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The Longman Anthology of World Literature SECOND EDITION DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page i Instructor’s Manual to accompany The Longman Anthology of World Literature SECOND EDITION VOLUME II VOLUME D: THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES VOLUME E: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY VOLUME F: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY David Damrosch David L. Pike General Editors April Alliston Marshall Brown Page duBois Sabry Hafez Ursula K. Heise Djelal Kadir Sheldon Pollock Bruce Robbins Haruo Shirane Jane Tylus Pauline Yu Longman New York San Francisco Boston London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore Madrid Mexico City Munich Paris Cape Town Hong Kong Montreal DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page ii Vice President and Editor-in-Chief: Joseph Terry Senior Supplements Editor: Donna Campion Text Design, Project Manager, and Electronic Page Makeup: Grapevine Publishing Services, Inc. Instructor’s Manual to accompany The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition, Volume II, by David Damrosch et al. Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Instructors may reproduce portions of this book for classroom use only. All other reproductions are strictly prohibited without prior permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10—OPM —11 10 09 08 Longman is an imprint of ISBN 10: 0-205-64606-9 www.pearsonhighered.com ISBN 13: 978-0-205-64606-7 DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page iii CONTENTS General Editors’ Preface ix Guide to MyLiteratureLab xv VOLUME D: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The World the Mughals Made 1 Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur 2 Jahangir 4 Mirza Muhammad Rafi “Sauda” and Mir Muhammad Taqi “Mir” 6 Banarasidas 10 Chikamatsu Mon’zaemon 12 Cao Xueqin 16 RESONANCE: Shen Fu 21 The Ottoman Empire 23 Mihri Khatun 23 Fuzuli 23 Nedîm 24 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 25 The Age of the Enlightenment Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [Molière] 27 PERSPECTIVES: Court Culture and Female Authorship 30 Aphra Behn 42 RESONANCE: George Warren 51 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Longman. iii DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page iv iv Contents Jonathan Swift 52 PERSPECTIVES: Journeys in Search of the Self 58 François-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] 71 Alexander Pope 79 PERSPECTIVES: Liberty and Libertines 88 VOLUME E: The Nineteenth Century Teaching Romanticism Today 95 William Wordsworth 101 PERSPECTIVES: Romantic Nature 107 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 107 Immanuel Kant 108 William Blake 108 John Keats 109 Annette von Droste-Hülshoff 109 Giacomo Leopardi 110 Ralph Waldo Emerson 110 Henry David Thoreau 111 Johann Wolfgang Goethe 112 George Gordon, Lord Byron 124 Ghalib 125 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 126 PERSPECTIVES: The National Poet 128 Nguyen Du 129 Anna Letitia Barbauld 130 Adam Mickiewicz 131 Dionysios Solomos 132 Walt Whitman 132 PERSPECTIVES: On the Colonial Frontier 135 Mikhail Lermontov and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento 136 Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) 140 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Longman. DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page v Contents v Hawaiian Songs 141 José Rizal 141 The Romantic Fantastic 142 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 143 Ludwig Tieck 145 Honoré de Balzac 146 Edgar Allan Poe 148 Gustave Flaubert 149 PERSPECTIVES: Occidentalism—Europe Through Foreign Eyes 152 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 155 Charles Baudelaire 157 Leo Tolstoy 160 Fyodor Dostoevsky 162 RESONANCES: Friedrich Nietzsche and Ishikawa Takuboku 165 Other Americas 166 Hathali Nez and Washington Matthews 166 Herman Melville 168 Frederick Douglass 171 Harriet Jacobs 173 Emily Dickinson 175 Joaquim María Machado de Assis 178 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 180 Rubén Darío 181 Henrik Ibsen 182 Higuchi Ichiyo 185 Anton Chekhov 185 Rabindranath Tagore 187 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Longman. DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page vi vi Contents VOLUME F: The Twentieth Century PERSPECTIVES: The Art of the Manifesto 190 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 191 Tristan Tzara 192 André Breton 194 Mina Loy 195 Yokomitsu Riichi 197 Oswald de Andrade 198 André Breton, Leon Trotsky, and Diego Rivera 199 Joseph Conrad 200 Premchand 202 Lu Xun 205 James Joyce 207 Virginia Woolf 208 Akutagawa Ryunosuke 211 PERSPECTIVES: Modernist Memory 213 T. S. Eliot 213 Constantine Cavafy 214 Claude McKay 215 Federico García Lorca 216 Carlos Drummond de Andrade 216 Emile Habiby 217 Octavio Paz 219 Franz Kafka 220 Anna Akhmatova 223 RESONANCE: Osip Mandelstam 224 William Butler Yeats 225 PERSPECTIVES: Poetry About Poetry 226 Eugenio Montale 228 Fernando Pessoa 