Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading
- ISBN-10
- 013282633X
- ISBN-13
- 9780132826334
- Series
- Literature
- Category
- Literary Collections / General
- Pages
- 1934
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall
- Author
- Lee A. Jacobus
Description
Appropriate for Introduction to Literature courses, second-semester Freshman Composition courses.
This new text takes an interpretations approach to literature and its elements. Covering the genres of short fiction, poetry, and drama, it is appropriate both for literature courses and for composition courses. The goal of this text is to help students read and see literature from a variety of critical perspectives. The student's concerns, responses, and interpretive abilities are fostered by this approach.
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