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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama/Includes 1995 Mla Guidlines

By Dana Gioia , X.J. Kennedy

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins College Publishers Inc.
Year
1995
ISBN
0673525090, 0673522814
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
53 MB (55790434 bytes)
Edition
6
Pages
1859\1915
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2019-05-25 04:28:40

Description

For introductory courses in Literature Literature, in the widest sense, is just about anything written. It is even what you receive in the mail if you send for free information about a weight-reducing plan or a motorcycle. In the sense that matters to us in this book, literature is a kind of art, usually written, which offers pleasure and illumination. We say it is usually written, for we have an oral literature, too. Few would deny the name of literature to “Bonny Barbara Allan” and other immortal folk ballads, though they were not set down in writing until centuries after they were originated. Literature—the book in your hands—is really three books sharing one cover. Its opening third contains the whole of the text-anthology An Introduction to Fiction, Sixth Edition; its middle third, the whole of An Introduction to Poetry, Eighth Edition; and its closing third is composed of a text-anthology of drama that includes fifteen plays. All together, the book is an attempt to provide the college student with a reasonably compact introduction to the study and appreciation of stories, poems, and plays.

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