229 Pablo Neruda 230 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Longman. DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page vii Contents vii Wallace Stevens 231 Nazim Hikmet 232 Bei Dao 232 Bertolt Brecht 233 PERSPECTIVES: Echoes of War 237 Samuel Beckett 243 PERSPECTIVES: Cosmopolitan Exiles 246 César Vallejo 247 Vladimir Nabokov 248 Czeslaw Milosz 249 V. S. Naipaul 250 Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa’id) 252 Jorge Luis Borges 252 RESONANCE: Gabriel García Márquez 255 Naguib Mahfouz 255 PERSPECTIVES: The 1001 Nights in the Twentieth Century 258 Güneli Gün 259 John Barth 259 Italo Calvino 259 Assia Djebar 260 Léopold Sédar Senghor 261 Aimé Césaire 264 James Baldwin 268 Gerald Vizenor 269 PERSPECTIVES: Indigenous Cultures in the Twentieth Century 271 Zhang Ailing (Eileen Chang) 275 Mahasweta Devi 276 PERSPECTIVES: Gendered Spaces 277 Chinua Achebe 281 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Longman. DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page viii viii Contents Wole Soyinka 284 PERSPECTIVES: Postcolonial Conditions 286 Mahmoud Darwish and Faiz Ahmad Faiz 286 Reza Baraheni 289 Farough Faroghzad 289 Derek Walcott 290 Salman Rushdie 291 PERSPECTIVES: Literature, Technology, and Media 291 Index 301 Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Longman. DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page ix General Editors’ Preface The tremendous wealth of world literature available today is also a kind of embar- rassment of riches: How can we best present this great range of works in class? We’ve designed the second edition of The Longman Anthology of World Literature with this issue constantly in mind, giving teachable groupings and illuminating juxtapo- sitions throughout the Anthology and framing compelling texts with introductions and notes that give the context needed for an informed and pleasurable reading. Yet finally it comes down to individual class sessions and the detailed discussion of par- ticular works, and here is where this teaching companion comes in. In this book we suggest fruitful modes of approach, presenting ways to engage students, to foster un- derstanding, and to stimulate lively discussion of all our major texts and groupings of works. We have set three ambitious goals for ourselves in creating this teaching com- panion. First, it has been written directly by the editors responsible for each sec- tion of the Anthology—the use of the Anthology in class isn’t some afterthought; it’s an integral part of our own work on the project. In seeking people to join us on the editorial board, we looked for coeditors who are dynamic and experienced teachers as well as deeply knowledgeable scholars and clear, lively writers. We’ve seen this teaching companion as the opportunity to share directly with you our best ideas on how to bring these texts alive in class. To this end, our second goal has been to discuss every major author or com- bination of authors in the Anthology, opening up possible lines of approach, indi- cating good connections that can be made, and sketching important trends in scholarly debate. Third, we’ve tried to be suggestive rather than prescriptive, and we hope to inform instructors who are new to some of this material while also in- triguing people interested in a fresh take on familiar works. This volume gives us a chance to expand on the reasons behind our choices and to indicate ways that we have found these materials to work best during many years of teaching them. Teaching with and across Groupings A distinctive feature of our Anthology is the grouping of works in Perspectives sec- tion and as Resonances between texts. Together, these groupings are intended both to set works in cultural context and to link them across time and space. These groupings have a strategic pedagogical function as well. We have observed that in other anthologies, brief author listings rarely seem to get taught. Added with the laudable goal of increasing an anthology’s range and inclusiveness, the new materials Copyright © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Longman. ix DAMR.6069.Vol.II-bkfm.i-xxiv:VOL.II 7/14/08 5:57 PM Page x x General Editors’ Preface too often get lost in the shuffle. Our groupings of works cluster shorter selections in ways that make them more likely to be taught, creating a critical mass of read- ings around a compelling literary or social issue and economically providing cul- tural context for the major works around them. We expect that our contextual groupings will be used variously by different people. A Perspectives section can be taught entirely as a freestanding unit, or it can share a week with an important work or major author. While entire Perspectives sections can be assigned, individual works within them can also be paired with works elsewhere. For example, in Volume E, Walt Whitman can either be taught with the other writers next to him in “Perspectives: The National Poet” or he can be assigned instead with Emily Dickinson and Rubén Darío later in the volume.
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