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What's New- New, Improved Website: A greatly expanded
companion website offers complete texts of selected classic
works, with embedded links to relevant sites, as well as
numerous new writing prompts offering students additional
practice in literary response, interpretation, and
evaluation.
- Expanded Treatment of Writers in Context:
Ten writers - Poe, O'Connor, and Cisneros in fiction;
Dickinson, Frost, and Hughes in poetry; and Sophocles,
Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Shaw in drama--are presented in
their full social and historical context. Their expanded
entries include introductions to their lives and work,
documentary photos and timelines, a rich selection of
primary works, letters and other writings, and critical
commentary. Poe, Cisneros and Hughes are newly featured in
this edition.
- More than 150 New Photographs: In addition to the
documentary photos included in the sections treating
Writers in Context, black-and-white author portraits
now put faces to the words of all major authors.
- A Transformed Transformations Chapter:
This unique chapter gives students a fresh look at the art
of poetry by examining poems in translation; parodies;
revision; response; poetry and song; and - in the Poetry
and Painting section - paintings that inspired poetry,
complete with 10 full-color plates. New to this chapter are
discussion of the revision of Langston Hughes' Ballad of
Booker T.; Romare Bearden's At Five in the
Afternoon, paired with Garcia Lorca's Lament for
Ignacio Sánchez Mejías; detail from the Sistine Chapel,
paired with Michelangelo's poem A goiter it seems I got
from this backward craning; Rembrandt's The Return of
the Prodigal, paired with Elizabeth Bishop's The
Prodigal; and Utamaro's Girl Powdering Her Neck,
paired with Cathy Song's poem of the same name.
- New Cultural/Historical Timeline: This invaluable
new appendix, extending from the composition of The
Odyssey to the election of George W. Bush, helps
students place literary works in historical and cultural
context.
- New Plays, and an Expanded Treatment of the Elements
of Drama: Works by David Henry Hwang, Garrison Keillor,
Milcha Sanchez-Scott, and Drew Hayden Taylor have been added
to the collection-bringing the total to 21 unabridged works.
Chapters on Greek, Elizabethan, and Modern Drama feature
even more extensive coverage of key cultural moments in the
history of drama. Finally, the Elements of Drama
chapter has been expanded to cover such elements as
subtext, symbolism, and irony.
- 23 New Short Stories: These selections include
works by Anita Desai, Nathan Englander, Bharati Mukherjee,
Annie Proulx, and John Edgar Wideman.
- New Poems: One-third of the poems collected in
Chapter 13 are new to this edition, with an ambitious new
offering of contemporary voices, including Carolyn Forché,
Sherman Alexie, Robert Pinsky, Li Young Lee, Simon Ortiz,
and others. Additionally, a new section on World Poetry
includes 34 international poets from Anna Akhmatova to
Derek Walcott.
- The Essay: To streamline the text and allow
greater coverage of poetry, drama, and fiction, the essay is
no longer included as a fourth genre. Instead, DiYanni,
The Essay (ISBN: 0-07-249861-7) is available as a
separate text, or for only about $1.00 more when packaged
with Literature.
- Expanded Glossary: Each entry in this expansive
glossary now includes examples drawn from the works
collected in the text.
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education