Portable Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing [Paperback]

Laurie G.(Laurie G. Kirszner) Kirszner (Author), Stephen R. Mandell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1428262962 | ISBN-13: 978-1428262966 | Publication Date: February 4, 2009 | Edition: 007

Introduction to literature classes that only need the essentials.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Over the past 15 years, I have used most of the anthologies. However, yours is by far the best."

"The factor that most influenced the selection of LRRW was its wide selection of all three genres."

"I prefer the selections in Kirszner and Mandell's LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING. The selections will provide endless opportunities and inspirations for students to find their own voices within larger critical, global, and literary contexts."

"I was rather impressed with some of the selections in the short story section, in that the editors seem to be paying a bit more attention to current writers and offering a broader range of cultures."

"The three most appealing characteristics of the book are: the Reading and Reacting Questions in every section, the fiction casebook, and the writing checklists." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell are authors as well as practicing teachers who are well known nationally. Having written bestsellers for nearly every English market, they have the deepest publishing record of any handbook author team and have successfully published up and down the curriculum from Developmental to Literature. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1280 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 007 edition (February 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1428262962
• ISBN-13: 978-1428262966
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A well rounded literature textbook, December 6, 2000

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"christine32g" (CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing (Compact Edition) (Paperback)

We used this book in my literature class, and I should say that I am not a fan of literature classes, but this book was very surprising. It contains short stories, poems, and plays like any other text, but if offers a wide variety of topics for selection by the professor or the student based on personal preferences or educational objectives. For instance, when working with poetry, students may choose from a variety of poems from baseball to romance. It is all there! Another example would be the short stories in the text; they range from stories of military experience to Asian family traditions. It is not only a literature book, but also a book of culture and variety. It is so well rounded it should appeal to all types of personalities, likes, and dislikes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lovely Literary Companion!, March 12, 2008

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Sylviastel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, Portable Edition (Paperback)

The authors, writers, poets, and playwrights include the following;
Maya Angelou; Leonard Adame; W.H. Auden; Margaret Atwood;
Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Rupert Brooke; Charles Bukowski; Suzanne Berger; Matsuo Basho;
Kate Chopin; Raymond Carver; e.e. cummings; Judith Ortiz Cofer; Lucille Clifton; Thomas Campion;
Emily Dickinson; Ariel Dorfman;
William Faulkner; Robert Frost; Jane Flanders;
Susan Glaspell; Nadine GOrdimer; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Nikki Giovanni;
Louise Gluck; Barbara Greenberg;
Ernest Hemingway; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Robert Hayden; Seamus Heaney; Ted Hughes; Langston Hughes; Thomas Hardy; Robert Herrick; A.E. Housman;
James Joyce; Shirley Jackson;
David Michael Kaplan; Jamaica Kincaid; Yusef Komunyakaa; Carolyn Kizer;
D.H. Lawrence; Robert Lowell; Denise LEvertov;
Katherine Mansfield; Archibald Macleish; Marianne Moore; Christopher Marlowe; Janice Mirikitani;
Tillie Olsen; Flannery O'Connor; Joyce Carol Oates; Wilfred Owen;
Ann Petry; Edgar Allan Poe; Dorothy Parker; Sylvia Plath; Ezra Pound;
Alberto Alvaro Rios; Adrienne Rich; Theodore Roethke; Sir Walter Raleigh;
Dudley Randall;
William Shakespeare; Leslie Marmon SIlko; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Anne Sexton; Sipho Sepamla; William Stafford; Jim Sagel; Edmund Spenser; Gary Snyder;
Amy Tan; Dylan Thomas;
John Updike;
Richard Wright; Alice Walker; Eudora Welty; William Wordsworth; Walt Whitman; James Wright; Richard Wilbur; William Carlos Williams;
William BUtler Yeats;
Louis ZUkofsky;

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Intorduction to Literature, August 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing (Hardcover)

I used this book for a college literature class. It is a great book covering short stories, plays, poems and more. This is one book I will not be selling back!