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The Norton Introduction to Literature, Media Edition (Includes: 2 audio CDs and one DVD-ROM) edited by Alison Booth, J. Paul Hunter, Kelly K. Mays (W. W. Norton) offers a balanced selection of classic and contemporary stories, poems, and plays in a brief and affordable format. Designed to accommodate a wide range of teaching styles and needs, this inviting introduction includes helpful annotation and pedagogy, student writing samples, and rich multimedia resources. 

Free Media Version CD-ROM: Every new copy of The Norton Introduction to Literature comes with a free multimedia CD-ROM.

Free Audio Companion: Two audio CDs present readings of 28 poems, 4 short stories, and selections from 3 plays. Highlights include Garrison Keillor reading poems by Christopher Marlowe and Emily Dickinson, Lynn Redgrave and Michael Redgrave in a scene from Pygmalion, Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as well as many authors reading their own works.

LITWEB—wwnorton.com/litweb: This online companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature encourages students to think through their responses to literature in three stages: articulating a personal response, rereading creatively and analytically, and researching contextual and scholarly resources on the Web in order to enrich their own interpretive work. LitWeb's features include:

In-Depth Literary Workshops. Featuring 50 works from the text, these exercises guide students through the exploration of a work. Author biographies and a set of related links are included.

Online Glossary and Glossary flashcards allow students to assess and reinforce their knowledge of over 200 literary terms.

Writing about Literature, a valuable resource from The Norton Introduction to Literature, included online in its entirety.

Self-Grading Multiple-Choice Quizzes on the elements of literature. Now LitWeb includes full access to Norton Literature Online, the gateway to all of the outstanding literary resources available from Norton. See the inside back cover for more information about Norton Literature Online.

FOR TEACHERS

Instructor's Manual Barbara Bird, St. Petersburg College; Linda Yakle, St. Petersburg College; Kelly Hager. Simmons College; Kelly J. Mays, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

This thorough guide offers discussions of nearly all the works in the anthology as well as teaching suggestions and tips for the writing intensive literature course.

Teaching Poetry: A Handbook of Exercises for Large and Small Classes

Allan J. Gedalof, University of Western Ontario

Informed by Professor Gedalof s considerable poetry-teaching experience, this practical handbook offers a wide variety of innovative in-class exercises designed to enliven classroom discussion. Each of these flexible teaching exercises includes straightforward, step-by-step guidelines and suggestions for variation.

Norton Instructor's Website

wwnorton.com/instructors

The Norton Instructor's Website offers teachers an online source of instructional content for use in conventional classrooms, course management systems, or distance education environments.

Teachers: contact your Norton representative for more information regarding these instructional resources.

 

Ten "Making Connections" Slideshows These ten segments complement the "Exploring Contexts" chapters in The Norton Introduction to Literature, providing students with brief but intriguing introductions to the connections between literature and the wider world. With voiceover narration written by the authors of The Norton Introduction to Literature, each three- to four-minute slideshow prompts students to think about literature within a contextual framework. Discussion questions and writing assignments follow each one.

Dangerous Literature: From The Satanic Verses to Harry Potter

Literature and War

Sister Arts: Words and Images

Getting the Allusion: Religion and Myth, History and Legend

Literature and Popular Culture: The Strange Case of Detective Fiction

The Play's the Thing: Production and Performance

Literature and the Law

East and West, North and South: Encounters in the Americas

The Author's Work as Context: Margaret Atwood and Louise Erdrich

Literary Travel and the Sense of Space

Fifty "Literary Workshops"

Designed to hone students' close-reading, analytical, and writing skills, each of these fifty workshops focuses on a single work. Based on the workshops on the companion website (wwnorton.com/litweb), these exercises guide

students through the reading, rereading, and contextual exploration of a work.

MLA citation guidelines and exercises "Avoiding Plagiarism" tutorial

 

Excerpt: Over the past thirty years, The Norton Introduction to Literature has helped students learn to read and enjoy literature. This Ninth Edition—our most extensive revision to date—offers in a single volume a complete course in reading and writing about literature. We have thoroughly reshaped it as a teaching anthology focused on the actual tasks, challenges, and questions typically faced by college students and instructors. It offers practical advice to help students transform their first impressions of literary works into fruitful discussions and meaningful critical essays, and it helps students and instructors together tackle the more complex questions at the heart of literary study. We have revised The Norton Introduction to Literature with an eye to providing a book that is as flexible and useful as possible—serving many different teaching styles and individual preferences—and that also conveys the excitement at the heart of literature itself.

