How Literature Works
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How Literature Works
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Author : John Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011
How Literature Works written by John Sutherland and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essays offer consice definitions and examples of fifty essential literary criticism concepts for readers to know.
How Literature Works
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Author : John Sutherland
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-07
How Literature Works written by John Sutherland and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his wit and clear reasoning--strips away the obscurity and pretension of literary study. His book offers concise definitions and clear examples of the fifty concepts that all book lovers should know. It includes basic descriptive terms (ambiguity, epic), the core vocabulary of literary culture (genre, style), and devices employed by authors (irony, defamiliarization). More broadly, How Literature Works explores the animating concepts behind literary theory (textuality, sexual politics), traces the forces that impact literature's role in the real world (obscenity, plagiarism), and grapples with the future of reading (fanfic, e-book). For any reader who wants to get the most out of the literature they read, Sutherland's short sharp book will both inform and delight.
How Literature Works
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Author : Kenneth Quinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
How Literature Works written by Kenneth Quinn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literature categories.
How Literature Works
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Author : Kenneth Quinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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How Literature Works
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Author : Kenneth Quinn
language : en
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Release Date : 1992-07-21
How Literature Works written by Kenneth Quinn and has been published by Red Globe Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In How Literature Works important issues of literary theory are vividly illustrated by application to a wide variety of texts, many quoted and discussed at length. The theoretical aspects covered include the structural characteristics of literary texts, the psychology of the reading process and the social function of literature. The book also deals with such general questions as the relationship between literary texts and `objective' prose and the relationship between poems written to work as songs and those in which the lyric form is used to develop an argument: the singing and the speaking voice.
The Work Of Literature
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Author : Derek Attridge
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-03-26
The Work Of Literature written by Derek Attridge and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
What is distinctive about the cultural practice called 'literature'? How does it benefit individuals and society? How do literary works retain their importance and their capacity to give pleasure over decades and centuries? What constitutes responsible criticism? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which develops the arguments put forward in Derek Attridge's influential study The Singularity of Literature (2004). Beginning with an extended cross-examination in the form of an interview addressing a range of topics relating to the work of literature (understood both as the activity of the writer and as the text itself) and the practices of literary reading and literary criticism, it asks what it means to 'do justice to' a work of literature, provides a full account of the concept of singularity, considers the problematic power of criticism, and advances an account of the role of context in the writing and reading of literary works. In other chapters it explores the issue of cultural difference in responses to literature, discusses the working of metaphor, questions the attribution of knowledge to literary works, and addresses the topics of affect and hospitality. The book follows through the consequences of regarding the singular and inventive work of literature as an event that takes place anew each time it is read, providing an opening to an otherness excluded by prevailing cultural norms and habits of thought and feeling. Although the focus of the book is on literature, the arguments are relevant to all the arts, and engage with the thought of major aesthetic theorists in a number of traditions.
Theoretically Speaking About Literature
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-09
Theoretically Speaking About Literature written by David Owen and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literary theory has become such a central part of the study of literature, particularly at university level, that a solid familiarity with its basic ideas is now essential. This book will appeal to students who may find the many theoretical approaches that they encounter to be complex, highly demanding, and difficult to incorporate into their own work, and will also be of interest to teachers who are trying to guide their students towards a clear and constructive understanding of this ambit. Through focus on a single study text, discussed from the perspective of eighteen distinct theories that are presented and explained in a consistent manner throughout, readers are given a practical and comprehensible insight into the ideas and beliefs that underpin critical interpretation.
How Literature Changes The Way We Think
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Author : Michael Mack
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-12-01
How Literature Changes The Way We Think written by Michael Mack and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
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Literary Fiction
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Author : Geir Farner
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-01-30
Literary Fiction written by Geir Farner and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Insofar as literary theory has addressed the issue of literature as a means of communication and the function of literary fiction, opinions have been sharply divided, indicating that the elementary foundations of literary theory and criticism still need clarifying. Many of the "classical" problems that literary theory has been grappling with from Aristotle to our time are still waiting for a satisfactory solution. Based on a new cognitive model of literature as communication, Farner systematically explains how literary fiction works, providing new solutions to a wide range of literary issues, like intention, function, evaluation, delimitation of the literary work as such, fictionality, suspense, and the roles of author and narrator, along with such narratological problems as voice, point of view and duration. Covering a wide range of literary issues central to literary theory, offering new theories while also summarising the field as it stands, Literary Fiction will be a valuable guide and resource for students and scholars of the theory of literature.
What Is Literature And Other Essays
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Author : Jean-Paul Sartre
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1988
What Is Literature And Other Essays written by Jean-Paul Sartre and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
What is Literature? challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account.