Elements of Literature: Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Film / Edition 4

by Robert Scholes, Carl H. Klaus, Nancy R. Comley, Michael Silverman

Overview

Providing the most thorough coverage available in one volume, this comprehensive, broadly based collection offers a wide variety of selections in four major genres, and also includes a section on film. Each of the five sections contains a detailed critical introduction to each form, brief biographies of the authors, and a clear, concise editorial apparatus. Updated and revised throughout, the new Fourth Edition adds essays by Margaret Mead, Russell Baker, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and Alice Walker; fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ursula K. LeGuin, Anton Chekov, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, Donald Barthelme, and James McPherson; poems by John Donne, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Philip Levine, and Louise Gluck; and plays by August Wilson, Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, and Vaclav Havel. The chapter devoted to film examines the relation of film to literature and gives the complete screenplay for Citizen Kane plus close analysis of a scene from the film. With its innovative structure, comprehensive coverage, and insightful and stimulating presentation of all kinds of literature, this is an anthology readers will turn to again and again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195060256
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/14/1991
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	1632
Product dimensions:	9.34(w) x 6.14(h) x 1.84(d)

About the Author

Brown University

University of Iowa

Queens College

Brown University

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Forms of LiteratureI ESSAY1. Elements of the Essay2. Four Essays and CommentariesII FICTION1. The Elements of Fiction2. Early Forms of Fiction3. Three Stories and Commentaries4. A Collection of Modern FictionIII POETRY1. The Elements of PoetryIV DRAMA1. Contexts of Drama2. Music of Drama3. Elements of Drama4. A Collection of PlaysV Film1. The Elements of Film