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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Even from a single reading we see that the speaker of “ Those Winter Sundays , ” now an adult , is remembering how his father used to get up on ... I remember how my father used to wake up at five A.M. to light the furnace so the house ...
Even from a single reading we see that the speaker of “ Those Winter Sundays , ” now an adult , is remembering how his father used to get up on ... I remember how my father used to wake up at five A.M. to light the furnace so the house ...
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I shall say you were young and your arms straight and your mouth scarlet I shall say you will die and none will remember you Your arms change and none remember the swish of your garments Nor the click of your shoe 15 Not with my hand's ...
I shall say you were young and your arms straight and your mouth scarlet I shall say you will die and none will remember you Your arms change and none remember the swish of your garments Nor the click of your shoe 15 Not with my hand's ...
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BERNARD : Willy , I remember , it was June , and our grades came out . And he'd flunked math . WILLY : That son - of - a - bitch ! No , it wasn't right then . Biff just got very angry , I remember , and he was ready to enroll in summer ...
BERNARD : Willy , I remember , it was June , and our grades came out . And he'd flunked math . WILLY : That son - of - a - bitch ! No , it wasn't right then . Biff just got very angry , I remember , and he was ready to enroll in summer ...
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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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