The Sincerest Form Review

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(More customer reviews)Delbanco takes us into unpopular waters with "The Sincerest Form," but it is very much worth the voyage. Imitation is one of the most effective ways to learn, and this book can guide you where many, perhaps rightly fearful of [...], would be unlikely to take you. In a progression of exercises of imitation and revision, Delbanco shows how much you can learn from, well, from copying others. Incidentally, this is the only required text from one of my college classes that I have actually found useful. I guess that tells you something.

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Nicolas Delbanco explores the stories and techniques of twelve stylists, from Ernest Hemingway to Jamaica Kincaid, and encourages students to imitate the craft of these master storytellers as they hone their own fiction writing skills.

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The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2 (book alone) Review

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(More customer reviews)I used this book in a college American literature class. It has tons of short stories and full text of a few novels. I forget which are the full text novels aside from "Huck Finn." One thing I like about this book is that it's diverse: it has the "traditional" American literature, but it also includes Richard Wright, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, etc. There are also really helpful footnotes that aide in understanding.

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Widely known as the anthology that best unites tradition with innovation, The American Tradition in Literature is proud to enter its fifth decade of leadership among textbook anthologies of American literature.
Each volume continues to offer a flexible organization, with literary merit as the guiding principle of selection. The new photos and illustrations illuminate the texts and literary/historical timelines help students put works in context.

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Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hispanica, sexta edicion (Spanish Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Aproximaciones is a wonderful tool for the student learning about Spanish literature. The selections are well analyzed by the author and the biographies provide an overview of the cultures and perspectives of the different time periods. The chronological order of the readings makes it easy to understand the different stages of the Spanish literature and the various literary movements affecting the arts, the philosophy, and society of medieval to modern times.

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More than just an anthology of Spanish and Spanish American literature, Aproximaciones is also an introduction to literary analysis. Organized by genres (prose, poetry, drama, and the essay), it provides a rich and diverse array of reading selections. Each section is accompanied by an introduction and exercises. For the Introduction to or Survey of Peninsular and Latin American Literature courses.

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Classic Literary Adaptation: El Conde Lucanor Review

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(More customer reviews)Great to use in a classroom for intermediate to advance students. Short selections, followed by comprehension questions.

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A reader for intermediate Spanish studentsEl Conde Lucanor (Don Juan Manuel) is an adaptation of the work often described as Spain's Canterbury Tales. It contains 15 of the 50 original stories with side glosses, master vocabulary, footnotes, and commentary. This reader is softcover, 6" × 9", and 72 pages in length. An audiocassette is also available.

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World Literature, 2nd Edition Student Edition softcover Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent text for use in introductory world literature courses at either the high school or college levels. It offers a wide array of short stories, drama, and poetry by respected authors throughout history and up into the 20th century. Included are ancient pieces such as Akhenaton's "Hymn to the Aton" and Psalm 23 from the Bible, works by modern authors like Alice Walker, and everything in between, including Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dante, Dostoyesvsky, Yeats, Brontë, Wordsworth, Sophocles, Schiller, Ibsen, Colette, Bombal, Hemingway, Poe, Dickinson, and many more. There are 76 pieces in all, categorized by continent / region: the Mediterranean, Continental Europe, Africa, the Far East, Latin America, North America, and Great Britain.
Each piece, usually one of that particular author's best and most famous, is introduced by the editor with information on the author's life, times, and works. There are also accompanying critical questions for each story, play, and poem. I found that these were very useful as jumping-off points for the analysis of a piece, helping to start the critical thinking process. In addition, the editor suggests a few creative writing exercises to go along with each piece. I enjoyed using this book and feel that I gained a lot from it. The pieces are well-selected and give a nice sampling of literature from all geographical regions and time periods, including works in all genres and literary styles. Definitely a recommended text.

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World Literature © 2004 is a superb collection of short stories, poems, and plays from around the globe. This anthology is ideally suited for use as an integral part of the standard high school English curriculum or for a global literature elective. Content and activities provide valuable practice in preparing high school students for college classes or for the Advanced Placement exam. World Literature can also be used in an English-social studies core program that focuses on the study of world cultures, or as the perfect literature supplement to a world history course!

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Buen Viaje Spanish 3, Student Tape Manual Review

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(More customer reviews)I am very disappointed with my copy of Buen Viaje Level 3. It was said to be in acceptable condition, but i feel that the book i received is less than desirable. The cover has been colored on and has a strange feel to it. Once opened, numerous pages are wrinkled and have underlining and highlighting all over. As I continued to leaf through it, I discovered some very innappropriate writting and other strange writing along the margins. This book has clearly been trashed and should not have been labeled as acceptable. It obviously is not!!

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¡Buen viaje! Level 3 meets the needs of all third-year classes by providing a variety of materials in each chapter that can be taught independently.

Glencoe brings you every resource necessary to help your students communicate, understand connections, make comparisons, build communities, and understand cultures.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama Review

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(More customer reviews)This book not only contains a lot of excellent literature, but it also gives instruction on how to read and analyze literature more effectively. This is a book I come back to again and again.

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This paperback version of Robert DiYanni's Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama presents 55 stories; 334 poems; 16 plays and offers the refreshing New Voices of authors who are writing today, in addition to classic works, eight Authors in Context, and an engaging Transformations chapter.

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