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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Sitting beside a young woman who in the dawn seemed so lovely , soothed and spellbound in these magical surroundings — the sea , mountains , clouds , the open sky - Gurov thought how in reality everything is beautiful in this world when ...
Sitting beside a young woman who in the dawn seemed so lovely , soothed and spellbound in these magical surroundings — the sea , mountains , clouds , the open sky - Gurov thought how in reality everything is beautiful in this world when ...
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She was a beautiful baby . The first and only one of our five that was beautiful at birth . You do not guess how new and uneasy her tenancy in her now - loveliness . You did not know her all those years she was thought homely , or see ...
She was a beautiful baby . The first and only one of our five that was beautiful at birth . You do not guess how new and uneasy her tenancy in her now - loveliness . You did not know her all those years she was thought homely , or see ...
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10 15 And thereupon That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied , “ To be born woman is to knowAlthough they do not talk of it at schoolThat ...
10 15 And thereupon That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied , “ To be born woman is to knowAlthough they do not talk of it at schoolThat ...
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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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