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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other formats:Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Packaged with a free copy of ARIEL on CD-ROM, this paperback version of Robert DiYanni's Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama presents 55 stories; 334 poems; 16 plays and offers the refreshing New Voices of authors who are writing today, in addition to classic works, eight Authors in Context, and an engaging Transformations chapter. Synopsis:This compact edition of Robert DiYanni's presentation of the three genres of literature offers the refreshing "New Voices" of authors whose writing has never before appeared in an introductory text, in addition to classic works, eight "Authors in Context," and an expanded "Transformations "chapter. About the AuthorRobert DiYanni is Professor of English at Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, where he teaches courses in literature, writing, and humanities. He has also taught at Queens College of the City University of New York, at New York University in the Graduate Rhetoric Program, and most recently in the Expository Writing Program at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Rutgers University (1968) and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (1976).Robert DiYanni has written articles and reviews on various aspects of literature, composition, and pedagogy. His books include Literature: Reading, Fiction, Poetry, Drama and the Essay; The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry; Womens Voices; Like Seasond Timber: New Essays on George Herbert; and Modern American Poets: Their Voices and Visions (a text to accompany the Annenberg-funded telecourse, Voices and Visions). With Kraft Rompf, he edited The McGraw-Hill Book of Poetry, (1993) and The McGraw-Hill Book of Fiction (1995). With Pat Hoy, he edited Encounters: Readings for Inquiry and Argument (1997). Table of Contents* signifies new work or sectionREADING (AND WRITING ABOUT) LITERATURE The Pleasures of Fiction Learning to Be SilentThe Pleasures of Poetry *Reading Frost's Poem in Context*Reading a Play in Context*Experience*EvaluationWriting About Literature Ways of Writing About Literature Stephen Crane, War Is KindCHAPTER 1: READING STORIES The Experience of Fiction Reading in ContextJohn Updike A&P Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Early Forms: Parable, Fable, and Tale Petronius, The Widow of Ephesus The Nonrealistic Story CHAPTER 3: THE ELEMENTS OF FICTION Frank O'Connor, Guests of the Nation Kay Boyle, Astronomer's Wife Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily James Joyce, Araby Eudora Welty, A Worn Path D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner Reasons for Writing About Fiction AnnotationFreewriting Student Papers on Fiction Suggestions for Writing Reading Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor*Edgar Allan Poe in Context*Poe and the Horror Story*The Dimension of StyleThe Black Cat*The Fall of the House of Usher*Writer Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe*Edgar Allan Poe: Essays*Flannery O'Connor in Context*The Catholic DimensionFlannery O'Connor: StoriesA Good Man Is Hard to FindThe Life You Save May Be Your OwnMary Hood, How Far She WentCritics on O'Connor*Sherman Alexis, Indian Education*Toni Cade Bambara, The LessonJorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking PathsRaymond Carver, CathedralTRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE GARNETT *F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter DreamsTRANSLATED BY GREGORY RABASSANathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown*Ha Jin, Taking a HusbandFranz Kafka, The MetamorphosisJamaica Kincaid, Girl*Lorrie Moore, Community Life*Tim O'Brien, The Things They CarriedTilie Olson, I Stand Here Ironing Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow WomanAlice Walker, Everyday Use*New VoicesTimothy A. Westmoreland, Darkening of the World*Catcher in the Rye*Oprah's Book ClubPART TWO: POETRYThe Experience of Poetry *Reading in Context Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningThe Evaluation of Poetry The Act of Reading Poetry CHAPTER 8: TYPES OF POETRY Lyric Poetry Voice: Speaker and Tone Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thou art indeed just, Lord Henry Reed, Naming of Parts Diction Edwin Arlington Robinson, Miniver Cheevy Robert Herrick, Delight in Disorder Imagery William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Heat Figures of Speech: Simile and Metaphor John Donne, Hymn to God the Father Louis Simpson, The BattleSymbolism and Allegory Christina Rossetti, Up-HillRobert Frost, The Road Not Taken Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death John Donne, The Sun Rising William Butler Yeats, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death E. E. Cummings, Me up at doesSound: Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance Thomas Hardy, During Wind and Rain Bob McKenty, Adam's Song Helen Chasin, The Word PlumRobert Frost, The Span of Life Anne Sexton, Her Kind Structure: Closed Form and Open Form Walt Whitman, When I heard the learn'd astronomerE. E. Cummings, [Buffalo Bill's] Denise Levertov, O Taste and See C. P. Cavafy, The CityThemeCHAPTER 10: TRANSFORMATIONS William Blake, London Emily Dickinson, The Wind begun to knead (rock) theGrassLangston Hughes, Ballad of Booker T. William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carrion Comfort William Shakespeare, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day Robert Frost, Dust of Snow Poems and Paintings Anne Sexton, The Starry Night David Gewanter Goya's The Third of May, 1808 W. H. Auden, Musée des Beaux ArtsJoseph Langland, Hunters in the SnowWilliam Blake, The Sick Rose (poem) Natalie Safir, Matisse's Dance*Kitagawa Utamaro, Girl Powdering Her Neck |
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