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 pitched his cap , which bore a gold monogram , probably the badge of some bank , in a wide sweep across the whole room on to a sofa and with the tail - ends of his jacket thrown back , his hands in his trouser pockets ...
He pitched his cap , which bore a gold monogram , probably the badge of some bank , in a wide sweep across the whole room on to a sofa and with the tail - ends of his jacket thrown back , his hands in his trouser pockets ...
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The whole time the girl was yelling like a stuck pig . By the time the doctor from the maternity clinic arrived , the baby had already been born . But our sitting room was a pretty shambles ! ” “ Oh , that I'm sure of !
The whole time the girl was yelling like a stuck pig . By the time the doctor from the maternity clinic arrived , the baby had already been born . But our sitting room was a pretty shambles ! ” “ Oh , that I'm sure of !
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Now you've wrecked all my happiness — ruined my whole future . Oh , it's awful to think of . I'm in a cheap little grafter's hands ; he can do anything he wants with me , ask for anything , play with me like a puppet — and I can't ...
Now you've wrecked all my happiness — ruined my whole future . Oh , it's awful to think of . I'm in a cheap little grafter's hands ; he can do anything he wants with me , ask for anything , play with me like a puppet — and I can't ...
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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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