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for American Lit. taught from it circaThe Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package: Volumes CE, Sixth EditionUnder Nina Baym's direction, the editors have considered afresh each selection and all the apparatus to make the anthology an even better teaching tool.
The public university I just started working at worships at the foot of the great Norton.
All literature lecturers are required to use these anthologies, While I understand the pressures that a public system faces in creating uniform curricula across departments, the idea of a "standard" selection of literary work flies in the face of everything we know about the dangers of canonization.
Plus, it's incredibly lazy in an ideal system, professors would put their years expertise and extensive training to good use by creating their own anthologies.
Not to mention that it's not necessarily cheaper to buy these anthologies than a semester's worth of reading materials.
And the constant updating of editions means that departments and students waste vast sums of money updating their editions so that everyone remains on the same page.
All of that said, my real beef with Norton is that for reasons I can only presume to involve expenses, many famous authors are represented by their leastknown work.
Which defeats the entire purpose of having a "standard" for introductory survey courses, Also, there are typos and errors sprinkled throughout, which meant I was constantly needing to find the originals to ensure that the mistakes were Norton's and not the author's.
The worst example of this was in Grace Paley's "A Conversation with My Father" where a misplaced quotation mark Norton's mistake changes the entire meaning of a crucial passage.
If those of us teaching literature have any selfrespect, we should fight against corporate anthologizing and do the hard but rewarding work of creating our own trajectories of American letters.
If we did so, we might be able to create a million little anthologies, They would all be different, yes, but the difference between one person's choice of a great text and another person's IS the entire point.
It's what we DO when we talk about literature, Finished Plath, Miller and Dickinson, going through Whitman and Hawthorne now, I definitely like American Literature more than British Literature and this volume featured a lot of authors I hadn't even HEARD of before.
It offered a fairly broad overview of the literature at the time, although, as my professor pointed out, it still could have featured more women writers/native american authors/other minorities, but it highlighted some of the best known authors and their work.
I really enjoyed the class because my teacher made the material interesting and as a class we looked at each text and discussed that time period and the different styles of writing.
Taken from my book reviews blog: sitelink blogspot. com/ Am Lit II books, Amazing. Depressing. Avoid Henry James. Norton is required reading but I still enjoyed every moment of it, as well as Volumes A and B.
Probably the best reader I've been assigned for a class, Or maybe I just like American Literature postCivil War through present, I'm using the Norton mostly for poetry, Here's what I'm reading I'll update periodically,
ROBERT FROST love, love, love this
man
Mending Wall
The Death of the Hired Man
Home Burial
After ApplePicking
Birches
The WoodPile
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
Provide, Provide!
The Gift Outright
The Road Not Taken
Wallace Stevens also love, but Robert Frost sill has my heart
The Snow Man
A HighToned Old Christian Woman
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Sunday Morning
Peter Quince at the Clavier
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
The Death of a Soldier
The Idea of Order at Key West
A Postcard from the Volcano
The Plain Sense of Things
Moving on to Pound.
. .
Ezra Pound crazy but fascinating
To Whistler, American
Portrait d'une Femme
A Virginal
A Pact
The Rest
In a Station of the Metro
The RiverMerchan't Wife: A Letter
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Life and Contacts
The Cantos: XLV "With Usura"
e.
e. cummings surprisingly nice
Thy fingers make early flowers of
in Just,
O sweet spontaneous,
Buffalo Bill 's,
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
next to of course god america i
i sing of Olaf glad and big
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
anyone lived in a pretty how town
pity this busy monster,manunkind
T.
S. Eliot
The Waste Land
The Love Song of J, Alfred Prufrock,
Burnt Norton, from Four Quartets,
The Hollow Men
Journey of the Magi
Gerontion
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Marianne Moore
Poetry,
A Grave
To a Snail
What Are Years,
The Paper Nautilus,
The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing
In Distrust of Merits
Hart Crane
Chaplinesque,
At Melville's Tomb
III From Voyages
V From Voyages
To Brooklyn Bridge From The Bridge,
Robinson Jeffers very, supremely awesome
To His Father
Suicide's Stone
Divinely Superfluous Beauty
The Excesses of God
Salmon Fishing
Wise Men in Their Bad Hours
To the Rock That Will Be a Cornerstone of the House
The Cycle
Shine, Perishing Republic
Continent's End I love the Norton books.
Such good summaries of the various authors and time periods, My main problem with this particular book is which contemporary authors they have chosen to include and which to exclude, but I guess that's the fault of the canon and Norton is simply teaching to the trend.
read for class "modern American culture"/Favoritesfrom the piece I read for the class:
The Yellow WallPaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman pg
Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath pg
Robert Frost's poems, which begin at pg, especially After Apple Picking, Desert Places, and pg.
Emily Dickinson's poems, beginning on, There are more in Vol, including most of the ones I like best,
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