Features critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism; notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index; and, an introductory essay by Harold Bloom.
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Blooms How To Write About William Shakespeare
Arguably the most revered and researched author of all time, William Shakespeare has forever changed the face of literature. He wrote such well-known plays as 'Hamlet', 'Romeo and Juliet', and 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' and composed more than 150 classic sonnets.
Bloom's How to Write about William Shakespeare offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Shakespeare.
This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of the legendary Bard of Avon and his timeless works.
Reading level: Grades 9 and up/College
CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
Reading Shakespeare: An Overview
How to Write about Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- The Merchant of Venice
- 1 Henry IV
- Julius Caesar
- As You Like It
- Hamlet
- Othello
- King Lear
- Macbeth
- The Tempest
Index
Blooms How to Write About the Brontes
Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontë were three sisters who left an indelible mark on the literature of their age. Collectively, their novels give voice to often-isolated individuals who struggle to be heard and reconcile their own needs and desires with the expectations and double standards of their times.
Bloom's How to Write about the Brontës offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about the Brontë sisters.
This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of these authors and their major works.
CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write about the Brontës
- Jane Eyre
- The Professor
- Shirley
- Villette
- Agnes Grey
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Wuthering Heights
- I'm Happiest When Most Away"
- "The Night-Wind"
- "Remembrance"
- "Stars"
- "No Coward Soul is Mine"
Index
Blooms How To Write About Oscar Wilde
As a poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright, Oscar Wilde excelled in a range of genres, engaging and fascinating his readers with his ability to make use of compatible contraries.
Nine of his central works, including 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', 'Lady Windermere's Fan', and 'Salomé', are discussed in this volume, offering readers a variety of ways of exploring and discussing Wilde's incisive and often boisterously comic writings.
Students will find valuable advice for composing effective essays about this witty Irish writer.
CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write About Oscar Wilde
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol
- The Critic as Artist
- De Profundis
- The Decay of Lying
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Happy Prince
- Lady Windermere's Fan
- Salome
Index
Blooms How To Write About Mark Twain
The creator of two of the most iconic characters in all of literature, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain has long been regarded as the quintessential American writer.
Bloom's How to Write about Mark Twain offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Twain.
This volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of this important author and his works.
CONTENTS
- Series Introduction
- Volume Introduction
- Prologue
- How to Write a Good Essay
- How to Write about Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Prince and the Pauper
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- The Jumping Frog Story
- "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg"
- "The War Prayer"
- Roughing It
- Life on the Mississippi
- Index
Blooms How To Write About John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for 'The Grapes of Wrath', and his oeuvre also includes such classics as 'East of Eden', 'Of Mice and Men', and 'The Red Pony'. In 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic as well as imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and a keen social perception.
" Bloom's How to Write about John Steinbeck offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Steinbeck.
This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of this legendary author and his works.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write about Steinbeck
- "The Chrysanthemums"
- The Red Pony
- "Flight"
- Tortilla Flat
- In Dubious Battle
- Of Mice and Men
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Cannery Row
- The Pearl
- East of Eden
Index
Blooms How To Write About Jane Austen
Noted for her witty depictions of English country life and sharply satirical views of class structure and human behavior, 19th-century novelist Jane Austen composed classics such as 'Emma' and 'Pride and Prejudice' that possess a timeless appeal for both general readers and literary scholars.
Bloom's How to Write about Jane Austen offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Austen.
This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of the author and her major works.
Reading level: Grades 9 and up/College
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write about Jane Austen
- Northanger Abbey
- Sense and Sensibility
- Pride and Prejudice
- Mansfield Park
- Emma
- Persuasion
Index
Blooms How To Write About F Scott Fitzgerald
Known for his masterwork 'The Great Gatsby', a searing criticism of American society during the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald claimed the distinction of creating what many readers and scholars consider to be the "great American novel.”
Bloom's How to Write about F. Scott Fitzgerald offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Fitzgerald.
This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of this modern master and his major works.
CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write about F. Scott Fitzgerald
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write about Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
"The Ice Palace"
"May Day"
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
"Winter Dreams"
The Great Gatsby
"The Rich Boy"
"Babylon Revisited"
"Crazy Sunday"
Tender Is the Night
Index
Blooms How To Write About Ernest Hemingway
In 1954, Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature for a body of work that includes 'The Sun Also Rises', 'A Farewell to Arms', and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'.
This American expat is held as a stylistic innovator for his terse prose.
Bloom's How to Write about Ernest Hemingway offers valuable suggestions for paper topics, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Hemingway.
This volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of the author and his major works.
CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write About Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- A Farewell to Arms
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Old Man and the Sea
- "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
- "Hills Like White Elephants"
- "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
- "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
- "The Killers"
- "Indian Camp"
- "Big Two-Hearted River"
- "Soldier's Home"
Index
Blooms How To Write About Emily Dickinson
Known for her wit and preference for seclusion, 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson rarely left her home in Amherst, Massachusetts, preferring instead to write quietly from the confines of her bedroom. Today she is one of the most beloved and widely studied American poets.
Bloom's How to Write about Emily Dickinson offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Dickinson. This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of this important poet and her works.
CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write about Emily Dickinson
#67 - "Success is counted sweetest"
#214 - "I taste a liquor never brewed"
#258 - "There's a certain slant of light"
#280 - "I felt a funeral, in my brain"
#288 - "I'm nobody! Who are you?"
#303 - "The Soul selects her own Society"
#324 - "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church"
#341 - "After great pain, a formal feeling comes"
#435 - "Much Madness is divinest Sense"
#441 - "This is my letter to the World"
#448 - "This was a Poet--It is That"
#465 - "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died"
#569 - "I reckon--when I count at all"
#585 - "I like to see it lap the Miles"
#613 - "They shut me up in Prose"
#657 - "I dwell in Possibility"
#712 - "Because I could not stop for Death"
#754 - "My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun"
#1129 - "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant"
#1732 - "My life closed twice before its close"
Index
Blooms How To Write About Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe revolutionized literature by inventing the modern detective story and horror genre with such immortal works as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Fall of the House of Usher." He is also known for his haunting poetry, which includes the classics "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee."
Bloom's How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Poe. This volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of this important author's turbulent life and unforgettable works.
CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe
- “Ligeia”
- “The Fall of the House of Usher”
- “William Wilson”
- “The Masque of the Red Death”
- “The Pit and the Pendulum”
- “The Gold-Bug”
- “The Black Cat”
- “The Tell-Tale Heart”
- “The Purloined Letter”
- “The Cask of Amontillado”
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
- “The Raven”
- “Annabel Lee”
Index
Blooms How To Write About Charles Dickens
Few writers have captured the essence of 19th-century London the way Charles Dickens has. A master of extreme situations, Dickens is known for his colorful and often seedy characters and the elaborate settings of his works.
Bloom's How to Write about Charles Dickens offers valuable suggestions for paper topics, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Dickens. This new volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of the author and his major works.
CONTENTS
Series Introduction
Volume Introduction
How to Write a Good Essay
How to Write about Charles Dickens
- The Pickwick Papers
- Oliver Twist
- Nicholas Nickleby
- A Christmas Carol
- David Copperfield
- Bleak House
- Hard Times
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Great Expectations
- Our Mutual Friend
Index
What a Novel Idea Projects and Activities for Young Adult Literature by Katherine Wiesoiek Kuta
Designed around the new IRA/NCTE Standards, (reading, writing, representing, viewing, speaking, and listening) these 60 stimulating activities applicable to a variety of novels create opportunities for students to develop their skills as readers, writers, and speakers.
Three sections center on reading and writing activity projects (e.g., essays, news stories, letters), visual display projects (e.g., charts, posters, bookmarks), and speaking and listening activities.
The New Cambridge English Course 4
The course features:
* proven multi-syllabus approach
* clearly focused and 'signposted' aims for each lesson
* wide variety of presentation and practice material * allowance for different learning styles and teaching situations
* balance between control and freedom in language practice
* motivating range of up-to-date topics * frequent use of authentic reading and listening material
* highly attractive, clearly organised page design. Level 4 teaches all the language and skills necessary at upper-intermediate level.
It is divided into five blocks, each containing eight lessons followed by a Summary, a Revision and Fluency Practice section and a Revision Test. Each block provides four 'general purpose' lessons, two 'Skills Focus' lessons, and two 'Focus on Systems' lessons, dealing with special problems of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
The Student's Book contains everything necessary for classwork and is supported and extended by exercises in the Practice Book. Work covered in the Student's Book can be completed in a minimum of 72 hours.
2-The New Cambridge English Course 4 Students Book
3-The New Cambridge English Course 4 Practice Book
4-The New Cambridge English Course 4 Teachers Book
5-The New Cambridge English Course 4 Test Book
The Grammar Lab by Kenna Bourke
There are books at three levels of difficulty from beginner to intermediate, suitable for use on their own or in support of a general coursebook. Within each chapter, grammar rules are taught in stages. Exercises follow each stage to check understanding.
Each student's book is accompanied by a teacher's book. This describes the features and organization of the student's book and gives answers to the exercises.
2-The Grammar Lab 1 Teachers Book by Kenna Bourke
3-The Grammar Lab 2 Teachers Book by Kenna Bourke
4-The Grammar Lab 3 Teachers Book by Kenna Bourke
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