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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Portable
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Portable Edition with New Myliteraturelab -- Access Card Packa Hardcover - 2012 - 12th Edition

by X. J. Kennedy; Dana Gioia

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ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that youselect the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code. Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase. -- Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE "Literature, Portable Edition," 12/e, "features four lightweight, paperback volumes Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing packed in a slipcase." The most popular Literature anthology continues to bring students the finest literature from fables to poetweets. The Twelfth Edition of "Literature: An Introductiuon to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing," edited""by X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, includes eleven new stories from students favorite authors: ZZ Packer s Brownies, Ray Bradbury s, The Sound of Thunder, Anne Tyler s, Teenage Wasteland, David Leavitt s, A Place I ve Never Been and Isabel Allende s The Judge s Wife. More than 60 new accessible and engaging poems have been added including former Iraqi soldier Brian Turner s The Hurt Locker, Katha Pollit s The Mind-Body Problem as well as poetweets from Lawrence Bridges and Robert Pinsky. In addition, there are new poems from Kay Ryan, Benjamin Alire Saenz, H. D, Gary Snyder, Joy Harjo, Tami Haaland, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, and William Carlos Williams. Three new one-act plays help ease students into the study of this genre. The new plays include two comedies-- David Ives s, "Sure Thing" and Jane Martin s "Beauty" as well as Edward Bok Lee s experimental drama "El Santo Americano." In addition, Milcha Sanchez-Scott s" The Cuban Swimmer "has been added." " "

Details

  • Title Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Portable Edition with New Myliteraturelab -- Access Card Packa
  • Author X. J. Kennedy; Dana Gioia
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 12th
  • Edition 12
  • Pages 736
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Longman Publishing Group
  • Date 2012-05
  • ISBN 9780205888924 / 0205888925
  • Weight 3.74 lbs (1.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.5 x 2.1 in (24.13 x 16.51 x 5.33 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808

About the author

X. J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy ( Actually, I was pretty eighth class ). His poems, some published in the "New Yorker," were first collected in "Nude Descending a Staircase" (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in "Bartlett s Familiar Quotations "and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children. Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a corporate vice presidency to write. He has published four collections of poetry, "Daily Horoscope" (1986), "The Gods of Winter" (1991), "Interrogations at Noon" (2001), which won the American Book Award, and "Pity the Beautiful" (2012); and three critical volumes, including "Can Poetry Matter"? (1992), an influential study of poetry s place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College. From 2003-2009 he served as the Chairman of the National Endowments for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest. He also led the campaign to restore active literary reading by creating The Big Read, which helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He is currently the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California. "

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