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Introduction
1. Defining "Literature"
2. Exclusion and Inclusion: The "Canon" and Its Discontents
3. Why Read Literature?
4. The Literary Landscape
5. Annotation and Close Reading
6. Literary Criticism
7. Key Components to Fiction
8. Fiction Terminology Knowledge Check
9. How to Approach Poetry
10. Poetic Language
11. The Technical Language of Poetry
12. Poetic Forms
13. Approaching Drama
14. Dramatic Genres
Appendix A: Renewable Assignments
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