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Student Web Site: LitWeb
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This online companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature encourages students to think through their responses to literature in three stages: articulating a personal response, rereading creatively and analytically, and researching contextual and scholarly resources on the Web in order to enrich their own interpretive work. LitWeb’s features include:
- In-Depth Literary Workshops. Featuring 50 works from the text, these exercises guide students through the reading, rereading, and contextual exploration of a work. Author biographies and a set of related links are included.
- Glossary, containing over two hundred literary terms.
- Glossary flashcards allow students to assess and reinforce their knowledge of these literary terms.
- Writing about Literature, a valuable resource from The Norton Introduction to Literature, included online in its entirety.
- Self-Grading Multiple-Choice Quizzes on the elements of literature.
- Access to Norton Poets Online (nortonpoets.com), which features interviews with over 60 contemporary poets, dozens of audio recordings of poets reading their work, essays, online poetry workshops, and an e-mail newsletter.
- Access to Norton Literature Online, the most robust offering of literary resources on the Web, edited for undergraduate readers.
Audio Companion
This two-CD companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature is free of charge with every copy of the Ninth Edition. The Audio Companion is a collection of readings, comprised of 28 poems, 4 short stories, and selections from 3 plays, including Eudora Welty reading Why I Live at the P.O., Garrison Keillor reading poems by Christopher Marlowe and Emily Dickinson, Lynn Redgrave and Michael Redgrave in a scene from Pygmalion, Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Raymond Carver’s Cathedral read by Peter Riegert; as well as many other authors reading their own works, including Maya Angelou, Willie Perdomo, Dylan Thomas, and Michael S. Harper.
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