Literature

  • Literature
    By Hans Paul Guth

    Literature

  • Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
    By Dana Gioia

    “ Tale ” is pretty much synonymous with “ yarn , ” for it implies a story in which the goal is revelation of the marvelous rather than revelation of character . In the English folk tale “ Jack and the Beanstalk , ” we take away a more ...

  • Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
    By X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia

    “ Tale ” is pretty much synonymous with “ yarn , ” for it implies a story in which the goal is revelation of the marvelous rather than revelation of character . In the English folk tale “ Jack and the Beanstalk , " we take away a more ...

  • Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
    By Joseph Pearce

    Beginning with Homer and Virgil, the book progresses chronologically through the greatest works of all time, including Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Dickens, Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien and Lewis.

  • Literature
    By James H. Pickering

    I caught a glimpse of a white heron three miles from here on Saturday , and I have followed it in this direction . They have never been found in this district at all . The little white heron , it is , ” and he turned again to look at ...

  • Literature
    By Steve Eberly

    Literature

  • Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
    By Robert DiYanni

    Overall , my experience reading the story provides a good illustration of Robert Penn Warren's arguments in his essay on why people read fiction . According to Robert Penn Warren , " role taking " is one important reason we read fiction ...

  • Literature: A Portable Anthology
    By Janet E. Gardner, Peter Schakel, Jack Ridl

    With a handy size and a very affordable price, this collection offers a well-balanced selection of classic and contemporary literature — 40 stories, 200 poems, 9 plays — for the introductory literature or literature for composition ...

  • Literature: Why It Matters
    By Robert Eaglestone

    With examples ranging from Sappho to Skyrim, this book shows how literature offers freer and deeper ways of thinking and being.

  • Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading
    By Lee A. Jacobus

    in particular to Jimmy Cross , Norman Bowker , Rat Kiley , Mitchell Sanders , Henry Dobbins , and Kiowa . ” Among his recent books are TomCat in Love ( 1999 ) and Northern Lights ( 1999 ) . Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong 1987 Vietnam ...

  • Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay
    By Robert DiYanni

    “ Oh , say , there isn't any life - saving station there . That's just a winter resort hotel omnibus that has brought over some of the boarders to see us drown . ' “ What's that idiot with the coat mean ? What's he signaling , anyhow ?

  • Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing
    By Edgar V. Roberts, Robert Zweig

    Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Compact Edition is founded on the principles of writing about literature.

  • Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense
    By Laurence Perrine, Thomas R. Arp

    Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense

  • Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense
    By Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson

    Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense

  • Literature
    By James H. Pickering, Jeffrey D. Hoeper

    CLAUDE McKay , “ The Harlem Dancer ” from Selected Poems of Claude McKay by Claude McKay . Copyright © 1953 by Twayne Publishers Inc. and reprinted with permission of Twayne Publishers , a division of G. K. Hall & Co. , Boston .

  • Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading
    By Lee A. Jacobus

    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...

  • Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
    By Robert DiYanni

    This paperback version of Robert DiYanni's Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama presents 55 stories; 334 poems; 16 plays and offers the refreshing New Voices of authors who are writing today, in addition to classic works, ...

  • Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
    By Robert DiYanni

    This book emphasizes reading literature as an active enterprise involving thought and feeling. Students are invited to consider why they respond to works of literature as they do and how...

  • Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay
    By Robert DiYanni

    Revision, parody, and adaptation/some alternative translations poems). The selections in Literature, classic and contemporary present a wide range of styles, voices, subjects, and points of view.

  • Literature: Reading to Write
    By Elizabeth Howells

    Additionally, the book features an eclectic array of classic and contemporary voices in literature as well as sections devoted to newer genres such as graphic novels.