The Essential Literature Ser.: Literature and Work by Thomas M. Kitts (2010, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherPrentice Hall PTR

ISBN-100205681093

ISBN-139780205681099

eBay Product ID (ePID)99596163

Product Key Features

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLiterature and Work

SubjectGeneral, Subjects & Themes / General

Publication Year2010

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism

AuthorThomas M. Kitts

SeriesThe Essential Literature Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal809.933553

Table Of ContentLiterature and Work Table of Contents Introduction I. Work: Definitions and Ideals from Autobiography (moral perfection, virtues, chart, "when men are employ'd, they are best content'd"); "Way to Wealth" Ben Franklin from "Life without Principle" Henry David Thoreau "The Tuft of Flowers" Robert Frost "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" Ernest Hemingway "What Work Is" Philip Levine II. Entering the Work Force "A & P" John Updike "Goodfellows" Antonya Nelson "Orientation" Daniel Orozco III. Hard Work and Hard Times: The Working Poor "Under the Lion's Paw" Hamlin Garland" "Chicago" Carl Sandburg "Washerwoman" Carl Sandburg "Harlem Dancer" Claude McKay from Working , "Waitress" Studs Terkel "Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden "I Stand Here Ironing" Tillie Olsen "Waiting Table" Karl Rompf "Digger Laid Off" Jim Daniels "Tom Wayman" "Factory Time" from Nickel-and-Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich "I Hate My Job" Cam'Ron IV. The Immigrant Experience from The Jungle Upton Sinclair "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)" Woody Guthrie "Cakes" Salvatore La Puma "Mariah" Jamaica Kincaid "So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans" Jimmy Santiago Baca "Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits" Martìn Espada "El Olor de Cansansio (The Smell of Fatigue)" Melida Rodas V. Class Struggle and the Dynamics of Power "Chimney Sweeper" (versions from Innocence and Experience ) "John Henry" "Counterparts" James Joyce "'Butch' Weldy" Edgar Lee Masters The Hairy Ape Eugene O'Neill from Working (Steelworker, Mike Lefevre) Studs Terkel VI. Race, Gender, and the Dynamics of Power "Colored Women and Work" Sojourner Truth "Five Dollar Fight" (from Black Boy ) Richard Wright "The Five-Forty Eight" John Cheever "Marks" Linda Pastan "Song of the Fisher Wife" Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni VII. Work and Ethics "Prodigal Son" Luke "Written in London, September 1802" "Bartleby, the Scrivener" Herman Melville "Editor Whedon" Edgar Lee Masters "The Use of Force" William Carlos Williams "Highway Patrolman" Bruce Springsteen "The Lie" T. C. Boyle VIII. Work: Fulfillment and Disillusionment "The Solitary Reaper" William Wordsworth "I Hear America Singing" Walt Whitman "In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound "Fish Crier" Carl Sandburg "Digging" Seamus Heaney "Autumn in Martins Ferry," James Wright "Ex-Basketball Player" John Updike "Hay for the Horses" Gary Snyder "Assembly Line" Shu-Ting "Dr. Shy" Stephen Paul Miller "Working in a Public Elementary School" Adriane Giebel

SynopsisLiterature and Work is part of Longman's The Essential Literature Series. This anthology introduces students to work by having them read, discuss, and write about work-related topics, which are often connected to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and class. The book features contemporary as well as classic literature with a global perspective. The literature is arranged under eight primary themes: " Work: Definitions and Ideals," "Entering the Work Force," "Hard Work and Hard Times: The Working Poor," "The Immigrant Experience," "Class Struggle and the Dynamics of Power," "Race, Gender, and the Dynamics of Power," "Work and Ethics," and "Work: Fulfillment and Disillusionment."

LC Classification NumberPN56.W65