Legacies: Fiction, Poetry

The literary argument chapter and "Write an Argument" assignments throughout the book provide many opportunities for students to analyze arguments and write their own persuasive essays.

More than 30% of the literature is new, including an excerpt from a graphic novel in every anthology chapter, as well as additional stories, poems, plays, and essays.

Reading clusters (e.g., Modern Love/Fiction, and The Ideal vs. The Real World/Poetry) allow students to explore a theme in depth while focusing on a single genre.

Essays on controversial topics are paired to stimulate argumentative thinking, writing, and debate.

Online literature and contextual information are provided for each theme.

Appendix on Visual Rhetoric helps student read, analyze, and write about visuals such as paintings, websites, and graphic literature.

The anthology engages students with masterpieces of the traditional and non-traditional canons, world literature, and contemporary writing.

Crossing the Genres clusters open each chapter, tying readings from each genre together through questions and writing assignments.

Single-genre thematic clusters deepen students' understanding of individual genres.

Practical information on the research process and documentation is provided, including the use of online resources.

Reading selections are organized by genre and by intriguing themes, including new topics such as Road Trips, Masculinities and Femininities, and American Dreams Lost and Found.

Reading clusters (including Visions of Haunting and Family/Fiction and Immigration/Poetry) allow students to explore a theme in depth while focusing on a single genre.

A new student essay, "The Second Generation of the Holocaust", in Chapter 14 analyzes a sequence of panels from a graphic novel.

Updated and expanded coverage of MLA documentation style in Appendix A, "The Research Process and MLA Documentation", includes numerous models that help students correctly apply the latest citation guidelines when writing about literature.

New coverage of postmodernism now appears in Appendix B, "Critical Approaches to Literature".