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008 070328s2008 nyu b 001 0 eng
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100 1 $aGillespie, Sheena.
245 10 $aLiterature across cultures /$cSheena Gillespie, Tony Pipolo, Terezinha Fonseca.
250 $a5th ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPearson/Longman,$c©2008.
300 $axxvi, 1046 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aReading and writing as a social act -- Roots and rebellions: Fiction, Unforgetting / Lan Samantha Chang; Essays, Allegory of the cave / Plato; Poetry, Going home / Maurice Kenny; Drama, Oedipus rex / Sophocles -- \\Gender and identity: Fiction, On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning / Haruki Murakami; Essays, Power of marriage / David Brooks; Poetry, How to watch your brother die / Michael Lassell; Drama, Kiss of the spider woman / Manuel Puig -- \\War and violence: Fiction, Things they carried / Tim O'Brien; Essays, Not just the inner city, well-to-do join gangs / Seth Mydans; Poetry, Disabled / Wilfred Owen; Drama, Picnic on the battlefield / Fernando Arrabal -- \\Race and difference: Fiction, Moment before the gun went off / Nadine Gordimer; Essays, Black hair / Gary Soto; Poetry, Tony went to the bodega but he didn't buy anything / Martin Espada; Drama, Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare -- \\Individualism and community: Fiction, Lottery / Shirley Jackson; Essays, Rewards of living a solitary life / May Sarton; Poetry, Constantly risking absurdity / Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Drama, Antigone / Sophocles -- \\Appendixes: Introduction to the elements of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama; Writing a research paper; Researching literary sources; Critical approaches, a case study of Hamlet -- Glossary.
520 3 $aThis ... introduction to literature anthology distinguishes itself by including both classical and contemporary writers, writers from the British and American tradition, ethnic writers from the United States, and writers from other cultures. [This text] focuses on the political and multicultural aspects of literary works in relation to self and society, gender and identity, war and violence as well as issues of class, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. [It also] provides strategies for reading closely while encouraging students to see themselves as members of a literary community. -Back cover.
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856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0714/2007013255.html
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