Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing
ISBN-10
0205686117
ISBN-13
9780205686117
Series
Literature
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
2137
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Longman Publishing Group
Authors
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia

Description

Literature, Interactive Edition comes automatically with MyLiteratureLab, Longman's multimedia website. MyLiteratureLab icons are found in the margins of the text along with a list of media assets at the front of the anthology. The material is presented in a newly revised, easier to study format and inlcudes MLA’s latest guidelines. Conversations between Dana Gioia and celebrated fiction writer Amy Tan, current U. S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and contemporary playwright David Ives, offer students an insider’s look into the importance of reading to three contemporary writers. A Latin American Writers casebook is new to Fiction and collects some of the finest authors from the region including Octavia Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Ines Arendondo. A casebook on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is now featured as part of the Three Stories In-depth chapter. Many new writers have been added including Naguib Mahfouz, Virginia Woolf, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Bettie Sellers, and Anne Deavere Smith. As always, editors X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to theEleventh Editionof this comprehensive anthology.

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