"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. With a wide variety of genres, authors, subjects, a nd styles, The Norton Reader offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays available in one volume.
Format Hardcover more formats: Paperback Paperback W/ Access Code Hardcover W/ Access Code Book eBook. Author (s) Joseph Bizup Melissa Goldthwaite John Brereton Anne Fernald. She co-directed the Bass Writing Program at Yale for twenty-five years and served as president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. The Norton Reader : An Anthology of Nonfiction. Linda Peterson (Ph.D., Brown University) was Professor of English at Yale University and was published widely on nonfiction prose, notably life-writing and women's authorship. Her scholarship focuses on modernist women writers, feminist theory, and the essay.
She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (Palgrave, 2006) and editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of Mrs. First published in 1965, it is still the best-selling thematic readerand the only thematic reader that also supports a genre-based approach. His scholarship focuses on the history of teaching English literature and composition.Īnne Fernald (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Fordham University, where she directs the first-year writing program at the Lincoln Center campus. The Norton Reader has introduced millions of writing students to the essay as a genre. He has taught writing at Harvard University, Wayne State University, Brandeis University, and the City University of New York. Previously he served as Executive Director of the Calderwood Writing Initiative at the Boston Athenaum.
John Brereton (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His scholarly interests include nineteenth-century literature, especially nonfiction prose, and writing studies, especially genre, style, and argumentation. He previously taught and directed writing programs at Yale University and Columbia University in the City of New York. Offering 185 pieces (31 of them new) by 148 authors (18 of them new), The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Second Edition. Joseph Bizup (Ph.D., Indiana University) is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing (Bedford/St. Her books include Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (New York University Press, 2014), The Norton Pocketbook of Writing by Students (2010), Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams (University of Utah Press, 2003), and The St. Goldthwaite (Ph.D., The Ohio State University), General Editor, is Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, where she teaches composition, creative writing, and rhetorical theory. More portable, more suitable for period courses, more pleasant to read, and more attuned to current teaching and research.Melissa A. Like its predecessor, the anthology is a compact library of world literature, offering an astounding forty-three complete longer works, more than fifty prose works, over one hundred lyric poems, and twenty-three plays.
The Norton Anthology of World Literature represents continuity as well as change. Now published in six paperback volumes (packaged in two attractive slipcases), the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, and dozens of newly included or newly translated works from around the world.
Leading the field once again, Norton is proud to publish the anthology for the new century, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Second Edition. Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition. Table of contents for The Norton reader : an anthology of nonfiction / Linda H.