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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A couple customers that had been heading for my slot begin to knock against each other , like scared pigs in a chute . Lengel sighs and begins ... But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it .
A couple customers that had been heading for my slot begin to knock against each other , like scared pigs in a chute . Lengel sighs and begins ... But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it .
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Sometimes you could feel the dawn begin , And the fire would call you , by and by , Out of the bed and bring you along . 20 “ Well , good enough . To serve his needs All kinds of arrangements can be made . But what will you do if his ...
Sometimes you could feel the dawn begin , And the fire would call you , by and by , Out of the bed and bring you along . 20 “ Well , good enough . To serve his needs All kinds of arrangements can be made . But what will you do if his ...
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You can begin by listing significant details and recurrent features of a work . ... And you may also notice the list of actions the speaker performs or that the poem begins with a statement and ends with a question .
You can begin by listing significant details and recurrent features of a work . ... And you may also notice the list of actions the speaker performs or that the poem begins with a statement and ends with a question .
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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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