Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing

by Michael Meyer

With its rich array of selections, its innovative editoral features, its extensive writing coverage, and its new fully integrated companion Web site, the Sixth Edition of the most comprehensive three-genre literature anthology available provides more options than ever before to help students read, appreciate, and write effectively about literature.

2256 pages, Hardcover

First published August 28, 2001

About the author

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Michael Meyer has taught writing and literature courses for more than thirty years—since 1981 at the University of Connecticut and before that at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the College of William and Mary. In addition to being an experienced teacher, Meyer is a highly regarded literary scholar. His scholarly articles have appeared in distinguished journals such as American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, and Virginia Quarterly Review. An internationally recognized authority on Henry David Thoreau, Meyer is a former president of the Thoreau Society and coauthor (with Walter Harding) of The New Thoreau Handbook, a standard reference source. The American Studies Association awarded his first book, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau’s Political Reputation in America, the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize. . He is also the editor of Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings. He has lectured on a variety of American literary topics from Cambridge University to Peking University. His books for Bedford/St. Martin's include The Bedford Introduction to Literature; The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature; Literature to Go; Poetry: An Introduction; and Thinking and Writing about Literature.

Reviews

[Regina Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book is amazing, it helped me a lot in class and with final paper.

[Emily]

Read ENG 111

Regina Barreca, "Nighttime Fires"
Theodore Roethke, "My Papa’s Waltz"
Cathy Song, "The Youngest Daughter"
"Bored"
William Faulkner’s "Barn Burning"
"From Reading to Writing"
Raymond Carver "Popular Mechanics"
Gail Godwin "A Sorrowful Woman"
James Joyce "Eveline"
D. H. Lawrence "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"
William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily"
Bruce Springsteen "You're Missing"
Luisa Lopez "Junior Year Abroad"
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, "Clothes"
Joyce Carol Oates "Three Girls"
Gish Jen "Who's Irish"
Julio Marzán, "Ethnic Poetry"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown"
"Traveling in the Dark" (William Stafford "Traveling through the Dark" ?)
Alden Nowan, "The Bull Moose"
"The Black Snake"
Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Panther"
"August"
Margaret Atwood, "February"
Mary Robinson, "London's Summer Morning"
Stephen King (?), "All that You Love Will be Carried Away"
Gary Soto, "Behind Grandma's House"
John Ciardi, "Suburban"
Andre Dubus, "Killings"
Charles Dickens, "From Hard Times"
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "On His Short Stories"
Herman Melville, "On Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tragic Vision"
Langston Hughes, "Ballad of the Landlord"
Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Green Chile"
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, "Indian Movie, New Jersey"

Read ENG 112, 7th edition Summer 2005

Aristotle. "On Tragic Character"
Buxton, R. G. A. "The Major Critical Issue in Antigone."
Reading Drama
Elements of Drama
Study of Sophocles
Greek Drama
Tragedy
Sophocles. Oedipus the King.
Aristotle
Freud
Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Sophocles. Antigone.
How to Write a Thesis Statement
Buxton
Gardiner

[Sophia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was part of my literature class. We went over a couple of stories and poems. I have to admit, I thought it was going to be a dread, but it wasn't that bad!