Andrew Bennett: This Thing Called Literature

Cover: 9781032285849 | This Thing Called Literature | Reading, Thinking, Writing | Buch

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Beschreibung

Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting subject to study. This essential guide to the study of literature is as an eloquent celebration of the value and pleasure of reading.

Über den Autor

Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK. He publishes on Romantic and twentieth-century literature and on literary theory. His books include An Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory, Sixth Edition (2023; with Nicholas Royle), Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace (2017) and Ignorance: Literature and Agnoiology (2009).

Nicholas Royle is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of many critical books, including How to Read Shakespeare (2014) and Veering: A Theory of Literature (2011), as well as creative works such as An English Guide to Birdwatching (2017) and David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the Sun Machine (2023).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Studying Literature

PART I: Reading

Reading a poem
Reading a novel
Reading a short story
Reading a play
Reading creative non-fiction

PART II: Thinking

Thinking about literature
Thinking critically

PART III: Writing

Writing an essay
Creative writing: the impossible
Writing short fiction

Appendix: the wordbook

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781032285849
ISBN-10:	1032285842
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bennett, Andrew Royle, Nicholas
Auflage:	2. Auflage
Hersteller:	Taylor & Francis Routledge
Maße:	234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrew Bennett (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.01.2024
Gewicht:	0,289 kg

Artikel-ID: 127489224