Writing About Literature (Brief)

Authors: Roberts, Edgar

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Brand: Pearson

ASIN: 0131540564 (US)

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• Chapters are set up as essay assignments that are relevant to all genres. Each chapter contains discussion of a literary approach, suggestions for writing, together with an illustrative essay or essays showing how students might deal with the approach. Detailed writing instruction produces better student papers.
• Detailed writing instruction produces better student papers.
• Fulfills the requirement for composition. Meets the need of students to develop writing skills based on written texts and enables English faculty to teach literature while meeting their responsibility to teach writing skills.
• Meets the need of students to develop writing skills based on written texts and enables English faculty to teach literature while meeting their responsibility to teach writing skills.
• Illustrative essays represent a full treatment of each of the various topics and are kept within the approximate lengths of most assignments in undergraduate courses. Provide students with suggestions and guidance for thematic development.
• Provide students with suggestions and guidance for thematic development.
• Chapters are designed to be flexible and can be assigned according to your objectives and needs. The chapters are arranged in order of increasing difficulty, but no matter how the chapters are used, the two parts-discussion and illustration-enable students to improve their skills as readers and writers. Allows faculty to teach their course however they’d like.
• Allows faculty to teach their course however they’d like.
• Appendix C is an anthology. Selections new to the 11th edition are Coleman's "Unfinished Masterpieces," Twain's "Luck," Brooks's "We Real Cool," Browning's "My Last Duchess," Browning's "Porphyria's Lover," Frost's "The Road Not Taken," Hughes's "Theme for English B," and Salinas's "In a Farmhouse." The works in the anthology can be mixed and matched to accompany the writing assignments.
• The works in the anthology can be mixed and matched to accompany the writing assignments.
• NEW Chapter on close reading- A preliminary technique for all students just beginning the actual study of literature.
• Appendix A contains brief descriptions of important critical approaches such as New Criticism, structuralism, feminism, deconstructionism, and reader-response criticism.
• A glossary helps students acquaint themselves with important literary terms and concepts. Invaluable in preparing for students preparing for entrance exams and the GRE.
• Invaluable in preparing for students preparing for entrance exams and the GRE.
• Chapter 1, “Preliminary: The Process of Reading, Responding to, and Writing about Literature,” has been revised. Addition of drawings will prove helpful to students beginning to write about literature on a serious level.
• Addition of drawings will prove helpful to students beginning to write about literature on a serious level.
• Chapter 9, “Writing about a Work in its Historical, Intellectual and Cultural Context” restored and rewritten. Fully reflects the increasing pluralization of our society
• Fully reflects the increasing pluralization of our society
• New chapter on close reading (Chapter 2) A preliminary technique for all students just beginning the actual study of literature.
• A preliminary technique for all students just beginning the actual study of literature.
• Chapters 2 through 7 reorganized. These six chapters, all of which are suitable for fiction and three of which are suitable for drama, are now arranged in the order of close reading, character, point of view, plot and structure, setting and idea or theme.
• These six chapters, all of which are suitable for fiction and three of which are suitable for drama, are now arranged in the order of close reading, character, point of view, plot and structure, setting and idea or theme.

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