Imagining Worlds

This text presents a perspective on the role that literature plays in our lives, shaping our feelings, thoughts and cultures. It encourages a variety of personal and analytic responses to literature and literary non-fiction with its thematic focus and its wide range of genres, cultures, disciplines and assignments. Two introductory chapters on reading, journal writing and writing as processes of discovery are followed by chapters on the four genres of literature that fully explain and illustrate the process of writing about literature within the context of student casebooks. Six thematic chapters provide a collection of readings and engaging writing topics.