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Elements of Literature Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Film

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ISBN-10: 0195060253

ISBN-13: 9780195060256

Edition: 4th 1991 (Revised)

Authors: Robert Scholes, Carl H. Klaus, Nancy R. Comley, Michael Silverman

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Providing the most thorough coverage available in one volume, this comprehensive, broadly based collection offers a wide variety of selections in four major genres, and also includes a section on film. Updated and revised, this fourth edition adds essays by Margaret Mead, Russell Baker, Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and Alice Walker; many new short stories; the addition of poets Langston Hughes and Louise Gluck; and plays by August Wilson, Marsha Norman, Wendy Wasserstein, and Vaclav Havel.
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Book details

List price: $85.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/14/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1632
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.75" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 4.642
Language: English

Robert Scholes is Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is the author of many books of literary theory.

Introduction: The Forms of Literature
Essay
Elements of the Essay
Four Essays and Commentaries
Fiction
The Elements of Fiction
Early Forms of Fiction
Three Stories and Commentaries
A Collection of Modern Fiction
Poetry
The Elements of Poetry
Drama
Contexts of Drama
Music of Drama
Elements of Drama
A Collection of Plays
Film
The Elements of Film