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Literature Across Cultures (with MyLiteratureLab)
ISBN: 9780321322814 | 0321322819
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2005
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This thematic introduction to literature is distinguished by its inclusion of both classical and contemporary writers, writers from the British and American tradition, ethnic writers from the United States, and writers from other cultures. A newly revised pedagogy highlights brevity, clarity, and accuracy, providing effective strategies for reading and writing about literature. Students are asked to observe, reflect on, and write about the social, political, and cultural aspects of the literature being examined. The literature is organized them... MORE
| Preface for Instructors | |
| Preface for Students | |
| Introduction: Reading and Writing as a Social Act | |
| The Meaning of Literature | |
| The Function of Literature | |
| Strategies for Reading Literature: A Step-by-Step Guideline | |
| Step 1: Previewing | |
| Step 2: Highlighting | |
| Step 3: Annotating | |
| Guided Reading: Kate Chopin, "The ... MORE | |
| Strategies for Writing about Literature | |
| Sample Reading: Sherwood Anderson, "Hands." | |
| Step 1: Generating Ideas | |
| Step 2: Finding a Thesis | |
| Step 3: Organizing the Essay: A Formal Outline | |
| Step 4: Writing a Rough Draft with Peer Editing | |
| Step 5: Revising | |
| Strategies for Preparing the Final Draft | |
| Writing the Final Draft | |
| Origins and Insights | |
| Fiction | |
| And the Soul Shall Dance | |
| Roman Fever, Edith Wharton | |
| First Confession | |
| Father and I | |
| The Watch | |
| The Sky Is Gray | |
| Young Goodman Brown | |
| Essays | |
| My People | |
| The Allegory of the Cave | |
| Fraternity | |
| From Imaginary Homelands | |
| Poetry | |
| The Negro Speaks of Rivers | |
| First Light | |
| Warm heart contains life | |
| The Lamb | |
| The Tyger | |
| In the Tree House at Night | |
| Mid-term Break | |
| During a Son's Dangerous Illness | |
| Lost Sister | |
| The Possessive | |
| Breaking Tradition | |
| A Breeze Swept Through | |
| Fern Hill | |
| If I could only live at the pitch that is near madness | |
| Poem for My Father | |
| The Gift | |
| Fishermen | |
| Frederick Douglass | |
| Tour 5 | |
| Those Winter Sundays | |
| Runagate Runagate | |
| Drama | |
| Oedipus Rex | |
| Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| Topics for Discussion and Writing | |
| Film Angles | |
| Gender and Identity | |
| Fiction | |
| Girl | |
| The Revolt of "Mother," | |
| A Respectable Woman | |
| The Stor | |
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