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A good help to improve your writing
Wrong about Literature!!!
An Okay Text with Some Odd Terminology
Writing About Literature
Great book for AP English Literature courses

Writing About Literature (Brief)
Edgar V. Roberts
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0131540564

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Writing about Literature serves as a hands-on guide for writing about literature, thus justifying the integration of literature and composition. The reading of literature encourages students to think, and the use of literary topics gives instructors a viable way to combine writing and literary study.

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A good help to improve your writing.......2006-12-07

A great book for those who have to write essays on literature. Covers many different types of essays and provides a very understandable help.

Wrong about Literature!!!.......2005-10-10

I purchased this book with the intent on using it in my AP Literature class. What a waste of $50.00!!!

An Okay Text with Some Odd Terminology.......2004-02-24

I'm forced to use this book at the college where I teach because a committee chose it. While it does an acceptable job at explaining the basics of story elements--character, plot, dialogue, etc.--its essay examples are mediocre to awful. Worse, Roberts likes to refer to what every undergraduate and graduate class I've ever taken calls a "thesis" as a "central idea." In turn, he calls a list of supporting points the "thesis." The result is never-ending confusion for students--I've actually had students tell me, "But that's not what we called a thesis in freshman composition." Also, this isn't Roberts' fault, but we use the book in American literature courses when most of his examples are British--perhaps more examples focusing on American writers would make the book more applicable to American literature courses? New editions of the book are also churned out every couple of years, but the differences between the more recent editions appear to be marginal, meaning students have to keep shelling out dollars to get the new edition for what is mostly the same information as the old edition.

Writing About Literature.......2000-07-29

A wonderfully helpful, classy book. I just wish this book had been the first choice for students at the college where I teach an introduction to literature course. I use Writing About Literature to supplement the classroom textbook. Writing About Literature makes difficult concepts about chacterization, theme, symbol, irony, and so on easier for students to understand. The narrative voice is friendly, never stiff or preachy. Super job, Mr. Roberts. This book goes with me to every introductory literature course I teach.

Great book for AP English Literature courses.......1999-03-08

WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE offers clear strategies for writing a variety of literary analysis essays. Many examples and step-by-step procedures to write a variety of essays such as: characterization, setting, metaphor and allegory, point of view, theme, imagery, and tone. An appendix at the back of the book provides samples of literature for students to use as resources for analysis including classic short stories, poems, and two plays. This 9th edition also includes a chapter explaining 10 critical approaches to literature.

The Brief Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing

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The Brief Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing
Kim Flachmann , Michael Flachmann , Kathryn Benander , and Cheryl Smith
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Ways of Making Literature Matter: A Brief Guide

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Ways of Making Literature Matter: A Brief Guide
John Schilb , and John Clifford
Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's
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African-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology (Harpercollins Literary Mosaic)

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African-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology (Harpercollins Literary Mosaic)
Young
Manufacturer: Longman
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A Brief History of English Literature
John Peck , and Martin Coyle
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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ASIN: 0333791770

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A Brief History of English Literature provides a lively introductory guide to English literature from Beowulf to the present day. The authors write in their characteristically lucid style which enables the reader to engage fully with the narrative and easily understand the texts in relation to the social, political and cultural contexts in which they were written. A masterpiece of clarity and compression, this book is a must have for anyone interested in the history of literature from the British Isles.

Brief History of Imbecility: Poetry and Prose of Takamura Kō Tarō

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He's a Rodin of Poetry, My FAVORITE POET OF ALL!
A Poet/Sculptor reveals his regrets

Brief History of Imbecility: Poetry and Prose of Takamura Kō Tarō
Hiroaki Sato
Manufacturer: University of Hawaii Press
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He's a Rodin of Poetry, My FAVORITE POET OF ALL!.......2004-01-19

I came across this talented poet/sculptor when I read the powerfully longing poem "To Someone [Not To Play]" p. 98 and knew that I had to have a book of his writing. I don't normally buy books and this is money well spent. I typically will borrow from the library but I had to make an exception with Takamura Kotaro! I only wish I owned a book of his and his wife's sculptures/artwork compilations!

I think e.e. cummings would have enjoyed "To Someone" a lot. I definitely find that his work is emotive, in the most creative sense imaginable. He was a Japanese sculptor, who was inspired by Auguste Rodin and worked in Paris. This book includes an incredible, insightful biography and commentary on his poems.

Chieko, his wife, suffered from schizophrenia and then later died in a sanitorium, much to his guilt. I noticed the similarities to his mother, when I read one poem [p.57 "Thinking of Mother"]. He idealized both of them, in their insecurities, martyrdom, and pure conscientiousness. His poems seemed to ask, "is a female's power wielded in ...leaving it, in leaving him?" Quite passive-aggressive.

