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Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers

Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers
By John Clifford, John Schilb

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Making Literature Matter combines an innovative writing text with a uniquely organized anthology for introductory literature courses that emphasize critical thinking and writing. The third edition addresses new trends in literature and composition, with more instruction on writing arguments and unique clusters that pair literary and visual texts for analysis.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #874789 in Books
  • Published on: 2002-08-13
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 1662 pages

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About the Author

JOHN SCHILB (Ph.D., State University of New York -- Binghamton) is an associate professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he holds the Culbertson Chair in Writing. He has coedited Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age (1991) and, with John Clifford, Writing Theory and Critical Theory (1994). He is author of Between the Lines: Relating Composition Theory and Literary Theory (1996).

JOHN CLIFFORD (Ph.D., New York University) is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Author or editor of several composition textbooks, he has published numerous scholarly articles on pedagogy, critical theory and composition theory, and has edited two books on those subjects: The Experience of Reading: Louis Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory (1991) and, with John Schilb, Writing Theory and Critical Theory.

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Making Literature Matter--Providing a Response to "So What?"5
Truly an anthology for readers and writers, this book encourages students to think more critically about the world around them. It calls on a variety of timely themes and genres to satisfy numerous interests and tastes in literature. It also provides many helpful rhetorical strategies for arguing about literature. Freshman writing instructors should give Making Literature Matter a look; it will not disappoint.

University of Cincinnati4
A good required text for a Freshman English Composition class. A wide variety of selections that bring up a lot of ideas for in-class discussion or composition.

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