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Humanism, Reading, & English Literature 1430-1530
Author: Daniel Wakelin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-06-28
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 019921588X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Wakelin uses new methods and theories in the history of reading to uncover fresh information about the design, ownership, and marginalia of books in a neglected period in English literary history. This is the first book to identify the origins of the humanist tradition in England in the 15th century.
On Reading Well
Author: Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1493415468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Studying English Literature
Author: Tory Young
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-05-22
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1139472208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the same time offering information about reading, researching and writing about literature within the context of a university. The book is practical yet not patronizing: for example, whilst the discussion of plagiarism provides clear guidelines on how not to commit this offence, it also considers the difficulties students experience finding their own 'voice' when writing and provokes reflection on the value of originality and the concepts of adaptation, appropriation and intertextuality in literature. Above all, the book prizes the idea of argument rather than insisting upon formulaic essay plans, and gives many ways of finding something to say as you read and when you write, in chapters on Reading, Argument, Essays, Sentences and References.
AP® English Literature & Composition Crash Course, For the New 2020 Exam, Book + Online
Author: Dawn Hogue
Publisher: Research & Education Assoc.
Published: 2019-09-06
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 073861257X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"REA: the test prep AP teachers recommend."
How to Read Literature
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-05-21
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0300190964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIV A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure /div
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Author: Thomas C. Foster
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0061804061
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to English Literature
Author: Jay Stevenson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781592576562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reading Fictions, 1660-1740
Author: Kate Loveman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1351906585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English society in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was fascinated by deception, and concerns about deceptive narratives had a profound effect on reading practices. Kate Loveman's interdisciplinary study explores the ways in which reading habits, first developed to deal with suspect political and religious texts, were applied to a range of genres, and, as authors responded to readers' critiques, shaped genres. Examining responses to authors such as Defoe, Swift, Richardson and Fielding, Loveman investigates reading as a sociable activity. She uncovers a lost critical discourse, centred on strategies of 'shamming', which involved readers in public displays of reason, wit and ironic pretence as they discussed the credibility of oral and written narratives. Widely understood by early modern readers and authors, the codes of this rhetoric have now been forgotten, to the detriment of our perception of the period's literature and politics. Loveman's lively book offers a striking new approach to Restoration and eighteenth-century literary culture and, in particular, to understanding the development of the novel.
Reading English Verse in Manuscript c.1350-c.1500
Author: Daniel Sawyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0192599607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reading English Verse in Manuscript, c.1350-c.1500 is the first book-length history of reading for later Middle English poetry. While much past work in the history of reading has revolved around marginalia, this book consults a wider range of evidence, from the weights of books in medieval bindings to relationships between rhyme and syntax. It combines literary-critical close readings, detailed case studies of particular surviving codices, and systematic manuscript surveys drawing on continental European traditions of quantitative codicology to demonstrate the variety, vitality, and formal concerns visible in the reading of verse in this period. The small-and large-scale formal features of poetry affected reading subtly but extensively, determining how readers might move through books and even shaping physical books themselves. Readers' responses to one formal feature, rhyme, meanwhile, evince a habitual but therefore deep-rooted formalism which can support and enhance close readings today. Reading English Verse in Manuscript sheds fresh light on poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate, and Thomas Hoccleve, but also shows how their works were read in manuscript in the context of a much larger mass of anonymous poems that influenced canonical poems, in a pattern of mutual influence.
