The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing - Softcover

Meyer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312594348 ISBN 13: 9780312594343

Publisher: Bedford/st Martins, 2011

Synopsis

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature is a best-seller for a reason: it brings literature to life for students — helping to make them lifelong readers and better writers. Classic works from many periods and cultures exist alongside a diverse representation of today's authors. Support for students includes a dozen chapters of critical reading and writing, with plenty of sample close readings, writing assignments, and student papers. And, because everyone teaches a little differently, there are lots of options for working with the literature, including in-depth chapters on major authors and case studies on individual works and themes that everyone can relate to. New to this edition are casebooks on short fiction and the natural world and a chapter created with Billy Collins. This anthology is now available with video! Learn more about VideoCentral for Literature.

About this title

About the Author:

MICHAEL MEYER (Ph.D., University of Connecticut) has taught writing and literature courses for more than 30 years -- since 1981 at the University of Connecticut and before that at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the College of William and Mary. His scholarly articles have appeared in distinguished journals such as American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, and Virginia Quarterly Review. An internationally recognized authority on Henry David Thoreau, Meyer is a former president of the Thoreau Society and coauthor (with Walter Harding) of The New Thoreau Handbook, a standard reference source. His other books for Bedford/St. Martin's include Literature to Go (2011); The Bedford Introduction to Literature (2011); Poetry: An Introduction (2010); and Thinking and Writing about Literature (2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312594348
• ISBN 13: 9780312594343
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1711