Examines the function and contents of literature and the methodology of the study of literature

Product Description: Ezra Pound’s classic book about the meaning of literature. This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of the world’s best literature...read more

Guides the college student in the practical aspects of writing essays on literary works

Product Description: Book by Parr, Susan

Presents the author's theory of literature and discusses the immense potential for the study and teaching of literature in a democratic society

This book is an attempt to offer a justification for the teaching of literature in schools and universities, and is intended as a contribution to the philosophy of literary education. The issues which Dr Gribble discusses could all be bracketed under the general heading of the relationship between literature and life. The book is written for those readers and teachers of literature who step back from their immediate engagement with a novel, play, or poem and ask such questions as 'What knowledge or understanding, if any, have I gained from the work? Of what significance is the author's intention to my view of the work? What moral value does the work possess? What kinds of feelings or emotions did I experience? How did my identification with certain characters influence my response? In what way did the moral significance or emotional impact depend upon the quality of the writing? What part does critical analysis play in determining the answers to any of these questions?'. Dr Gribble's treatment of these issues is neither technical nor abstract but advanced on the basis of particular examples drawn from a wide range of literature. Written in a lively and lucid style the book will interest all serious readers of literature, although it is primarily directed at those who teach literature in schools, colleges, and universities and who are necessarily concerned with the educative value of reading and discussing literature.

A brief introduction for high school students to literary analysis and criticism explaining in simple terms and examples three different approaches to analysis and the basic elements of criticism. Includes a glossary of literary terms.

Product Description: Book by Miller

Product Description: This volume explores the theories and methodologies that help us to learn more about readers. It presents a comprehensive review of the major research theories on response, and the current techniques and methodologies for carrying out research...read more

Product Description: Demarcating the Disciplines was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...read more

Product Description: Demarcating the Disciplines was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...read more

Product Description: Discusses the future of liberal education in an increasingly technological society.

Product Description: The essays in this collection cover all the significant areas of the linguistic approach to both the study of English literature and the teaching of English as a foreign or second language approach. With contributions from notable academics this book provides essential reading for students of literature, linguistics and language at any level...read more

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