This best-seller continues to set a high standard for introductory literature texts by maintaining the traditions that have made it a success while adding fresh, new material. Carefully selected classic and contemporary works incorporate a range of diverse voices, and the authors provide integrated coverage of the elements of literature and the writing process. --Publisher description.
In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: ·Key definitions – from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author ·Literature's relationship to the surrounding world ...
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is an indispensable guide. In twenty-four short, compelling and highly readable chapters, this book presents the key critical concepts in literary studies today....
Thus, for example, R.S. Crane argues in an essay first published in 1935 that literary history is essentially part of 'the general history of culture' (Crane 1967, 20), while a 'program of literary studies based on criticism' would ...
Offering a thorough treatment of historical and critical context, the most comprehensive media package available, and a rich suite of tools to encourage close reading and thoughtful writing, the Shorter Twelfth Edition is unparalleled in ...
The Norton Introduction to Literature
Designed with an eye for both the uniqueness and the universality of outstanding literature, this text offers a unified, multicultural approach to the meaning, form, technique, and values in fiction, poetry, and drama.
Strong focus on the processes of analyzing the literary elements of poetry, prose, and drama and writing about them.
The more time he spent describing the assignment, the better the final essays. However, these explicit essay-writing directions were taking up too much of his classroom time.
The new edition has been thoroughly revised but retains the same winning characteristics of its predecessor: presenting the key critical concepts in literary studies today, avoiding the jargonistic, abstract nature...
fiction, poetry, drama Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, William Burto.