[PDF] An Introduction To Literature eBook

Author : Sylvan Barnet
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 1574 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780673522672

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Gathers examples of literature from Shakespeare to August Wilson, Leo Tolstoy to Amy Tan, and William Blake to Derek Walcott

Author : Kelly J Mays
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393938921

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The Norton Introduction to Literature presents an engaging, balanced selection of literature to suit any course. Offering a thorough treatment of historical and critical context, the most comprehensive media package available, and a rich suite of tools to encourage close reading and thoughtful writing, the Shorter Twelfth Edition is unparalleled in its guidance of understanding, analyzing, and writing about literature.

Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317313127

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Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters range from the familiar, such as ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more unusual, such as ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its fifth edition, Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works, so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference, for example, while Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter. The fifth edition has been revised throughout and includes four new chapters – ‘Feelings’, ‘Wounds’, ‘Body’ and ‘Love’ – to incorporate exciting recent developments in literary studies. In addition to further reading sections at the end of each chapter, the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and a glossary of key literary terms. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical, this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.

Author : Walter B. Kalaidjian
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780618475094

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Understanding Literature is an innovative anthology and technology package representing the next generation of literary pedagogy for introduction to literature and literature for composition courses. Built on a balanced foundation of canonical and nontraditional reading selections, this text includes discussions of the formal literary elements--and integrates relevant and accessible coverage of contemporary criticism. This unique, integrated coverage of contemporary critical approaches offers students a richer, more engaging introduction to reading critically and writing about literature.

Author : Timothy Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113949516X

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The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and practice in the reading of literature and culture. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is, its methods, arguments and concepts, and will enable students to look at texts in a wholly new way. Boxed sections explain key critical terms and contemporary debates in the field with 'hands-on' examples and comparisons. Timothy Clark's thoughtful approach makes this an ideal first encounter with environmental readings of literature.

Author : Gilbert H. Muller
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,86 MB
Release : 1994-09
Category : Anthologies
ISBN : 9780070442467

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Presenting an anthology for literature and composition courses, this text offers a multicultural approach to the meaning, technique, and values in fiction, poetry, and drama. Organized by genre, it contains three sections - fiction, poetry, and drama - each with a prefatory essay. It provides a range of women, ethnic, and international authors.

Author : Janice Campbell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2014-04-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781613220399

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Introduction to Literature (English 1) is a one year, college-preparatory literature and composition course for classroom, co-op, or homeschool use. It is the first volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum, and is suitable for grades 8 and up.Students study and write about the books listed below. A four-week lesson plan guides the study of each classic, with background information and writing assignments. Instructions and a student-written model for each type of paper assigned, and instructions and a rubric for evaluation are included. Short Stories by Welty, O. Henry, and others, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur¿s Court by Mark Twain, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Gulliver¿s Travels by Jonathan Swift.There are nine four-week modules within the school year, ensuring that the student will have plenty of time for completion of the complete, unabridged text. The curriculum website provides supporting resources, including brief author biographies, art, music, and related poetry. An optional Honors track adds additional reading and writing, including a research paper and an optional CLEP exam.

Author : Mark Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441117873

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Religion has always been an integral part of the literary tradition: many canonical and non-canonical texts engage extensively with religious ideas, and the development of English Literature as a professional discipline began with an explicit consideration of the relationship between religion and literature. Literature also plays an important role in religious writing, as twentieth-century work on narrative theology has acknowledged. Both the recent theological turn of literary theory and the renewed political significance of religious debate in contemporary western culture have generated further interest in this interdisciplinary area. An Introduction to Religion and Literature offers a lucid, accessible and thoughtful introduction to the study of religion and literature. While the focus is on Christian theology and post-1800 British literature, substantial reference is made to earlier writers, texts from North America and mainland Europe, and other faith positions. Each chapter takes up a major theological idea and explores it through close readings of well-known and influential literary texts.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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This is a collection of short stories all written by the author most well-known for her novel, "Little Women". Many of the characters are similar to those created for Little Women and Alcott's subsequent novels, and in some senses could be considered refections of her troubled childhood.