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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He could not understand it , and tried to drive this false , incorrect , morbid thought away and to replace it by other proper and healthy thoughts . But that thought , and not the thought only but the reality itself , seemed to come ...
He could not understand it , and tried to drive this false , incorrect , morbid thought away and to replace it by other proper and healthy thoughts . But that thought , and not the thought only but the reality itself , seemed to come ...
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that he now desired for himself , and to the sounds of the inferior orchestra , of the wretched provincial violins , he thought how lovely she was . He thought and dreamed . A young man with small side - whiskers , tall and stooping ...
that he now desired for himself , and to the sounds of the inferior orchestra , of the wretched provincial violins , he thought how lovely she was . He thought and dreamed . A young man with small side - whiskers , tall and stooping ...
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She thought of her still as a child because it tore her heart to think instead of the poor stout girl in her thirties who had never danced a step or had any normal good times . Her name was really Joy but as soon as she was twenty - one ...
She thought of her still as a child because it tore her heart to think instead of the poor stout girl in her thirties who had never danced a step or had any normal good times . Her name was really Joy but as soon as she was twenty - one ...
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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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