Highlights
Diverse New Selections
The Media Version presents a significantly expanded selection of classic and contemporary works. In addition to 383 poems (42 of which are new) and 18 plays (4 new), the anthology offers a field-leading selection of 67 short stories (13 of which are new). This uniquely inclusive selection of stories includes classic favorites alongside exciting contemporary authors such as Sherman Alexie, Michael Chabon, A. S. Byatt, Jhumpa Lahiri, Peter Carey, Andrea Barrett, and Edwidge Danticat.
New Contextual Chapters
The Media Version offers two new contextual chapters focusing on aspects of African American and African history and culture. These chapters provide students with an abundance of textual and visual material to encourage and facilitate research, writing, and discussion. Cultural and Historical Contexts in the Poetry section 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. Cultural and Historical Contexts in the Drama section focuses on two plays—Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun and Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. A substantial introduction, complete with photos and other visuals, sets the historical and cultural stage. A selection of essays follows the plays.
Completely Revised Pedagogy
The Media Version 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 visual resources, and completely rewritten the anthology’s guide to writing about literature. To encourage students to use the media resources that accompany the text, this edition uses CD and WEB icons to point to works featured on the Audio Companion and the Student Web Site.
Free Access to Norton Literature Online
Every new copy of The Norton Introduction to Literature, Media Version, comes with free access to Norton Literature Online, the gateway to all the outstanding literature resources from Norton. Norton Literature Online provides students with the most robust offering of literature resources on the Web, including an extensive glossary of literary terms, a valuable “Writing about Literature” section, MLA documentation guidelines, links to textbook-specific sites that include student review materials, and much more. In addition to general tools for reading and writing, the site features a gallery of nearly 400 author portraits, more than 100 maps, timelines, and dozens of recorded readings and musical selections.
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