In-Stock Features Combines traditional and multicultural literature in thematic groupings. Compares traditional and contemporary authors' points of view on issues of gender, race, class, and ethnicity. Ideal for instructors who emphasize close textual analysis, encourage peer discussions, and incorporate literature by contemporary ethnic writers. Focuses on the political, social, and cultural aspects of stories, poems, and plays.
Introductory unit covers reading and writing about literature.
Covers timely topics including women's issues, the dialectic of self and society, the causes and effects of war and violence, AIDS, and individual and institutional attitudes towards sexual preference, ethnicity, race, gender, and class. Journal entries and discussion questions in every chapter provide students with an interactive approach to literature and culture, emphasizing students' personal and critical responses to the literature. Suggested peer group questions for many texts emphasize cultural contexts. A unique compilation of cultural questions provides the basis for students to respond to literature as a personal, social, and cultural act. An appendix examines various critical approaches to Hamlet .