This outstanding new literature anthology introduces students to basic concepts in the study of literature. Full of intriguing literary selections, both classic and contemporary, it explains literary terminology, and it guides the student through the process of written critical analysis. In each section you'll discover a tremendous and varied pool of authors ranging in age, gender, culture, ethnicity, nationality and world view. Students will be asked to produce full-length critical literary analysis in each of these genres. In addition, the text provides definitions of literary terms, author biographies, formal criticism, documentation instruction, helpful online resources, representative student essays and the writing process, and critical casebook studies.
Students learn to write by writing, and they write best when they are engaged in the material.
It is my hope that the reading and writing materials collected in our text inspire critical thinking, stimulating discussion and provocative writing. Writing For the most part, this course is self-paced. In this class, students read and write at their own speed, but must submit a final draft of each essay every two weeks. You may get ahead of schedule and submit papers more frequently. We will proceed in the text by literary genre.