Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Gustav Adolph Fidelio Van Rhyn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385397022
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Jay Stevenson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2007
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781592576562
Author : D. L. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of writers from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and English-speaking Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Written by subject experts.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300190964
DIV A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure /div
Author : Elizabeth Kantor
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1596980117
Citing declining coverage of classic English and American literature in today's schools, a "politically incorrect" primer challenges popular misconceptions while introducing the works of such core masters as Shakespeare, Faulkner, and Austen, in a volume that is complemented by a syllabus and a self-study guide. Original.
Author : Michael Stapleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 1983-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521256476
Author : Calvin Thomas
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1623561647
An introduction to literary theory unlike any other, Ten Lessons in Theory engages its readers with three fundamental premises. The first premise is that a genuinely productive understanding of theory depends upon a considerably more sustained encounter with the foundational writings of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud than any reader is likely to get from the introductions to theory that are currently available. The second premise involves what Fredric Jameson describes as "the conviction that of all the writing called theoretical, Lacan's is the richest." Entertaining this conviction, the book pays more (and more careful) attention to the richness of Lacan's writing than does any other introduction to literary theory. The third and most distinctive premise of the book is that literary theory isn't simply theory "about" literature, but that theory fundamentally is literature, after all. Ten Lessons in Theory argues, and even demonstrates, that "theoretical writing" is nothing if not a specific genre of "creative writing," a particular way of engaging in the art of the sentence, the art of making sentences that make trouble sentences that make, or desire to make, radical changes in the very fabric of social reality. As its title indicates, the book proceeds in the form of ten "lessons," each based on an axiomatic sentence selected from the canon of theoretical writing. Each lesson works by creatively unpacking its featured sentence and exploring the sentence's conditions of possibility and most radical implications. In the course of exploring the conditions and consequences of these troubling sentences, the ten lessons work and play together to articulate the most basic assumptions and motivations supporting theoretical writing, from its earliest stirrings to its most current turbulences. Provided in each lesson is a working glossary: specific critical keywords are boldfaced on their first appearance and defined either in the text or in a footnote. But while each lesson constitutes a precise explication of the working terms and core tenets of theoretical writing, each also attempts to exemplify theory as a "practice of creativity" (Foucault) in itself.
Author : Marion Wynne-Davies
Publisher :
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
The new authority on English literature.
Author : Tory Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139472208
Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the same time offering information about reading, researching and writing about literature within the context of a university. The book is practical yet not patronizing: for example, whilst the discussion of plagiarism provides clear guidelines on how not to commit this offence, it also considers the difficulties students experience finding their own 'voice' when writing and provokes reflection on the value of originality and the concepts of adaptation, appropriation and intertextuality in literature. Above all, the book prizes the idea of argument rather than insisting upon formulaic essay plans, and gives many ways of finding something to say as you read and when you write, in chapters on Reading, Argument, Essays, Sentences and References.
Author : Thomas C. Foster
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2024-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0063307758
Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding. While books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings beneath the surface. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the practiced analytical eye—and the literary codes—of a college professor. What does it mean when a protagonist is traveling along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he’s drenched in a sudden rain shower? Thomas C. Foster provides answers to these questions as he explores every aspect of fiction, from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form. Offering a broad overview of literature—a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower—he shows us how to make our reading experience more intellectually satisfying and fun. The world, and curricula, have changed. This third edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect those changes, and features new chapters, a new preface and epilogue, as well as fresh teaching points Foster has developed over the past decade. Foster updates the books he discusses to include more diverse, inclusive, and modern works, such as Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give; Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven; Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere; Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X; Helen Oyeyemi's Mr. Fox and Boy, Snow, Bird; Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street; Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God; Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet; Madeline Miller’s Circe; Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls; and Tahereh Mafi’s A Very Large Expanse of Sea.