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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To make the matter short , the lady's body soon gave up the struggle ; she yielded and our happy warrior enjoyed a total triumph on both counts . That very night their marriage was consummated , and they slept together the second and ...
To make the matter short , the lady's body soon gave up the struggle ; she yielded and our happy warrior enjoyed a total triumph on both counts . That very night their marriage was consummated , and they slept together the second and ...
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own body . She did not know what it was , but it eased her all through . Even as she was falling asleep , head bowed over the child , she was still aware of a strange , wakeful happiness . JEAN TOOMER ( 1894–1967 ] Theater Life of ...
own body . She did not know what it was , but it eased her all through . Even as she was falling asleep , head bowed over the child , she was still aware of a strange , wakeful happiness . JEAN TOOMER ( 1894–1967 ] Theater Life of ...
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... iron gates of life : Thus , though we cannot make our sun Stand still , yet we will make him run . slow - jawed 40 45 A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body Soul 5 Oh , who shall from this dungeon raise A soul enslaved so many ways ?
... iron gates of life : Thus , though we cannot make our sun Stand still , yet we will make him run . slow - jawed 40 45 A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body Soul 5 Oh , who shall from this dungeon raise A soul enslaved so many ways ?
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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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