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NEW--15 stories, 56 poems, and 1 play are
new to this edition, with increased numbers of women writers and
writers representing many different perspectives, walks of life, and
ethnic origins.
NEW--All chapter introductions have been
revised, reorganized, rewritten to make them more focused and clearer.
NEW--New illustrations and art reproductions
have been integrated into the chapter discussions, with more works
reproduced in full color.
NEW--A "career" chapter now appears
for each genre.
- Fiction (ch. 11): Edgar Allan Poe (new)
Poetry (ch. 24): William Wordsworth (new), Emily Dickinson,
Robert Frost
Drama (ch. 31): Henrik Ibsen (new)
NEW--Each career chapter includes new critical
essays on three major writers(Poe, Dickinson, Ibsen).
NEW--A new final section, "Special
Writing Assignments about Literature," places special emphasis
on research writing and critical approaches to literature.
Provides a broad range of classic and contemporary authors.
- Includes 60 stories, 388 poems, and 17 dramatic works.
- Offers a balanced collection of works by male and female
authors of different ethnic, political, economic, cultural, and religious
backgrounds.
Integrates reading and writing skill throughout.
- Begins each chapter with a discussion of how the reading
and writing processes apply to that element of literature.
- Includes "Writing About <193>" guide following
the selections in each chapter to help students progress in their
reading and writing: responding to a work, raising questions about
it, organizing thoughts, selecting details, planning the essay, and
writing effectively.
- Concludes each chapter with a sample student essay exemplifying
the strategies and methods brought out in the chapter.
Includes photographs (where possible) of the fiction
writers, dramatists, and the three major poets. Brief biographies
of all the poets appear at the end of the book.
Contains a thorough glossary of literary terms, an
alternate thematic table of contents, and a chronological
list of the authors.
A Spiral-bound Instructor's Manual provides more than
500 pages of helpful information about teaching the stories, poems,
plays, and essay assignments in the 5th edition.
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