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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At this moment the gray untidy head of Givens appeared over the edges of the newest trench he had caused to be dug ... They worked all the year through and prospered , digging every day for those small clay heads and bits of pottery and ...
At this moment the gray untidy head of Givens appeared over the edges of the newest trench he had caused to be dug ... They worked all the year through and prospered , digging every day for those small clay heads and bits of pottery and ...
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“ When a buff comes he comes with his head high and thrust straight out . The boss of the horns covers any sort of a brain shot . The only shot is straight into the nose . The only other shot is into his chest or , if you're to one side ...
“ When a buff comes he comes with his head high and thrust straight out . The boss of the horns covers any sort of a brain shot . The only shot is straight into the nose . The only other shot is into his chest or , if you're to one side ...
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A glove smacked against my head . I pivoted , striking out stiffly as someone went past , and felt the jar ripple along the length of my arm to my shoulder . Then it seemed as though all nine of the boys had turned upon me at once .
A glove smacked against my head . I pivoted , striking out stiffly as someone went past , and felt the jar ripple along the length of my arm to my shoulder . Then it seemed as though all nine of the boys had turned upon me at once .
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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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