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A Terrific Textbook! | The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing | Michael Meyer

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	• The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing Michael Meyer Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001 - 2256 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Wish I had used this book in college or for my AP course

Having majored in English myself, I honestly believe that this is the book that should be used for AP Literature classes or college Intro classes. Not only do you get introduction to the formal elements of each genre (fiction, poetry and drama), you get sound writing instruction, an introduction to critical theory and scholarship, in depth treatment of major authors in each genre(ie Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, etc.)and even some cool selections like a Bruce Springsteen song in with the poems, and an episode of Seinfeld in the drama section. To top it off, you even get collections of World Literature and Modern Literature for each genre, something that expands the literary canon beyond the basics. The questions at the end of each piece are fabulous, really thought provoking. This is a perfect introduction to Literature, especially for AP kids preparing for college level English studies, or for college kids who are only planning to take one literature course.

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A spanning collection of modern literature from the west.

The Bedford Guide to Literature brings together some of the most timeless and representative stories, poems, and dramas of wesetern culture to educate the reader on such literary concepts as Theme, Plot, Symbolisim, and various structures of short stories, poems, and plays. This book is easily understood by readers of many levels, andshould be enjoyed by all

A Terrific Textbook!

Okay, Michael Meyer has edited a brilliant textbook to be used for English majors and should be used in classrooms in American high schools. Here are a list of the authors and writers that are included in this book: Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Jean Anouilh, Matthew Arnold, John Ashbery, Margaret Atwood, W.H. Auden, Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel Beckett, Aprha Behn, John Berryman, William Blake, Elizabeth Bishop, Harold Bloom, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bowen, Anne Bradstreet, Peter Brook, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Carver, Tracy Chapman, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Lucille Clifton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Colette, Stephen Crane, Countee Cullen, E.E. Cummings, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, E.L. Doctorow, John Donne, Rita Dove, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud, Robert Frost, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Glaspell, Lorraine Hansberry, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Hayden, H.D., Seamus Heany, Ernest Hemingway, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Henrik Ibsen, Gish Jen, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Jamaica Kincaid, D.H. Lawrence, Ursula Le Guin, Denise Levertov, Audre Lorde, Amy Lowell, Robert Lowell, Claude McKay, David Mamet, Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Marlowe, Herman Melville, Edna St. Vincent MIllay, Arthur Miller, John Milton, Moliere, marianne moore, bharati mukherjee, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, Harold Pinter, Sylvia Plath, Alexander Pope, Ezra Pound, Walter Raleigh, Rainer Maria Rilke, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Christina Rossetti, Muriel Rukeyser, Sappho, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Percy Shelley, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wole Soyinka, Wallace Stevens, Wislawa Szymborska, Alfred Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Susan Glaspell, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Alice Walker, Wendy Wasserstein, Fay Weldon, Walt Whitman, Tennesse Williams, William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth, James Wright, William Butler Yeats, and many more. What I like here is the lack of visuals and notes that you don't need. You just need the work. As an English teacher, I would like to more variety of choices to choose from. The Bedford is an invaluable resource of excellent choices.

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