Literature for Composition: Reading and Writing Arguments about Essays, Stories, Poems, and Plays
One of the first literature textbooks designed specifically for writing courses, Literature for Composition, Ninth Edition continues to offer superior coverage of writing, thinking, reading, and presenting arguments about literature, all given in the authors’ highly accessible style. The book also offers a diverse anthology of readings organized around nine engaging themes:\ The new edition includes features designed to emphasize the key areas of reading, writing, and arguing. These features...
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The new edition of Barnet's Literature for Composition continues to offer superior coverage of reading, writing, and arguing about literature and a deep anthology of readings presented in Sylvan Barnet’s signature accessible style. A new chapter one gives students a crash course on writing an effective essay. Six new student essays provide helpful models of student writing on a wide array of topics with ninteen essays in all. Two timely thematic units have been added: –“The World Around Us” and “The Sporting Life." The new 2009 MLA guidelines are included in an appendix for guidance on writing papers.
Alternate ContentsPrefacePt. 1Getting Started1Ch. 1The Writer as Reader: Reading and Responding3Ch. 2The Reader as Writer: Drafting and Writing11Ch. 3Analytic Writing: An Overview32Ch. 4Reading (and Writing about) Essays69Ch. 5Reading (and Writing about) Fiction108Ch. 6Reading (and Writing about) Drama153Ch. 7Reading (and Writing about) Poetry205Pt. 2A Thematic Anthology245Ch. 8Strange Worlds247Ch. 9Innocence and Experience334Ch. 10Love and Hate515Ch. 11American Dreams and Nightmares649Ch. 12The Individual and Society771Ch. 13Men, Women, God, and Gods908Appendix A: Research Papers1049Appendix B: Remarks about Manuscript Form1068Appendix C: A Glossary of Terms1073Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poems1091Index of Terms1097
