The Norton Introduction to Literature

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The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Ninth Edition, is an unparalleled collection of the very best classic and contemporary stories, poems, and plays in an inviting format that accommodates many different teaching styles, reading tastes, and pedagogical needs.

Now offering a new contextual chapter, a completely rewritten section on writing about literature, refreshed pedagogy throughout the book, new student-writing samples, and 54 new literary selections, The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Ninth Edition, is more flexible and attractive than ever before.

Diverse New Selections

The Shorter Ninth Edition offers a significantly expanded selection of classic and contemporary works. In addition to 323 poems (42 of which are new) and 12 plays (1 new), the anthology offers a field-leading selection of 50 short stories (11 of which are new). This uniquely inclusive selection of stories includes classic favorites alongside exciting contemporary authors such as Sherman Alexie and Jhumpa Lahiri.

New Contextual Chapter

"Exploring Contexts" chapters, offered throughout the text, provide an abundance of textual and visual material to encourage research, writing, and discussion and help students better understand the ways in which literary works are shaped by culture and history.

The Shorter Ninth Edition adds a contextual chapter to the poetry section that focuses on the Harlem Renaissance. Providing a compact and teachable selection of some of the best-known poems from this exciting movement, this chapter also includes illuminating prose pieces by Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Rudolph Fisher, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as many visual resources.

Completely Revised Pedagogy

The Shorter Ninth Edition offers a completely revised suite of pedagogical elements designed to help students read, think about, and write about literature as creatively and analytically as possible.

In addition to revising editorial introductions, the editors have re-written all end-of-selection questions and writing suggestions, selected all new student writing examples, added additional visual resources, and completely rewritten the anthology’s comprehensive guide to writing about literature.

To encourage students to use the invaluable media resources that accompany the text, this edition uses CD and WEB icons in the margins to point to works featured on the Audio Companion or the Student Web Site.

Free Access to Norton Literature Online

Every new copy of The Norton Introduction to Literature, Shorter Ninth Edition, comes with free access to Norton Literature Online, the gateway to all the outstanding literature resources from Norton.

Student Web Site: LitWeb

The Student Web Site: LitWeb, online companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature, encourages students to think through their responses to literature in three stages: articulating a personal response, rereading creatively and analytically, and researching contextual and scholarly resources on the Web in order to enrich their own interpretive work. LitWeb’s features include:

• In-Depth Literary Workshops. Featuring 50 works from the text, these exercises guide students through the reading, rereading, and contextual exploration of a work. Author biographies and a set of related links are included.
• Glossary, containing over two hundred literary terms.
• Glossary flashcards allow students to assess and reinforce their knowledge of these literary terms.
• Writing about Literature, a valuable resource from The Norton Introduction to Literature, included online in its entirety.
• Self-Grading Multiple-Choice Quizzes on the elements of literature.
• Access to Norton Poets Online, which features interviews with over 60 contemporary poets, dozens of audio recordings of poets reading their work, essays, online poetry workshops, and an e-mail newsletter.
• Access to Norton Literature Online, the most robust offering of literary resources on the Web, edited for undergraduate readers.

Audio Companion

This two-CD companion to The Norton Introduction to Literature is free of charge with every copy of the Ninth Edition. The Audio Companion is a collection of readings, comprised of 28 poems, 4 short stories, and selections from 3 plays, including Eudora Welty reading Why I Live at the P.O., Garrison Keillor reading poems by Christopher Marlowe and Emily Dickinson, Lynn Redgrave and Michael Redgrave in a scene from Pygmalion, Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, Raymond Carver’s Cathedral read by Peter Riegert; as well as many other authors reading their own works, including Maya Angelou, Willie Perdomo, Dylan Thomas, and Michael S. Harper.

Teaching Poetry: A Handbook of Exercises for Large and Small Classes

Informed by Professor Gedalof’s considerable poetry-teaching experience, this practical handbook offers a wide variety of innovative in-class exercises designed to enliven classroom discussion. Each of these flexible teaching exercises includes straightforward, step-by-step guidelines and suggestions for variation. Free to adopters.

Instructor’s Manual

This thorough guide offers discussions of nearly all the works in the anthology as well as advice for instructors who teach writing through literature.

Video Cassettes and DVDs

Video Cassettes or DVDs of most of the plays in the anthology are available to qualified adopters.

Norton Resource Library

Additional materials available on this password-protected instructor site include:

A free, customizable Blackboard/ WebCT coursepack featuring:

• Bulleted summaries of the fiction, poetry, and drama sections
• Multiple-choice quizzes on the elements of fiction, poetry, and drama
• Multiple-choice quizzes on selected widely-taught individual works of fiction and drama included in the anthology
• Short answer questions on selected widely-taught poems (with suggested answers in the instructor view)
• Glossary flashcards
• Bulleted summaries of the Writing about Literature chapters
• Multiple-choice quizzes on the Writing about Literature chapters
• Tutorials on research writing and on avoiding plagiarism.