Literature to Go

Name: Literature to Go
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ISBN: 9780312624125

ISBN-10: 0312624123

ISBN-13: 9780312624125

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Authors: Michael Meyer

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Drawn from our best-selling anthology,The Bedford Introduction to Literature,Literature to Gois a new brief and inexpensive collection of stories, poems, and plays supported by Michael Meyer's incomparable, class-tested instruction. With literature from many periods, cultures, and diverse voices, including today's funniest writers, the book is also a complete guide to close reading, critical thinking, and thoughtful writing about literature. Students discover literature as a diverse, lively, and often humorous reflection of their own lives.

Book details

List price: $53.99
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 10/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1100
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Resources for Reading and Writing about Literature


Preface for Instructors


Introduction: Reading Imaginative Literature


The Nature of Literature


A narrow Fellow in the Grass



The Value of Literature


The Changing Literary Canon


Fiction


The Elements of Fiction



Reading Fiction


Reading Fiction Responsively


The Story of an Hour



A Sample Close Reading: An Annotated Section of "The Story of an Hour"


A Sample Paper: Differences in Responses to Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"


Explorations and Formulas


A Comparison of Two Stories


From A Secret Sorrow



A Sorrowful Woman 2. Plot




Plot


From Tarzan of the Apes



The Flowers



A Rose for Emily




Character


From Hard Times



Saving Sourdi



Bartleby, the Scrivener




Setting


Soldier's Home



Or Out of Love in Sarajevo



Baglady




Point of View


Third-Person Narrator


First-Person Narrator


The Lady with the Pet Dog



The Lady with the Pet Dog



An Ounce of Cure




Symbolism


The Hand



Battle Royal



The Cranes




Theme


The Necklace



The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky



Love in L.A.




Style, Tone, and Irony


Style


Tone


Irony


Popular Mechanics



Lust



Carnal Knowlege



Fiction in Depth



A Study of Flannery O'Connor


A Brief Biography and Introduction


A Good Man Is Hard to Find



Perspectives on O'Connor


On the Use of Exaggeration and Distortion



On O'Connor's Refusal to "Do Pretty"



The Function of Violence in O'Connor's Fiction



On "A Good Man is Hard to Find"



A Collection of Stories



Stories for Further Reading


Clothes



The Birthmark



Eveline



Girl



The Use of Poetry



How to Tell a True War Story



55 Miles to the Gas Pump



The Story of the Good Little Boy



A & P



Poetry


The Elements of Poetry



Reading Poetry


Reading Poetry Responsively


Snapping Beans



Those Winter Sundays



Dog's Death



The Pleasure of Words


Oh, Oh



Sample Close Reading: An Annotated Version of Oh, Oh


Catch



A Sample Student Analysis: Tossing Metaphors Together in "Catch"


The Fish



A Study of Reading Habits



Mountain Graveyard



L(a



Western Wind



Nighttime Fires



Suggestions for Approaching Poetry


Introduction to Poetry



Poetry in Popular Forms


Magic of Love



Love Poem



You're Missing



Poems for Further Study


Seniors