Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis - Paperback
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-Literature's relationship to the surrounding world - ethics, politics, gender and nature
-Modes of literature and criticism - from books to performance, from creative to critical writing With annotated reading guides throughout and a glossary of major critical schools to help students when studying, revising and writing essays, this is an essential introduction and reference guide to the study of literature at all levels
Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis - Paperback
$68.31
by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Editor), Lasse Horne Kjældgaard (Editor), Lis Møller (Editor)
How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works familiar from a range of world literary traditions.
In an easy-to-navigate format, Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis covers such topics as: -Key definitions - from plot, character and style to genre, trope and author-Literature's relationship to the surrounding world - ethics, politics, gender and nature
-Modes of literature and criticism - from books to performance, from creative to critical writing With annotated reading guides throughout and a glossary of major critical schools to help students when studying, revising and writing essays, this is an essential introduction and reference guide to the study of literature at all levels
Author Biography
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Professor with Special Responsibilities of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Lasse Horne Kjældgaard is Professor of Danish Literature at Roskilde University, Denmark Lis Møller is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. Dan Ringgaard is is Professor of Professor of Scandinavian Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. Lilian Munk Rösing is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Peter Simonsen is Professor of European Literature at the University of Southern Denmark.
Number of Pages: 464
Dimensions: 1 x 9.5 x 6.6 IN
Publication Date: March 09, 2017
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