Providing the most thorough coverage available in one volume, this comprehensive, broadly based collection offers a wide variety of selections in four major genres, and also includes a section on film. Each of the five sections contains a detailed critical introduction to each form, brief biographies of the authors, and a clear, concise editorial apparatus. Updated and revised throughout, the new Fourth Edition adds essays by Margaret Mead, Russell Baker, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and Alice Walker; fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ursula K. LeGuin, Anton Chekov, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, Donald Barthelme, and James McPherson; poems by John Donne, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Philip Levine, and Louise Gluck; and plays by August Wilson, Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, and Vaclav Havel. The chapter devoted to film examines the relation of film to literature and gives the complete screenplay for Citizen Kane plus close analysis of a scene from the film. With its innovative structure, comprehensive coverage, and insightful and stimulating presentation of all kinds of literature, this is an anthology readers will turn to again and again.

Elements of Literature: Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Film

Reference

Carl H. Klaus

Robert Scholes

Michael Silverman

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Oxford University Press

This is an anthology of outstanding literature and the elements to understand each selection. This collection includes 12 plays, 52 stories, 220 poems and 17 essays by major writers from the classical to contemporary periods, each with a separate explanatory discussion for each, aprox. 30 pages in length.

Elements of literature 5: Fiction, poetry, drama, essay, film

With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays â€” Stages of Drama truly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the stage.

Stages of Drama : Classical to Contemporary Theater

Bedford/St.Martins

With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays — Stages of Drama truly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the stage.

Stages of Drama: Classical to Contemporary Theater

Literature & Fiction

Miriam Gilbert

Bradford S. Field Jr

Dramas & Plays

Bedford/St.Martin's

Because composition students will major in a wide variety of disciplines, Fields of Reading draws on the major divisions of the curriculum -- arts and humanities, social sciences and public affairs, and sciences and technologies -- to present well-crafted and high-quality writing from these fields. Chosen by five editors who are all distinguished teachers and writers, the selections are organized in each division by writing purpose (reflecting, reporting, explaining, and arguing) in order to show how writing must be suited to a particular situation in order to be effective. Students are thus exposed to important readings by key voices in contemporary intellectual life -- the kind of thought-provoking pieces one expects to encounter in college. The unique dual organization by academic discipline and rhetorical purpose helps students to understand how subject, intent, and audience influence the form and style of their own writing.

Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing, Seventh Edition

DAVID HAMILTON

Nancy R. Comley

Words, Language & Grammar

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