Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the EssayMcGraw-Hill, 1990 - 1746 pages This 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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... hair - remover to put on her arms and legs , and if possible an arrangement of inflatable cushions , supposed to reduce your hips and thighs . She thought they probably had hair - remover in the drugstore in Hanratty , but the woman in ...
... hair - remover to put on her arms and legs , and if possible an arrangement of inflatable cushions , supposed to reduce your hips and thighs . She thought they probably had hair - remover in the drugstore in Hanratty , but the woman in ...
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... hair gleamed , her eye was bright and her laughter cheered the halls of the palace . Oedipus has become my Apollo warming my days and nights . I am eighteen again with poppies in my hair . I am the poppies , bright little blooms with ...
... hair gleamed , her eye was bright and her laughter cheered the halls of the palace . Oedipus has become my Apollo warming my days and nights . I am eighteen again with poppies in my hair . I am the poppies , bright little blooms with ...
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... hair . ) Your hair got so gray . LINDA : Oh , it's been gray since you were in high school . I just stopped dyeing it , that's all . BIFF : Dye it again , will ya ? I don't want my pal looking old . ( He smiles . ) LINDA : You're such a ...
... hair . ) Your hair got so gray . LINDA : Oh , it's been gray since you were in high school . I just stopped dyeing it , that's all . BIFF : Dye it again , will ya ? I don't want my pal looking old . ( He smiles . ) LINDA : You're such a ...
Contents
CHAPTER Reading Stories | 3 |
CHAPTER Types of Short Fiction | 19 |
CHAPTER Elements of Fiction | 26 |
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