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by Cynthia Ozick
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
In a collection that includes new essays written explicitly for this volume, one of our sharpest and most influential critics confronts the past, present, and future of literary culture.
If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared — if all we had were reviews that treated books...
by Amy Wall, Regina Wall
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2005
The essential guide to looking at literature with your own two eyes. What students know about Shakespeare, Orwell, Dickens, and Twain is primarily what their instructors tell them. Here's a book that teaches the students how to move on to the next level-evaluate and read critically on their own, trust...
Making Sense of Narrative Text
Situation, Repetition, and Picturing in the Reading of Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
This book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative? The book is a study of the texture of narrative fiction, using stylistics, corpus linguistic principles (especially Hoey’s work on...
The Western Lit Survival Kit
An Irreverent Guide to the Classics, from Homer to Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A side-splitting tour that makes it a blast to read the Western literary canon, from the ancient Greeks to the Modernists.
To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the complicated Renaissance dramas we bluffed our way through in college, the dusty Everyman's Library editions that look classy on...
by Ezra Pound
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature, with a new introduction by Michael Dirda.
This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become...
by Answer Master
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
It is probable that your first reading of this book may have thoroughly entertained you, but being a student of English literature, that is not the goal that you are pursuing. There is more than reading a novel or a play for merely entertainment.
Generally, during the class, after the reading...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: My Brilliant Friend
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #23
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018
Whether you are a member of a reading group, or a solitary reader, this clear and concise guide to My Brilliant Friend will greatly enhance your reading experience.
A comprehensive guide to Elena Ferrante's first Neapolitan novel, this study aid includes a wealth of information and resources:...
Secrets of Inferno
In the Footsteps of Dante and Dan Brown
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
SECRETS OF INFERNO is a reader's guide to the journey Dan Brown took us all on in INFERNO. The book gives readers the “back story” on particular plot points, Dante references, symbols, historical events, philosophy, art, music, and architectural works that Brown wrapped into his story. It is also...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: Alias Grace
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #27
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Whether you are a member of a book club, or simply reading Alias Grace for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience. A comprehensive guide to Margaret Atwood's acclaimed novel Alias Grace, this discussion aid includes...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: Lincoln in the Bardo
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #29
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Whether you are a member of a book club, or simply reading Lincoln in the Bardo for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience. A comprehensive guide to George Saunders' acclaimed novel Lincoln in the Bardo, this discussion...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: Little Fires Everywhere
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #31
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Whether you are a member of a book club, or simply reading Little Fires Everywhere for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience.
A comprehensive guide to Celeste Ng's acclaimed new novel Little Fires Everywhere,...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: Before We Were Yours
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #32
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Whether you are a member of a book club, or simply reading Before We Were Yours for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience.
A comprehensive guide to Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were**Yours, this...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: Beartown
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #25
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Whether you are a member of a book club, or simply reading Beartown for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience. A comprehensive guide to Fredrik Backman's acclaimed new novel Beartown, this discussion aid includes...
Postcolonial Audiences
Readers, Viewers and Reception
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while recent...