Carry literature in your backpack as well as in your heart. The newest, briefest, and most economical member of the Kennedy and Gioia family of anthologies, Backpack Literature offers a condensed range of literature in a small format to create a more travel-friendly book. Based on Kennedy and Gioia's bestselling hardcover Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama the most revered anthology of its kind- Backpack Literature features the most popular of its literary selections and its most essential writing apparatus. Edited by two published poets, the text's collective voice brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature. FEATURES
• Two hundred and sixty powerful and engaging selections present a rich mix of classic and contemporary works, including 33 short stories, 217 poems, and 10 plays.
• Practical "Writing Critically" sections and 6 sample student papers offer advice to students for analyzing and writing about literature based on the chapter topic.
• A final section, "Writing." concludes the text with 4 chapters that cover the writing
process and research, as well as reviewing how to write about a story, a poem, and a
play.
• Photos of all fiction and drama authors and major poets humanize writers for students.