
2008, ISBN: 9780531116777
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Viva Books Private Limited, 2008. Softcover. New. Description: How to Read Texts introduces key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including: ⢠debates around critical theory · the role of history and context · the links between creativity and criticism ⢠the relationship between author, reader and text. Practical examples, readings, exercises and âcheckpointsâ help students to work on their own readings of both primary and secondary texts and to explore the links between critical and creative writing. The book enables students to gain confidence in their critical readings of a variety of texts and encourages them to challenge the assumptions behind other criticsâ readings. How to Read Texts is an indispensable guide for any English student who wants to develop their reading of literary and critical texts. Contents: Introduction: Why read about how to read? ⢠What is a âtextâ? ⢠What is âreadingâ? ⢠Beginning from where you are - finding your critical voice ⢠Reading objectively? ⢠The inevitability of bias ⢠Limitations on reading ⢠Using biases and preconceptions ⢠The undergraduate questionnaire ⢠The creative critic ⢠Why are we talking about creativity in a book about reading? ⢠Different types of reader: critic vs. writer ⢠Criticism and critical theory ⢠Creativity and criticism ⢠Critical/creative reading: Edgar Allan Poe, âThe Tell-Tale Heartâ ⢠Intervening in texts ⢠Close reading ⢠What is close reading? ⢠A history of close reading ⢠Creatively exploring close reading ⢠Critical reading: William Blake, âThe Tygerâ ⢠Biography and authorship ⢠Introduction ⢠The role of the author ⢠Theories of the author ⢠Theories of reading ⢠Reception theory ⢠The significance of biography ⢠The limitations of author-centred approaches ⢠Healthy scepticism ⢠Creative exploration: biography and authorship ⢠Critical reading: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre ⢠History and contexts ⢠Reading contexts ⢠Types of context ⢠Genre ⢠Literary history ⢠Reading genre and literary history: drawbacks ⢠History: cultural/social/political ⢠The significance of history ⢠Using history ⢠Marxism ⢠New Historicism ⢠Feminist criticism ⢠Post-colonial criticism ⢠The weaknesses of historical readings ⢠Benefits of historical readings ⢠Creative exploration: history and contexts ⢠Critical reading: History in Toni Morrisonâs Beloved ⢠Critical theory ⢠Introduction ⢠What is critical theory? A very short history ⢠Ways of reading âtheoryâ ⢠The âwhat is literature?â debate ⢠The effects of theory ⢠The achievements of theory ⢠Approaching theoretical criticism: a way through the maze ⢠Reading theory 1: Freud, âCivilization and its Discontentsâ ⢠Reading theory 2: de Lauretis, âUpping the Anti [sic] in Feminist Theoryâ ⢠Critical reading: Shakespeareâs Macbeth ⢠Creative exploration: critical theory ⢠Conclusion: Unveiling the self-conscious critic ⢠The undergraduate questionnaire revisited ⢠Reading as exploration ⢠Edgar Allan Poe, âThe Tell-Tale Heartâ ⢠William Blake, âThe Tygerâ ⢠Arthur Conan Doyle, âThe Man with the Twisted Lipâ ⢠Notes ⢠Bibliography ⢠Index Printed Pages: 176., Viva Books Private Limited, 2008, good. hardcover. cover and corner wear. no dust jacket.
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2001, ISBN: 9780531116777
United Kingdom: Bbc Pubns. Book has small name & date neatly penned on title page otherwise "like new" condition. Fine unclipped jacket has two tiny closed tears on top edge. Doubled mapped frontis. Introduction, Acknowledgements, Bibliography, Index, Illustrated on coated stock. 160 crisp, clean & solid pp. . Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 1987., Bbc Pubns, 1987, New York: Seven Stories Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1997. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 279 pp., Interviews with Dan Rather, Toni Morrison; Richard Dreyfuss; Arthur Miller;Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Dalai Lama and others ., Seven Stories Press, 1997, Philadelphia / London: Courage / Running Press, 1994. 3rd ptg . hard. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 1-56138-769-X. Biog. sketches & examples by Kate Chopin, WillaCather, Anais Nin, Toni Morrison, Edna O'Brien, et al Jenny Powell color portraits. near fine, nf dj, taupe bds, oblong, lovely format, giftable! 176 pgs, Courage / Running Press, 1994, Franklin Watts, 2001-03. Library Binding. Acceptable., Franklin Watts, 2001-03
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ISBN (ISBN-10): 0531116778
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Herausgeber: Franklin Watts
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