Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the EssayThis textbook provides students with an approach to literary works that emphasizes the reading process as an active enterprise, involving thought and feeling, as well as the intellectual acts. It introduces the traditional literary elements by means of discussions closely tied to works in each of the four genres: fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay in which the students are asked to return to certain works to reconsider them from different perspectives. Regarding the poetry section two special features are included: a substantial number of poems in translation (35 trans. fr. 8 languages) and a special selection of poetic transformations (the way poets have modified their own and other artists' work by means of. |
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Mrs. Macomber looked at Wilson quickly . She was an extremely handsome and well - kept woman of the beauty and social position which had , five years before , commanded five thousand dollars as the price of endorsing , with photographs ...
Mrs. Macomber looked at Wilson quickly . She was an extremely handsome and well - kept woman of the beauty and social position which had , five years before , commanded five thousand dollars as the price of endorsing , with photographs ...
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no fear , only hatred of Wilson , while the brakes clamped on and the car skidded , plowing sideways to an almost stop and Wilson was out on one side and he on the other , stumbling as his feet hit the still speeding - by of the earth ...
no fear , only hatred of Wilson , while the brakes clamped on and the car skidded , plowing sideways to an almost stop and Wilson was out on one side and he on the other , stumbling as his feet hit the still speeding - by of the earth ...
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She handed the flask to Macomber who handed it to Wilson . “ It was frightfully exciting , ” she said . “ It's given me a dreadful headache . I didn't know you were allowed to shoot them from cars though .
She handed the flask to Macomber who handed it to Wilson . “ It was frightfully exciting , ” she said . “ It's given me a dreadful headache . I didn't know you were allowed to shoot them from cars though .
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Contents
CHAPTER Reading Stories | 3 |
CHAPTER Types of Short Fiction | 19 |
CHAPTER Elements of Fiction | 26 |
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| Title | Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay |
| Author | Robert DiYanni |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0075571129, 9780075571124 |
| Length | 1746 pages |
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