Etiqueta: An Introduction to Literature

  • The ouroborus

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    As you can tell from a glance at the Contents, An Introduction to Literature includes practical advice about reading and responding to literature and writing analytical papers, advice that comes directly from our experience not only as readers and writers but also as teachers. This experience derives from classrooms, from conferences with students, and from assignments we have given, read, responded to, and graded. We have learned from our experiences and have done our best to give you the tools that will help you make yourself a more perceptive reader and a more careful, cogent writer.

    An Introduction to Literature. Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Second Printing. SYLVAN BARNET. Tufts University

    To read in order to write. Anyone who has decided to become a writer has been fed by fiction. Including the fiction that teaches one how to read when literature analysis is no good at all for learning how to keep a plot entertaining. Nonetheless, learning how to read better is important. Noticing how your favourite writer kept you reading is a weapon to add to your arsenal slot.

    Are you reading how to become a better reader? Enjoy or hate the reading. Pasto kalo.

  • Truth is the aim

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    What are the aims of the writers of literature? Well, one of our authors, Jamaica Kincaid in various interviews mentions her “insistence on truth,” even if—especially if—the truth is painful. It is not unusual for writers to insist that in their fictions they present truths, they tell it as it is, they wake us up, they seek to make us take off our rose-colored glasses, and to make us see and feel reality. Joseph Conrad, for example, said: “My task . . . is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see.”

    An Introduction to Literature. Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Second Printing. SYLVAN BARNET.Tufts University

    For the definition of it, I don’t write literature. I write fiction. Whatever it is that’s happening when I leave behind something written, it is not to find the truth. For there is a good portion of lies in there.

    Have fun writing the truth or inventing it. Pasto kalo.