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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
by
Maynard Mack ,
Jerome W. Clinton , Bernard Knox , Stephen Owen , Robert Lyons Danly , Sarah N. Lawall , P.M. Pasinetti , Indira Viswanathan Peterson
,
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These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs of today s students discovering a range of literary traditions for the first tim...more
Paperback, 3088 pages
Published
January 17th 1997
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published April 1st 1979)
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Dec 01, 2009
Dusty
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Of course, I did not read the entire 3000+ pages in this anthology, which literally spans the more than two millennia between Gilgamesh and Things Fall Apart.
I became well acquainted with about half the book -- the scattered half the professor for whom I TA-ed this semester included in her syllabus. I remain unconvinced that any single-volume anthology can claim to adequately represent the whole world's literature, and there are particular texts whose omission in this volume shock me (where's Ma...more
I became well acquainted with about half the book -- the scattered half the professor for whom I TA-ed this semester included in her syllabus. I remain unconvinced that any single-volume anthology can claim to adequately represent the whole world's literature, and there are particular texts whose omission in this volume shock me (where's Ma...more
So, here's how it happened. You know how there's all the coverage of Hillary-supporters-turned-McCain-supporters? Well, I read some interesting feminist commentary on the issue, and the media coverage thereof, which made me nostalgic for all of those fantastic, tragic, bat$hit crazy female characters I read/loved in college. So, needless to say, I started to crave Medea. One thing lead to another, and I dusted off the old Norton Anthology. Just reading the table of contents brought back a flood...more
I did not buy this book. I found it from a personal library of college textbooks, and I picked it up and decided to read it. Not knowing how much a work like this is "worth", I can't recommend it to buy, but I can definitely recommend it to read.
It took me several months to get through the anthology, cover-to-cover, and I never read for more than an hour at a time, and I let the stories and the novels and the poems and the plays sink in -- this is a new way of reading for me, as I would previous...more
It took me several months to get through the anthology, cover-to-cover, and I never read for more than an hour at a time, and I let the stories and the novels and the poems and the plays sink in -- this is a new way of reading for me, as I would previous...more
This was the required text for World Lit, and I LOVED it. We didn't read ALL of the selections but had lively discussions about the ones chosen.
A favorite was The Shakuntala or the ring of remembrance a play by Kalidasa (Translated) which we read aloud in class. I would LOVE to see it onstage and done with just a touch of humor...
If every Literature class was as inspiring as that one was, I'd have been an English major!
A favorite was The Shakuntala or the ring of remembrance a play by Kalidasa (Translated) which we read aloud in class. I would LOVE to see it onstage and done with just a touch of humor...
If every Literature class was as inspiring as that one was, I'd have been an English major!
Amazing collection!
Love it!
This is one of the most helpful textbooks I had in college. The collection of stories and poems are wonderful and carefully selected with good introductions. Hard to carry around, though. (It must have weighed a kilo!) But it's a good reference book that I still keep to this day and read once in a while.
LONG LONG LONG book but well worth reading cover to cover. Most literature textbooks have some great pieces and some that are included gratuitously, but this one is decent.
Oct 30, 2008
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Reading for a class and really enjoying the selections so far.
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