Tempest, The (MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Tempest, The (MAXNotes Literature Guides)

Author: Corinna Siebert Ruth

Publisher: Research & Education Assoc.

Published: 2012-06-11

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738673188

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REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's The Tempest The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of The Tempest and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.

A Daredevil's Guide to Storm Chasing
A Daredevil's Guide to Storm Chasing

Author: Amie Jane Leavitt

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1429699841

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"Describes the activity of storm chasing, including how it's done, the dangers involved, and how it has helped scientists learn about severe weather"--

The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook
The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook

Author: X. J. Kennedy

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2011-01-06

Total Pages: 1058

ISBN-13: 031260159X

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With its process-oriented rhetoric, provocative thematic reader, up-to-date research manual, and comprehensive handbook, The Bedford Guide for College Writers gives your students the tools they need to succeed as writers -- all in one book. Each of the book's four main components has been carefully developed to provide an engaging, well-coordinated guide for student writers. This edition's new, more open design and sharper focus on active learning do even more to help students develop transferable skills. The Bedford Guide for College Writers prepares students to be the confident, resourceful, and independent writers they will need to be.

Handbook of the American Short Story
Handbook of the American Short Story

Author: Erik Redling

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-01-19

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 3110585324

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The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.

The Rough Guide to Classic Novels
The Rough Guide to Classic Novels

Author: Rough Guides

Publisher: Rough Guides UK

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1848362188

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Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written. Over 230 of the world’s greatest novels are covered, from Quixote (1614) to Orhan Pamuk’s Snow (2002), with fascinating information about their plots and their authors – and suggestions for what to read next. The guide comes complete with recommendations of the best editions and translations for every genre from the most enticing crime and punishment to love, sex, heroes and anti-heroes, not to mention all the classics of comedy and satire, horror and mystery and many other literary genres. With feature boxes on experimental novels, female novelists, short reviews of interesting film and TV adaptations, and information on how the novel began, this guide will point you to all the classic literature you’ll ever need.