Ways In: Approaches To Reading and Writing About Literature - Softcover

Muller, Gilbert H; Williams, John A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070442037 ISBN 13: 9780070442030

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1994

Synopsis

WAYS IN provides a brief, inexpensive and complete guide to reading and writing about literature. It highlights the reading and writing process, surveys major critical approaches to reading, interpreting, and evaluating literature, and enhances the awareness of the relationship between the writer's voice and his or her culture. The straightforward presentation engages students' interest, and provides them with strategies for making discoveries about literature.

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About the Author

Gilbert H. Muller, who received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Stanford University, is currently professor of English and Special Assistant to the President at the LaGuardia campus of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Stanford University, Vassar College, and several universities overseas. Dr. Muller is the author of the award-winning Nightmares and Visions: Flannery O’Connor and the Catholic Grotesque, Chester Himes , and other critical studies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He is also a noted author and editor of textbooks in English and composition, including The Short Prose Reader with Harvey Wiener, and with John A Williams, The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Bridges: Literature across Cultures, and Ways In: Reading and Writing about Literature. Among Dr. Muller’s awards are National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a Mellon Fellowship.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070442037
• ISBN 13: 9780070442030
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128