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Eighth Edition| ©2008New Edition Available Michael Meyer
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This best-selling anthology offers a lively collection of stories, poems, and plays — with editorial features proven to help students read, think, and write effectively about literature. The eighth edition has been tailored to meet the needs of AP* students and teachers with mor...
This best-selling anthology offers a lively collection of stories, poems, and plays — with editorial features proven to help students read, think, and write effectively about literature. The eighth edition has been tailored to meet the needs of AP* students and teachers with more sample close readings and student papers, the most extensive writing support available, and a one-of-a kind AP Teacher's Manual that only Bedford could provide. The Bedford Introduction to Literature — where literature lives.
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This best-selling anthology offers a lively collection of stories, poems, and plays — with editorial features proven to help students read, think, and write effectively about literature. The eighth edition has been tailored to meet the needs of AP* students and teachers with more sample close readings and student papers, the most extensive writing support available, and a one-of-a kind AP Teacher's Manual that only Bedford could provide. The Bedford Introduction to Literature — where literature lives.
Need help with the audit? Click here to download an AP correlation.
Features
The Stories, poems, and plays you expect — plus a few surprises. The 66 stories, 430 poems and 21 plays represent an impressive array of periods, nationalities, styles and voices, with the best in-depth coverage of major writers of any anthology. The diverse selections prepare students for the wide range of works presented on the AP exam and provide students with literature they will love. The most comprehensive and engaging coverage of AP English Literature skills. Five chapters of instruction on reading are highlighted by unique "annotated close readings" that show students how the close reading process works. Seven chapters on writing feature extensive coverage of the writing process, 30 sample student responses, support for research papers, and a complete chapter on essay examinations. Meyer has also included selections that are guaranteed to interest even the most reluctant readers. (for example, song lyrics by Kanye West and Bruce Springsteen, an episode of "Seinfeld" written by Larry David, and excerpts from graphic novels). Only The Bedford Introduction to Literature so deftly combines challenging AP skills with materials that teen-aged students want to read and analyze. Engaging Case Studies offer students a variety of approaches to literature — includes an exciting new Case Study of Julia Alvarez. In addition to the highly praised cultural, critical, and thematic Case Studies, this edition adds a case study of Julia Alvarez in the poetry section. Developed in collaboration with the poet herself, this new in-depth chapter includes five of Alvarez’s own favorite poems, her personal insights on these works — that is, introductions written for students, expressly for this anthology — and contextual images, including many draft manuscript pages that showcase her remarkable editing process. A first of its kind AP Teacher’s Manual to support the book. Developed by veteran AP teachers and a college literature professor, the new Teacher’s Manual for The Bedford Introduction to Literature is in a class by itself. The teacher’s manual offers support for more than 50 pieces from The Bedford Introduction to Literature. For each work, there are suggested teaching approaches, connections to works within and beyond the anthology, vocabulary questions, questions on the literary elements, AP style multiple choice questions (over 500 in all), and AP style free response essay questions. Additionally, a unique collection of "Sure-fire Lessons" from College Board workshop leaders and AP luminaries like Lance Balla, Ed Schmieder, and Cathy D’Agostino offer both new and experienced instructors proven strategies and lesson plans for classroom success.
New to This Edition
The most comprehensive and engaging coverage of AP English Literature skills. Because Michael Meyer is an active member of the AP community and continues to teach the introduction to literature course at the college level, The Bedford Introduction to Literature addresses the needs of teen-aged students beginning to study literature formally. Extensive instruction on the process of close reading, understanding and analyzing formal literary elements, and thinking critically about the connections within and between a variety of works help students feel confident in their abilities to approach literature. Meyer has included selections that are guaranteed to interest even the most reluctant readers (for example, song lyrics by Kanye West and Bruce Springsteen, an episode of "Seinfeld" written by Larry David, and excerpts from graphic novels).
4 new Sample Close Readings model for students the kind of critical reading that leads to excellent writing about literature. Newly annotated selections are William Faulkner’s "A Rose for Emily," Ralph Ellison’s "Battle Royal," Elizabeth Bishop’s "Manners," and John Donne’s "Death Be Not Proud."
More writing help — student samples that illustrate analysis and documentation of sources. 16 new pieces of sample student writing model for students how to analyze and argue about literature, and how to support ideas by bringing in examples, not only from the texts themselves, but from other sources such as critical essays. The papers, located in the Elements chapters of Fiction and Poetry include a new full-length paper in Chapter 10, and 15 brief papers that include parenthetical citations and works cited lists. These papers enrich the book’s already robust collection of student writing which is now 30 samples strong. (Papers are highlighted in the TOC).
Enriching new case study chapters — that deepen students understanding of literature.
