A broader selection of literature than ever before reflects our increasingly diverse and global society.
New fiction from around the world. Short stories from East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and South America -- including works by Haruki Murakami, Can Xue, and Chinua Achebe -- complement the already rich assortment of classic and contemporary works of literature.
--A wider array of poems. New selections range from poems by Phyllis Wheatley and Po Chu-I to more recent ones by Pulitzer Prize-winning poets such as Rita Dove and Charles Simic.
--More essays. The selections now include essays by renowned writers such as Salman Rushdie and E.L. Doctorow.
New Looking Farther casebooks explore non-Western literature. Three new casebooks provide students a context in which to read and understand world literatures and make connections to their own experience. Each casebook focuses on a narrow theme that is relevant to students: coming to terms with parents, negotiating conflicts between home life and education, and loving across cultural barriers.
Expanded reading instruction. Two annotated poems in the Responding to Literature chapter provide examples of active reading strategies by showing students where to start, what to focus on, and how to break down an unfamiliar work into manageable elements.
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