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 xi
... seek to encourage habits of reading which , as most teach- ers of college English will attest , have been largely neglected in the education of many of the freshmen we encounter in our classes . It is not that American adults , young ...
... seek to encourage habits of reading which , as most teach- ers of college English will attest , have been largely neglected in the education of many of the freshmen we encounter in our classes . It is not that American adults , young ...
Pagina xiii
... seeks to suggest that the character of a literary work and the challenges and pleasures it affords are determined , to some extent , by its historical context , by the historical identity of its author . In the examination of two poems ...
... seeks to suggest that the character of a literary work and the challenges and pleasures it affords are determined , to some extent , by its historical context , by the historical identity of its author . In the examination of two poems ...
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... seeks to remind the reader once again that the elements of literature , as well as the habits of reading which they call into play , remain fundamentally un- changed by time and tradition . I have called this volume a " handbook , " and ...
... seeks to remind the reader once again that the elements of literature , as well as the habits of reading which they call into play , remain fundamentally un- changed by time and tradition . I have called this volume a " handbook , " and ...
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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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