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 in making any or all of these changes , our ways of understanding life and literature change too . In sorting out our thoughts and feelings about ... An interpretation is an argument about a story's meaning as we understand it .
And in making any or all of these changes , our ways of understanding life and literature change too . In sorting out our thoughts and feelings about ... An interpretation is an argument about a story's meaning as we understand it .
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And both require us to be alert to their existence if we are to understand the works in which they occur . If we do not perceive a writer's ironic intentions , we may not just misconstrue a particular story ; we may interpret it as ...
And both require us to be alert to their existence if we are to understand the works in which they occur . If we do not perceive a writer's ironic intentions , we may not just misconstrue a particular story ; we may interpret it as ...
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... is the most ... how shall I say it ? ... the most paradoxical ... yes ... that's the word ... the most paradoxical thing , is that a lot of people who are completely illiterate speak these different languages ... do you understand ?
... is the most ... how shall I say it ? ... the most paradoxical ... yes ... that's the word ... the most paradoxical thing , is that a lot of people who are completely illiterate speak these different languages ... do you understand ?
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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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