This compact edition retains all the features that have made the full edition so successful within a smaller, affordable volume. Combining the broadest selection of readings with time-proven and class-tested instruction, COMPACT LITERATURE: READING, REACTING, WRITING, Eighth Edition, remains the most useful and student-friendly introduction to literature text available. The text includes a comprehensive guide to writing about literature, with full coverage of critical thinking, argument, and the writing process. Teachers themselves, authors Kirszner and Mandell take students through each step of the research and writing process, helping them to craft literary analyses and arguments and to understand that writing about literature is a process of discovery, examination, and debate.
- ISBN10 1111839018
- ISBN13 9781111839017
- Publish Date 1 January 2012
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cengage Learning, Inc
- Edition 8th ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 1720
- Language English