Most literature anthologies present literary texts as material to be mastered. Author biographies explain why the included texts are valuable, while questions for reading and writing direct readers to pick up on the features of these texts that literary scholars ?nd important. Writing Through Literature removes the packaging that often surrounds literary texts, allowing students to use literature as a lens for scholarly inquiry instead of the object of study.

The design of Writing through Literature is simple:

An introduction for students that describes writing through literature and offers strategies and short assignments that can be used with any text
Challenging literary texts selected by instructors who have found them productive in the composition classroom
Online instructor resources with a variety of assignments that promote inquiry through literature and suggest supplementary texts to expand and complicate emerging arguments

Texts included in Writing through Literature:

Alexie, Sherman. “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” [1996]
Atwood, Margaret. “Bluebeard’s Egg” [1983]
Bambara, Toni Cade. “The Lesson” [1972]
de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie LePrince. “Beauty and the Beast” [1756]
Bible. “John 8: 2-11”
Borges, Jorge Luis. “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” [1939]
Breuer, Joseph and Sigmund Freud. “Anna O.” [1895]
Brooks, Gwendolyn. “Sadie and Maud” [1945]
Browning, Robert. “My Last Duchess” [1842]
Donne, John. “The Holy Sonnets” [1633]
Eliot, T.S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” [1915]
Ellison, Harlan. “Jeffty is Five” [1977]
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. “The Yellow Wallpaper” [1892]
Glaspell, Susan. “Trifles” [1916]
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. “Fitcher’s Bird” [1812]
Hurston, Zora Neale. “Sweat” [1926]
Joyce, James. “Araby” [1914]
Le Guin, Ursula K. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” [1973]
Melville, Herman. “Benito Cereno” [1855]
O’Brien, Tim. “How to Tell a True War Story” [1990]
Owen, Wilfred. “Dulce et Decorum Est” [1920]
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Purloined Letter” [1845]
Rowlandson, Mary White. “Selections from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” [1682]
Sedaris, David. “Season’s Greetings to our Family and Friends” [1994]
Shakespeare, William. Othello the Moor of Venice [1604]
Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal” [1729]

Writing Through Literature: An Anthology of Literary Texts for Academic Inquiry - nidottu, Englanti, 2012