Items related to Compact Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing

Compact Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing - Softcover

Kirszner, Laurie G.; Mandell, Stephen R.

 
9781305092167: Compact Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing

Synopsis

Combining the broadest selection of readings available with time-proven, class-tested instruction, COMPACT LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, 9E is a groundbreaking Introduction to Literature text. The ninth edition features new stories, new poems, and new plays, along with a comprehensive guide to writing about literature and full coverage of critical thinking and argument. Authors Kirszner and Mandell take students through each step of the research and writing process, helping them to craft literary analyses and arguments and demonstrating that writing about literature is a process of discovery, examination, and debate.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review

"The content is comprehensive and offers students another way to look at what I am trying to help them understand in a[n online] course where I never actually see them. I love this text and it gets better with every edition."

"[T]his book never fails to please. With each edition, the literary selections are updated to represent the finest diversity of new voices along with the best from the traditional canon."

About the Author

Laurie G. Kirszner is a best-selling author who is well known nationally. Kirszner, together with coauthor Stephen R. Mandell, has written best sellers for nearly every English market. They have the deepest publishing record of any literature anthology author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from developmental to literature.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.