Lives Through Literature: A Thematic Anthology

by Walter Levy and Helane Levine Keating

Book Overview

A unique thematic organization based on six types of human relationships with additional subthemes and subject clusters. Contains a wide variety of literary styles, periods and genres, including... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130170062
• ISBN13: 9780130170064
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 1319 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

lives through literature

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This thematic anthology of literature is wonderful. The selections revolve around a number of different myths, folktales, fairy tales, and bible stories. The editors have collected short stories, poems, and plays that allude to the myths, etc. They've organized these wonderful selections (for example, the myth of Persephone and Demeter, along with Robert Hayden's "Pomegranate" and Louise Gluck's "The Pomegranate")to allow students to explore uses of myth and folktale in literature. Even for the non-lit types, this collection offers a way in because it begins with familiar childhood stories. It is unfortunate that a previous reviewer of this textbook has chosen to rate his professor (one of the book's editors) rather than evaluate the book itself. I don't know Professor Helane Levine Keating, but the single poem of her own that she includes, "The Envious Heart," alludes to "Snow White," and is a beautiful piece.