02331cam a2200385 i 4500 10300051 OSt 20150408114221.0 130305s2013 ctu 001 0 eng 2013001802 0300190964 9780300190960 40022322095 (OCoLC)ocn813393394 (OCoLC)813393394 (NNC)10300051 DLC rda eng DLC YDX YDXCP BTCTA ERASA BDX UKMGB OCLCO LE# CTN ZGH pcc PN49 .E25 2013 801 23 ETH Eagleton, Terry, 1943- 38372 How to read literature / Terry Eagleton. x, 216 pages ; 22 cm Includes index. Openings -- Character -- Narrative -- Interpretation -- Value. "What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment and aggression?In this accessible and delightfully entertaining book, Terry Eagleton addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others. How to Read Literature is the book of choice for students new to the study of literature and for all other readers interested in deepening their understanding and enriching their reading experience. In a series of brilliant analyses, Eagleton shows how to read with due attention to tone, rhythm, texture, syntax, allusion, ambiguity and other formal aspects of literary works. He also examines broader questions of character, plot, narrative, the creative imagination, the meaning of fictionality, and the tension between what works of literature say and what they show. Unfailingly authoritative and cheerfully opinionated, the author provides useful commentaries on Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism alongside spellbinding insights into a huge range of authors, from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Samuel Beckett and J. K. Rowling."--Inside dust jacket. Literature Philosophy. 8347 Authors and readers. 45929 Reader-response criticism. 45930 Literature Explication. 38749 ddc BOOK 20130605 c ybp21 MPS 0073210137 35398 269898 0 2014-07-07 0 0 801 ETH 2014-07-07 CL 00651825 CL 2014-07-07 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2014-07-07 0 0 801 ETH 2014-07-07 CL 00651826 CL 2014-07-07 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2014-07-07 0 0 801 ETH 2014-07-07 CL 00651827 CL 2019-01-23 2019-02-19 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 1 0 2014-07-07 0 0 801 ETH 2014-07-07 SZM 00651828 SZM 2014-07-07 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0 0 2014-07-07 0 0 801 ETH 2014-07-07 SZM 00651829 SZM 2014-07-07 00:00:00 BOOK ddc 0