This book holds to several basic premises. First, it assumes that there is no such thing as an innocent reading of a literary work: Whether our responses are emotional and spontaneous or well-reasoned and highly structured, all such interactions are based on some underlying factors that cause us to
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Beginning with approaches familiar to students and then gradually introducing schools of criticism that are more challenging, THEORY INTO PRACTICE provides extensive step-by-step guidance for writing literary analyses from each of the critical perspectives. This brief, practical introduction to lite
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<i>Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present</i>Β provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day <ul><li>An indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary c
<p><span>The title is a thorough introduction to ethical literary criticism, a critical methodology designed to interpret literature from the perspective of ethics, including a whole set of concepts, theories, and working mechanisms.</span></p><p><span>Drawing on ideas from both Western ethical crit