Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Portable Edition (11th Edition)

ISBN: 0205686109

Author: Kennedy, X. J.

Condition: New

Literature, Portable Edition, 11/e, features four lightweight, paperback volumes-Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing-packed in a slipcase. The material is presented in a newly revised, easier to study format and inlcudes MLAs latest guidelines. Conversations between Dana Gioia and celebrated fiction writer Amy Tan, current U. S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and contemporary playwright David Ives, offer students an insiders look into the importance of reading to three contemporary writers. A Latin American Writers casebook is new to Fiction and collects some of the finest authors from the region including Octavia Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Ines Arendondo. A casebook on Nathaniel Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown is now featured as part of the Three Stories In-depth chapter. Many new writers have been added including Naguib Mafouz, Virginia Woolf, Sherman Alexie, Mary Oliver, Bettie Sellers, and Anne Deavere Smith. As always, editors X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to the Eleventh Edition of this comprehensive anthology.