Critical thinking : a guide to interpreting literary texts
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Critical thinking : a guide to interpreting literary texts
Macmillan, 1989
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 185
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780333435229
Description
An attempt to provide students of literature with an introduction to literary analysis this seeks to involve the student in the process of thinking about literature, showing how to start with one idea and move on to further insights. To do this, several methods - such as using close textual analysis, finding connections, making comparisons, and looking for structures, are described and variously illustrated in action. Works used to illustrate the text include those by Shakespeare, Pope, Chaucer, James, Jonson, Woolf, Fielding, Milton, Hardy, Swift and Melville. The author has also written "Modern Fantasy: Five Studies", "Literature and Reality, 1600-1800" and "The Impulse of Fantasy Literature".
Table of Contents
- Getting critical
- close analysis
- close analysis as an interpretative key
- making connections
- comparisons
- disjunctions
- inconsistencies
- multiple disjunctions
- structure
- reticence.
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: pbk ISBN 9780333435236
Description
An attempt to provide students of literature with an introduction to literary analysis this seeks to involve the student in the process of thinking about literature, showing how to start with one idea and move on to further insights. To do this, several methods - such as using close textual analysis, finding connections, making comparisons, and looking for structures, are described and variously illustrated in action. Works used to illustrate the text include those by Shakespeare, Pope, Chaucer, James, Jonson, Woolf, Fielding, Milton, Hardy, Swift and Melville. The author has also written "Modern Fantasy: Five Studies", "Literature and Reality, 1600-1800" and "The Impulse of Fantasy Literature".
Table of Contents
Introduction - Getting Critical - Close Analysis - Close Analysis as an Interpretative Key - Making Connections - Comparisons - Disjunctions - Inconsistences - Multiple Disjunctions - Structure - Reticence - Conclusion
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