The Norton Introduction to Literature has been a classroom favorite for over thirty years, and although this Ninth Edition contains much that is new or refashioned, the essential features of the text have remained consistent over many editions:

Diverse selections with broad appeal

As in the classroom, the readings remain at the heart of all we do, so we have given high priority to selecting a rich array of representative literary works. Among the 67 stories, 383 poems, and 18 plays in The Norton Introduction to Literature, readers will find selections by well-established and emerging voices alike, representing a wide variety of times, places, cultural perspectives, and styles. The readings are excitingly diverse in terms of subject and style as well as authorship and national origin. In selecting and presenting literary texts, our top priority continues to be quality and pedagogical relevance and usefulness. To enhance the latter, and to avoid any form of literary segregation, we have integrated the new with the old and the experimental with the canonical. In this way, we aim to help students and teachers alike approach the unfamiliar by way of the familiar (and vice versa).

Helpful and unobtrusive editorial matter

As always, the editorial material before and after the selections avoids dictating any interpretation or response, but instead highlights essential terms and concepts while providing students with a way into the literature that follows. Questions and writing suggestions—all of which are new or substantially rewritten in the Ninth Edition—help readers apply general concepts to specific readings in order to develop, articulate, and debate their own responses. We have annotated the works, as in all Norton anthologies, with a light hand, seeking to be informative but not interpretive.

An introduction to the study of literature

To introduce students to fiction, poetry, and drama is to open up a complex field of study with a long history. The expanded Introduction addresses many of the questions students may have about this field, concerning not only the nature of literature but also the practice of criticism. By exploring answers to the question "What do we do with literature?" we clear away some of the mystery about matters of method and approach, and we provide motivated students with a sense of the issues and opportunities that lie ahead if they continue their study of literature. A thoroughly revamped "Critical Approaches" chapter provides an overview of contemporary critical theory and its terminology and is useful as an introduction, a refresher, or a preparation for further study.

Helpful guidance for writing about literature

A new "Writing about Literature" section offers detailed and comprehensive guid¬ance on how to write an essay about literature. As in the book's other sections, the first steps are easy, outlining an essay's basic formal elements—thesis, structure, and so on. Following these steps encourages students to approach the essay both as a distinctive genre with its own specifications and as an accessible form of writing with a clear purpose. From here, we walk students step-by-step through the writing process—how to choose a topic, gather evidence, and develop an argu¬ment; we detail the methods of writing a research essay; and we explain the mechanics of effective quotation and responsible citation and documentation. Finally, we include a new sample research paper—annotated by the editors to call attention to important features of good student writing.

A comprehensive approach to the contexts of literature

The Ninth Edition not only offers expanded resources for interpreting and writing about literature, but also extends the perspectives from which students can view particular authors and works. One of the great strengths of The Norton Introduction to Literature has been its exploration of the relation between literary texts and a variety of contexts. For several editions, "Author's Work" and "Critical Contexts" chapters have served as mini-casebooks containing all the materials necessary for exciting context-focused reading and writing assignments. The Eighth Edition introduced a "Historical and Cultural Context" chapter—a lively study of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age—that works on the same principle. In the Ninth Edition, we add equally illuminating chapters on the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance and on plays by Lorraine Hansberry and Wole Soyinka.

A sensible and teachable organization

We have chosen to preserve the traditional format of The Norton Introduction to Literature, which has worked well for teachers and students for many editions. Each

genre is approached in three logical steps. Fiction, for example, is introduced by Fiction: Reading, Responding, Writing, which treats the purpose and nature of fiction, the reading experience, and the steps one takes to begin writing about fiction. This is followed by the seven-chapter section called Understanding the Text, which concentrates one-by-one on each of the genre's key elements. Next, "The Whole Text" chapter reviews the analytical aids presented in the previous chapters and suggests how to use them to form an interpretation. The third section, Exploring Contexts, suggests ways to embrace a work of literature by considering various literary, temporal, and cultural contexts. Reading More, the final component in the Fiction section, as in Poetry and Drama, is a reservoir of additional readings for independent study or a different approach.

The book's arrangement allows movement from narrower to broader frameworks, from simpler to more complex questions and issues, mirroring the way people read—wanting to learn more as they experience more. At the same time, no chapter or section depends on any other, so that individual teachers can pick and choose which chapters or sections to tackle and in what order.

