Writing Themes About Literature

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About
Fourth Edition
Since the first edition in 1964, Writing Themes About Literature has proven a complete and invaluable guide for mastering the writing of all types of themes about literary works. Based on tested classroom experience, the book offers practical help to students of both composition and introductory and advanced literature with a flexible system that promotes the informed study of literature and the intelligent writing of good themes. The eighteen chapters, each covering a separate literary problem in composition, progress from the simplest to the most difficult literary concepts, suggesting many different approaches to writing, and emphasizing the usefulness of the various techniques for writing in other courses. Combining discussions of the theme types with many sample themes and other illustrative examples, the book offers practical help with homework while implanting a lifelong understanding and appreciation of literature.
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About
Fourth Edition
Since the first edition in 1964, Writing Themes About Literature has proven a complete and invaluable guide for mastering the writing of all types of themes about literary works. Based on tested classroom experience, the book offers practical help to students of both composition and introductory and advanced literature with a flexible system that promotes the informed study of literature and the intelligent writing of good themes. The eighteen chapters, each covering a separate literary problem in composition, progress from the simplest to the most difficult literary concepts, suggesting many different approaches to writing, and emphasizing the usefulness of the various techniques for writing in other courses. Combining discussions of the theme types with many sample themes and other illustrative examples, the book offers practical help with homework while implanting a lifelong understanding and appreciation of literature.
Highlights of the new fourth edition include:
• Ten entirely new sample themes, nine rewritten
• Commentaries on each of the sample themes
• Step-by-step illustration of writing a theme—from taking notes to writing the final paper
• New chapter on writing a précis, or abstract
• New section extending the technique of comparison-contrast to three or more works
• Extensive additions and revisions (on laughter, allegory and symbolism, structure, prosody, point of rôew, character, ideas, style, documentation, etc.)
• Greater emphasis on non-fictional prose
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