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'In the Media Version, the contextual approach to literature is enhanced by ten illustrated slideshows, 50 literary workshops, color-coded MLA citation guidelines, citation practice drills, a brief guide to writing research papers, and an interactive tutorial on avoiding plagiarism. With these new media resources, two new Exploring Contexts chapters, refreshed pedagogy and writing help, and 54 new selections, The Norton Introduction to Literatureis more flexible and attractive than ever.'
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Norton's acclaimed introductory anthology in a compact, easy-to-carry format.
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, Portable Edition, offers a balanced selection of classic and contemporary stories, poems, and plays in a brief and affordable format.
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Designed to accommodate a wide range of teaching styles and needs, this inviting introduction includes helpful annotation and pedagogy, student writing samples, and rich multimedia resources.
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About the Author
Alison Booth is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on Victorian literature and feminist theory and criticism, and her teaching at Virginia has ranged from "The Nineteenth-Century British novel" to "Utopias and Science Fiction." She is the author of Greatness Engendered: George Eliot and Virginia Woolf and editor of Famous Last Words: Changes in Gender and Narrative Closure.J. Paul Hunter is Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Reluctant Pilgrim: Defoe's Emblematic Method and Quest for Form in Robinson Crusoe; Occasional Form: Henry Fielding and the Chains of Circumstance; and Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. He is author of the first nine editions of The Norton Introduction to Poetry and the long-time co-editor of The Norton Introduction to Literature and New Worlds of Literature.Kelly J. Mays has taught writing and literature courses for 25 years -- at Stanford University (where she earned her Ph.D.), in the Harvard Expository Writing Program, at New Mexico State University, and (since 2001) at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she is now an Associate Professor of English.