EN 311 Literary Criticism: Books

Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison's work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of "Home" (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play "Desdemona" affirm the range and acuity of Morrison's imagination. "Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing" enables audiences/readers, critics, and students to review Morrison's cultural and literary impacts and to consider the import, and influence of her legacies in her multiple roles as writer, editor, publisher, reader, scholar, artist, and teacher over the last four decades.

A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics's definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation and history of each term, including especially lucid explanations of verse forms and providing a firm sense of literary periods and movements from classicism to postmodernism.

A practical, instructive, and comprehensive guide to the language of literary study, this is a reference manual for the introductory student that aims to demystify literature and the techniques literary scholars use.

"Black Literature and Literary Theory" is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary critics and theorists in the traditional fields of Western literature."--W. Mitchell, University of Chicago

In response to the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational texts by the Common Core State Standards, the Third Edition of this book provides an integrated approach to incorporating nonfiction and informational texts into the secondary literature classroom. This new edition shows teachers how to adapt practices that have always defined good pedagogy to the new generation of standards for literature instruction.