Highlights
Diverse New Selections
The Shorter Ninth Edition offers a significantly expanded selection of classic and contemporary works. In addition to 323 poems (42 of which are new) and 12 plays (1 new), the anthology offers a field-leading selection of 50 short stories (11 of which are new). This uniquely inclusive selection of stories includes classic favorites alongside exciting contemporary authors such as Sherman Alexie and Jhumpa Lahiri.
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New Contextual Chapter
"Exploring Contexts" chapters, offered throughout the text, provide an abundance of textual and visual material to encourage research, writing, and discussion and help students better understand the ways in which literary works are shaped by culture and history.
The Shorter Ninth Edition adds a contextual chapter to the poetry section that focuses on the Harlem Renaissance. Providing a compact and teachable selection of some of the best-known poems from this exciting movement, this chapter also includes illuminating prose pieces by Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Rudolph Fisher, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as many visual resources.
Completely Revised Pedagogy
The Shorter Ninth Edition offers a completely revised suite of pedagogical elements designed to help students read, think about, and write about literature as creatively and analytically as possible.
In addition to revising editorial introductions, the editors have re-written all end-of-selection questions and writing suggestions, selected all new student writing examples, added additional visual resources, and completely rewritten the anthology’s comprehensive guide to writing about literature.
To encourage students to use the invaluable media resources that accompany the text, this edition uses CD and WEB icons in the margins to point to works featured on the Audio Companion or the Student Web Site.
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