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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Therefore , when Maurice was going out to France for the second time , she felt that , for her husband's sake , she must discontinue her friendship with Bertie . She wrote to the barrister to this effect . Bertram Reid simply replied ...
Therefore , when Maurice was going out to France for the second time , she felt that , for her husband's sake , she must discontinue her friendship with Bertie . She wrote to the barrister to this effect . Bertram Reid simply replied ...
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And friends — modern , thrilling friends , writers and painters and poets or people keen on social questions — just the kind of friends they wanted . And then there were books , and there was music , and she had found a wonderful little ...
And friends — modern , thrilling friends , writers and painters and poets or people keen on social questions — just the kind of friends they wanted . And then there were books , and there was music , and she had found a wonderful little ...
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“ Pass , friends ! ” Juan roared back cheerfully . They stood in the doorway , simple cautious gendarmes from the village , mixedbloods themselves with Indian sympathies , well known to all the community . They flashed their lanterns ...
“ Pass , friends ! ” Juan roared back cheerfully . They stood in the doorway , simple cautious gendarmes from the village , mixedbloods themselves with Indian sympathies , well known to all the community . They flashed their lanterns ...
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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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