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AN ANTHOLOGY
FOR READERS AND WRITERS
Making Literature Matter
AN ANTHOLOGY
FOR READERS AND
WRITERS
SEVENTH EDITION
John Schilb
Indiana University
John Clifford
University of North Carolina at
Wilmington
For Bedford/St. Martin’s
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Acknowledgments
As always, the staff at Bedford/St. Martin’s has coached us with a rare blend
of insight, vision, practicality, wit, and warmth. The utter epitome of these
virtues is Steve Scipione, who remains our invaluable mentor and friend.
Karen Henry is also a stalwart and perceptive guide, and we also give thanks
to Leasa Burton, Senior Program Director for English, and Edwin Hill, Vice
President of Editorial for the Humanities at Macmillan Learning. We are
grateful as well to a hardworking editor, Alicia Young; a diligent associate
editor, Julia Domenicucci; and an industrious editorial assistant, Aubrea
Bailis. For their editorial vision in earlier editions of Making Literature
Matter, we thank Charles Christensen, Joan Feinberg, and Denise Wydra. In
production, we are grateful to Lou Bruno, Andrea Cava, and Michael
Granger. In the permissions department, text permissions manager Kalina
Ingham, permissions editor Jen Roach, photo researcher Candice Cheesman,
and photo research manager Angela Boehler expertly and efficiently
negotiated and obtained reprint rights.
Once more, we thank Janet E. Gardner, formerly of the University of
Massachusetts at Dartmouth, for her contributions to the chapter on research;
Joyce Hollingsworth of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for
her previous work on the instructor’s manual; and Laura Sparks for the work
on the instructor’s manual for this edition.
As always, John Schilb is indebted to his former University of Maryland
colleague Jeanne Fahnestock and his current colleagues at Indiana
University, especially Christine Farris and Kathy Smith. John Clifford would
like to thank Sheri Malman for her invaluable assistance with this project,
especially her professional editing.
Of course, we remain grateful as well to the instructors who have
commented on various editions over the years — especially to those who
have adopted the book, some for many editions. For their extremely helpful
responses, we thank Liz Ann Baez Aguilar, San Antonio College; Jonathan
Alexander, University of California, Irvine; Donna Allen, Erie Community
College; Julie Aipperspach Anderson, Texas A&M University; Virginia
Anderson, University of Texas at Austin; Liana Andreasen, South Texas
College; Sonja L. Andrus, Collin County Community College; Joe Argent,
Gaston College; Andrew Armond, Belmont Abbey College; Carolyn Baker,
San Antonio College; Rance G. Baker, San Antonio College; Barbara
Barnard, Hunter College; Charles Bateman, Essex County College; Linda
Bensel-Meyers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Professor Alexander V.
Bernal, San Antonio College; Elaine Boothby, South River High School;
Colleen Brooks-Edgar, South Texas College; Christy Brown, Mission
College; Carole Bruzzano, Montclair State University; Susan Buchler,
Montgomery County Community College; Christopher Cartright, Armstrong
State University; Elizabeth L. Cobb, Chapman University; Robin Coffelt,
University of North Texas; Chauna Craig, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania; Timothy R. Cramer, Santa Monica College; Jacob Crane,
Bentley University; Michael A. Cronin, Northern Oklahoma College; Janet
Dale, Georgia College; Rosemary B. Day, Central New Mexico Community
College–Montoya Campus; Thomas Deans, Kansas State University; Kevin
J. H. Dettmar, Pomona College; Jennifer Diffley, Orange Coast College;
Jennifer Dorfield, Westfield State College; Michael Doyle, Blue Ridge
Community College; Penelope Dugan, Richard Stockton, College of New
Jersey; Thomas Dukes, University of Akron; Mary Dutterer, Howard
Community College; Kelly Edmisten, University of North Carolina at
Wilmington; Lauren Edmondson, Northern Virginia Community College;
Leigh Edwards, Florida State University; Monika Elbert, Montclair State
University; Irene R. Fairley, Northeastern University; John Funk, Bishop
Chatard High School; Joli Furnari, Montclair State University; Katie Frank,
Yavapai College; Selma Goldstein, Rider University; Martha K. Goodman,
Central Virginia Community College; Christopher Gould, University of
North Carolina at Wilmington; Maureen Groome, Brevard Community
College; Chad Hammett, Texas State University; John Hansen, Mohave
Community College; Martin Harris, Belmont Abbey College; William
Harrison, Northern Virginia Community College; Iris Rose Hart, Santa Fe
Community College; Glenn Hatcher, Gaston College; Denise Haughian,
University of Wisconsin-Stout; Carol Peterson Haviland, California State
University, San Bernardino; H. Suzanne Heagy, Fairmont State University;
