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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They close their wings , then fall , then spread their wings to catch and lift themselves . He wonders if they close their eyes when they fall . Norma Jean closes her eyes when they are in bed . She wants the lights turned out .
They close their wings , then fall , then spread their wings to catch and lift themselves . He wonders if they close their eyes when they fall . Norma Jean closes her eyes when they are in bed . She wants the lights turned out .
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... beauty morn by morn , I earth in earth forget these empty courts , And thee returning on thy silver wheels . 70 75 The Eagle FRAGMENT He clasps the crag with crooked hands ; -Close to the sun in lonely lands , Ringed with the azure ...
... beauty morn by morn , I earth in earth forget these empty courts , And thee returning on thy silver wheels . 70 75 The Eagle FRAGMENT He clasps the crag with crooked hands ; -Close to the sun in lonely lands , Ringed with the azure ...
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squints his eyes and leans in close , confidential , man to man ) Me and you ought to sit down and talk sometimes , man . Man , I got me some ideas . MURCHISON ( with boredom ) : Yeah — sometimes we'll have to do that , Walter .
squints his eyes and leans in close , confidential , man to man ) Me and you ought to sit down and talk sometimes , man . Man , I got me some ideas . MURCHISON ( with boredom ) : Yeah — sometimes we'll have to do that , Walter .
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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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