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We are proud to announce the publication of Mediations: Interpreting Literature and Film, a textbook that helps students move from comprehension to interpretation. Mediations: Interpreting Literature and Film covers the basic skills to develop critical thinking when analyzing literary texts and genres.

Mediations: Interpreting Literature and Film comprises 6 sections:

• Section I Introduces the study of narrative elements (narrative voice, characterization, and the fictional setting of time and space)
• Section II centers on narrative types and modes (Realism, the Fantastic, Metafiction, Satire, detective fiction…)
• Section III looks at film.
• Section IV takes up the essay.
• Section V focuses on poetry.
• Section VI deals with drama.

Mediations: Interpreting Literature and Film includes sample essays to guide the student on how to write a critical/scholarly essay, and at the end of the textbook there are some Guidelines for Writing  Critical Essays.

About the Authors:
Michael J. Conlon, A. S. Moran

ISBN: 978-0-9818392-9-5
Format: paperback. Pp. 746

• Table of Contents
• Sample Chapter 1
• Sample Chapter 2

About the Author:

Eva Parker, Ph. D

ISBN: 978-0-981-8392-6-4
Format: paperback. Pp. 483

• Table of Contents
• Sample Chapter

About the Author:

Cristóbal Zamorano, Ph.D

ISBN: 978-0-981-8392-7-1
Format: paperback. Pp. 641

Click below to view the table of contents and a sample chapter (Acrobat Reader Required). Please note that this material is copyrighted and cannot be copied, stored, or reproduced in any way.

• Table of Contents
• Sample Chapter

About the Authors:

Paola Bianco, Professor at Wilkes University
Maria J. Fraser-Molina, Professor at North Carolina Community Colleges
Maria A. Salgado, Professor Emeritus University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ISBN: 978-0-981-8392-5-7
Format: paperback. Pp. 308

• Table of Contents
• Sample Chapter

Antonio Sobejano-Morán, Professor at Binghamton University.

ISBN: 978-0-981-8392-4-0
Format: paperback. Pp. 646

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• Preface
• Index
• Chapter 1

About the Author:

Paola Bianco, Professor at Wilkes University

ISBN: 978-0-9818392-1-9
Format: paperback. Pp. 238

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• Table of contents
• Sample Chapter

About the Author:

Ann González, Professor at the University of North Carolina Charlotte

ISBN: 978-0-981-8392-3-3
Format: paperback. Pp. 374

Tornasol: Guía para la interpretación de textos literarios y cine provides university students with a clear and comprehensive introduction to the critical analysis of literary texts and films. The textbook explains and illustrates key critical and theoretical concepts in each unit, includes numerous examples, and takes both students and instructors from the comprehension to the interpretation of literature and film. The book also introduces and explains those literary devices and techniques students need to know in order to perform close readings of literary works and films.

Tornasol: Guía para la interpretación de textos literarios y cine has five parts. Each part begins with a general introduction to its subject, followed by a model analysis of a specific literary type or film for students to follow. Part I introduces the study of Fiction and covers the elements of narrative and a selection of different types and modes of Fiction. Part II addresses the Essay. Part III looks at Film and the adaptation of literature to film. Poetry follows in Part IV, and we conclude our study with Drama in Part V. Each part moves from descriptions of essential Textual Elements, Critical Tools, Methods, and Theories to the guided study, analysis and discussion of a primary literary text or film.

About the Author:

Antonio Sobejano-Morán, Professor at Binghamton University.

ISBN: 978-0-981-8392-9-5