Ana Hernandez, Miami-Dade College–Wolfson; John Heyda, Miami
University–Middletown; Jeff Hoogeveen, Lincoln University; Richard Dean
Hovey, Pima Community College; Karen Howard, Volunteer State
Community College; Clark Hutton, Volunteer State Community College;
Joan Kellerman, University of Massachusetts–Dartmouth; Sabine A. Klein,
Purdue University; Gerard Lambert, Miami Dade College; Sonya Lancaster,
University of Kansas; Kasee Clifton Laster, Ashland University; Marianne
Layer, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Michael J. Lee, Montgomery
County Community College; Margaret Lindgren, University of Cincinnati;
Donna Long, Fairmont State University; Linda Lovell, Northwest Arkansas
Community College; Irma Luna, San Antonio College; Betty Mandeville,
Volunteer State Community College; Henry Margenau, Montclair State
University; Kelly Martin, Collin County Community College; Phillip
Mayfield, Fullerton College; Miles S. McCrimmon, J. Sargeant Reynolds
Community College; Christopher McDermott, University of Georgia; Mandy
McDougal, Volunteer State Community College; Terence McNulty,
Middlesex Community College; Itzi Meztli, Slippery Rock University;
Rebecca Millan, South Texas College; Deborah Church Miller, University of
Georgia; Sharmila Nambiar, South Texas College; Steven Newman,
University of Nebraska–Omaha; Dana Nichols, Gainesville State College;
Jim O’Loughlin, University of Northern Iowa; Gordon O’Neal, Collin
County Community College; Christine Peter, University of Massachusetts–
Dartmouth; Brenton Phillips, Cloud County Community College; Jacqueline
Regan, Montclair State University; Kathleen Reiman, Yavapai College;
Nancy Lawson Remler, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Jim Richey,
Tyler Junior College; David Rollison, College of Marin; Jane Rosecrans, J.
Sargeant Reynolds Community College; Teri Rosen, Hunter College; Lisa
Roy-Davis, Collin County Community College; Donna Samet, Broward
Community College; Jamie Sanchez, Volunteer State Community College;
Daniel Schierenbeck, University of Central Missouri; Meryl F. Schwartz,
Lakeland Community College; Pauline Scott, Alabama State University; Julie
Segedy, Chabot College; Lucia Seranyan, Northern Virginia Community
College, Woodbridge Campus; Kimberly Alford Singh, Northern Virginia
Community College; Jason Skipper, Miami University at Oxford; Jennifer
Smith, Miami University at Oxford; Debra L. Snyder, Livingstone College;
Jamieson Spencer, St. Louis Community College; Pam Stinson, Northern
Oklahoma College; Douglas Strayer, Henry Ford Community College; Sarah
Syrjanen, Florida State University; Jonathan Taylor, Ferris State University;
J. D. Thayer, Gonzaga University; Julie Tilton, San Bernardino Valley
College; Larry A. Van Meter, Texas A&M University; William Verrone,
University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Bradley Waltman, College of
Southern Nevada; Phillippe West, Concordia University; C. White-Elliott,
College of the Desert; Sharon Winn, Northeastern State University; Bertha
Wise, Oklahoma City Community College; Pauline G. Woodward, Endicott
College; Gulnar Zaman, Northern Virginia Community College; James H.
Zorn, Bergen Community College; and our anonymous reviewer from
Montclair State University.
Through all editions of Making Literature Matter, three things have
stayed the same: what matters most to John Schilb is Wendy Elliot; what
matters most to John Clifford is Janet Ellerby; and we dedicate this book to
them.
Language: French
PARIS
ALBIN MICHEL, Éditeur
22, RUE HUYGHENS, 22
DU MÊME AUTEUR
EN PRÉPARATION :
L’Entraîneuse (roman).
A PARAITRE :
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Maman dit cela sans baisser la voix. Elle avait porté son secret
trop longtemps et maintenant elle le laissait aller devant nous,
simplement, parce que le cœur s’ouvre de lui-même comme font les
mains quand elles sont trop lasses et que toute la volonté ne peut
plus servir de rien. Elle ne parut pas gênée du silence qui suivit ses
paroles, et le petit soupir qu’elle poussa était comme de
soulagement… Je la regardais, et, dans cette seconde, me
rappelant toutes les sévérités de notre éducation, les livres
défendus, les coiffures sans fantaisie, les belles phrases
impérieuses sur l’honneur féminin, je sentais, je le crois bien, plus de
trouble encore que de désespoir et je ne pouvais plus rien
comprendre… Mais Guicharde avait dix ans de plus que moi. Elle
posa doucement ses ciseaux. On eût dit qu’elle écoutait quelque
chose, et sûrement se lamentaient autour d’elle toutes les détresses
qui s’étaient un jour levées autour de notre mère. Et puis elle se jeta
vers elle, l’enveloppa de ses deux bras, et glissant sur les genoux :
— Oh ! maman, ma pauvre maman ! gémit-elle, sur un ton de
tendresse que n’avait jamais eu sa voix un peu rude.
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