The Norton Introduction to Literature (Norton Introduction to Literature, 7th ed)

By Carl E. Bain, Jerome Beaty, J. Paul Hunter

Book Overview

Offering 59 stories, 458 poems, and 15 plays, the Seventh Edition provides a wealth of classics and contemporaries, canonical favorites and emerging writers. New to the Seventh Edition are pieces by Audre Thomas, Salman Rushdie, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Flannery O'Connor, Seamus Heaney, Marilyn Hacker, Lorraine Hansberry, David Ives, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Laurence, Allen Ginsberg, Nicholson Baker, and Denise Levertov, among many others. The Norton Introduction to Literature offers students more perspectives on the contexts of literature - authorial, literary, cultural, historical, and critical - than any other introductory anthology. Included in the Seventh Edition are three new "Exploring Contexts" chapters. Entitled "Critical Contexts", each includes a literary piece and several examples of professional criticism about that piece to introduce students to the critical discussion surrounding works and authors and to inspire students' own critical writing.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039397202X
• ISBN13: 9780393972023
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co Inc
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 6.5" x 2.0"

Customer Reviews

My lit teacher made me buy this book

It's a very cute book and it's great for AP Exam prep. The anthology has a huge range of genres, styles, and themes, and can be great to help students pull out quotations and allusions during an essay. Great short stories include The Yellow Wallpaper, anything by Flannery O'Connor, and a variety of poems in different formats.

The Norton Comprehensive Literature Introduction

This is a great, comprehensive book, for your short stories, poems and plays. It includes the cannon syllabus and many lesser known works. The poetry section is particularly stong. There are also many great techniques on writing essays, and apporaches to writing about the selections. Great for college classrooms.