Ways In: Approaches To Reading and Writing about Literature - Softcover

Muller, Gilbert; Williams, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072512903 ISBN 13: 9780072512908

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Synopsis

This brief guide introduces students to reading and writing about fiction, poetry, drama, and film; surveys major critical approaches to these genres; and illustrates the importance of understanding works in the context of time and culture.

About this title

About the Author:

Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery OConnor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Mullers awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072512903
• ISBN 13: 9780072512908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192