An Approach to LiteratureAn Approach to Literature provides a very liberal selection of fiction, poetry and drama, and it is scarecely to be expected that the book will be regularly used from cover to cover. What we have tried to do, now more positively than ever, is to give teachers room to maneuver, a range of choices out of which they can tailor a course to their special needs and to the tastes and capacities of their students. |
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... idea implicit in the original situation of conflict that becomes , in the end , the focal idea- that is , what we take to be the " meaning " of the whole . For instance , in the story " Young Goodman Brown " by Hawthorne ( sec . 4 ) it ...
... idea implicit in the original situation of conflict that becomes , in the end , the focal idea- that is , what we take to be the " meaning " of the whole . For instance , in the story " Young Goodman Brown " by Hawthorne ( sec . 4 ) it ...
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... idea " stirs― an idea as yet undefined . Nothing happens , nothing at least beyond Mr. Martin's one drink and the blurted - out remark about his employer . He has lost his nerve , it seems- poor fellow , a worm after all . Just as we ex ...
... idea " stirs― an idea as yet undefined . Nothing happens , nothing at least beyond Mr. Martin's one drink and the blurted - out remark about his employer . He has lost his nerve , it seems- poor fellow , a worm after all . Just as we ex ...
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... idea but feeling , feeling not restricted to the narrow scope it has in primarily decorative or ornamental comparisons . Macbeth says that life is a tale told by an idiot . Why ? The idea , of course , is that life is meaningless ...
... idea but feeling , feeling not restricted to the narrow scope it has in primarily decorative or ornamental comparisons . Macbeth says that life is a tale told by an idiot . Why ? The idea , of course , is that life is meaningless ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
William Carlos Williams | 11 |
Fictional Point | 17 |
Copyright | |
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