Handbook to Literature
E. Harmon

For literature courses that use a handbookMessage:  An essential, time-tested reference to literature.This essential time-tested reference on literature and literary terms provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology. The new edition now includes a website that offers a mini-glossary of key terms, a pronunciation key for select terms, pre- and post-tests on the terms, flash cards for key terms, an interactive literary timeline, and links for all Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning authors.How could your students benefit from using a handbook in your course?  What problems do your students have finding the definitions of literary terms?  Where do they go to find them? NEW More affordable suggested list price of $40 to the bookstore.Easier to justify the use of this book as a supplement to your literature course.The first edition of this book was published 70 years ago.  Ten editions have kept the book up-to-date.This book has withstood the test of time and is well-respected.Most comprehensive coverage of any literature handbook- provides an alphabetical listing of over 2,000 important terms and facts in literature including linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, and information technology.   Also extends to film, radio, TV, printing, music, graphic arts, and classical studies.Gives students an easy-to-use, comprehensive source on literature and literary criticism.NEW The website (www.prenhall.com/harmon) offers a mini-glossary of key terms, a pronunciation key for select terms, pre- and post-tests on the terms, flash cards for key terms, a literary timeline, and links for all Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning authors.Increases student comprehension of literary terms. A Handbook to Literature has stayed current over the years with up-to-date definitions relating to technology, video games, the graphic novel, anime, and Manga.Provides students and instructors with up-to-date and relevant definitions that move with the times. NEW More illustrations of such items as Emblem and Headline.Clarify unfamiliar terms by providing visuals.NEW Monetary Terms and Values Appendix-Defines and gives the values of monetary terms that appear in literature. (i.e. crown, shillings, and quid).Many times in literature, reference is made to units of money that are unfamiliar to the reader due to obsolescence or nationality.  This appendix helps the reader to understand monetary exchanges in literature.   

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Wydawnictwo: angielskie
Data wydania: b.d
Kategoria: Literatura piękna
ISBN: 978-0-13-134442-6
Liczba stron: 0