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Writing Essays about Literature: A Guide and Style Sheet

by Kelley Griffith · 1982

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Widely used in introductory literature courses as a style guide or as a supplement to anthologies, this text provides students with valuable guidelines for interpreting literature and writing essays. The text includes full-length selections as well as student essays.

Subject
literary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of this
Themes
writerswritersMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 430 pages

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