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Resources for Teaching John Schilb • John clifford Joyce hollingSworth • laura SparkS cover images: a-digit/getty images Resources for Teaching Boston | New York Second ediTion John Schilb Indiana University John clifford University of North Carolina at Wilmington Joyce Hollingsworth […]
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hawthorne Young Goodman Brown 165 Young Goodman Brown did not actually see his neighbors. He may have dreamed it, but it is equally possible that evil spirits fooled him, disguised as his wife and fellow church members. Whatever happened, the […]
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hughes Open Letter to the South 185 informal American colloquialisms. The switch in genders also changes the dynamic. At first reading, many readers will admit to sympathizing with Spera’s wronged woman while being horrified by Browning’s reptilian nobleman. Very few […]
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alexie Capital Punishment 205 In his response to George Will’s “Capital Punishment” piece, Bill Otis explic– itly takes on Will’s three main points in his case against the death penalty. Otis’s strategy is interesting, because his article exists solely as […]
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arter The Company of Wolves 225 prejudicial, but it originally came from a Latin word for “forest,” and it carries appropriate connotations of natural wildness. Marriage is about sex and about love, and Carter’s ending implies that it’s okay to […]
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thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night 237 twentieth- century poetry. He plays not only with the conventions of form but with language as well. Although “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” does not fracture syntax […]
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Sample Syllabi 5 develop into a longer paper. It’s probably a good idea to assign Chapter 7, which deals with the longer, more traditional research paper in some detail, in conjunction with the Charlotte Perkins Gilman cultural contexts cluster. The […]
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How to Argue about Literature 25 Hismissteps following the public’s condemnation of his weight and behavior are due in large part to the bad advice of others rather than to obvious character flaws. Readers might note, for example, that his […]
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Mrs.G.is like Gilman and the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” in that she is essentially placed in solitary confinement and forbidden to work, but Mitchell emphasizes massage and “electric passive exercise” in which the mus- cles are stimulated by mild […]
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lee My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud 65 whiskey, battered, beat, and even death. The household is brought into chaos, and the mother clearly disapproves. Yet those who jump to conclusions of child abuse — a frequent reaction […]
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plath Daddy 85 more about the ways in which we may continue to play out the dramas of child- hood. Plath seems to refer to her earlier attempt at suicide in the poem, and she would kill herself by sticking […]
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minot My Husband’s Back 105 woman who will recognize their nobility and become their compass in a world of chaos. When all is not perfect, some couples may give up rather than help each other through rough spots. Others unrealistically […]
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arnold Dover Beach 125 CONTEXTS FOR RESEARCH harles dikens, From Hard Times (p.682) friedrih engels, From The Condition of the Working Class inEngland (p.687) james eli adams, Narrating Nature: Darwin (p.690) In the selection from Charles Dickens’s Hard Times, we […]
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derriotte Black Boys Play the Classics 145 diminished. Most theorists today speak of identities rather than one unified iden- tity that characterizes a human subject. Seen in this way, Mora’s speaker is in the same boat with all of us […]