Sylvan Barnet

William Burto

Morton Berman

Fiction, Poetry, Drama

An Introduction to Literature

William E. Cain

Cheryl Nixon

For courses in Literature for Composition, Writing About Literature, and Introduction to Literature. The definitive source for composition and introduction to literature courses With an emphasis on critical thinking and argument, Literature for Composition offers superior coverage of reading, writing, and arguing about literature along with an anthology organized around eight thought-provoking themes. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the skills emphasized in their discussions of communication are relevant not only to literature courses, but to all courses in which students analyze texts or write arguments. Also available with MyLiteratureLab ® This title is also available with MyLiteratureLab – an online resource that works with our literature anthologies to provide engaging experiences to instructors and students. Students can access new content that fosters an understanding of literary elements, which provides a foundation for stimulating class discussions. This simple and powerful tool offers state-of-the-art audio and video resources along with practical tools and flexible assessment. NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLiteratureLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLiteratureLab search for: 0134272528 / 9780134272528 Literature for Composition Plus MyLiteratureLab without Pearson eText — Access Card Package, 11e Package consists of: · 0133931269 / 9780133931266 MyLiteratureLab without Pearson eText — Access Card · 0133931277 / 9780133931273 MyLiteratureLab without Pearson eText — Inside Star Sticker · 0134099141 / 9780134099149 Literature for Composition

Literature for Composition

Plays and Essays

Types of Drama

A Handbook

Aspects of the Drama

This text presents a full range of drama from Ancient Greece to the present. It features an informal tone and an apparatus that provides students with reading strategies for the 27 plays anthologized in the text and discussions on how to criticize them.

The complete texts of six great plays of the medieval and Renaissance English drama, together with essays on the theater by critics from Sir Philip to T.S. Eliot.

The Genius of the Later English Theater

Previous editions had the title and subtitle as Literature for composition: essays, stories, poems, and plays

William Burto

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