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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Her pointed chin and dark red mouth moved in an uncertain way , as if she wished to laugh again ; her long black lashes flickered with the quick - moving lights in her hidden eyes . María Concepción did not stir nor breathe for some ...
Her pointed chin and dark red mouth moved in an uncertain way , as if she wished to laugh again ; her long black lashes flickered with the quick - moving lights in her hidden eyes . María Concepción did not stir nor breathe for some ...
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Women and men ( both dong and ding ) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain 35 my father moved through dooms of love my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through ...
Women and men ( both dong and ding ) summer autumn winter spring reaped their sowing and went their came sun moon stars rain 35 my father moved through dooms of love my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through ...
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But I do see y ' are moved . I am to pray you not to straino my speech To grosser issues nor to larger reacho Than to suspicion . OTHELLO : I will not . Should you do so , my lord , My speech should fall into such vile success Which my ...
But I do see y ' are moved . I am to pray you not to straino my speech To grosser issues nor to larger reacho Than to suspicion . OTHELLO : I will not . Should you do so , my lord , My speech should fall into such vile success Which my ...
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Contents
CHAPTER Reading Stories | 3 |
CHAPTER Types of Short Fiction | 19 |
CHAPTER Elements of Fiction | 26 |
Copyright | |
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