Designed for literature-based writing courses, Text Book introduces students to the idea that literary texts and ordinary spoken and written language share many of the same features. By providing imaginative methods and unique assignments that let students work with those features in their writing, Text Book involves students in the processes of exploring literature creatively, not simply consuming and analyzing it, helping them understand literature "from the inside out."
ROBERT SCHOLES, professor of modern culture and media at Brown University, is a distinguished teacher and a leading scholar in literary studies. He has published many influential books and articles, including The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline (1998); Protocols of Reading (1989); and Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English (1985), which won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize of the Modern Language Association in 1986 and the David H. Russell Research Award from NCTE in 1988. Scholes is a contributor of numerous articles and book reviews to learned journals, literary magazines, and weekly reviews. His Bedford/St. Martin's publications include The Practice of Writing, Fifth Edition (2001) with Nancy R. Comley and Janice Peritz, and Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing, Sixth Edition (2001) with Nancy R. Comley, David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, and Nancy Sommers.
NANCY R. COMLEY, professor and chair of English and former Director of Freshman Composition at Queens College, CUNY, has written numerous articles on teaching writing and literature and on modernist literature. She has published, with Robert Scholes, Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text (1994). Her Bedford/St. Martin's publications include The Practice of Writing, Fifth Edition (2001) with Robert Scholes and Janice Peritz and Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing, Sixth Edition (2001) with David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, Robert Scholes, and Nancy Sommers.
GREGORY L. ULMER, professor of English and Media Studies at the University of Florida, has published numerous professional articles and books on critical theory and electronic communication, including Heuretics: The Logic of Invention (1994), Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video (1989), and Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys (1985). As coordinator of the Electronic Learning Forum (www.elf.ufl.edu), Ulmer collaborates with students and faculty at the University of Florida and elsewhere on projects relating to teaching, research, and service involving new media and technology.
Story and Storyteller Mary Louise Pratt, Natural Narrative For Discussion and Writing: Telling and Writing Anecdotes
The "Literary" Anecdote Walter Benjamin, Ordnance Patricia J. Williams, Polar Bears *Paul Auster, Tell Me a Story Storm Jameson, Departures *Brent Staples, Blake For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Anecdotes
The Short Story Kate Chopin, The Kiss For Discussion and Writing: Comparing "Natural" and "Literary" Narratives William Carlos Williams, The Use of Force For Discussion and Writing: Evaluating and Interpreting Anecdote and Story *Grace Paley, A Conversation with My Father For Discussion and Writing: What makes a "Good Story"?
Character and Confrontation *Susan Glaspell, Trifles For Discussion and Writing: Staging and Writing Drama Kate Chopin, dialogue from The Kiss For Discussion and Writing: Changing Dialogue to Drama Erving Goffman, Character Contests For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing and Writing Character Contests August Strindberg, The Stronger For Discussion and Writing: Revising a Character Contest Martin Esslin, from Aristotle and the Advertisers: The Television Commercial as Drama *AIG: The Greatest Risk Is Not Taking One For Discussion and Writing:Reversals and Recognitions
Representation and Its Complications *Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Film of Familiarity *Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Veil of Familiarity *Victor Shklovsky, Defamiliarization For Discussion and Writing: The Familiar and the Unfamiliar *Man Ray, 221 Boulevard Raspail *René Magritte, Personal Values *Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro *W. S. Merwin, Tool *E. E. Cummings, r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
2. Texts, Thoughts, and Things The Linguistic Basis of Metaphor Roger Brown, What Words Are: Reference and Categories For Discussion and Writing: Defining Categories Roger Brown, What Words Are: Metaphor Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder For Discussion and Writing: Defining Metaphor
Metaphor in Three Poems W. S. Merwin, Separation For Discussion and Writing: Metaphor and the Unexpected W. H. Auden, Let Us Honor… For Discussion and Writing: Modifying Metaphor Sylvia Plath, Metaphors For Discussion and Writing: Making Metaphors
Metaphor and Dream Sigmund Freud, from Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis *Tony Crisp, Getting to Work on Your Dream *Julia and Derek Parker, Symbolism For Discussion and Writing: Interpreting the Defamiliarized World *Edward Hopper, Night Shadows *Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealist Versailles *Giorgio de Chirico, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
*André Breton, Surrealist Images For Discussion and Writing: Comparing Terms: Freud and Breton
*André Breton, Surrealist Methods For Discussion and Writing: Constructing and Analyzing a Random Assemblage
