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Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature : Reading, Thinking, and Writing,9780312132637

Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature : Reading, Thinking, and Writing

by Michael Meyer

Edition:

4th

ISBN13:

9780312132637

ISBN10:

0312132638

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/1/1996

Publisher(s):

VHP SMP

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Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors

ix

Introduction: Reading Imaginative Literature

3

(6)

FICTION

9

(440)

Reading Fiction

11

(27)

Plot

38

(36)

Character

74

(39)

Setting

113

(18)

Point of View

131

(37)

Symbolism

168

(18)

Theme

186

(22)

Style, Tone, and Irony

208

(27)

Writing about Fiction

235

(5)

A Study of Three Authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro

240

(118)

Critical Case Study: William Faulkner's``Barn Burning''

358

(26)

A Collection of Stories

384

(65)

POETRY

449

(354)

Reading Poetry

451

(29)

Word Choice, Word Order, and Tone

480

(26)

Images

506

(14)

Figures of Speech

520

(17)

Symbol, Allegory, and Irony

537

(20)

Sounds

557

(19)

Patterns of Rhythm

576

(14)

Poetic Forms

590

(19)

Open Form

609

(13)

Writing about Poetry

622

(6)

A Study of Three Poets: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and Langston Hughes

628

(86)

Critical Case Study: T. S. Eliot's``The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock''

714

(11)

A Collection of Poems

725

(78)

DRAMA

803

(596)

Reading Drama

805

(31)

Writing about Drama

836

(6)

A Study of Sophocles

842

(52)

A Study of William Shakespeare

894

(170)

Modern Drama

1064

(64)

Critical Case Study: Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House

1128

(17)

A Collection of Plays

1145

(254)

CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING

1399

(90)

Critical Strategies for Reading

1401

(38)

Reading and Writing

1439

(32)

The Literary Research Paper

1471

(18)

Glossary of Literary Terms

1489

(32)

Index of First Lines

1521

(6)

Index of Authors and Titles

1527

Index of terms

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