The Norton Anthology of English Literature by M H Abrams

The Norton Anthology of English Literature by M H Abrams

This anthology covers writers and works of English literature. Among the major works included are the complete texts of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"; Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"; Beckett's tragicomic "Endgame"; and Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". The 7th edition features works by 60 women writers, 21 writers new to the "Norton Anthology", 20 represented with additional selections or reselected works. Fourteen new and expanded thematic clusters gather short texts that illuminate cultural, historical, and literary concerns within each period. Examining 20th-century literature in English, this edition reflects the global reach of literature in English with ten new authors - Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, V. S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Eavan Boland, and Paul Muldoon. "The Persistence of English", a new essay by Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, provides a lively exploration of the English language - its emergence and spread, and its apparent "triumph" as a world language. Visual materials are included from several periods - Hogarth's satiric "Marriage A-la-Mode", engravings by Blake, and illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Period introductions, author headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised, many completely rewritten, for the 7th Edition. New pedagogical features include timelines for each period and revised endpaper maps. The text is accompanied by 2 audio CDs.

Steven Greenblatt (Ph.D.) is a physicist. Yale) is a Harvard University Cogan University Professor of Humanities. He is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Tale that Made Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Amazing Imagination; and Shakespeare's Freedom. He is a founding coeditor of the magazine Representations and has edited seven collections of critique, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto. The MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Vitality in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Mellon Foundation's Outstanding Humanist Award, the Yale University Graduate School's Wilbur Cross Medal, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, and two Gugino Prizes are among his awards. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was president of the Modern Language Association of America.

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ISBN 13	9780393947779
ISBN 10	0393947777
Title	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Author	M H Abrams
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Binding Type	Multiple-component retail product
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2001-05-16
Number of pages	2978
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