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Download or read book Literature written by X. J. Kennedy and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, 9/e , the most popular introduction of its kind, is organized into three genresFiction, Poetry, and Drama. As in past editions, the authors' collective poetic voice brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature, adding to students' interest in the readings. An introduction to a balance of contemporary and classic stories, poems, and plays. Casebooks offer in-depth look at an author or clusters of works, for example "Latin American Poetry." Authors Joe Kennedy and Dana Gioia provide inviting and illuminating introductions to the authors included and to the elements of literature. Coverage of writing about literature is also included. For those interested in literature.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Fiction by : X. J. Kennedy
Download or read book An Introduction to Fiction written by X. J. Kennedy and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2010 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Fiction, 11th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of fiction and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about stories. This bestselling anthology includes sixty-five superlative short stories, blending classic works and contemporary selections. Written by noted poets X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, the text reflects the authors' wit and contagious enthusiasm for their subject. Informative, accessible apparatus presents readable discussions of the literary devices, illustrated by apt works, and supported by interludes with the anthologized writers. This edition features 10 new stories, three masterwork casebooks, revised and expanded chapters on writing, and a new design. New "Key Terms Review" feature at the end of every major chapter--provide students a simple study guide to go over key concepts and terms in each chapter. New 2009 MLA guidelines--provides students the updated source citation guidelines from the new 7th edition of the MLA Handbook and incorporates these in all sample student papers. New section on "Writing a Response Paper"--provides instructions and a sample student essay for this popular type of writing assignment. Updated, revised format to increase accessibility and ease of use--newly added section titles and sub-titles will help Web-oriented students navigate easily from topic to topic in every chapter. Additionally, all chapters have been reviewed and updated to include relevant cultural references.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Fiction by : X. J. Kennedy
Download or read book An Introduction to Fiction written by X. J. Kennedy and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fiction 9/e," is a collection of short stories65 in allwhich offers a wide ranging view of classic and contemporary writers. An introduction to a balance of contemporary and classic stories. Casebooks offer in-depth look at an author or clusters of works, for example "Edgar Allen Poe." Authors Joe Kennedy and Dana Gioia provide inviting and illuminating introductions to the authors included and to the elements of fiction. Coverage of writing about literature is also included. For interested in learning more about fiction.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Fiction by : Robert Stanton
Download or read book An Introduction to Fiction written by Robert Stanton and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface: This book is an introduction to the reading and critical study of serious fiction. It explains the principal elements, techniques, and types of fiction; it provides a critical vocabulary and describes the writing of critical analyses; it anticipates many of the student's perennial questions and difficulties. The book will be useful to experienced readers as well as to beginners.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Literature by : Sylvan Barnet
Download or read book An Introduction to Literature written by Sylvan Barnet and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers examples of literature from Shakespeare to August Wilson, Leo Tolstoy to Amy Tan, and William Blake to Derek Walcott
Book Synopsis Discovering Fiction, An Introduction Student's Book with Audio CD by : Judith Kay
Download or read book Discovering Fiction, An Introduction Student's Book with Audio CD written by Judith Kay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American short stories enhance pre-intermediate students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. Discovering Fiction, An Introduction, has the same unit and chapter structure as the two higher level books, Discovering Fiction Level 1 and Level 2. There are four units, each containing three stories that are related in terms of their theme; extensive prereading and post-reading tasks accompany each story. Unlike the other two books, however, an audio CD containing a reading of each story is packaged into each Student's Book.
Book Synopsis Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative by : Ignasi Ribó
Download or read book Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative written by Ignasi Ribó and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory – concepts that will aid students in developing their competence not only in analysing and interpreting short stories and novels, but also in writing them. This textbook prioritises clarity over intricacy of theory, equipping its readers with the necessary tools to embark on further study of literature, literary theory and creative writing. Building on a ‘semiotic model of narrative,’ it is structured around the key elements of narratological theory, with chapters on plot, setting, characterisation, and narration, as well as on language and theme – elements which are underrepresented in existing textbooks on narrative theory. The chapter on language constitutes essential reading for those students unfamiliar with rhetoric, while the chapter on theme draws together significant perspectives from contemporary critical theory (including feminism and postcolonialism). This textbook is engaging and easily navigable, with key concepts highlighted and clearly explained, both in the text and in a full glossary located at the end of the book. Throughout the textbook the reader is aided by diagrams, images, quotes from prominent theorists, and instructive examples from classical and popular short stories and novels (such as Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’ J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, or Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, amongst many others). Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative can either be incorporated as the main textbook into a wider syllabus on narrative theory and creative writing, or it can be used as a supplementary reference book for readers interested in narrative fiction. The textbook is a must-read for beginning students of narratology, especially those with no or limited prior experience in this area. It is of especial relevance to English and Humanities major students in Asia, for whom it was conceived and written.
