How to Read Literature

Book Title How to Read Literature
Author Name Terry Eagleton
Publishing house Yale University Press
Country – city USA
Date of issue April 29, 2014
Number of pages 232

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How to Read Literature

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A literary master’s entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure

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, 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 along with spellbinding insights into a huge range of authors, from Shakespeare and J. K. Rowling to Jane Austen and Samuel .

How to Read Literature

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