How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch offers readers the tools to navigate works as varied as Homer, Sophocles, Kalidasa, Du Fu, Dante, Murasaki, Moliere, Kafka, Soyinka, and Walcott. Offer
How to Read Literature
โ Scribed by Eagleton, Terry
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Openings -- Character -- Narrative -- Interpretation -- Value.;What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme be full of concealed loathing, resentment and aggression? In this accessible, delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others.
โฆ Table of Contents
Openings --
Character --
Narrative --
Interpretation --
Value.
โฆ Subjects
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading;LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference;Literature;Literature--History and criticism;Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc;Literature--Theory, etc;Litteratur--historia;Litteraturteori;PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics;Criticism, interpretation, etc;Literature -- History and criticism;Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc;Literature -- Theory, etc;Litteratur -- historia
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