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Literature, 9/e, the most popular introduction of its kind, is organized into three genres¤Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. As in past editions, the authors' collective poetic voice brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature, adding to students' interest in the readings.
An introduction to a balance of contemporary and classic stories, poems, and plays. Casebooks offer in-depth look at an author or clusters of works, for example “Latin American Poetry.” Authors Joe Kennedy and Dana Gioia provide inviting and illuminating introductions to the authors included and to the elements of literature. Coverage of writing about literature is also included.
For those interested in literature.
Designed for college literature courses, this text contains four main sections devoted to fiction, poetry, drama, and critical writing. The volume contains classic and contemporary works, including 67 stories, 501 poems, and 18 plays. The section on criticism covers ten major schools of literary criticism and theory. Writing exercises are found in each chapter, and five chapters discuss how to write about literature. The eighth edition also features 6 casebooks, which explore in-depth selections of the writings of authors such as Langston Hughes, Flannery O'Connor, and Shakespeare. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Robert Gordon
reviewed Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama on September 13, 2007
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
This book has great writing and poetry, but also explains how to analyze and also gives tips for writing. I would recommend that anyone who is interested in learning how to analyze writing, either someone else's or your own, or in picking up tips on how to write better take a serious look at this book. To give an idea of who is included and what info you can expect I'm going to create a list below. I'm not going to include every single writer and entry in my list of included works. I'm also going to break it down into the book sections (I have the book in front of me). It's gonna be a bit long, but I want to give an idea of who is included here. The sections are broken down even more, but I'm leaving those out in the interest of making this as short as possible.
FICTION
1 Reading a Story
Fable and Tale: W. Sommerset Maugham, Brothers Grimm
Short Story: John Updike
2 Point of View: Faulkner, Poe, Carver, Mansfield
3 Character: Alice Walker, Isaac Bashevis Singer
4 Setting: Kate Chopin, Jack London, Amy Tan
5 Tone and Style: Hemingway, Faulkner, Jorge Luis Borges
6 Theme: Vonnegut, Hawthorne, Stephen Crane
7 Symbol: Steinbeck, Ursula Le Guin
8 (instructional stuff on evaluating a story)
9 Reading Long Stories and Novels: James Baldwin, Kafka
10 A Writer in Depth: Flannery O'Connor
11 Stories for Further Reading: Chinua Achebe "Civil Peace",
Willa Cather "Paul's Case", Langston Hughes "On the Road",
Jamacia Kincaid "Girl", Tim O'Brien "The Things They
Carried", Eudora Welty "A Visit of Charity"
POETRY
12 Reading a Poem: Yeats, Adrienne Rich, Frost, Robert
Browning
13 Listening to a Voice: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson,
William Wordsworth, Louise Gluck, Thomas Hardy, W.H.
Auden, Richard Lovelace, Wilfred Owen
14 Words: Robert Graves, William Carlos Williams, Longfellow,
Emma Lee Warrior, Josephine Mills, e.e. cummings, Lewis
Carroll
15 Saying and Suggesting: William Blake, Gwendolyn Brooks,
Alfred Lord Tennyson
16 Imagery: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop
17 Figures of Speech: Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Margaret
Atwood
18 Song: Run D.M.C., Paul Simon, Dudley Randall, Bessie
Smith, John Lennon
19 Sound: Alexander Pope, Updike, A.E. Housman, William
Blake, Michael Stillman
20 Rhythm: Gwendolyn Brooks, Ben Jonson, Dorothy Parker,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman
21 Closed Form: John Keats, Shakespeare, Wendy Cope, Dylan
Thomas
22 Open Form: Wallace Stevens, Dorthi Charles, Lucille
Clifton
23 Symbol: Matthew 13:24-30, Sara Teasdale, Ted Kooser
24 Myth and Narrative: Louise Bogan, Yeats, Anne Sexton
25 Poetry and Perosnal Idendity: Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove,
Donald Justice, Judith Ortiz Cofer
26 Evaluating a Poem: Stephen Tropp, Rod McKuen, Percy
Bysshe Shelly, Emma Lazarus
27 (info on what is poetry)
28 Two Poets in Depth: Emily DIckinson, Langston Hughes
29 Poems for Further Reading: Emily Bronte, Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Allen
Ginsberg, Stephen Shu-ning Liu, John Milton, Sir Thomas
Wyatt
30 (info on lives of poets)
DRAMA
31 Reading a Play: Susan Glaspell, Garrison Keillor
32 The Theater of Sophocles Oedipus the King
33 The Theater of Shakespeare: Othello
34 The Modern Theater: Henrik Ibsen, Milcha Sanchez-Scott
35 (info on evaluating a play)
36 Plays for Further Reading: Arthur Miller, Tennessee
Williams
WRITING
37 Writing about literature
38 Writing about a story
39 Writing about a poem
40 Writing about a play
41 Writing and researching on the computer
42 Critical approaches to Literature
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