Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers

by John Schilb, John Clifford

Prepared by editors whose scholarship fuses literary and composition studies, Making Literature Matter combines a comprehensive writing text with a uniquely organized anthology for introductory literature courses that emphasize critical and academic writing.



What makes literature matter?



Writing about it — argumentatively. The writing text helps students learn to analyze literature and develop responsible and persuasive claims about it — making it matter to them as it hasn’t before.



Reading it — when it explores issues that matter. The stories, poems, plays and essays in the anthology are uniquely organized into thematic clusters focusing on life issues that speak to students and evoke their engaged response.

Genres: Reference, Writing, Anthologies, Classics, School

1600 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Danny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent primer on close reading and critical analysis of all types of literature.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book and the class I took with it changed how I feel about literature. I am now much more confident in my abilities to analyze and interpret literature.

[Ange · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book and the class I took with it changed how I feel about literature. I am now much more confident in my abilities to analyze and interpret literature.

[Danna]

A bargain book could convince me to become an English Lit instructor, or at least fall in love with literature again.

[Nymphadora Remus · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best parts of this thorough text are the student examples and the lists of example questions.

[Sandra Reyes]

How do I read it for like a ebook?

[Yvonne Raphael · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best parts of this thorough text are the student examples and the lists of example questions.