This practical reference for university and senior high school students shows how to read, understand and analyze poetry. Included are sections on narrative poetry and writing essays.
Palgrave Study Guides: LittératureSéries
Cette série offre une introduction complète et accessible à l'étude de la littérature. Elle explore les théories littéraires clés, les approches critiques et les auteurs importants. L'objectif est de doter les étudiants des outils nécessaires à une analyse et une compréhension plus approfondies des textes littéraires. Chaque volume propose des explications claires et des exemples pratiques.
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- 9 heures de lecture
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Literary Terms and Criticism
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
This third edition, which contains updated material, additional discussion of critical terms and approaches and a revised further reading list, is a guide to the study of English literature.
How to Study a Shakespeare Play
- 264pages
- 10 heures de lecture
This major new edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include five new chapters that illustrate the nature and impact of the new approaches to Shakespeare that have swept through literary studies in recent years: structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminism, new historicism and cultural materialism.
This guide to James Joyce's major novels presents a refreshing approach to understanding the work of this challenging and enigmatic giant of twentieth- century literature. Taking the student through a careful, step-by-step analysis of each text, John Blades demonstrates a practical and lively method of critical analysis.
Forster's novels have always given great pleasure to the general reader but they do present particular problems for those who wish to study them in a more systematic way.
How to Study a Renaissance Play
- 140pages
- 5 heures de lecture
In this new guide, Chris Coles shows you how to approach the plays of these three major playwrights and how you can build your own critical response to their complex and demanding plays. If you are studying any of these three dramatists, then this is likely to prove the one critical book you will need.
How to Begin Studying English Literature
- 184pages
- 7 heures de lecture
How to Begin Studying English Literature has established itself as one of the most successful and popular introductory student guides in the field. This fourth edition has been fully revised and expanded throughout, and now includes more examples and commentary on texts as well as a third essay-writing chapter, tackling critics and context. This book shows the reader how to approach novels, plays and poems, featuring chapters on themes, characters, structure, style, irony and analysis. In addition, sections on revision, exams and further development of study skills make this book an invaluable companion for anyone beginning to study English literature.
This thoroughly revised and expanded Second Edition has three new chapters taking this process one step further, showing how to make use of the new critical thinking that has swept through literary criticism in recent years.
How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel
- 152pages
- 6 heures de lecture
This book provides a clear method of study which encourages students to construct their own interpretation of any of Dicken's novels. This in turn provides students with a way of identifying the distinctiveness of Dickens's fiction and with a way of structuring an intelligent critical response to any of his novels.