Description
Product ID: | 9781851687305 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Beginner's Guides |
Title: | Literary Theory |
Subtitle: | A Beginner's Guide |
Authors: | Author: Clare Connors |
Page Count: | 227 |
Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the response of theorists. This title unites theory with practice, revealing how enjoyable it is to think about reading. Rescuing the subject from deadly dry theorists and -isms, Clare Connors focuses on the real questions that emerge when we read and study literature - such as how we find meaning and how literature relates to its historical context - before exploring the response of theorists. Using selections from works including poetry by Christina Rossetti and Annie Proulx''s Brokeback Mountain, Connors unites theory with practice, revealing how enjoyable it is to think about reading. |
Imprint Name: | Oneworld Publications |
Publisher Name: | Oneworld Publications |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2010-05-01 |