An essential collection of literature that reflects the classic canon — and the new. Among the 35 stories, 219 poems, and 13 plays you’ll see the master works you’ve long loved to teach, along with many newer, multicultural, and popular selections that students love to read. Works by Faulkner, Frost, Dickinson, and Shakespeare appear alongside those by Junot Diaz, Sherman Alexie, Natasha Trethewey, and David Henry Hwang.
Brief and inexpensive. At 1,100 pages and value-priced,
Literature to Go is a sensible choice for instructors and students who want a short, affordable anthology. An e-Book option offers additional savings.
Surprisingly full coverage of reading and writing includes student-friendly coverage of the elements of literature and 3 sample close readings that model the kind of critical reading that is the foundation of academic writing about literature. Five chapters discuss every step of the writing process and a generous selection of MLA-style student papers (six in all), including a paper-in-progress, model techniques for analyzing and arguing about literature. Hundreds of assignments offer more occasions for writing than any other comparable anthology.
Many options for teaching include chapters on the literary elements that help students understand, read, and write about literature. Case studies on major authors, including Flannery O’Connor and William Shakespeare, reveal writers as real people and literature as a living art form. In-depth chapters on author Dagoberto Gilb and poet Billy Collins, created with the writers themselves, feature their works and essays that they wrote exclusively for Michael Meyer’s anthologies. These materials, along with photos and drafts of unpublished works, give students an intimate look into the creative processes of two of America’s most well-regarded contemporary writers. And throughout the book, literature is brought to life through vivid cultural images and documents, critical perspectives, and themes that students will respond to.