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• Title:A short guide to writing about literature / Sylvan Barnet, William E. Cain.
  
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• Author/Creator:Barnet, Sylvan.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Cain, William E., 1952-
  
• Published/Created:Boston : Pearson, ©2012.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PE1479.C7 B3 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Criticism--Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Exposition (Rhetoric)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Report writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  
• Edition:12th ed.
  
• Description:xxi, 384 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
  
• Series:Short guide series.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9780205118458
  0205118453
  
• Contents:Writing about literature : a crash course
  The writer as reader : reading and responding
  The reader as writer : drafting and writing
  Two forms of criticism : explication and analysis
  Other kinds of writing about literature
  Literature, form, and meaning
  What is interpretation?
  What is evaluation?
  Writing about literature : an overview
  Writing about fiction : the world of the story
  Graphic fiction
  Writing about drama
  Writing about poetry
  Poems and pictures
  Writing about an author in depth
  Style and format
  Writing a research paper
  Appendix a. two stories
  Appendix b: how much do you know about citing sources? : a quiz with answers
  Index of authors, titles, and first lines of poems
  Index of terms.