Ways In: Approaches To Reading and Writing about Literature and Film / 0-07-251290-3 This brief guide introduces students to reading and writing about fiction, poetry, drama, and film; surveys major critical approaches to these genres; and illustrates the importance of understanding works in the context of time and culture.
The Essay: An Introduction / 0-07-249861-7 Originally published as part of Robert DiYanni's Literature, fourth edition,The Essay serves those Introduction to Literature courses that cover this genre in addition to Poetry, Fiction, and Drama. It is available separately or in a package with DiYanni's Literature: Approaches.
ARIEL: A Reader's Interactive Exploration of Literature / 0-07-293361-5 Containing twenty-eight interactive author casebooks (biographies, interactive texts, timelines, and bibliographies related to a single writer) and including a collection of readings of poems, dramatizations of stories, and brief video lectures by McGraw-Hill authors and other experts, A.R.I.E.L. is an ideal multimedia complement to the text.
Featured authors include:
Sophocles; William Shakespeare; John Donne; William Wordsworth; Frederick Douglass; Edgar Allan Poe; Kate Chopin; Henrik Ibsen; Emily Dickinson; Robert Frost; James Joyce; Sylvia Plath; Walt Whitman; Flannery O'Connor; August Wilson; Tennessee Williams; Gwendolyn Brooks; Margaret Atwood; Anne Bradstreet; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Herman Melville; Langston Hughes; Susan Glaspell; Oscar Wilde; Franz Kafka; Mark Twain; Rita Dove
For Instructors
Instructor's Resource CD-ROM with Instructor's Manual and Testbank to accompany Literature Compact / 0-07-288310-3
In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry / 0-07-242404-4 A collection of classic and contemporary poems in the voices of the poets who wrote them.
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