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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... tion . What is important here is that the ac- tion , whether literal or imagined , is assumed to have existed prior to , and independent of , the finished fiction . In either case , the action is thought of as , in a sense , the " raw ...
... tion . What is important here is that the ac- tion , whether literal or imagined , is assumed to have existed prior to , and independent of , the finished fiction . In either case , the action is thought of as , in a sense , the " raw ...
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... tion , no overt " meaning . " It does , however , evoke a mood in the reader - a sense of ex- citement , the vitality of stars , spray - drops , wind - borne smoke , absorbed into the central image of the gull - flight - a mood clearly ...
... tion , no overt " meaning . " It does , however , evoke a mood in the reader - a sense of ex- citement , the vitality of stars , spray - drops , wind - borne smoke , absorbed into the central image of the gull - flight - a mood clearly ...
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... tion of the kinds of rime and some other pos- sibilities of language related to it . EXERCISES 1. Find a line more or less parallel to each of the lines given at the beginning of subsection 19.7 . Such lines may be drawn from any ...
... tion of the kinds of rime and some other pos- sibilities of language related to it . EXERCISES 1. Find a line more or less parallel to each of the lines given at the beginning of subsection 19.7 . Such lines may be drawn from any ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
William Carlos Williams | 11 |
Fictional Point | 17 |
Copyright | |
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