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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“ You're sick of me , but I want to tell you something . You — you aren't married , are you ? ... “ You — you know about these graves of mine I was telling you about downstairs , just now ? They really are commissions .
“ You're sick of me , but I want to tell you something . You — you aren't married , are you ? ... “ You — you know about these graves of mine I was telling you about downstairs , just now ? They really are commissions .
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25 Tell them that brave it most , They beg for more by spending , Who , in their greatest cost , Seek nothing but commending . And if they make reply , Then give them all the lie . 30 1 ,Tell zeal it wants devotion ; .
25 Tell them that brave it most , They beg for more by spending , Who , in their greatest cost , Seek nothing but commending . And if they make reply , Then give them all the lie . 30 1 ,Tell zeal it wants devotion ; .
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Tell me , who is this woman that you fear ? OEDIPUS . It is Meropê , man ; the wife of King Polybos . MESSENGER . Merope ? Why should you be afraid of her ? OEDIPUS . An oracle of the gods , a dreadful saying . MESSENGER .
Tell me , who is this woman that you fear ? OEDIPUS . It is Meropê , man ; the wife of King Polybos . MESSENGER . Merope ? Why should you be afraid of her ? OEDIPUS . An oracle of the gods , a dreadful saying . MESSENGER .
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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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