Literature: The Human Experience: Reading and Writing - Softcover

Abcarian, Richard; Klotz, Marvin; Cohen, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1457604299 ISBN 13: 9781457604294

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012

Synopsis

Literature: The Human Experience is based on a simple premise: All students can and will connect with literature if the works they read are engaging, exciting, and relevant. Accordingly, every edition of this classroom favorite has featured a broad range of enticing stories, poems, plays, and essays that explore timeless, ever-resonant themes: innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, life and death. The affordable new edition (a third less expensive than comparable anthologies) opens students eyes to a more contemporary selection of writing, while continuing to help them see, and write about, illuminating connections to literature past and present, lives near and far, and experiences that are enduringly human.

About this title

About the Author:

Marvin Klotz (PhD, New York University) is a professor of English emeritus at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for thirty-three years and won Northridge's distinguished teaching award in 1983. He is also the winner of two Fulbright professorships (in Vietnam and Iran) and was a National Endowment for the Arts Summer Fellow twice. In addition to editingLiterature: The Human Experience and several other textbooks, he coauthored a guide and index to the characters in Faulkner's fiction.Samuel Cohen (PhD, City University of New York) is Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri. He is the author ofAfter the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s, co-editor (with Lee Konstantinou) ofThe Legacy of David Foster Wallace, Series Editor of The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture, and has published in such journals asNovel, Clio, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of Basic Writing, andDialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is author of 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology and coauthor ofLiterature: The Human Experience.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1457604299
• ISBN 13: 9781457604294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1472