Introduction to literature 14 book

Preface Letter to Students I. READING, THINKING, AND WRITING CRITICALLY ABOUT LITERATURE 1. Reading and Responding to Literature What Is Literature? Looking at an Example: Robert Frost, Immigrants                 Robert Frost, Immigrants Looking at a Second Example: Pat Mora, Immigrants                 Pat Mora, Immigrants Thinking About a Story: Luke, The Parable of the Prodigal Son. Stories True and False:  Grace Paley, Samuel What's Past Is Prologue                 • Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill                 • Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Tobias Wolff, Powder James Merrill, Christmas Tree W. F. Bolton, Might We Too? 2. Writing About Literature: From Idea to Essay. Why Write? Getting Ideas: Pre-Writing. Annotating a Text. Brainstorming for Ideas for Writing. Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Focused Free Writing. Listing and Clustering. Developing an Awareness of the Writer's Use of Language. Asking Questions. Keeping a Journal. Arriving at a Thesis. Writing a Draft. Sample Draft of an Essay on Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour” Revising a Draft. Peer Review. <...

Product details

• Authors: Barnet, Sylvan Barnet, William Cain
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2005
• EAN: 9780321356017
• ISBN: 978-0-321-35601-7
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies