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 viii
... clearly has the upper hand . This is not only because Jones's argument and evidence strike me as by far the more persuasive , although indeed they do . It is chiefly because there is more charm , more novelty , more wit in the entire ...
... clearly has the upper hand . This is not only because Jones's argument and evidence strike me as by far the more persuasive , although indeed they do . It is chiefly because there is more charm , more novelty , more wit in the entire ...
Pagina xi
... clear- ly rises to the challenges posed by news analyses , instructions for assembling all kinds of knocked - down equipment , and ex- haustive accounts of rocketry , politics , psychiatric inquiry , economics , and sports . But ...
... clear- ly rises to the challenges posed by news analyses , instructions for assembling all kinds of knocked - down equipment , and ex- haustive accounts of rocketry , politics , psychiatric inquiry , economics , and sports . But ...
Pagina xii
... clear , our interest throughout is not with literary kinds or literary history as such , but with the habits and information which equip the common reader for the most rewarding possible experience with a diversity of lit- erary works ...
... clear , our interest throughout is not with literary kinds or literary history as such , but with the habits and information which equip the common reader for the most rewarding possible experience with a diversity of lit- erary works ...
Pagina xiv
... clear — to explain why I have stressed certain questions about literature and ignored certain others . Yet I earnestly hope this book will not be regarded as the ex- position of a critical doctrine , let alone of an " aesthetic . " The ...
... clear — to explain why I have stressed certain questions about literature and ignored certain others . Yet I earnestly hope this book will not be regarded as the ex- position of a critical doctrine , let alone of an " aesthetic . " The ...
Pagina xv
... which this book has drawn heavily , but in a way which can never be completely acknowledged . It is clear to me , however , that for many of these ideas — in par- ticular as they concern introductory studies in literature — the XV.
... which this book has drawn heavily , but in a way which can never be completely acknowledged . It is clear to me , however , that for many of these ideas — in par- ticular as they concern introductory studies in literature — the XV.
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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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