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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The heart of both these figures is comparison — the making of connections between normally unrelated things , seeing one thing in terms of another . More than 2300 years ago Aristotle defined metaphor as “ an intuitive perception of the ...
The heart of both these figures is comparison — the making of connections between normally unrelated things , seeing one thing in terms of another . More than 2300 years ago Aristotle defined metaphor as “ an intuitive perception of the ...
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I know how things can be — for women . I tell you , it's queer , Mrs. Peters . We live close together and we live far apart . We all go through the same things — it's all just a different kind of the same thing .
I know how things can be — for women . I tell you , it's queer , Mrs. Peters . We live close together and we live far apart . We all go through the same things — it's all just a different kind of the same thing .
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ain't going to get up here first thing this morning and start talking to me ' bout no money — ' cause I ' bout don't want to hear it . WALTER : Something the matter with you this morning ? RUTH : No — I'm just sleepy as the devil .
ain't going to get up here first thing this morning and start talking to me ' bout no money — ' cause I ' bout don't want to hear it . WALTER : Something the matter with you this morning ? RUTH : No — I'm just sleepy as the devil .
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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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