By Andrew Bennett,Nicholas Royle

Lively, unique and hugely readable, An advent to Literature, feedback and thought is the basic advisor to literary reports. beginning at ‘The starting’ and concluding with ‘The End’, chapters diversity from the popular, similar to ‘Character’, ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’, to the more odd, corresponding to ‘Secrets’, ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its 5th variation, Bennett and Royle’s vintage textbook effectively illuminates advanced rules through enticing without delay with literary works, in order that a studying of Jane Eyre opens up methods of pondering racial distinction, for instance, whereas Chaucer, Raymond Chandler and Monty Python are all invoked in a dialogue of literature and laughter.


The 5th version has been revised all through and contains 4 new chapters – ‘Feelings’, ‘Wounds’, ‘Body’ and ‘Love’ – to include fascinating contemporary advancements in literary reports. as well as extra analyzing sections on the finish of every bankruptcy, the booklet features a accomplished bibliography and a thesaurus of key literary phrases.


A breath of clean air in a box that could frequently appear dry and dauntingly theoretical, this ebook will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating probabilities of studying and learning literature.

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