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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... and the questions and answers , with such an air of importance that again , instead of the real question of life and ... and in reply to the timid question Iván Ilych , with eyes glistening with fear and hope , put to him as to ...
... and the questions and answers , with such an air of importance that again , instead of the real question of life and ... and in reply to the timid question Iván Ilych , with eyes glistening with fear and hope , put to him as to ...
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A question shot through his brain . " Can this be me ? " For a thirteen - year - old who had just labeled his religious leader a bastard , twice , it was not an improper question . Louder and louder the question came to him— “ Is it me ...
A question shot through his brain . " Can this be me ? " For a thirteen - year - old who had just labeled his religious leader a bastard , twice , it was not an improper question . Louder and louder the question came to him— “ Is it me ...
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25 30 Perhaps the first thing we notice is the dislocation of syntax in the two opening questions . The first question could be rewritten so as to approximate more conventional discourse : Unruly sun , busy old fool , Why dost thou thus ...
25 30 Perhaps the first thing we notice is the dislocation of syntax in the two opening questions . The first question could be rewritten so as to approximate more conventional discourse : Unruly sun , busy old fool , Why dost thou thus ...
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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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