LITERATURE: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING
(Prentice-Hall) is now available for Introduction to Literature Classes.
This thoroughly different anthology approaches literature from a wide range of critical perspectives, including new criticism, historical criticism, feminist, ethnic, and psychological criticism. The critical perspectives are well within the reach of beginning literature students. The extensive teacher's manual provides interpretations of texts from a variety of perspectives. An extensive section of drama includes Six Degrees of Separation, Oleanna, The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Fences, as well as A Doll House, Miss Julie, Hamlet, Oedipus Rex, and other classics. The extensive collection of poetry includes poems of Sylvia Plath and critical materials on her work. Eudora Welty is the short story writer treated in depth. A great deal of new material anthologized for the first time brings the book into the mainstream of contemporary writing.