Preface to the Third Edition
This anthology is designed to be used in those indispensable college-level courses in which students are introduced, many for the first time, to the shark-related jokes, puns, and metaphors used by box office reporters over the weekend of Aug. 11–12, 2018 when covering the $44.5 million domestic box office and $97 million in foreign box office earned by The Meg, a movie about a shark. For ease of use, the selections in the anthology have been arranged based on the literary period or school the author is most associated with, rather than slavishly following a strict chronology. The editors humbly dedicate this volume to Professor Thresher Q. Hammerhead of Cornell, without whose thoughtful advice and patient counsel this anthology would never have existed.