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Download or read book The Heath Introduction to Fiction written by and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2000 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This affordable, chronologically arranged anthology features 72 short stories carefully selected for their representation of international voices and techniques, their significance in the development of fiction, and their educational and thematic value. Selections are weighted toward the modern and contemporary, with a fair representation of earlier stories. Story groupings help instructors shape thematic units, and help students recognize thematic and technical points of comparison between readings. Multiple stories by the same author allow students to compare works and analyze the evolution of the writer's literary technique.
Book Synopsis Literature and Society by : Pamela J. Annas
Download or read book Literature and Society written by Pamela J. Annas and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enriching introduction to the diverse and exciting world of literature, this anthology offers a broad collection of short fiction, poetry, drama and nonfiction selections written by a diverse group of writers who represent different social classes, races, genders, cultures, and sexual orientations. Organizes selections around five socially relevant themes-- Growing Up and Growing Older; Women and Men; Money and Work; Peace and War; and Varieties of Protest. Shows how literary technique serves larger purposes-- the recreation of experience, the exploration of ideas, the analysis of social issues-- and how these larger purposes themselves shape literary form. Explains the ways in which literary form creates meaning, and provides a strong emphasis on writing about literature throughout, with a full chapter on all stages of the writing process -- generating ideas, developing a thesis, discovering a form, drafting, revising, and editing-- plus numerous excerpts from sample papers and journals. Now contains 42 new works, with more by Native American and Latino/Latina writers, as well as Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage" and Shakespeare's Othello"; also includes 18 works of nonfiction prose that have been chosen both for their literary technique as well as for their exploration of the five major themes.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction by : John Skinner
Download or read book An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction written by John Skinner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formal and expressive range of canonic eighteenth-century fiction is enourmous: between them Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett and Sterne seem to have anticipated just about every question confronting the modern novelist; and Aphra Behn even raises a number of issues overlooked by her male successors. But one might also reverse the coin: much of what is present in these writers will today seem remote and bizarre. There is, in fact, only one novelist from the 'long' eighteenth century who is not an endangered species outside the protectorates of university English departments: Jane Austen. Plenty of people read her, moreover, without the need for secondary literature. These reservations were taken into account in the writing of this book. An Introduction to Eighteenth Century Fiction is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to English fiction from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. It deals with novel criticism, canon formation and relations between genre and gender. The second part of the book contains an extensive discussion of Richardson and Fielding, followed by paired readings of major eighteenth-century novels, juxtaposing texts by Behn and Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Lennox and Burney among others. The various sections of the book, and even the individual chapters, may be read independently or in any order. Works are discussed in a way intended to help students who have not read them, and even engage with some who never will. The author consumes eighteenth-century fiction avidly, but has tried to write a reader-friendly survey for those who may not.
Book Synopsis A World of Fiction by : Katherine Bode
Download or read book A World of Fiction written by Katherine Bode and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposes a new basis for data-rich literary history
Book Synopsis Science Fiction Writer's Workshop-I by : Barry Longyear
Download or read book Science Fiction Writer's Workshop-I written by Barry Longyear and published by Open Road Distribution. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book. Science Fiction Writer's Workshop-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction." --Barry B. Longyear
Book Synopsis The Stuff of Fiction by : Douglas Bauer
Download or read book The Stuff of Fiction written by Douglas Bauer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006-08-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master storyteller and teacher talks about the tools of the fiction writer's craft
Download or read book Literature written by X. J. Kennedy and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horror Fiction written by Gina Wisker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-07-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a series of introductory books about different types of writing. One strand of the series focuses on genres such asScience Fiction, Horror, Romance, and Crime, and the other focuses on movements or styles often associated with historicaland cultural locations—Postcolonial, Native American, Scottish, Irish, American Gothic.Authors covered in this volume includeWilliam Peter Blatty, Ira Levine, BramStoker, Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter,Mary Shelley, Stephen King, Anne Rice,and Washington Irving.
Download or read book A Poetics of Fiction written by Tom Jenks and published by Narrative Library. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Living Literature by : John C. Brereton
Download or read book Living Literature written by John C. Brereton and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Literature focuses on literature as one part of a living, fluid conversation across cultures and time periods while encouraging readers to explore and interact with the literature. Each feature in this innovative anthology accentuates the study of literature as a continual dialogue, encouraging readers to explore, interact with, and respond to what they read. Organized by genre, LIVING LITERATURE lends context to a vibrant collection of stories, poems, and plays by highlighting several "moments" in which writers, painters, photographers, critics, filmmakers, and musicians all derive inspiration from one another. The book then shows students how to add their own voices to that ongoing conversation, and how to go from being passive readers to active participants and critical thinkers. As author John Brereton writes in the book's preface, the "cultural conversation in thinking, speaking, and writing about literature is a powerful means of participating in the world around usndash;of playing our parts as community and world citizens." Literature enthusiasts looking for a new perspective.