New to the Ninth Edition: Fifty-nine new selections Of the 67 stories, 383 poems, and 18 plays in The Norton Introduction to Literature, 13 stories, 42 poems, and 4 plays are new to this edition. You will find new selections from established and respected writers such as Margaret Atwood, A. S. Byatt, Peter Carey, Countee Cullen, Seamus Heaney, Claude McKay, Toni Morrison, Christina Rossetti, Wole Soyink. a, Tom Stoppard, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Oscar Wilde and from emerging writers such as Sherman Alexie, Andrea Barrett, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Margaret Edson, Andrew Hudgins, Pat Mora, and Olive Senior.

Two new contextual chapters

Building on the success and popularity of the chapter on Fitzgerald's "Bab¬ylon Revisited" that was added to the Eighth Edition, the Ninth Edition includes two new contextual chapters devoted to culture and history.

The Harlem Renaissance: In the Poetry chapter on the Harlem Renaissance provides not only a compact and teachable selection of some of the best-known poems from this exciting American literary movement, but also prose pieces by Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Rudolph Fisher, and Zora Neale Hurston and visual materials to spark student interest and understanding.

Loraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman: This chapter in the Drama section explores the value of reading individual plays within their cultural context and suggests one way of making connections between works when researching cultural and historical context. In addition to the plays, the chapter includes visual resources and nonfiction pieces by Richard Wright, Earl E. Thorpe, Phaon Goldman, Stokely Carmichael, and others.

Accompanying Media Free Audio Companion

Because almost all reading experiences can be enhanced by an accompanying listening experience, every new copy of The Norton Introduction to Literature comes with two audio CDs that present readings of 28 poems, 4 short stories, and selec¬tions from 3 plays. Highlights include Garrison Keillor reading poems by Chris¬topher Marlowe and Emily Dickinson, Lynn Redgrave and Michael Redgrave in a scene from Pygmalion, Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, as well as many authors reading their own works. A complete listing of the tracks on these audio CDs can be found inside the front cover.

LITWEB (wwnorton.com/litweb)

This online companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature encourages students to think through their responses to literature in three stages: articulating a per¬sonal response, rereading creatively and analytically, and researching contextual and scholarly resources on the Web in order to enrich their own interpretive work. LitWeb's features include:

In-Depth Literary Workshops. Featuring 50 works from the text, these work¬shops guide students through the reading, rereading, and contextual exploration of a work. Author biographies and a set of related links are included.

Online Glossary and Glossary Flashcards. These flashcards allow students to test and reinforce their knowledge of over 200 literary terms.

Writing about Literature. This substantial section from The Norton Introduction to Literature is included online in its entirety.

Self-Grading Multiple-Choice Quizzes on the elements of literature.

Access to Norton Poets Online (nortonpoets.com), which features interviews with over 60 contemporary poets, dozens of audio recordings of poets reading their work, essays, online poetry workshops, and an e-mail newsletter.

Norton Literature Online

In addition to the book-specific resources available in LitWeb, every new copy of The Norton Introduction to Literature provides students with free access to Norton Literature Online, the gateway to all Norton's outstanding online literary resources.

You can find more information about Norton Literature Online inside the back cover of this book.

Instructor's Resources Instructor's Manual

Revised by Barbara Bird and Linda Yakle, both of St. Petersburg College, this thorough guide offers in-depth discussions of nearly all the works in the anthology as well as teaching suggestions and tips for the writing intensive literature course.

Teaching Poetry: A Handbook of Exercises for Large and Small Classes (Allan J. Gedalof, University of Western Ontario)

This practical handbook offers a wide variety of innovative in-class exercises to enliven classroom discussion of poetry. Each of these flexible teaching exercises includes straightforward, step-by-step guidelines and suggestions for variation.

Norton Resource Library (wwnorton.com/nrl)

The Norton Resource Library offers teachers an online source of instructional content for use in conventional classrooms, course management systems, or distance education environments.

To obtain any of these instructional resources, please contact your local Norton representative.

In all our work on this edition, we have been guided by teachers in other English departments and in our own, by students who used the textbook and wrote tows with comments and suggestions, and by students in our own classes. We hope that with such capable help we have been able to offer you a solid and stimulating introduction to the experience of literature. 

 

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