A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading brings literature to life by combining a rich selection of literary texts with original and lively commentary. Unlike so many introductions to literary studies, it vividly demonstrates how criticism and theory can enhance your own enjoyment and appreciation of literature. Aimed at AS, A2 and undergraduate students, Richard Jacobs draws a map of English Literature which is fresh and distinctive and which offers guidance to many familiar landmarks. In the process he shows that studying literature can be a source of huge pleasure and interest.
A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading brings literature to life by combining a rich selection of literary texts with original and lively commentary. Unlike so many introductions to literary studies, it vividly demonstrates how criticism and theory can enhance your own enjoyment and appreciation of literature. Aimed at AS, A2 and undergraduate students, Richard Jacobs draws a map of English Literature which is fresh and distinctive and which offers guidance to many familiar landmarks. In the process he shows that studying literature can be a source of huge pleasure and interest.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Richard Jacobs teaches English at the College of Richard Collyer in Horsham, and lectures at the University of Brighton.
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Introduction 1 Wyatt's 'They flee from me': sexual politics and metrical history 2 Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: framing the outsiders 3 Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: men reading and writing a woman 4 Shakespeare's sonnets: courtly patronage and the homoerotic 5 Milton's Paradise Lost: republican politics and the canon 6 Marvell, Winstanley, Milton: gardens, communes and losing Paradise 7 Swift's Gulliver's Travels: colonialism and Eden lost again 8 Johnson and others: Toryism, the slave-trade, poverty, being and reading a character 9 Wordsworth's poems of boyhood: myths of initiation in revolutionary times 10 Brontë's Wuthering Heights: three-volume novels, centres and loss 11 Melville's Bartleby: the crisis of interpretation 12 Dickinson's poems: women writing the inexpressible 13 Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: between men, education and law 14 Carroll's 'Alice' books: remembering the love-gift 15 Wilde's The Happy Prince: sex and politics in the fairy-tale 16 Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: the woman's body, hysteria, intertextuality 17 James's The Turn of the Screw: desire in loss and the reader-response 18 Conrad's The Secret Agent: journeying into political vision 19 Green's Living: the working class in modernism and the search for the father 20 Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight: women in colonialism and framed in exhibition 21 Williams's drama: realism in the theatre, policing the allowable on stage and in film 22 Hill's 'September Song': the modern poet in history, the poem's right to exist 23 Beckett's Not I: challenging the audience with a life, lost 24 Bishop's and Berryman's poems: how to lose, and loss in this book.
Introduction 1 Wyatt's 'They flee from me': sexual politics and metrical history 2 Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: framing the outsiders 3 Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: men reading and writing a woman 4 Shakespeare's sonnets: courtly patronage and the homoerotic 5 Milton's Paradise Lost: republican politics and the canon 6 Marvell, Winstanley, Milton: gardens, communes and losing Paradise 7 Swift's Gulliver's Travels: colonialism and Eden lost again 8 Johnson and others: Toryism, the slave-trade, poverty, being and reading a character 9 Wordsworth's poems of boyhood: myths of initiation in revolutionary times 10 Brontë's Wuthering Heights: three-volume novels, centres and loss 11 Melville's Bartleby: the crisis of interpretation 12 Dickinson's poems: women writing the inexpressible 13 Dickens's Our Mutual Friend: between men, education and law 14 Carroll's 'Alice' books: remembering the love-gift 15 Wilde's The Happy Prince: sex and politics in the fairy-tale 16 Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper: the woman's body, hysteria, intertextuality 17 James's The Turn of the Screw: desire in loss and the reader-response 18 Conrad's The Secret Agent: journeying into political vision 19 Green's Living: the working class in modernism and the search for the father 20 Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight: women in colonialism and framed in exhibition 21 Williams's drama: realism in the theatre, policing the allowable on stage and in film 22 Hill's 'September Song': the modern poet in history, the poem's right to exist 23 Beckett's Not I: challenging the audience with a life, lost 24 Bishop's and Berryman's poems: how to lose, and loss in this book.
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