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The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing: Seventh Edition
This new compact edition of The Bedford Introduction to Literature offers all the distinctive features of Michael Meyer's best-selling introduction to literature in a shorter, less expensive paperback format. A generous and vibrant selection of stories, poems, and plays are supported by editorial features proven to help students read, think, and write effectively about literature. Now featuring unique visual portfolios and a CD-ROM packed with activities and contextual material, the new edition brings literature to life for students like never before.
1632 pages, Paperback
Published May 1, 2005
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Michael Meyer
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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.
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.
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April 9, 2009
This is a great anthology for college students. It contains the typical canon pieces by Hawthorne, Dickens, Melville, etc., but it also has some wonderful surprises, both old and new.
The poetry section is a great survey, with whole chapters dedicated to poets such as Dickinson, Frost, Cummings, and Hughes.
Drama contains a play by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and Henrik Ibsen, as well as "Fences" by Wilson.
I've enjoyed reading and closely examening all of these texts.
The poetry section is a great survey, with whole chapters dedicated to poets such as Dickinson, Frost, Cummings, and Hughes.
Drama contains a play by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and Henrik Ibsen, as well as "Fences" by Wilson.
I've enjoyed reading and closely examening all of these texts.
July 15, 2007
hardcover.
February 23, 2009
I am not big fan of short stories (they all seem to end surprisingly dreadful) but I really enjoy the way the text book is written.
December 29, 2009
This is the text my literature class is using, so I guess I am currently reading it, too. We're starting with short stories.
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