Poetic Uses of Metaphor
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing the Work of Metaphors in Poetry
Ono No Kamachi, Doesn't He Realize… John Donne, The Flea Stephen Spender, Word Robert Francis, Pitcher Margaret Atwood, You fit into me Marge Piercy, You don't understand me Adrienne Rich, Moving in Winter *Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death *Theodore Roethke, Dolor *W. S. Merwin, Coming to the Morning *Edna St. Vincent Millay, Spring *Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Metaphor As a Basis for Thought
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Concepts We Live By For Discussion and Writing: Using Metaphorical Concepts
Robert W. Keidel, A New Game for Managers to Play For Discussion and Writing: Using Sports Metaphors
Susan Sontag, from AIDS and Its Metaphors For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Metaphors of Disease
Arguing with Metaphor: Analogy and Ideology *Emily Martin, The Egg and the Sperm For Discussion and Writing: Arguing About Metaphors in Science
Hidden Meaning: Parables and Allegory
*The Gospel of Mark, The Parables of Jesus *Franz Kafka, On Parables and Before the Law *Jorge Luis Borges, Borges and I and Ragnarök Italo Calvino, Cities and Memory: Isidora and Continuous Cities: Cecilia John Barth, Night-Sea Journey For Discussion and Wrting: Composing Parables
Metaphor And Metonymy: Advertising Vista productbuzz NEUVIS For Discussion and Writing: Comparing and Analyzing Metaphoric and Metonymic Qualities in Advertising
3. Texts and Other Texts
Book of Judges, Samson John Milton, From Samson Agonistes Nike Advertisement, Samson For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing a Textual Network
Transforming Texts (1) Raymond Queneau, from Transformations For Discussion and Writing: Making Your Own Transformations
Transforming Texts (2): Sleeping Beauties Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Thorn-rose (Briar-rose): The Manuscript
Version *Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Thorn-rose (Briar-rose): from Grimm's Fairy Tales, 6th Edition *Charles Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty (La belle au bois dormant) *Robert Coover, Five Sections from Briar Rose For Discussion and Writing: Comparing Versions and Transforming Tales
Completing Texts: The Reader's Work *Ernest Hemingway, Up in Michigan For Discussion and Writing: Defining Love: Writing the Reader's Work *Louise Erdrich, The Red Convertible For Discussion and Writing: Cultural Knowledge and Cultural Icons
Identifying with Texts Robert Ray, The Culmination of Classic Hollywood: Casablanca Woody Allen, from Play It Again, Sam Russell Banks, Bambi, A Boy's Story For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing Films: Intertexts, Ideologies, Icons
On Interpretation For Discussion and Writing: Proposing Your Own Theory of Literary Interpretation *Frank Kermode, The Purpose of Parables *Susan Sontag, Interpretation as Interference *Umberto Eco, The Intention of the Text
Interpreting Texts *Bruno Bettelheim, The Sleeping Beauty
For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing a Freudian Interpretation *Francine Prose, On "Sleeping Beauty"
For Discussion and Writing: Reading and Making a Cultural Critique *Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes, Interpreting "Up in Michigan"
For Discussion and Writing: Considering Intention and Interpretation *Robert Scholes, Interpreting "Pitcher" For Discussion and Writing: Interpreting a Poem
Text And Hypertext
4. Texts and Research: The Mystory
Mystory * Lewy Olfson, ed. The Sorrows of Young Werther (plot outline) * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from The Sorrows of Young Werther For Discussion and Writing: Analyzing the Tutor Text: Werther *from Reflections on Werther
The Fragment Roland Barthes, from A Lover's Discourse For Discussion and Writing: Composing an Identification Archive: Texts of Identification *Connie Porter, Rapunzel across Time and Space For Discussion and Writing: Emblamatizing Identity Eunice Lipton, History of an Encounter For Discussion and Writing: Encountering Exemplary Histories N. Scott Momaday, from The Way to Rainy Mountain For Discussion and Writing: Creating Patterns across Discourse *Susan Griffin, from A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War For Discussion and Writing: Researching Recognition The Signature William Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet (II.ii. 33-61) For Discussion and Writing: Naming Names A. A. Roback, Names and Professions For Discussion and Writing: Imagining Names The Power of Names Ralph Ellison, from Hidden Name and Complex Fate Dale Spender, from Man Made Language For Discussion and Writing: Changing Names Writing from Signatures James Joyce, Shem the Penman * Jane Morgan, Christopher O'Neil, and Rom Harré, Nicknames: Their Origins and Social Consequences For Discussion and Writing: Exploring the Name from Crest to Nickname
Signing: (The Proper Name) Jacques Derrida, From Glas For Discussion and Writing: Devising the Portrait Archive: The Play of the Text *Lawson Fusao Inada, Making it Stick For Discussion and Writing: Popularizing Cultural Forms *Nicholas Paley, Everyone Is Welcome For Discussion and Writing: Stretching a Story *Derek Pell, The Revolver: A Textual Transformation FDW: Transforming the Historical Document *A. C. Evans, from There are Many Roads to Space FDW: Testing the Cut-Up *John Cage, Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake FDW: Messing with Mesotics *Susan Howe, Submarginalia