Synopses & Reviews
Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location.
About the Author
Laurie Kirszner is a bestselling author and a practicing teacher who is well known nationally. Kirszner, together with coauthor Stephen R. Mandell, has written bestsellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any introductory literary anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature. Stephen Mandell is a bestselling author and a practicing teacher who is well known nationally. Mandell, together with coauthor Laurie G. Kirszner, has written bestsellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any introductory literary anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature.
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION. Langston Hughes' Twentieth Century. About the Author - Langston Hughes. 2. LITERATURE. A Selection of Poems by Langston Hughes. The Negro Speaks of Rivers. The Weary Blues. I, Too. Let America Be America Again. Ballad of a Landlord. Theme for English B. Dream Boogie. Harlem. Birmingham Sunday. Discussion Questions. Research Topics. 3. SECONDARY SOURCES. Langston Hughes - The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain. Langston Hughes - To Negro Writers. Langston Hughes - My Adventures as a Social Poet. Langston Hughes - Langston Hughes Speaks. Langston Hughes - Swinging High. Arnold Rampersad - The Origins of Poetry in Langston Hughes. Steven Tracy - Midnight Ruffles of Cat-Gut Lace. Karen Jackson Ford - Do Right to Write Right: Langston Hughes' Aesthetics of Simplicity. Herman Beavers - Dead Rocks and Sleeping Men: Aurality in the Aesthetic of Langston Hughes. George Hutchinson - Langston Hughes and the "Other" Whitman. 4. SAMPLE STUDENT RESEARCH PAPER. Grace R. Alston - Challenging the Father/Challenging the Self: Langston Hughes' s. The Negro Speaks of Rivers. 5. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Works by Langston Hughes. General Criticism. Criticism of Hughes' s Poetry. General African-American Literary and Cultural History. African-American Poetry Anthologies. Audio-Visual Resources. Internet Resources. 6. APPENDIX: DOCUMENTING SOURCES.