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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He was very wealthy , and would be much wealthier , and he knew she would not leave him ever now . ... about hanging on to his money , about most of the other things his world dealt in , and about his wife not leaving him .
He was very wealthy , and would be much wealthier , and he knew she would not leave him ever now . ... about hanging on to his money , about most of the other things his world dealt in , and about his wife not leaving him .
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And what wul ye leave to your bairns and your wife , Whan ye gang over the sea , O ? ” “ The warlde's room , let them beg thraeo life , through Mither , mither , The warlde's room , let them beg thrae life , For them never mair wul I ...
And what wul ye leave to your bairns and your wife , Whan ye gang over the sea , O ? ” “ The warlde's room , let them beg thraeo life , through Mither , mither , The warlde's room , let them beg thrae life , For them never mair wul I ...
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Peapack you were leaving me ? Before you even told me ? How do you like that for treating a mate like an inferior ! NORA : Thaw , I've told you at least three times a week for the last year that with the kids both in school , I'd like ...
Peapack you were leaving me ? Before you even told me ? How do you like that for treating a mate like an inferior ! NORA : Thaw , I've told you at least three times a week for the last year that with the kids both in school , I'd like ...
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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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