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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If my uncle was seen turning the corner we hid in the shadow until we had seen him safely housed . Or if Mangan's sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea we watched her from our shadow peer up and down the ...
If my uncle was seen turning the corner we hid in the shadow until we had seen him safely housed . Or if Mangan's sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea we watched her from our shadow peer up and down the ...
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But , tree , I have seen you taken and tossed , And if you have seen me when I slept , 10 You have seen me when I was taken and swept 698 A COLLECTION OF POEMS Robert Frost Desert Places Robert Frost Tree at my window.
But , tree , I have seen you taken and tossed , And if you have seen me when I slept , 10 You have seen me when I was taken and swept 698 A COLLECTION OF POEMS Robert Frost Desert Places Robert Frost Tree at my window.
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But though I have wept and fasted , wept and prayed , Though I have seen my head ( grown slightly bald ] brought in upon a platter , I am no prophet — and here's no great matter ; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker , And I ...
But though I have wept and fasted , wept and prayed , Though I have seen my head ( grown slightly bald ] brought in upon a platter , I am no prophet — and here's no great matter ; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker , And I ...
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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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