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Topics in Society and Literature

The document outlines various topics related to literature and society, including the relationship between literature and other arts, and how literature works in historical and social contexts. It then discusses five social issues - growing up/aging, women and men, money and work, peace and war, and varieties of protest - listing examples of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction works related to each topic.

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Topics in Society and Literature

The document outlines various topics related to literature and society, including the relationship between literature and other arts, and how literature works in historical and social contexts. It then discusses five social issues - growing up/aging, women and men, money and work, peace and war, and varieties of protest - listing examples of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction works related to each topic.

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TOPICS IN SOCIETY

AND LITERATURE
LITERATURE AND ITS ROLE IN SOCIETY

 Literature and Sociology/Society


 The Relationship between Literature and the
other arts
 Literature and the General Laws of Arts
 The Sociology of Literary Work
 The Literary Heritage
 Literature in Historical and other Social
Contexts
 How Fiction Works
 How Poetry Works
 How Drama Works
 How Nonfiction Works
SOCIAL ISSUE 1: GROWING UP/GROWING OLDER

 Fiction
 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
 Poetry
 The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
 My Papa’s Waltz by
 Theodore Roethke
 When I Have Fears by John Keats
 Drama
 Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
 Nonfiction
 He Defies You Still:The Memoirs of a Sissy by
TommyAvicolli Mecca
SOCIAL ISSUE 2: WOMEN AND MEN

 Fiction
 The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
 Poetry
 I Stop Writing the Poem by Tess Gallagher
 Every Day You Play by Pablo Neruda
 Drama
 Trifles by Susan Glaspell
 Nonfiction
 I Want a Wife by Judy Brady
SOCIAL ISSUE 3: MONEY AND WORK

 Fiction
 The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
 Poetry
 A Description of the Morning by Jonathan Swift
 The World Is Too Much With Us by William
Wordsworth
 Drama
 The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
 Nonfiction
 Women on the Breadlines by Meridel Le Sueur
SOCIAL ISSUE 4: PEACE AND WAR

 Fiction
 1919 by Toni Morrison
 Poetry
 At First I was Given Centuries by Margaret
Atwood
 The Dying Veteran by Walt Whitman
 Drama
 In the Traffic of a Targeted City by Mark
Kaminsky
 Leap by Brian Doyle
SOCIAL ISSUE 5: VARIETIES OF PROTEST

 Fiction
 The Heat Death of the Universe by Pamela
Zoline
 Poetry
 The White House Has Disinvited the Poetsby
Julia Alvarez
 If We Must Die by Claud McKay
 Drama
 Antigone by Sophocles
 Nonfiction
 Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

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