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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My strongest memories of this come from my early adolescence , perhaps because it was then that I began to assume this responsibility . I would never have thought to describe the cold as “ blue - black ” but I like how that makes me ...
My strongest memories of this come from my early adolescence , perhaps because it was then that I began to assume this responsibility . I would never have thought to describe the cold as “ blue - black ” but I like how that makes me ...
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I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course ... and perhaps for it I will be butchered in my bed some night by the servants of empire BENEATHA : The martyr !
I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course ... and perhaps for it I will be butchered in my bed some night by the servants of empire BENEATHA : The martyr !
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And perhaps in Africa over two hundred years ago , there was just such a mother ; perhaps she painted vivid and daring decorations in oranges and yellows and greens on the walls of her hut ; perhaps she sang — in a voice like Roberta ...
And perhaps in Africa over two hundred years ago , there was just such a mother ; perhaps she painted vivid and daring decorations in oranges and yellows and greens on the walls of her hut ; perhaps she sang — in a voice like Roberta ...
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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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