Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay, 5th Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0205184790 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Added a mini-theme to Culture and Identity Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie paired with/against a Christopher Durang parody For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls.Added two student essays. From the process-based writing at the outset to the prompts and questions at the end of each reading, the book gives instructors more than sufficient material to work with and gives students a very healthy, well-rounded set of tools and ideas to create critical essays. The student essays are very good grounded enough and real enough that students can connect with them and use them as guides.”Professor Mark Sheffield Brown - Illinois Valley Community College . He is very down-to-earth and encouraging you can tell that Madden is an experienced teacher because he anticipates common questions and problems he bridges personal response to writ
Featuring culturally rich and diverse literature, this anthology weaves critical thinking into every facet of its writing apparatus and guides students through the process of crafting their personal responses into persuasive arguments. With engaging selections, provocative themes, and comprehensive coverage of the writing process, Madden's anthology is sure to capture the reader's imagination. An anthology follows, organized around five themes. Each thematic unit includes an ethnically diverse collection of short stories, poems, plays, and essays, as well as a case study to help students explore literature from various perspectives. . Exploring Literature opens with five chapters dedicated to writing and arguing about literature
Frank Madden is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of the English Department at SUNY Westchester Community College where he also holds the Carol Russett Endowed Chair for English. His articles, chapters, and commentary about the teaching of literature have appeared in a variety of books and journals, including College English, PMLA, College Literature, English Journal, Compu
Great book for the classroom! I have taught from earlier editions of Frank Madden's Exploring Literature and always found it a great teaching text. It serves up a rich array of readings that balances accessibility and challenge while introducing students to many of the world's finest writers. The poems, plays, stories, and essays are embedded in an ongoing conversation with the reader that begins, wisely, by addressing the personal i. Noel said wonderful!. I bought this because it is required for the current English reading & writing course I am taking. There's just so many wonderful stories, essays, & poems compiled in this book that I think I will keep it even after the course is over.. Really Cool High Quality Book Mitchell Knott I didn't think an English textbook could be pleasant, but this one is definitely one to appreciate. It has hundreds of interesting stories from various authors, and I really like how the pages are super-thin like pages found in most bibles. I'm using it for a literature class, and I'm highly grateful that we as students benefit more from reading short stories rather than entire books.Teachers, if you wan