For decades this concise guide has introduced students to the major elements of fiction, teaching students how to read, understand, and evaluate the genre.
This concise guide introduces students to the major elements of fiction, illustrating theory by examples from classic and contemporary practitioners of the short story. There is also a section on how to write about fiction.
Story and Structure
The classic text, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, Eighth Edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive study into the principal forms of fiction, poetry, and drama.
I. E. Perrine's Story and Structure
Story and structure
In addition, an entire section devoted to the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flannery O'Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates includes stories by each author as well as essays by noted critics on their works to help you appreciate the range of their ...
Written for readers beginning a serious study of literature, the book introduces the fundamental elements of fiction, poetry, and drama in a concise and engaging way, addressing vital questions that other texts tend to ignore, such as “Is ...
Each student text is packaged with a free Cengage Essential Reference Card to the MLA HANDBOOK, Eighth Edition.
Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced reader of poems, you can profit from this book's step-by-step method for understanding how a poem does what it does.
First published in 1924, this suspenseful tale “has inspired serial killers, films and stirred controversy in schools.