The timeless poems, "Mountain Woods", "The Snow Has Piled White", and "Fountain of Mankind" reminded me of Robert Frost in their beautiful imagery of Mother Nature, of life as an endless experience of the seasons, both internally and externally.

"Lemon Elegy" was SO intense, you could TASTE the poem itself! The words conveyed an emotional power that could only be described as similar to the black and white, silent cinematography in "Snow Falling On Cedars". This is also one of his most famous poems and completely deserving! I will print this out and frame it, display it with a Rodin sculpture reproduction in my house, in tribute of this truly exquisite poet. Takamura Kotaro is my favorite poet of all time, after reading this wonderfully translated book that Hiroaki Sato made rich with nuance and kept authentic to the poet's character, meanings and moods. You will not regret buying this book. You will only regret not having enough copies to go around, when you want to send it out to everyone whom you share a special, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual bond with in your life.

I believe that Kotaro's experiences of guilt, grief, and frustration, even anger would be very useful for anyone whose had to cope with a chronic/debilitating illness in a family member. His wife died of TB 3 years after he had her hospitalized. Only those who have lived with schizophrenia in their families or have seen it up close in friends/loved ones can truly understand his decision and his intense guilt.

The insight this book offers is wonderful for ANYONE caught up in grief, or has experienced loss, as it is highly cathartic.

A Poet/Sculptor reveals his regrets.......2001-01-06

Takamura Kotaro was one of the few Japanese writers to continue publishing during the height of World War 2. He managed to do this by writing propaganda poems of the government. After the war, he found himself regretting his support for something that seemed so against his principles. This collection of poems and prose traces back his blind devotion to key moments in his childhood. Educated in France, his free form poetry smacks of French influence giving it a much lighter tone. Almost as moving as his collection of poetry about his wife, Chieko, it offers an eye opening look into one poet's remorse about his past actions.

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Rambling 17th century gossip
A unique gleaning of 17th century English history and gossip

Brief Lives (Modern History)
John Aubrey
Manufacturer: Boydell Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-century England stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at the age of 26 he inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, and finally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on he led a sociable, rootless existence at the houses of friends - from Oxford and the Middle Temple -pursuing the antiquarian studies which had always obsessed him. At his death in 1697 he left a mass of notes and manuscripts, among them the material for Brief Lives. He never managed to put even a single life into logical order; all we have are the raw materials, scribbled down -`tumultuously as they occurredto my thoughts'. With this full, modern English edition, which reproduces Aubrey's words as closely as possible, Richard Barber introduces us to Aubrey and his world, tells how the Livescame into being and enables many new readers to enjoy this eccentric masterpiece.

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Rambling 17th century gossip.......2001-02-15

It's fun reading this collection of digressive informal anecdotes about famous (and some obscure) Englishmen. If you enjoyed "An Instance of the Fingerpost" (where some of thc characters appear) you'd like this. As a primary source for information it gets less reliable the further back it goes. Aubrey was born in 1626 so his accounts of Shakespeare and Elizathans are a generation removed, but he had met Harvey and Penn and had been through the Civil War and the rule of Cromwell.

A unique gleaning of 17th century English history and gossip.......1998-03-18

Because its author never completed most of the entries for this biographical work, and never published it, what he did set down about his varied noble and ignoble subjects is uncensored, gossipy, perhaps unsubstantiated, and delightful. If you like browsing in Pepys' diary, or are fascinated by English life in the 17th century, this is the book to leave about for the occasional free moment.

Recovery And Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: A Brief Description of Life After Death

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Recovery And Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker: A Brief Description of Life After Death
Christopher Garbowski
Manufacturer: Walking Tree Publishers
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Message from the President: Austen's irony of caring.(Jane Austen)(Brief Article): An article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal

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Message from the President: Austen's irony of caring.(Jane Austen)(Brief Article): An article from: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal

Manufacturer: Jane Austen Society of North America
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This digital document is an article from Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, published by Jane Austen Society of North America on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1192 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Message from the President: Austen's irony of caring.(Jane Austen)(Brief Article)
Publication: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: Jane Austen Society of North America
Volume: 23 Page: 7(3)

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Review of Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: Early Modern Literary Studies

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Review of Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance.(Book Review)(Brief Article): An article from: Early Modern Literary Studies
Carrie Hintz
Manufacturer: Matthew Steggle
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This digital document is an article from Early Modern Literary Studies, published by Matthew Steggle on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 507 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Review of Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Carrie Hintz
Publication: Early Modern Literary Studies (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
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