Literature : Interactive Edition

The most popular introductory anthology of its kind, Kennedy/Gioia's Literature, Interactive Edition continues to inspire students with engaging insights on reading and writing about stories, poems, and plays.

Poets in their own right, editors X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia bring personal warmth and a human perspective to this comprehensive anthology. Organized into three genres–Literature, Interactive Tenth Edition, presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, supported by useful writing tips, and followed by (now) seven full chapters devoted to writing. A broad scope of traditional and contemporary works is provided, most headed by author images and richly detailed biographical notes and some followed by author commentary. While maintaining the characteristics of its previous editions--accessible apparatus, expansive author representation--this tenth edition of Literature has been re-imagined to include new casebooks, a lively new design, and more writing coverage than ever before.

Features

• A rich mix of selections from around the globe includes 66 exciting stories; nearly 500 of the discipline's greatest, most teachable poems, and 18 important plays.
• "Writers on Writing" sections (formerly "Writer's Perspectives") offer commentary from noted authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Updike, Henrik Ibsen, and Rhina Espaillat on their craft, influences, and inspirations.
• Author photos of all fiction writers, playwrights, and major poets humanize writers for students.
• Chapter 25 ''Poetry in Spanish: Literature of Latin America'' provides students with the opportunity to experience poetry in a different language (and translation) and see how literature represents and illuminates a different cultural experience.
• Nine extensive casebooks–five author casebooks and four new masterpiece casebooks on a single significant work–provide a wealth of material for in-depth study and research projects.
• Generous and insightful writing coverage is evidenced through 15 sample student papers, writing advice in every elements chapter based on the chapter topic, and a final section, ''Writing'' with chapters on the writing process and specific suggestions for how to write about stories, poems, and plays.
• Thorough critical coverage is provided with 135 critical excerpts interspersed throughout the casebooks and in a comprehensive survey of ten major schools of literary criticism in the back of the text.