A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary TextsA Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading brings literature to life by combining a rich selection of literary texts with original and lively commentary. Unlike so many introductions to literary studies, it vividly demonstrates how criticism and theory can enhance your own enjoyment and appreciation of literature. |
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | xi |
Wyatts they flee from me sexual politics and metrical history | 6 |
Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice framing the outsiders | 13 |
Shakespeares Troilus and Cressida men reading and writing a woman | 20 |
Shakespeares sonnets courtly patronage and the homoerotic | 32 |
Miltons Paradise Lost republican politics and the canon | 46 |
Marvell Winstanley Milton gardens communes and losing Paradise | 78 |
Swifts Gullivers Travels colonialism and Eden lost again | 121 |
Carrolls alice books remembering the lovegift | 268 |
Wildes The Happy Prince sex and politics in the fairytale | 284 |
Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper the womans body hysteria intertextuality | 300 |
Jamess The Turn of the Screw desire in loss and the readerresponse | 322 |
Conrads The Secret Agent journeying into political vision | 356 |
Greens Living the working class in modernism and the search for the father | 371 |
Rhyss Good Morning Midnight women in colonialism and framed in exhibition | 392 |
Williamss drama realism in the theatre policing the allowable on stage and in film | 410 |
Johnson and others Toryism the slavetrade poverty being and reading a character | 147 |
Wordsworths poems of boyhood myths of initiation in revolutionary times | 169 |
Brontes Wuthering Heights Threevolume novels centres and loss | 179 |
Melvilles Bartleby the crisis of interpretation | 204 |
Dickinsons Poems women writing the inexpressible | 238 |
Dickenss Our Mutual Friend between men education and law | 245 |
Hills september Song the modern poet in history the poems right to exist | 443 |
Becketts Not I challenging the audience with a life lost | 450 |
Bishops and Berrymans poems how to lose and loss in this book | 464 |
Ovids Echo And Narcissus a new translation of Metamorphoses III 339510 by Ed Tattersall | 475 |
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| Title | A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading: An Anthology of Literary Texts Literary studies |
| Author | Richard Jacobs |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0415234670, 9780415234672 |
| Length | 481 pages |
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