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Responding to Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays, 4/e
Judith Stanford, Rivier College

RESPONDING TO LITERATURE is a thematically arranged anthology that encourages the reader's response to a diverse selection of poems, stories, plays, and essays.

In this Online Learning Center you will find 20 featured author casebooks, including

Margaret AtwoodAthol FugardEdgar Allen Poe
Gwendolyn BrooksSusan Glaspell

William Shakespeare

Kate Chopin

Seamus Heaney

Sophocles
e.e. cummingsLangston HughesWendy Wasserstein
Emily DickinsonHenrik IbsenWakako Yamauchi
Robert FrostJames Joyce

each of which offers

  • Biographical information and a list of outside resources, including annotated links
  • Questions on the Experience, Interpretation, and Evaluation of texts
  • Quizzes on the author and the featured work

Selected casebooks also include

Annotated full-text works with links to related websites and explanatory text (for example, "Araby" provides links to sites with historic photos of Dublin and glosses the word bazaar)

  • Table of Contents with links to author-related websites
  • Timeline with works of literature place in historical and cultural context
  • Glossary of important literary terms, with clear definititions and examples