• An absolutely one-of-a kind chapter on Julia Alvarez. Developed in collaboration with the poet herself — and exclusive to Michael Meyer’s anthologies—this exciting new chapter offers a unique look inside the writer’s studio of Julia Alvarez. In addition to collecting five of her favorite poems, the chapter features brief introductions to each work in which this acclaimed author and teacher shares her personal take on each poem. A generous collection of images offer personal, cultural, and historical contexts for Alvarez’s work and include multiple drafts of a sonnet that illustrate her remarkable creative process.
• By popular demand, 3 new case study chapters on Humor and Satire. Because serious literature doesn’t always keep a straight face, three new thematic chapters present literary works with a humorous side. The fiction chapter collects reader favorites such as T.C. Boyle’s "Carnal Knowledge" (on love, animal rights, and some angry turkeys) and a new story by southern writer Lee Smith, "The Happy Memories Club" (on the "wild, unbridled yearnings of the heart" that transcend age, told by a narrator who would have done Flannery O’Connor proud.) The poetry chapter includes such new gems as Peter Schmitt’s "Friends without Numbers" (about math, love, and loneliness) and Thomas Lux’s "Commercial Leech Farming Today" (on the intersection of vanity, capitalism, and a humble blood-sucking parasite). The drama chapter features David Ives’ Moby Dude (think Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High explicating the great American novel) and Woody Allen’s Old Saybrook (in which a playwright’s characters spin wildly out of control).
A Thematic table of contents printed in the in the instructor’s manual and on the book’s companion Web site, offers more options for teaching, learning, and working with the contents of the anthology — and inspiring your students.
More writing help — student samples that illustrate analysis and documentation of sources. 16 new pieces of sample student writing model for students how to analyze and argue about literature, and how to support ideas by bringing in examples, not only from the texts themselves, but from other sources such as critical essays. The papers, located in the Elements chapters of Fiction and Poetry include a new full-length paper in Chapter 10, and 15 brief papers that include parenthetical citations and works cited lists. These papers enrich the book’s already robust collection of student writing which is now 30 samples strong. (Papers are highlighted in the TOC).
Enriching new case study chapters — that deepen students understanding of literature.
• An absolutely one-of-a kind chapter on Julia Alvarez. Developed in collaboration with the poet herself — and exclusive to Michael Meyer’s anthologies—this exciting new chapter offers a unique look inside the writer’s studio of Julia Alvarez. In addition to collecting five of her favorite poems, the chapter features brief introductions to each work in which this acclaimed author and teacher shares her personal take on each poem. A generous collection of images offer personal, cultural, and historical contexts for Alvarez’s work and include multiple drafts of a sonnet that illustrate her remarkable creative process.
• By popular demand, 3 new case study chapters on Humor and Satire. Because serious literature doesn’t always keep a straight face, three new thematic chapters present literary works with a humorous side. The fiction chapter collects reader favorites such as T.C. Boyle’s "Carnal Knowledge" (on love, animal rights, and some angry turkeys) and a new story by southern writer Lee Smith, "The Happy Memories Club" (on the "wild, unbridled yearnings of the heart" that transcend age, told by a narrator who would have done Flannery O’Connor proud.) The poetry chapter includes such new gems as Peter Schmitt’s "Friends without Numbers" (about math, love, and loneliness) and Thomas Lux’s "Commercial Leech Farming Today" (on the intersection of vanity, capitalism, and a humble blood-sucking parasite). The drama chapter features David Ives’ Moby Dude (think Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High explicating the great American novel) and Woody Allen’s Old Saybrook (in which a playwright’s characters spin wildly out of control).
A Thematic table of contents printed in the in the instructor’s manual and on the book’s companion Web site, offers more options for teaching, learning, and working with the contents of the anthology — and inspiring your students.

The Bedford Introduction to Literature, High School Binding
Eighth Edition| ©2008
Michael Meyer
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Eighth Edition| 2008
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Michael Meyer
Michael Meyer has taught writing and literature courses for more than thirty years—since 1981 at the University of Connecticut and before that at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the College of William and Mary. In addition to being an experienced teacher, Meyer is a highly regarded literary scholar. His scholarly articles have appeared in distinguished journals such as American Literature, Studies in the American Renaissance, and Virginia Quarterly Review. An internationally recognized authority on Henry David Thoreau, Meyer is a former president of the Thoreau Society and coauthor (with Walter Harding) of The New Thoreau Handbook, a standard reference source. The American Studies Association awarded his first book, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau’s Political Reputation in America, the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize. . He is also the editor of Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings. He has lectured on a variety of American literary topics from Cambridge University to Peking University. His books for Bedford/St. Martin's include The Bedford Introduction to Literature; The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature; Literature to Go; Poetry: An Introduction; and Thinking and Writing about Literature.

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