Literature: an introduction to critical reading
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
013282633X
ISBN 13
9780132826334
Category
Literature & Rhetoric
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
Pages
1934
Subject
English literature
Description
This book takes an interpretations approach to literature and its elements. It covers the genres of short fiction, poetry, drama, and essays. The reader's concerns, responses, and interpretive abilities are nurtured by this approach. Contains critical discussions, reviews, letters, biographical background, and other useful documents to help provide an intellectual and critical basis for looking more deeply into the work. Emphasizes the skill of close reading, stimulates readers to respond to literary works and to produce their own interpretations through writing. Provides a wealth of critical discussions of texts followed by questions that help readers construct their interpretations. They introduce all the elements of literature that are essential to perform close-reading of texts. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
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