still from The Seven Samurai |
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| Writing the World: Topics for Essays |
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| Translating the World: Reading and Writing Between Languages |
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| I Hate and Love: A Casebook on Translation |
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| Poem 85 with interlinear and literal translation |
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| Catullus: Odi et Amo, Catullus: Excrucior |
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| Translation and Bilingualism |
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| There Is No Word for Goodbye |
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| The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a Night in December in 1976 |
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| Translating the World: Topics for Essays |
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| PART 3 THE READER'S WORLD: EXPLORING THE THEMES OF LITERATURE |
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| The World Closest to US: Me and You |
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| Photographs from The Family of Man |
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| A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
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| A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease |
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| Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
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| Families: Topics for Essays |
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| The Kid's Guide to Divorce |
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| The Wolf's Postscript to ``Little Red Riding Hood'' |
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| Children and Adolescents: Topics for Essays |
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| Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape |
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| What She Said to Her Girl Friend |
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| How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128) |
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| Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116) |
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| When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29) |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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| Lovers: Topics for Essays |
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| Working Further with the World Closest to Us |
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| Reading Globally, Writing Locally Orhan Pamuk and the Literature of Europe |
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| My Faithful Mother Tongue |
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| Working Further with the Literature of Europe |
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| The Worlds Around Us: Beliefs and Ethics |
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| Images of Good and Evil in the World |
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| Beliefs: Creation and Beginnings |
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| Imagine There's No Heaven |
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| Creation and Beginnings: Topics for Essays |
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| Ethics: Destruction and Endings |
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| Hills Like White Elephants |
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| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night |
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| Because I could not stop for Death - |
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| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain |
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| I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - |
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| It was not Death, for I stood up |
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| A Toad, can die of Light - |
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| Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - |
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| Destruction and Endings: Topics for Essays |
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| Working Further with the Worlds Around Us |
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| Reading Globally, Writing Locally Naguib Mahfouz and the Literature of Africa |
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| How to Write about Africa |
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| Working Further with the Literature of Africa |
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| The World We Live In: Spaces and Places |
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| This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona |
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| Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota |
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| In-Between Spaces: Topics for Essays |
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| From The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
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| Confined Spaces: Topics for Essays |
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| Working Further with the World We Live In |
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| Reading Globally, Writing Locally Jhumpa Lahiri and the Literature of Asia |
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| When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine |
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| Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? |
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| Working Further with the Literature of Asia |
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| The World We Share: Nature, Cities, and the Environment |
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| Imagining City and Nature Together |
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| A Supermarket in California |
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| In a Station of the Metro |
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| Lions and Tigers and Bears |
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| Living in the City: Topics for Essays |
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| When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
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| The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
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| The American Indian Wilderness |
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| Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land |
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| Living in Nature: Topics for Essays |
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| Working Further with the World We Share |
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| Reading Globally, Writing Locally Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Literature of the Americas |
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| The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World |
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| The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings |
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| So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans |
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| Variation on a Theme by William Carlos Williams |
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| Working Further with the Literature of the Americas |
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| Appendix A: The World of Literary Criticism | | 1 | |
| Appendix B: MLA Documentation Guidelines | | 1 | |
| Glossary | | 1 | |
| Credits | | 1 | |
| Index of Authors, Titles, First Lines of Poetry, and Key Terms | | 1 | |
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