Perrine's Literature : Structure, Sound, and Sense
ISBN: 9781413033083 | 1413033083
Edition: 10thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 3/3/2008
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An authoritative bestseller for nearly 50 years, PERRINEaS LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, AND SENSE continues to be an essential and highly effective introduction to literature for todayas students. Written for students beginning a serious study of literature, the text introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts tend to ignore, such as aIs some literature better?a and aHow can it be evaluated?a A remarkable selection of classic, modern, and contempor... MORE
| Preface | |
| Writing About Literature | |
| Why Write about Literature? | |
| For Whom Do You Write? | |
| Two Basic Approaches | |
| Choosing a Topic | |
| Proving Your Point | |
| Writing the Paper | |
| Writing In-Class Essays or Essay Tests | |
| Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q11) | |
| Documentation | |
| Stanc... MORE | |
| Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems | |
| Writing Samples | |
| Fiction: The Elements of Fiction | |
| Reading the Story | |
| Reviewing Chapter One | |
| The Most Dangerous Game | |
| Hunters in the Snow | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Fiction | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Plot and Structure | |
| Reviewing Chapter Two | |
| The Destructors | |
| How I Met My Husband | |
| Interpreter of Maladies | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Characterization | |
| Reviewing Chapter Three | |
| Everyday Use | |
| Miss Brill | |
| The Man Who Was Almost a Man | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Theme | |
| Reviewing Chapter Four | |
| Welding with Children | |
| The Darling | |
| Translated by Constance Garnett | |
| A Worn Path | |
| Once upon a Time | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Point of View | |
| Reviewing Chapter Five | |
| Paul''s Case | |
| The Lottery | |
| The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | |
| Hills Like White Elephants | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy | |
| Reviewing Chapter Six | |
| The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
| Young Goodman Brown | |
| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas | |
| A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
| Translated by Gregory Rabassa | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Humor and Irony | |
| Reviewing Chapter Seven | |
| The Drunkard | |
| Rape Fantasies | |
| The Guest | |
| Translated by Justin O''Brien | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Evaluating Fiction | |
| Reviewing Chapter Eight | |
| Exercise | |
| Roman Fever | |
| A New Leaf | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Three Featured Writers | |
| Introduction | |
| James Joyce | |
| Araby | |
| Eveline | |
| The Boarding House | |
| Flannery O''Connor | |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
| Everything That Rises Must Converge | |
| Greenleaf | |
| Joyce Carol Oates | |
| Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Life After High School | |
| June Birthing | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Stories for Further Reading | |
| Civil Peace | |
| The Swimmer | |
| The Story of an Hour | |
| A Rose for Emily | |
| A Jury of Her Peers | |
| The Gilded Six-Bits | |
| The Real Thing | |
| Bartleby the Scrivener | |
| The Cask of Amontillado | |
| A & P. Poetry: The Elements of Poetry | |
| What is Poetry? | |
| The Eagle | |
| Winter | |
| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
| Reviewing Chapter One | |
| Understanding and Evaluating Poetry | |
| Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day? | |
| The Whipping | |
| The last Night that She lived | |
| Ballad of Birmingham | |
| Kitchenette Building | |
| The Red Wheelbarrow | |
| Constantly risking absurdity | |
| Suicide''s Note | |
| Terence, this is stupid stuff | |
| Ars Poetica | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Reading the Poem | |
| The Man He Killed | |
| A Study of Reading Habits | |
| Is my team plowing | |
| Reviewing Chapter Two | |
| Break of Day | |
| There''s been a Death, in the Opposite House | |
| When in Rome | |
| Animals Are Passing from Our Lives | |
| Question | |
| Mirror | |
| The Clod and the Pebble | |
| Ethics | |
| Storm Warnings | |
| Suggestions for Writing | |
| Denotation and Connotation | |
| There is no Frigate l | |
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