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Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, Gener Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies--thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible-- The Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones.
Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool. Get A Copy. Paperback , 8th , pages. Published January 4th by W. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. What are the contents of this book? Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. I am required by my department to teach from these anthologies, and I detest it. These anthologies would be fine for high school, but I resent not being trusted to select my own texts at the college level. More to the point of reviewing them: beware, young readers, beware!
World Literature does not come from an anthology. Are we really to believe that on p. What are the problems inherent in selection? Let's include a few women, but not too many! A few no I am required by my department to teach from these anthologies, and I detest it. A few non-Western authors, but not so many that this anthology won't sell to American readers! I guess what disturbs me most about teaching from these is that my students read the introductions, commentary, and footnotes to each work as the God's truth.
In particular, I was disturbed by a footnote in Nawal El Saadawi's "In Camera" in which my students, many of whom have never encountered another Arab person let alone an Arab work of literature, were told by the Norton Anthology that a male character's thoughts could be explained "According to the Arab-Islamic code of honor, decreed and upheld by men.
This was just weird, given that there were no footnotes, say, explaining the internal thoughts of Joyce's servant characters according to the code of the Irish class system, or Virginia Woolf's thoughts according to the code of English misogyny. Any edited text especially a text in translation will always procure grumpy objections from people like me. But there is something particularly troubling about these anthologies in their sleekness, expense, and increasing ubiquity in college classrooms.
Their increasing authority serves to disguise their deficiencies. View 2 comments. This was my father's book when he read literature at university. It was a great introduction to English Lit.
Especially since I lived in a rural farming community and TV and radio reception was spotty. Mum and Dad would tell us stories from the book and read aloud many of the poems.
It was a very important book to me. I used it when when I was at secondary school and university. If you are required to buy this book for a course, my review won't matter to you much one way or another, so this is slated towards the latter group. This is an excellent resource for English literature selections and excerpts. A good deal of the selections are poetry or lyrical selections; most of the prose selections are small excerpts meant only to give you the "feel" of the author's writing style.
Invest in a copy if you have any interest in English literature particularly poetry and you won't be sorry. Jul 09, Michael rated it really liked it Shelves: aa-europelit , historicity , lit-anthologies , lit-theory , multivolume-lit , nonfiction , romanticlit , aa-englandlit , literature , xlong-over Jun 25, Andrea Menzies rated it really liked it. People often act curious about my interest in books and poetry for a podcast topic. I have ballet trophy photos on my Facebook and seem to be a fan of dancing and music.
Why not dancing? Why not a podcast on music? Is there anything dark or gothic in college textbooks on poetry? Well my friends you pretty much just asked if there was H20 in raindrops, stone bricks in castles, or sugar in bars of chocolate because FAR before any rock band used the word gothic for music, it was used in literature People often act curious about my interest in books and poetry for a podcast topic.
Well my friends you pretty much just asked if there was H20 in raindrops, stone bricks in castles, or sugar in bars of chocolate because FAR before any rock band used the word gothic for music, it was used in literature to describe an entire genre of poetic literature first and foremost.
Inside jacket read. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies throughout the helpful introductory manor, judicious annotation texts where ever possible this edition has been revitalized through the editors…The editors have rethought this Anthology to make it an even better teaching tool. Bram Stoker wrote the famous Dracula May 26, Another story of dark duality from this age is Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde in Always a fan favorite of the flamboyant set The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in The s was a hotbed of beloved literature.
If you are noticing a pattern of the greatest movies from the dawn of the Golden age of Hollywood being taken from popular literature of the era you are not wrong. Why does this period of time so capture the modern imagination even in modern day? The dawn of mass communication first forms itself in this era of the s. Printing presses become machine operated, and mass market publication is first possible. The Norton Anthology mentions the dawn of an Industrial age that first blooms into being at this point in History.
It is hard for humans born into the age of cars and computers to grasp the idea that just a couple hundred years ago over 90 percent of the jobs in the world were all related to farming. Literacy for people of any social background was so rare people could not write their name. In the succeeding decades steam replaced wind and water as the primary source of power for all sorts of manufacturing processes.
People were born, lived, and went to the grave within 20 miles of where they were born in agrarian medieval times. As the age turned to the s they could go places beyond their birth town as steam boats and steam trains clawed their way into human life. New things called towns and night life IN towns dawned into being. Suddenly people have social and gender identity they have never had before. This did not always go smoothly to say the least. On page 21 the anthology gets into a great definition of gothic romance as a fully recognized academic genre.
Writers, whom we now describe as the Gothic novelists, revisited the romance, the genre identified as the primitive forerunner of the modern novel, looking to a medieval i. Frequently the Gothic novelists probe the very ideas of historical accuracy and legitimacy that critics use against them and meditate on who is authorized to tell the story of the past and who is not.
This then opened the door to the ideas of revisionist History. In agrarian times only around 5 percent of the population was literate, and most literate historians were the close relatives of the wealthy kings.
History was only told making a tiny amount of hero-sexual, pale, land owning, males look perfect and error free. Revisionist Historians questioned the accuracy of this idea.
