Reading and Writing from Literature
by John E. Schwiebert
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Author: John E. SchwiebertEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-13
ISBN: 061845411X
Number of pages: 1248
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary: 5 Stars
A few notes on this exceptional book: "The ten ideas for writing" gives students a chance to creatively respond to literature - and to really get a grasp of it. The ten prompts work wonders for student writing! "Write an Imaginary interview with the author" is an example: allows students to use imagination to take flight into a work in their own way. Then they're better prepared to write a formal essay on the literature.
Research writing, of course, is covered in good detail - along with concise explanations of the different genres.
Some of the Harjo, Blake, and Carver selections tune to the heart as well as the mind. Great material with deeper insights than most texts. The Interchapter Notebooks contain truly unusual perspectives as well. This is a book you'll want to keep for an enjoyable Sunday morning read - for years!
A worthy companion book might be Twitchell's The Flute of God.
Summary of Reading and Writing from Literature
Reading and Writing from Literature is ideal for instructors who wish to support students with significant writing instruction accompanied by a robust literary anthology that includes fiction, poetry, drama, and essays. Using an approachable, conversational tone, this thematic anthology and writing text emphasizes intertextuality--the way in which texts, including the student's own writing, grow out of other texts. Thirteen chapters of guidance on writing about literature (Parts I-III) cover such topics as planning, drafting, and revising essays on literature, research and documentation in a literature-based context, writing argumentative literary essays, and creating a writing portfolio. Part IV introduces students to the genres--short stories, poems, plays, and essays. Part V provides a thorough overview of figurative language. Part VI, the text's thematic anthology, is organized around themes of particular interest to students: Gender and Relationships, Families, Experience and Identity, Individual and Society, People and Cultures in Conflict and Change, and Work and the Quality of Life. It contains 45 new poems, essays/nonfiction writing, and short stories, with an emphasis on the contemporary. This edition features a stronger representation of international and multicultural authors, including such writers as Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Derek Walcott, Yusef Komunyaka, Sei Shonagon, and Allan Gurganus.Literary Books
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