How Literature Works: 50 Key Concepts - Softcover

Sutherland, John

 
9780199794201: How Literature Works: 50 Key Concepts
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199794200 ISBN 13: 9780199794201
Verlag: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

How Literature Works is an indispensable book for any reader seeking a greater appreciation of their favorite novel, poem, or play. It offers a lively and straightforward guide to literary thinking. With a series of compact essays, the renowned literary critic John Sutherland--widely admired for his wit and clear reasoning--strips away the obscurity and pretension of literary study. His book offers concise definitions and clear examples of the fifty concepts that all book lovers should know.

It includes basic descriptive terms (ambiguity, epic), the core vocabulary of literary culture (genre, style), and devices employed by authors (irony, defamiliarization). More broadly, How Literature Works explores the animating concepts behind literary theory (textuality, sexual politics), traces the forces that impact literature's role in the real world (obscenity, plagiarism), and grapples with the future of reading (fanfic, e-book).

For any reader who wants to get the most out of the literature they read, Sutherland's short sharp book will both inform and delight.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Sutherland, who has been a book columnist for the Guardian and a chair of judges for the Man-Booker prize, is Emeritus Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London.

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Verlag
Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199794200
ISBN 13 
9780199794201
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
205
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