Cultural Conversations: The Presence of the Past

By Stephen Dilks, Matthew Parfitt, Regina M. Hansen, et al.

This unique new thematic composition reader brings together 6 key texts from the past and multiple contemporary reverberations to engage students in some of today's most significant cultural... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312201575
• ISBN13: 9780312201579
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful and well-designed anthology.

The book is great in providing several opinions on a particular unit studied. This way students (who are most often the readers of this book) get more than just a biased opinion. The context sections that follow the main text provide readers with additional information on the subject as well as the ideas for writing compositions. Furthermore, the book incorporates very well many diverse subjects including psychology, history of the Western Frontier,sex and gender, as well as several others. It contains many contemporary authors and provides the students with examples of different writing styles. In other words it's a great book for an English class or even for future reference and ideas.