Writing About Literature - Softcover

Edgar V. Roberts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130975931 ISBN 13: 9780130975935

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div, 1995

Synopsis

KEY BENEFIT: This brief version of the original "Writing About Literature discusses clearly and succinctly how to write about the elements of literature. It provides concise discussions and sample papers for students who are writing about the elements of literature, utilizing a process approach to writing. Chapters contain discussions of important literary subjects--such as character, setting, and symbolism--followed by a guide to the necessary steps for students to produce good essays. The "Ninth Edition maintains and strengthens the features that have brought this book such acclaim in previous editions, while enhancing both content and strategy.

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Key Benefits:The book discusses clearly and succintly how to write about the elements of literature. In the new Brief Eighth Edition of Writing About Literature, Roberts has kept and strengthened the features which have brought this book such acclaim in previous editions, while bringing other areas of both content and strategy through almost total revision. Key Topics: Special Writing Topics at the ends of chapters offer short notes to help you develop and analyze your own writing. A new appendix contains brief descriptions of critical approaches that have proved important in twentieth-century literary studies—New Criticism, Structuralism, Feminism, Deconstruction and Reader-Response Criticism. Each theme section concludes with a commentary designed to connect the precepts in the first part of the chapter to the example in the second. Market: An appropriate, informative book for anyone writing about literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130975931
• ISBN 13: 9780130975935
• Binding: Paperback