Her daughter in turn wrote Frankenstein, and the work talks about social and gender relations in metaphors. In addition the unquestioned icon of fame known as George Gordon Lord Byron living in the years between was one of the poets most considered the embodiment of the Gothic literature movement. On page of the book introduction notes. Yet he was one of the few highly published intellectuals with the ability in high birth and wealth to come out of the close as bisexual gay in a day and age where most all literature on the lifestyle was banned.
Many people of lower social station would have their books banned as they were tossed in jail. He stood out as one of the few people challenging traditional norms of behavior and keeping his wits about him while surviving. My review is that this book is one of the best works of literature ever written.
The analysis of poetic technique to classic poems and rhyme structure is fascinating. It is a college level textbook telling the history of literature in a very dangerous and volatile part of human history. Yet I wish this book would replace Romeo and Juliet as part of every high school English class in modern day.
What early writer had to go through on their way to modern day enlightenment should not be hidden away in high level elective classrooms of higher education. Readers of all backgrounds should check it out. I give it five stars out of five stars. More at FH7publishing. Oct 22, Gary Mesick rated it it was amazing.
Criticize the Norton if you dare. For value in teaching and studying a survey course, there just isn't anything better.
And I think their passages from longer works are generally right on the money. The only problem is that, without the context of the larger work, the passages sometimes don't make sense. Still, this is it. The required reading, in condensed form. Good luck. Feb 10, Christina rated it it was amazing Shelves: fav-reference-books. I rely heavily on all my Norton Anthology volumes. They have chicken scratches throughout the pages, are falling apart but I cherish them.
Jul 24, Saba rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: every body who wants to know. My Holy Book. As I said for volume A, volume B is one of my textbooks for school and so I only did the assigned readings for the class. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the pieces I read and I have plans to read this volume from start to finish at some point, however, I will say that a lot of fantastic English authors are not represented for the 20th and 21st centuries which makes me a bit sad.
There is just something about his imagery and subject matter that leaves me simply entranced. Lyrical and poignant lines reflect each sides emotions in each piece. That probably paints me as morbid but those are the ones that speak to me the most. She writes as the men of her time did which is no small feat during the s , but her prose lack the drying austerity and tiredness of the men.
I think Vindication is one of the most underappreciated texts in western feminism and probably one of the most interesting, compelling, concise, and honest ones out there. There is nothing boring about it and it is one of my favourite texts of its genre. I think all women should read it. I enjoyed all of the pieces I had to read, and I think that Wordsworth truly made his dream come true —making the ordinary extraordinary.
Both did superb jobs and met their ends. Thinking about Coleridge always makes me sad, me reminds me of Aristophanes because both of them were two beings of the greatest potential that threw it all away. It drives me crazy! Anyway, my readings of Coleridge were fantastic, the man had an amazing gift. His lines are lush and lyrical in all forms. Yet another man with a fascinatingly chequered history full of unbelievable talent.
I love Byron, the man was a god among men when it came to words and this poem is no exception. Ode on a Grecian Urn , John Keats 4. If Keats had not died so young we would have so many more classic poems with his wonderful flavour and flare. I like Keats, he writes with grace and ease and his works are nothing if not a little bit awe inspiring. I love this poem for the portrait it paints and the emotions it evokes; a lot of people would love to take a snapshot of their lives at its perfect moment but I think this poem illustrates the cons and frustrations of that.
In any case, this is a love poem of loves poems, beautiful in its intent and honest in its construction. My goal is to one day read the entire collection of sonnets. They vibrate through your soul. This is a fantastic poem I urge all people to read. I like it but its low high on the totem pole. I like it for its depiction of industrialization and the warning it issues.
She makes my heart bleed sometimes her words are so simple but gripping. Song concerns love and the one left behind after death. The speaker implores their lover to remember or forget them, whichever would make them happier and able to live on.
She outlines the four basic identities men assign women and then calls them out on it. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the classic tale of the mad scientist with its roots reaching back to Frankenstein. Nearly everyone out there knows the story of Dr.
I seriously urge people to do so! I was laughing so hard I was crying at some points. He too is one of my favourite writers, The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favourite books, so I was so happy to get to read some Wilde this year.
I loved Heart of Darkness! It was poignant, interesting, deep; the message was clear and heartfelt. The characters were intense and served their purposes well. I took the speaker as someone scorned by another, looking forward in time and letting that person know all that they had thrown away.
I thoroughly enjoyed the poem, Yeats is a true artist and his work is timeless. This is a feminist essay decrying the place of women in society and how every woman needs a room of her own in which she can learn and grow. Woolf makes you look back to the 16th century and imagine what would happen if Shakespeare had had a sister, a woman born with his exact genius and who had followed in his footsteps, following him to London. I fully agree with the ideas expressed in this piece and I enjoyed reading it.
The Garden Party , Katherine Mansfield 4. Laura, the protagonist, wonderfully illustrates the push and pull of class divisions and how beliefs are passed from parents to children. I really like this story, the characters are intense considering its length and the message it sends is clear and undeniable.
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