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• College Books
• English
• The Norton Anthologies
• Introduction to Literature

• The Norton Introduction to Literature

• Media Version
• Alison Booth, University of Virginia
• J. Paul Hunter, University of Virginia
• Kelly J. Mays, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• ISBN-10: 0-393-10888-0 • ISBN-13: 978-0-393-10888-0
  hardcover • 2,200 pages • 2007
• Now Available

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Multimedia CD-ROM

Using images, sounds, and exercises, this multimedia CD-ROM shows students how literature connects to the world around them, and how working with that connection can help them read and write about literature with increased skill and understanding.

Ten “Making Connections” slideshows encourage students to see literature through diverse lenses. Discussion questions and writing prompts after each slideshow inspire students to connect literary works to a broader historical, cultural, or literary context:

1. Dangerous Literature: From The Satanic Verses to Harry Potter
2. Literature and War
3. Sister Arts: Words and Images
4. Getting the Allusion: Religion and Myth, History and Legend
5. Literature and Popular Culture: The Strange Case of Detective Fiction
6. The Play’s the Thing: Production and Performance
7. Literature and the Law
8. East and West, North and South: Encounters in the Americas
9. The Author’s Work as Context: Margaret Atwood and Louise Erdrich
10. Literary Travel and the Sense of Space

The CD-ROM also offers 50 enhanced literary workshops that hone students’ close-reading, analytical, and writing skills through a detailed three-part process: reading, re-reading, and contextual exploration. These workshops raise thought-provoking issues and serve as stepping-stones for critical papers. Color-coded MLA citation guidelines, citation practice drills, a brief guide to writing research papers, and an interactive tutorial on avoiding plagiarism complete this useful tool.

Audio Companion

This two-CD companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature is free of charge with every copy of the Media Version. 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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