What Happens in LiteratureUniversity of Chicago Press, 2000 - 162 pagina's How can we become good readers? In this classic handbook, Edward W. Rosenheim lays out the basics that can help us all become sharper, more proficient readers. Looking at specific poems, novels, and plays, this excellent critical guide raises questions and offers suggestions designed to make us think more and enjoy more fully what we are reading. Designed for students of literature as well as those who simply like to read, What Happens in Literature helps readers appreciate literary works as unique creations, born in a particular time and place, but powerful enough to speak across centuries. |
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Pagina vi
... attempt briefly to describe in the preface and which im- plicitly shapes a good deal of what I have to say as the text proceeds . While that text is thus unaltered , today's perspective prompts my comment about three points in the words ...
... attempt briefly to describe in the preface and which im- plicitly shapes a good deal of what I have to say as the text proceeds . While that text is thus unaltered , today's perspective prompts my comment about three points in the words ...
Pagina vii
... attempting ... to apprehend the work in its immediacy ... " My present dismay over this language is provoked largely ... attempted in the introductory stages of our studies to focus entirely upon the individual work itself , suspending ...
... attempting ... to apprehend the work in its immediacy ... " My present dismay over this language is provoked largely ... attempted in the introductory stages of our studies to focus entirely upon the individual work itself , suspending ...
Pagina xiii
... attempting — many for the first time in their lives — to apprehend the work in its immedi- acy , to grasp the elements of an art and respond to their organ- ization within a particular artistic whole . But as the student's capacity for ...
... attempting — many for the first time in their lives — to apprehend the work in its immedi- acy , to grasp the elements of an art and respond to their organ- ization within a particular artistic whole . But as the student's capacity for ...
Pagina xiv
... attempts to show that contrasting qualities in the two works , to some extent , may be accounted for by the period in which each was composed . Ul- timately , however , the chapter seeks to remind the reader once again that the elements ...
... attempts to show that contrasting qualities in the two works , to some extent , may be accounted for by the period in which each was composed . Ul- timately , however , the chapter seeks to remind the reader once again that the elements ...
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What Happens in Literature: A Student's Guide to Poetry, Drama, and Fiction Edward W. Rosenheim Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1960 |
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