Writing About Literature: Brief - Softcover

Roberts, Edgar V.

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9780130978578: Writing About Literature: Brief

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ISBN 10: 0130978574 ISBN 13: 9780130978578

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2002

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This book is a tool that allows the reader to think critically about literature in order to effectively write about it. Included is a fine anthology of classic stories, poems, and plays; it contains discussions of such important literary subjects as character, setting, and symbolism, and provides a guide for readers to produce good essays about what they've read. This useful book contains information about the process of reading, responding to, and writing about literature. Included are stories by Bierce, Chopin, Hardy, Hawthorne, de Maupassant, O'Connor, and Poe; poems by Arnold, Blake, Coleridge, Frost, Hardy, Hughes, Keats, Owen, Shakespeare, Yeats, and Wordsworth; and plays by Chekhov and Glaspell. For anyone who is interested in learning to read literature critically in order to effectively write.

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In this Eighth Edition of Writing About Literature, Roberts has kept and strengthened the features that have brought this textbook such acclaim in previous editions, while bringing other areas of both content and strategy through almost total revision. The text provides comprehensive discussions and sample papers for students who are writing about the elements of literature.

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Students who write about what they read learn twice, for as they plan and develop their writing, they necessarily grow as thinkers.

This book provides comprehensive discussions and sample papers for students who are writing about the elements of literature. All chapters contain discussions of important literary subjects—such as character, setting, and symbolism—followed by a guide to the necessary steps for students to produce good essays. This accessible text is a perfect companion for any course that wants to focus on strengthening writing skills.

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