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 first free breath since her marriage seemed to restore the pleasant liberty of her maiden days . Devoted as she was to her husband , their intimate conjugal life was something which she was more than willing to forego for a ...
And the first free breath since her marriage seemed to restore the pleasant liberty of her maiden days . Devoted as she was to her husband , their intimate conjugal life was something which she was more than willing to forego for a ...
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He went up to her and took her by the shoulders to say something affectionate and cheering , and at that moment he saw himself in the looking - glass . His hair was already beginning to turn grey . And it seemed strange to him that he ...
He went up to her and took her by the shoulders to say something affectionate and cheering , and at that moment he saw himself in the looking - glass . His hair was already beginning to turn grey . And it seemed strange to him that he ...
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2 I had returned home around the second week in June — in great haste because it seemed that my father's death and my mother's confinement were both but a matter of hours . In the case of my mother , it soon became clear that she had ...
2 I had returned home around the second week in June — in great haste because it seemed that my father's death and my mother's confinement were both but a matter of hours . In the case of my mother , it soon became clear that she had ...
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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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