Writing about Literature with 2009 MLA Update: A Portable Guide

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates.  Writing about Literature introduces strategies for reading literature, explains the writing process and common writing assignments for literature courses, provides instruction in writing about fiction, poetry, and drama, and includes coverage of writing a research paper and of literary criticism and theory.

This volume in Bedford/St. Martin’s popular series of Portable Anthologies and Guides offers the series’ trademark combination of high quality and great value for teachers looking to assign supplementary instruction on reading and writing about literature to their students.

• Literature for Composition: Essays, Stories, Poems, and Plays (9th Edition)
• The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone
• Understanding World Societies, Combined Volume: A History
• 1984 (Signet Classics)
• The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)
• Studying English Literature and Language: An Introduction and Companion
• Writing That Works: Communicating Effectively on the Job, 11th Edition
• Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
• The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (Case Studies in Critical Controversy)
• Frankenstein (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)