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JACOBUS, LEE A.

Words, Language & Grammar

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Humanities: The Evolution of Values

Arts & Photography

Mcgraw-Hill College

The Humanities Through the Arts is intended for introductory-level, interdisciplinary courses offered across the curriculum in the humanities, philosophy, art, English, music, and education departments. Arranged topically by art form - from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture to literature, music, theater, film, and dance - this beautifully illustrated text helps students learn how to actively engage a work of art. 
 The Fifth Edition is the most extensive revision in the history of this title, yet it retains the popular focus on the arts as an expression of cultural and personal values.

Humanities through The Arts

Martin,F. David

History & Criticism

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Humanities through the Arts is intended for introductory-level, interdisciplinary courses offered across the curriculum in the Humanities, Philosophy, Art, English, Music, and Education departments. Arranged topically by art form from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture to literature, music, theater, film, and dance. This beautifully illustrated text helps students learn how to actively engage a work of art. The new sixth edition retains the popular focus on the arts as an expression of cultural and personal values.

Jacobus,Lee

A humanities text which adopts an exploratory approach, emphasizing participation and involvement as a means to a more complete understanding of the arts. The book covers film, dance, photography, painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music.

The Humanities Through the Arts

Performing Arts

Clear, student-friendly writing and an impeccable treatment of the technique of critical reading make this Compact Edition a powerful and engaging learning tool. An emphasis on understanding the critical elements and how they work in conjunction leads readers to apply what they have learned when developing a thorough, satisfying critical interpretation. This book includes a diversity in authors as well as a wide variety of critical viewpoints including feminist, historicist, psychoanalytic, cultural, and political criticism. For any reader who wishes to gain insight into the many elements that work together to form a work of literature and apply those insights in critical interpretations.

Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading, Compact Edition

Literature & Fiction

PRENTICE/HALL

This book takes an interpretations approach to literature and its elements. It covers the genres of short fiction, poetry, drama, and essays. The reader's concerns, responses, and interpretive abilities are nurtured by this approach. Contains critical discussions, reviews, letters, biographical background, and other useful documents to help provide an intellectual and critical basis for looking more deeply into the work. Emphasizes the skill of close reading, stimulates readers to respond to literary works and to produce their own interpretations through writing. Provides a wealth of critical discussions of texts followed by questions that help readers construct their interpretations. They introduce all the elements of literature that are essential to perform close-reading of texts.

Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading

Pearson College Div

Teaching Literature: A Collection of Essays on Theory and Practice

Longman

Thirty-two readings from a diversity of disciplines, including ecology, anthropologgy, sociology and science, cross cultural boundaries and hold students' interest while contributing to their general education. Readings progress in order of difficulty from level 6 on the Frye scale to the college level, with many passages at the 7th- to 11th-grade levels. Grade levels are included in the Instructor's Manual so teachers can track students' progress. A reading skills textbook which contains new and interesting reading levels accompanied by carefully designed and graded testing material.

Improving College Reading

Harcourt College Pub.

Appropriate for reading improvement of developmental reading courses, DEVELOPING COLLEGE READING incorporates a selection of exceptional, high quality reading materials on diverse social issues such as, racial prejudice, feminism, ecology, and multiculturalism. It allows for careful progression of reading levels from the beginning to the end of the book and provides exercises that are consistent with grade level of passage. Features: * Previews of the vocabulary accompany each section of the book. * Readings are sequenced to increase in difficulty throughout the text starting at 4th grade reading level and ending at 12th grade. * Emphasizes critical thinking, different ways of reading and various reading strategies. * Provides exercises for each passage to test vocabulary, retention, concentration, capacity to draw inferences and reason. * Uses popular first-year textbooks for reading samples. New to this edition: * Presents several new readings on major social issues, as well as new passages by Frederik Douglass, Betty Lee Sung, Andre Dubus, Marion Wright Edelman, Gloria Bonilla-Santiago and others.

Developing college reading

Harcourt Brace College Publishers

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Writing As Thinking

Humanities: The Evolution of Values

Humanities through The Arts

Humanities through The Arts

The Humanities Through the Arts

Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading, Compact Edition

Literature: An Introduction to Critical Reading

Teaching Literature: A Collection of Essays on Theory and Practice

Improving College Reading

Developing college reading