Literature in our lives : talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman
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Literature in our lives : talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman
Routledge, 2020
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Talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction
- 1. The myth of the Fall and its impact: Pullman, Lewis and others
- 2. Claribel's story: a few thoughts on gender, race and colonialism in The Tempest
- 3. Wuthering Heights: myth and the wounds of loss
- 4. Beckett's Waiting for Godot: transforming lives
- 5. Great Expectations: intertextualities, endings and life after plot
- 6. Emily Dickinson: 'And then the windows failed'
- 7. Emma: rhetoric, irony and the reader's assault course
- 8. Dorian Gray: 'queering' the text
- 9. The Fallen Woman: Emma Bovary and (many) others
- 10. Two transgressive American women: Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 11. Hamlet / Lear: realism / Lear: realism / modernism
- 12. John Keats: three (or is it two?) poems and thoughts on 'late style'
- 13. Republicanism, regicide and 'The Musgrave Ritual'
- 14. Jean Rhys: her texts from the 1930s
- 15. Twelfth Night: Dream-Gift
- 16. Please read Proust
- 17. Paradise Lost: radical politics, gender and education
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Description
This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students, whether starting their studies or more experienced, and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading, thinking about, and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts talk to us intimately and urgently, inviting us to talk back, intervening in and changing our lives.
These lectures discuss, in an open but richly informed way, a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature, and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The myth of the Fall and its impact: Pullman, Lewis and others
Claribel's story: a few thoughts on gender, race and colonialism in The Tempest
Wuthering Heights: myth and the wounds of loss
Beckett's Waiting for Godot: transforming lives
Great Expectations: intertextualities, endings and life after plot
Emily Dickinson: 'And then the windows failed'
Emma: rhetoric, irony and the reader's assault course
Dorian Gray: 'queering' the text
The Fallen Woman: Emma Bovary and (many) others
Two transgressive American women: Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hamlet / Lear: realism / modernism
John Keats: three (or is it two?) poems and thoughts on 'late style'
Republicanism, regicide and 'The Musgrave Ritual'
Jean Rhys: her texts from the 1930s
Twelfth Night: Dream-Gift
Please read Proust
Paradise Lost: radical politics, gender and education
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