Reading and Writing About Literature

Far less expensive than comparable guides, Reading and Writing about Literature: A Portable Guide is an ideal supplement for writing courses where literature anthologies and individual literary works that lack writing instruction are assigned. This brief guide 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 as well as sections on literary criticism and theory. This volume in the popular Bedford/St. Martin's series of Portable Anthologies and Guides offers a trademark combination of high quality and great value.

• Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (5th Edition)
• Greetings from Bury Park: A Memoir
• Arrow of God
• Joe Turner's Come and Gone
• White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club)
• The Hours: A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
• WHO SAYS?: The Writer's Research
• The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
• English Brushup
• The Essential Aeneid (Hackett Classics)